MDGs

Millennium Development Goals:

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of goals that the United Nations, along with other international organizations, have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. The goals all target globals issues that are prohibiting the world's poor from rising to a higher standard of living. At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which created eight final goals:
 * 1) Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty [[image:http://www.goodshepherdacton.org/files/images/mission/mdgcrosslogo_Resized_352x457.jpg width="352" height="457" align="right" caption="http://www.goodshepherdacton.org/files/images/mission/mdgcrosslogo_Resized_352x457.jpg"]]
 * 2) Achieve universal primary education
 * 3) Promote gender equality and empower women
 * 4) Reduce child mortality
 * 5) Improve maternal health
 * 6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
 * 7) Ensure environmental sustainability
 * 8) Develop a global partnership for development

Eradicating Hunger Achieving Universal Education Empowering Women Poverty and Health Insuring Environmental Sustainability Developing a Global Partnership for Development
 * The links below are the SPA and BSI analysis of the MDGs.**
 * Note:** We have combined goals 4-6 in the "Poverty and Health" link.

Basic Costs the financial feasibility of completing the MDGs Demographics an explanation of complications involving global population and resources and their solutions
 * Additional MDG topics**