1. Millennium Goals What are the 8 Millennium Goals? How were they developed?

2. Sac question 1 Goal 1 1.Why is it important? Poverty and hunger lead to malnourishment which reduces the body’s immune system. This means that children and adults succumb to diseases such as pneumonia and die from the effects of diarrhoea. It is important to reduce poverty because it contributes to the success of all of the other MDGs. If people have an income, they can grow crops, educate themselves, find employment and improve sanitation and safe water. They can access medicine and health services. It is important to reduce hunger because hunger prevents people from earning an income. 2. What progress has been made towards achieving this goal? Some progress has been made towards achieving this goal. There has been improved access to safe water which assists in eliminating poverty and hunger

4. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are commitments made by member states of the United Nations in 2000 to reduce poverty and improve the well being of their populations by 2015

5. Goal 1

10. Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women 'Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015'. According to the data the situation needs to be addressed primarily in central Africa and West and Southern Asia.

14. Improve maternal health

18. Goal 7 ensure environmental sustainability

20. World map of forest distribution (Natural resources - forests). Approximately 240 million of the world's poor that live in forested areas of developing countries depend on forests for their livelihoods. Forest and its products provide cash income, jobs, and consumption goods for poor families. Forestry provides formal and informal employment for an estimated 40-60 million people. The sector contributes in some developing countries more than eight per cent to GDP. Timber may be the most important forest product, but forests are also harvested for fruits, herbs and honey as well as for wild animals. Less visible but not less important are the ecosystems services forests provide – such as for the hydrological cycle. Nevertheless, global forest cover has dropped by at least 20% since pre-agricultural times. While forest area increased slightly in the past thirty years in industrial countries, it has declined by almost 10% in developing countries in the same time period. According to the Food and Agriculture organization deforestation causes 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing this is a high priority on the global agenda.

21. Child Mortality and Land Degradation. There is a correlation between the types of level of land degredation and child mortality. In West Africa there are a higher percentage of child mortality around areas that have higher levels of land degradation.

22. Natural resources path to poverty reduction - diagram The rural poor of the World, and the poor countries that they live in, do not have much in monetary wealth - but natural resources represents a possible source of income. With the right support, on both the national level as well as from the international community, the economical growth generated from these resources can alleviate poverty sustainably.

23. Economies at risk - disasters, poverty and agricultural dependence. Natural disasters and conflict disrupts the livelihoods and financial stability of countries, and the people. A high dependence on agriculture signifies a high sensitivity to changes in the environment, such as drought and floods. This map highlights countries with high shares of agrilculture, and also countries with high incidence of poverty, another factor in assessing the vulernability of rural population.

24. Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development

26. No shelter - refugees, sanitation and slums. In the face of any calamity we instinctively take refuge under a roof. This is little use against a chemical or nuclear accident, but for many there is no other resort. The number of people currently living in shanty towns is rising in all the big cities of the developing world, where urban growth is generally uncontrolled. The map shows how small the proportion of city dwellers with improved access to sanitation in many places is, giving an idea of the number and location of people living in precarious conditions.