International Campaign on the Millennium Development Goals

CIDSE MDG Cover Eng 07/10/2003 9:37 AM Page 1 International Campaign on the Millennium Development Goals CIDSE - Caritas Internationalis Task Group on Social Justice Broederlijk Delen, België CCFD, France Center of Concern, USA CORDAID, Nederland Développement et Paix/Development and Peace, Canada Entraide et Fraternité, Belgique Fastenopfer/Action de Carême, Schweiz/Suisse Misereor, Deutschland Secours Catholique - Caritas France, France Trócaire, Ireland Volontari nel Mondo/FOCSIV, Italia Other participants JOCI-IYCW (on behalf of FIMARC, JECI, JICI, MIAMSI, MIDADE, MIEC and MMTC) Pax Romana-ICMICA CIDSE Caritas Internationalis Rue Stévin 16, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Palazzo San Calisto, 00120 Vatican City Tel: +32 2 230 77 22 Fax: +32 2 230 70 82 Tel: +39 06 698 797 99 Fax: +39 06 698 87 237 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cidse.org Website: www.caritas.org CIDSE MDG Paper Eng 07/10/2003 9:37 AM Page 1 International Campaign on the Millennium Development Goals A CIDSE-Caritas Internationalis Paper October, 2003 What are the Millennium Who we are Development Goals? CIDSE (International Cooperation for The Millennium Declaration was endorsed Development and Solidarity) is a network of by all 189 member states of the United fifteen Catholic development organizations from Europe and North America that work Nations at the end of the Millennium together to fight poverty, inequality and Summit held in New York in September injustice through concrete projects in 2000. The declaration listed eight developing countries, as well as education and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that advocacy. would combat hunger and poverty and Caritas Internationalis (CI) is a confederation of improve education, health, the status of 162 Catholic relief, development, and social women, and the environment by the year service organizations present in 201 states and 2015. These goals are an international territories throughout the world. commitment by all governments, agreed by Our two networks have been working together the heads of states. They are interrelated, so on social justice issues for a number of years in fulfilling one helps to fulfil the others. The the framework of a joint Task Group on Social first seven goals include measures of human Justice. development in poor countries. Each goal CIDSE and Caritas also collaborate with has one or more targets, and several international networks that are committed to quantifiable indicators measure each similar goals and support the initiatives of other target.i Each country should adapt the MDGs NGOs, for example those engaged in the follow- to its particular national context and report up to the UN Financing for Development on its progress accordingly. At the process. Millennium Summit, world leaders also took on several qualitative targets applicable to CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis aim at full rich countries, later collected in an eighth poverty eradication and the achievement of Goal. The key elements of Goal 8, reaffirmed social justice as early as possible in all by heads of states at the International nations, in respect of their diversity. Our Financing for Development Conference in member organisations fund development 2002, pledge financial support and policy programmes in almost all countries in the changes in debt relief, trade and economic South which contribute to complementing governance to assist poor countries’ governmental and multilateral development domestic efforts to meet the first seven programmes. However, since the basis for Goals. regional and national development lies in 1 CIDSE MDG Paper Eng 07/10/2003 9:37 AM Page 2 International Campaign on the Millennium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1: Halve the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day by 2015 Target 2: Halve, between the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by the year 2015 Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Target 3: Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and at all levels of education no later than 2015 Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality rate Goal 5: Improve maternal health Target 6: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases Target 7: Have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 Target 8: Have halted and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases, by 2015 Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and halt the loss of environmental resources Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development Whilst the first seven goals focus on changes that can be measured in developing countries, they cannot be achieved without Goal 8. The success of Goal 8 depends on the commitment of political leaders in industrialised nations to turn their promises into action. Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system, including a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction, both nationally and internationally Target 13: Address the special needs of the least developed countries, including tariff and quota free access for their exports, debt relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and cancellation of bilateral debt, and more generous Overseas Development Assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction. Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing states Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problem of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term. Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications The analysis of the indicators can be found under: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ index.shtml 2 CIDSE MDG Paper Eng 07/10/2003 9:37 AM Page 3 A CIDSE-Caritas Internationalis Paper appropriate global structures, CIDSE and fiscal measures to respond more effectively Caritas Internationalis also undertake to the needs identified by southern advocacy and lobby activities with regard to governments. Southern governments need an improved international economic, trade to devote a larger percentage of their own and financial environment that does not resources to basic necessities (safe water, impede the development efforts of the food, health care, education, housing and South. We believe that it is possible to the creation of jobs with decent salaries and mobilise faster the necessary resources for working conditions), eliminate the vast eradicating poverty and to achieve more internal and international inequalities that justice in the relation between men and stand in the way of progress, and support women and regret that the appropriate policies that encourage growth and poverty political will is still missing. However, the reduction. fact that all governments agreed on a minimum of these common goals is a Private sector firms must accept their political sign of hope and provides a useful responsibility for conducting business in a monitoring tool for civil society. For the first way that contributes to sustainable and time, the world’s leaders have agreed to socially equitable growth. Civil society plays work together - within a given timeframe - a crucial role in monitoring the towards a world free from hunger and governmental policies of both North and poverty. If achieved, the Goals would South as well as the impact of business represent a first, even if insufficient step, activities. towards the elimination of poverty worldwide, and they would demonstrate 2. By providing financing through: that nations can work together for the a. Increased aid and improved common good. In effect, industrial countries have agreed to extend their own economic quality of aid policies and promises to poor countries. Though donor states pledged to direct 0.7% However, significant progress depends on of their annual gross national product to the commitment of political leaders to Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) in implement the promises they have made in 1970, to date only the Netherlands, Norway, the MDGs. It therefore requires organised Denmark, and Sweden have done so. action on the part of individuals and civil Average spending on development society organisations around the world to assistance is only about 0.2% of GNP hold them to account. according to the World Bank (2002), with The MDGs combine and simplify the the U.S. contributing about 0.1% of its GNP. international commitments made at the UN Yet funding the MDGs could require Summits of the past decade. Thus, the MDGs doubling current aid flows, according to the could provide a global policy framework for Zedillo Reportii and others. Donors will have governments, international organizations, to provide substantially more in order to the private sector, and civil society to fight generate the estimated $50 billion more per poverty as well as social and gender year needed until 2015. inequality. ODA must have a poverty eradication focus both in terms of geographical and sectoral How will the MDGs priorities, accompanied by greater be achieved? effectiveness in planning and managing resources. This means that corruption by 1.

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