beberapa saat yang lalu, di kota padang sudah dilaksanakan pekan MDGs, dengan melaksanakan berbagai kegiatan. berikut disampaikan beberapa hal tentang MDGs antara lain tentang status MDGs di Indonesia dan Target global dari MDGs itu sendiri.

Status of MDGs in Indonesia http://www.undp.or.id/mdg/

·         Over 13% of population of 240 million people still live below the national poverty line, and nearly half the population lives on less than USD 2 a day.

·         The proportion of the population with sustainable access to clean water and sanitation has not increased significantly.

·         Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility in urban and rural areas still far below the target.

·         Indonesia's maternal mortality rate of 228 per 100,000 remains one of the highest in Southeast Asia.

·         HIV/AIDS infection in accelerating sharply across the country; Papua and high-risk urban areas are of particular concern.

·         Approximately 95 percent of children enroll in primary school, with 95% literacy rate of population aged 15-24.

∗ Data as of March 2011

The global challenge: Goals and targets

The Millennium Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For each goal one or more targets have been set, most for 2015, using 1990 as a benchmark:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
• Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
• Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Achieve universal primary education

• Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Promote gender equality and empower women

• Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

Reduce child mortality

• Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Improve maternal health

• Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
• Target 5.B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
• Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Ensure environmental sustainability

• Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving,  by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
• Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
• Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Develop a global partnership for development

• Target 8.A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
  Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally
• Target 8.B: Address the special needs of the least developed countries
  Includes: tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries' exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction
• Target 8.C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)
• Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
• Target 8.E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications