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Millennium Development GoalsThe Millennium Development Goals are a set of eight commonly agreed, measurable objectives which the international community has committed itself to achieving by 2015. UNDP, as the UN’s global coordinating agency, plays a leading role in ensuring progress towards goals. While there have been numerous global agreements aiming towards reducing poverty, this is the first time the international community has bound itself to such measurable targets, with a commonly agreed deadline of 2015. The Millennium Development Goals relate to eight key areas of development; extreme poverty and hunger, primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, preventable diseases, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development. While the first seven are measured against progress achieved in poorer countries, the success of goal eight depends upon bringing about the reform of policies in developed nations, such as aid, debt relief and fairer trade, to enable global poverty reduction. The goals are linked to the criteria of the Human Development Index, defining development not simply as economic growth, but as a broader measure of individuals’ quality of life. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Timor-LesteTimor-Leste is one of the MDG focus countries because
of its characteristics as a post-conflict country that requires urgent
improvement of living conditions for people. Following the restoration
of independence on 20 May 2002, Timor-Leste genuinely committed to
attaining the MDGs. Being the newest member of the United Nations
in 2002, Timor-Leste only formally began the process of achieving
the MDGs when all other countries were already half way in the process
of economic development.
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