The UN Millennium Development Goals and Zonta’s Impact

1. The UN Millennium Development Goals and Zonta’s Impact Area Meetings 2014

2. UN Millennium Development Goals 2000 - 2015 • A blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions • Unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest • The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 agenda

3. UN Millennium Development Goals "Eradicating extreme poverty continues to be one of the main challenges of our time, and is a major concern of the international community. Ending this scourge will require the combined efforts of all, governments, civil society organizations and the private sector, in the context of a stronger and more effective global partnership for development. The Millennium Development Goals set timebound targets, by which progress in reducing income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion — while promoting gender equality, health, education and environmental sustainability — can be measured. They also embody basic human rights — the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter and security. The Goals are ambitious but feasible and, together with the comprehensive United Nations development agenda, set the course for the world’s efforts to alleviate extreme poverty by 2015. " United Nations Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon

4. MDG1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger • Global poverty rate with income <$1.25 per day • Goal achieved in 2010 – 700 million fewer people than in 1990 living in extreme poverty • Achieve full and productive employment for all including women & young people • 294 million fewer people live below the poverty level of $1.25 per day • 24.8% difference between men and women in the employment to population ratio • Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger • Target within reach by 2015

5. MDG2: Achieve Universal Primary Education • Ensure that children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling • Enrollment in developing regions rose from 82% to 90% by 2010 • In 2011, 57 million children of primary school age were out of school • 123 million youth aged 15-24 lack basic reading and writing skills • 61% of the above are women • Gender gap is narrowing: 95 literate young women for every 100 young men, up from 90 in 1990

6. MDG3: 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 • The world has achieved equality in primary education between boys & girls • Only 2 of 130 countries have achieved equality at all levels of education • Globally, 40 of every 100 jobs in the non-agriculture sector are held by women, a significant increase since 1990 • Violence against women continues to undermine efforts to reach all goals • Poverty is a major barrier to secondary education, especially among older girls

7. MDG4: Reduce Child Mortality • Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate • Declined from 12.4 million in 1990 to 6.6 million in 2012. 17,000 fewer children under 5 die each day. • Measles vaccines have averted over 10 million deaths since 2000 • Children born into poverty are almost twice as likely to die before age 5 as those born into wealthier families • Children of educated mothers, even mothers with only primary schooling, are more likely to survive than children of mothers with no education

8. MDG5: Improve Maternal Health • Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio • Worldwide decline of 47% • Eastern Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Asia have declined by 67% • The maternal mortality ratio in developing regions is still 15 times higher than in developed regions • Nearly 50 million babies worldwide are delivered without skilled care • Achieve universal access to reproductive health • Antenatal care in developing regions increased from 63% in 1990 to 81% in 2011 • Fewer teens are having children in most developing regions

9. MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases • Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS • New HIV infections continue to decline in most regions • More people are living with HIV due to fewer AIDS-related deaths and 2.5 million people newly infected each year • Knowledge of HIV transmission remains low among young people • Achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all who need it • Access increased in all regions • At the end of 2011, 8 million people were receiving antiretroviral (ARV) therapy for HIV • At the end of 2011, 11 countries had universal access to ARV therapy

10. MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases • Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases • Global incidence of malaria has decreased by 17%; deaths down 25% • Since 2000, 1.1 million deaths from malaria were averted • Countries with improved access to malaria control interventions had child mortality rate drop by 20% • Treatment for tuberculosis has saved 20 million lives between 1995 and 2011

11. MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability • Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources • Of all developing regions, South America and Africa saw the largest net losses of forest areas between 2000 and 2010 • Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss • More areas of the earth’s surface are protected. Since 1990, protected areas have increased in number by 58% • By 2010, protected areas covered 12.7% of the world’s land area but only 1.6% of total ocean area

12. MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability • Halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation • The world has met the target five years ahead of schedule • Between 1990 and 2010, more than 2 billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources • Over 240,000 people a day gained access to improved sanitation facilities from 1990 to 2011 • Achieve by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers • The target was met well in advance of the 2020 deadline • More than 200 million people gained access to improved water sources, improved sanitation facilities, or durable or less crowded housing, thereby exceeding the MDG target

13. MDG8: Global Partnership for Development • 6 separate targets encompassing trade, finance, debt, and special needs of developing nations including essential drugs and new technologies • 77 per cent of inhabitants of developed countries are Internet users, compared with only 31% of inhabitants in developing countries. • The number of mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide by the end of 2011 reached 6 billion

14. Zonta Projects Related to Millennium Development Goals

15. Liberia Fistula Program Zonta International’s Support (2008 to Present) • US$450,000 (2008-2010) • US$500,000 (2010-2012) • US$1,000,000 (2012-2014) At least 2,000,000 women worldwide suffer from an obstetric fistula. 4 women die every day from pregnancy or childbirth in Liberia

16. Liberia Fistula ProgramUses of Zonta Funds • Medical training for • 6 physicians • 70 nurses, midwives, physician’s assistants • Treatment for 875 patients • Advocacy training for • 20 fistula survivors • 16 journalists • 10 students

17. Liberia Fistula Program “The Liberia fistula project restores hope to women who were hopeless” Project Objectives • Prevention of fistula • Quality treatment of fistula • Rehabilitation & reintegration of survivors • Support for women with inoperable cases

18. Elimination of New Pediatric HIV Infection and Prevention and Response to Survivors of Domestic and Gender Based Violence in Rwanda • Zonta International’s Support (2008 to Present) • US$600,000 (2008-2010) • US$500,000 (2010-2012) • US$1,000,000 (2012-2014) Zonta International now has a unique opportunity to help win the war on HIV and eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda!

19. Elimination of New Pediatric HIV Infection and Prevention and Response to Survivors of Domestic and Gender Based Violence in Rwanda • Project goals • Eliminate MTCT of HIV in Rwanda by 2015 • Reduce incidence and lessen the impact of GBV This project was featured in the 2012 D6 area meetings

20. Safe Cities for Women in Honduras • Replicating the successful initiatives of the earlier projects in Guatemala and El Salvador in Tegucigalpa to reduce public/private VAW • Increases Zonta’s credibility & visibility through continued advocacy against VAW

21. Empowering Women in Rural Samoa to Combat Violence • Empower communities in rural Samoa to prevent and combat VAW through advocacy, support, and livelihood training

22. Mass Communication with a Purpose: Global Partnership on Edutainment for Social Change • Launched edutainment campaigns in Nigeria and Bangladesh • Applying best practices from Nigeria and Bangladesh in ten additional countries This project was featured in the 2013 D6 area meetings

23. Mass Communication with a Purpose: Global Partnership on Edutainment for Social Change • Bangladesh & Nigeria Pilots • 2 follow up workshops • New materials in development for PSAs on sexual harrassment • Soul City 4 being adapted for Nigerian audience with talk shows to explore topics after viewing • Asia • 8 day training in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Vietnam • Early marriage, educating the girl child, domestic violence • Africa • Soul City training in Niger, Rwanda, Somalia, Egypt • VAW, political participation, gender roles

24. Beyond 2015 • UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 (Rio+20) • Process to develop a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) • Limited in number • Aspirational • Easy to communicate • Open Working Group established January 2013 • 30 members from limited membership bodies of the General Assembly

25. ZIF and District 6 Giving Update

26. ZIF Global Gifts 2012-2014through February 2014 90% of clubs have made a contribution this biennium

27. ZIF Gifts from District 6 2012-2014through February 2014 27 of 27 clubs have made a contribution this biennium

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