Aus Aid- 8 Millennium Goals

Goal	Target	Australia is doing...
One: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.	Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day.	-Australia is providing 1.6 million Bangladesh disadvantaged children with access to pre-primary and primary education. -Providing affordable housing.
Two: Achieve universal primary education.	Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.	-Funded the construction of new schools in Laos. -Introduced teacher training. -Implementing nutritious food.
Three: Promote gender equality and empower women.	Increase proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education.	-Increasing Australian Development Scholarships for East Timor women. -Encouraging women in East Timor to register for jobs. -Supporting leadership and governance training for women in the Asia Pacific women.
Four: Reduce child mortality.	Reduce by two thirds between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.	-Training more skilled birth attendants in rural and remote PNG to help reduce infant deaths. -Increasing births supervised by skilled staff is an important focus of the PNG-Australia Partnership for Development. -Working with governments and other donors to improve the supply of vaccinations and immunisations globally.
Five: Improve maternal health.	-Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate. -Achieve universal access to reproductive health.	-Helping to train the next generation of midwives and providing specialist surgical services and training in East Timor. -Supporting outreach clinics, which target remote and rural villages with information on health, nutrition and family planning. -Helping to fund maternal and reproductive health activities in developing countries across the region and in Afghanistan.
Six: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.	-Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. -Achieve by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all who need it.	-Committed up to $100 million to work in partnership with Indonesia to combat the spread of HIV and improve the quality of life for those living with the virus -Supporting needle syringe programs, voluntary counselling, testing and prevention services and methadone programs in Indonesia. -Committed $160 million in 2009-10 to combat the spread of the pandemic through its global HIV/AIDS initiative, up from $130 million in 2008-9.
Seven: Ensure environmental sustainability.	-Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs. -Halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.	-Providing $150 million, through the International Climate Change Adaption Initiative, to help vulnerable countries in our region increase resilience to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. -Working to improve understanding of current and projected climate change impacts to help Pacific Island countries make informed adaption decisions. -Funding monitoring stations to ensure Pacific Island countries have access to accurate data on sea level rise.
Eight: Develop a global partnership for development.	·         -Address the special needs of least developed countries, landlocked countries and Small Island developing states. ·         -Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system. ·         -Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt. ·         -In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries. ·         -In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.	Australia is working closely with developing countries and development partners to build global partnerships which address poverty.