Millennium Development Goals and CBF

Dating back to the beginning of CBF Global Missions in 1993, the Fellowship has been committed to working among the most neglected, including the world's most marginalized and least evangelized people groups. This work has been holistic, addressing the spiritual, physical, emotional and mental condition of people we have come alongside.

The United Nations adopted eight goals in 2000 to address extreme poverty, and we applauded. Our work is strengthened by the commitment of people and institutions to address some of the same problems we are fighting around the globe. In 2007, the Fellowship officially endorsed the MDGs. Learn how CBF's eight Mission Communities encompass the MDGs.

Resources:
8 Ways to Change the World
Our Fellowship at Work
Resources for children/youth
CD Resource on MDGs

Summary of the Goals

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than one U.S. dollar a day.
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Achieve universal primary education

Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
Increased enrollment must be accompanied by efforts to ensure that all children remain in school and receive a high-quality education

Promote gender equality and empower women

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

Reduce child mortality

Reduce the mortality rate among children under five by two thirds.

Improve maternal health

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases

Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

Ensure environmental sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water (for more information see the entry on water supply).
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.

Develop a global partnership for development

Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally.
Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term.
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth.
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies - especially information and communications technologies