Zimbabwe Government's Millenium Development Goals

Publicizing and Scrutinizing Social Welfare Policy in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Millennium Development Goals 2015

By 2015 Zimbabwe has pledged to:

GOAL 1.

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Target 1:

* Halve, between 2002 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than the Total Consumption Poverty Line (TCPL).

* Halve, between 2000 and 2015, the proportion of people in Human Poverty, as measured by the Human Poverty Index (HPI).

Target 2:

i Halve, between 2002 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

ii Reduce by two-thirds, between 2002 and 2015, the proportion of under-five children who are malnourished.

GOAL 2.

Achieve universal primary education

Target 3:

. Ensure that, between 2000 and 2015, all Zimbabwean children, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full programme of primary education.

GOAL 3.
Promote gender equality and empower women

Target 4 (A):

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably, by 2005 and at ail levels ot education no later than 2015.

Target 4 (B):

. Increase the participation of women in decision-making in all sectors and at all levels (to 40% for women in senior civil service positions and to 30% for women in Parliament) by 2005 and to 50:50 balance by 2015.

GOAL 4,

Reduce child mortality

Target 5:

.Reduce bv two-thirds, between 2000 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

GOAL 5.

Improve maternal health

Target 6:

. Reduce by three-quarters, between 2000 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

GOAL 6.

Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Target 7:

. Have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Target 8:

.Have halted, by 2015, and began to reverse the increasing incidence of Malaria, TB and Diarrhoeal diseases.

GOAL 7.

Ensure environmental sustainability

Target 9:

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources.

Target 10:

Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Target 11:

By 2020, achieve a significant improvement in the housing condition of at least 1,000,000 slum dwellers, peri-urban and high density lodgers.

GOAL 8.

Develop a global partnership for development

Target 12:

Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.

Target 13:

Not Applicable

Target 14:

Address the special needs of the countrv's landlocked status.

Target 15:

Deal comprehensively with debt problems.

Target 16:

In co-operation with strategic partners, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for everyone.

Target 17:

In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs.

Target 18:

In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.