Achieving the MDGs for Poverty Reduction

Given Korea’s own development experience, KOICA believes that promoting self-reliance through capacity building is the key to development. However, in order for a nation to be productive and self-reliant, the basic needs of a country must be satisfied. KOICA fervently supports the MDGs and believes that their fulfillment will lay the foundations for socio-economic development in partner countries. Therefore, KOICA has endeavored to focus assistance on seven priority sectors in line with the MDGs while increasing resources for the least developed countries and participating in international initiatives to promote innovative financing for development.

Achieving Universal Primary Education

Access to basic education is a fundamental right for all people and provides the tools they need to escape from poverty and build a democratic society.

Combating Global Health Issues

In order to reduce the mortality rate for both mothers and children under the age of five, and eradicate HIV/AIDS, malaria and other major infectious disease, KOICA is trying to improve public health and health care in developing countries.

Agricultural Development

To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, it is essential to improve agricultural productivity and raise rural living standards and incomes in partner countries.

Ensuring Environmental Sustainability

Poverty reduction is impossible in the long term without consideration to the natural resources and environmental problems, such as climate change, deforestation, and a decrease in biodiversity.

Promoting Gender Equality

There is a greater need to invest in alleviating the poverty of women and improving gender equality in developing countries.

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Goal 1 : Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Goal 2 : Achieve Universal Primary Education

3. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Goal 3 : Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

Goal 4 : Reduce Child Mortality

5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Goal 5 : Improve Maternal Health

6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

Goal 6 : Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Goal 7 : Ensure Environmental Sustainability

9. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
11. Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Goal 8 : Develop a Global Partnership for Development

12. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction; both nationally and internationally)
13. Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (includes tariff- and quota-free access for Least Developed Countries' exports, enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries [HIPCs] and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction)
14. Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing states (through the Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and 22nd General Assembly provisions)
15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies