Millennium Development Goals

Background and Recommendations

Click on the links below to learn the details about each of the eight goals, including the targets set for each one, and CARE's work related to each goal.

What are the Millennium Development Goals?

GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

© 2006 Georgina Cranston

• CARE's Hunger and Food Security Brief
• Our Mission and Vision
• Our Annual Report
• Learn More

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

© 2007 David Rochkind/CARE

• Learn More About the Power of Girls' Education
• Empowering 10 million girls around the world
• The Power to Lead: a Leadership Model for girls
• Learning for All
• Homiara's story

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

© 2007 Ami Vitale/CARE.

• CARE's Women's Empowerment Brief
• Women's Empowerment Report
• Empowering women though financial services
• Swarasati's story
• A policy of empowerment
  

GOAL 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY RATE

© 2005 Phil Borges

• Children's Health
• Improving access to safe pregnancy and delivery services
• Voices from the village
• A case study: Peru
• CARE in the Congo

GOAL 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

© 2009 CARE

• Maternal and Newborn Children Health Brief
• Learn More About Why Mothers Matter
• Read the Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
• A case study: Peru
• A family planning project in the D.R.C.
• Supporting family planning in Mali

GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA, AND OTHER DISEASES

© 2008 Josh Estey/CARE.

• Standing Together, Reducing Risk
• Gender, Sex and the Power of Solidarity

GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

© 2008 Josh Estey/CARE

• Environmental Sustainability Brief
• CARE and climate change
• CARE's work with climate change
• Poverty reduction in times of global climate change
• A note from Dr. Robert Glasser, Secretary General, CARE International
• The human face of climate change

GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

© 2005 Josh Estey/CARE

• Millennium Development Goals at a Glance
• CARE working with local partners in Pakistan

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Follow us at the Summit

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   Published: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:14:05 GMT

   By: Suzanne Berman, Field Coordinator, CARE USA

   I work with members of the US Congress and their constituents to impro... read more >

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   Published: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:59:22 GMT

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Katie joined CARE as a senior policy advocate focusing on maternal health issues in February 2009. She is in charge of CARE's legislative activities on maternal health, an advocacy priority for the organization.

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1. Learning to Lead: The Final Day of the Learning Tour to Uganda

   Published: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:40:44 GMT

   Nicole deBrabander is CARE USA's Program Officer and she is traveling in Uganda on a CARE Learning Tour - a comprehensive, multi-day tour for policymakers and those who can influence policy to gain firsthand knowledge of the core issues poor ... read more >

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   Published: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:08:07 GMT

   Stephanie Chen is CARE USA's Policy and Communications Manager traveling in Uganda on a CARE Learning Tour - a comprehensive, multi-day tour for policymakers and those who can influence policy to gain firsthand knowledge of the core issues po... read more >

3. CARE Learning Tour Meets Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabzi

   Published: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:06:19 GMT

   

   Photo Credit Josh Estey

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4. For HIV Patients in Uganda, Treatment is Only the Beginning

   Published: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:03:16 GMT

   Stephanie Chen is CARE USA's Policy and Communications Manager traveling in Uganda on a CARE Learning Tour - a comprehensive, multi-day tour for policymakers and those who can influence policy to gain firsthand knowledge of the core issues po... read more >

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