Millennium Development Goals and CBF
Dating back to the beginning of CBF Global Missions in 1993, this Fellowship has been committed to working among the most neglected. This work has centered on the most marginalized and least evangelized people groups in the world. This work has also 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.
At the 2007 General Assembly in Washington, D.C., the Fellowship referred a motion to endorse the Millennium Development Goals to the CBF Coordinating Council. The Council approved the motion and officially endorsed the goals at a meeting in October of 2007. Your fellowship is at work to be the presence of Christ among the most neglected around the world. This work encompasses the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Christ compels us to respond.
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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
Improve maternal health
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