Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
SAARC Development Goals (SDGs) Click here for details
Livelihood SDGs
Goal 1 Eradication of hunger poverty
Goal 2 Halve proportion of people in poverty by 2010
Goal 3 Ensure adequate nutrition and dietary improvement for the poor
Goal 4 Ensure a robust pro-poor growth process
Goal 5 Strengthen connectivity of poorer regions and of poor as social groups
Goal 6 Reduce social and institutional vulnerabilities of the poor, women and children
Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable justice
Goal 8 Ensure effective participation of poor and of women in antipoverty policies and programmes
Health SDGs
Goal 9 Maternal health
Goal 10 Child health
Goal 11 Affordable health-care
Goal 12 Improved hygiene and public health
Education SDGs
Goal 13 Access to primary/community school for all children, boys and girls
Goal 14 Completion of primary education cycle
Goal 15 Universal functional literacy
Goal 16 Quality education at primary – secondary and vocational levels
Environment SDGs
Goal 17 Acceptable level of forest cover
Goal 18 Acceptable level of water and soil quality
Goal 19 Acceptable level of air quality
Goal 20 Conservation of bio-diversity
Goal 21 Wetland conservation
Goal 22 Ban on dumping of hazardous waste, including radio –active waste
Further, the SAARC Social Charter, among other things, says the following about the promotion of the status of women:
2. States Parties agree that all appropriate measures shall be taken to educate public opinion and to direct national aspirations towards the eradication of prejudice and the abolition of customary and all other practices, which are based on discrimination against women. States Parties further declare that all forms of discrimination and violence against women are offences against human rights and dignity and that such offences must be prohibited through legislative, administrative and judicial actions.
3. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure to women on equal terms with men, an enabling environment for their effective participation in the local, regional and national development processes and for the enjoyment of their fundamental freedoms and legitimate entitlements.
4. States Parties also affirm the need to empower women through literacy and education recognizing the fact that such empowerment paves the way for faster economic and social development. They particularly stress the need to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the gender gap in literacy that currently exists in the SAARC nations, within a tfime-bound period.
5. States Parties re-affirm their commitment to effectively implement the SAARC Convention on Combating the Trafficking of Women and Children for Prostitution and to combat and suppress all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of women, including through the cooperation of appropriate sections of the civil society.
6. States Parties are of the firm view that at the regional level, mechanisms and institutions, to promote the advancement of women as an integral part of mainstream political, economic, social and cultural development be established.
