Target: Halve extreme poverty by 2015
Australia: Australia is providing 1.6 million disadvantaged children with access to pre primary education. Providing affordable housing .
Goal: Achieving universal primary education 115 million – 75 million, Fewer girls than boy
Target: By 2015, everyone will have a primary education
Australia: Funded the construction of new schools in Laos. Teacher training program, nutritious snacks- food providing program. Girls attendance has doubled in Australian funded schools
Goal: Gender equality 70% of 1.3 million people are girls
Target: Increasing women’s political power and eliminating gender disparity in primary education.
Australia: Australian scholarships, encouraging women to apply for jobs in east Timor
Goal: Reduce child mortality, One death every 3 seconds , Declined from 12.6 million to 9 million
Target: Reduce the child mortality rate by two thirds by 2015
Australia: Training more skilled birth attendants in rural and remote PNG to help reduce infant deaths. Improve the supply of vaccination and immunisation globally.
Goal: Improve maternal health
Target: Reduce by three-quartes the maternal mortality rate, achieve universal reproductive health
Australia: Helping to train the next generation of midwives and providing specialist surgical services and training in East Timor. Supporting outreach clinics, which target remote and rural villages with information on health, nutrition and family planning. Helping to fund maternal and reproductive health activities in developing countries across the region and in Afghanistan.
Goal: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Target: Achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
Australia: Commited up to $100 million to work in partenrship with Indonesia to combat the spread of HIV and improve the quality of life for those living with virus. Supporting needle syringe programs, coluntary counselling, testing and prevention services and methadone programs in Indonesia. Commited $160 million in 2009-10 to combat the spread of the pandemic through it’s global HIV/AIDS initiative, up from $130 million in 2008-9
Goal: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs. Halve the number of people without sustainable acess to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Australia: Providing $10 million, through the international climate change adaptation initiative, to help vulnerable countries in our region increase resilience to the unavoidable inpacts of climate change. Working to improve the understanding of current and projected climate change impacts to help Pacific Island countries make informed adaptation decisions. Funding monitoring stations to ensure Pacific Island countries have access to accurate data on sea level rise.
Goal: Develop a global
Target: N/A
Australia: Australia is working closely with developing countries and development partners to build global partnerships which adress poverty.
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