In September 2000 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, 189 UN member states adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, a commitment to foster new global partnerships in order to reduce poverty and achieve 8 specific targets by 2015. These are the Millennium Development Goals.
The team at NACHU has joined the effort to achieve the 8 MDGs set out by the United Nations. Specific loan products for women and youth ensure that they are empowered to achieve their goals of home and land ownership. Other loans are available for education fees and business expansion to assist members in combating poverty. NACHU projects have directly helped with the success of Target 7.D as many of the organization's members from informal settlements have been able to improve their homes or businesses, or even move into their own homes outside the slums.
GOAL 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
GOAL 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Target 2.A: 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
Target 3.A: 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
Target 4.A: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
GOAL 5: Improve Maternal Health
Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Target 5.B: Achieve universal access to reproductive health
GOAL 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
GOAL 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
GOAL 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Target 8.A: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
Target 8.B: Address the special needs of least developed countries
Target 8.C: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing states
Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries
Target 8.E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
