Since Egypt signed the Millennium Declaration a lot of progress has been made in all the related areas. Egypt shows that at the aggregated national level the country remains on track to reach the targets of the great majority of MDG indicators. The government has continued to give attention to critical areas of development, such as health and education, access to water and sanitation, as well as improving the livelihood of the most deprived segments of the population.
However, the pace of progress towards these targets varies among the goals; fast and sustained in some areas (child and maternal mortality, water and sanitation), at acceptable levels for others (education and poverty reduction), while somewhat more slowly in others (women empowerment, and the environment). The latest Egypt Human Development Report (2008) showed that the disparities in development progress between Upper and Lower Egypt, between rural and urban areas and between women and men remain stark and demonstrate the need for greater and better targeted investments to address these differences.
Click in the icons to see progress in each of the MDGs in Egypt (data collected from Egypt Human Development Report UNDP 2008)
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MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Target 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Target 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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MDG 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
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MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
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MDG 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five |
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MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health
Target 6: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio |
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MDG 6: Combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases
Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS
Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
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MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs; reverse loss of environmental resources
Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020
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MDG 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Target 12: 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 — both nationally and internationally. |
Target 13: Address the special needs of the least developed countries. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for least developed countries’ exports; enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs); cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance (ODA) for countries committed to poverty reduction.
Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked and small islands developing states
Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies