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Table 3 Comparing MDGs, Post-2015DGs with the High-Level Panel’s (HLP-Gs) 12 illustrative goals

From: Back to the future: what would the post-2015 global development goals look like if we replicated methods used to construct the Millennium Development Goals?

8 MDGs

10 Post-2015DGs

12 HLP-Gs

1. Eradicate Poverty

1. Eradicate Poverty

1. End Poverty

2. Universal Primary Education

2. Universal Primary Education of Good Quality

3. Provide Quality Education and Lifelong Learning

3. Promote Gender Equality

3. Ensure Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, Health and Well-Being

2. Empower Girls and Women and Achieve Gender Equality

4. Reduce Child Mortality

4. Protect Children’s Lives and Rights

4. Ensure Healthy Lives

5. Improve Maternal Health

5. Optimise the Health and Well-Being of the Ageing

 

6. Combat HIV/AIDs, Malaria and Other Diseases

6. Combat HIV/AIDs and Other Communicable Diseases

 
 

7. Ensure Food and Water Security

5. Ensure Food Security & Good Nutrition

6. Achieve Universal Access to Water and Sanitation

7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

8. Ensure Sustainable Development

7. Secure Sustainable Energy

8.Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Equitable Growth

 

9. Create Universal Access to Communication and Information

9. Manage Natural Resource Assets Sustainably

8. Global Partnership for Development

10. Global Partnerships in Governance and Financing for Development

10. Ensure Good Governance and Effective Institutions

11. Ensure Stable and Peaceful Societies

  

12. Create a Global Enabling Environment and Catalyse Long-Term Finance