Keeping our promises on the MDGs: DFID's progress so far
The following quick facts and figures provide an account of the UK's progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
by 2015. They show our progress as of June 2007, at the mid-point
between 2000 and 2015.
Poverty
- DFID estimates that its aid lifts 3 million people permanently out
of poverty every year.
Education
- The UK has committed £8.5 billion towards education to 2015, with £1
billion a year from 2010 onwards, including £150 million to the Fast
Track Initiative.
- In Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, abolishing primary school
user fees has helped more than one million extra children in each
country to enrol in primary school.
- In Afghanistan, 5.5 million children are now back in school, which
is more than the entire population of Scotland, and 100,000 new teachers
are in place.
- In Tanzania, half a billion dollars of debt relief has contributed
to 31,000 new classrooms, 18,000 new teachers and 1,000 new schools.
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HIV, AIDS, malaria & other diseases
- Every second, 15 UK funded condoms are used somewhere in the
developing world (54,000 every hour). DFID has funded more than 1
billion condoms since 2001.
- In Zambia, DFID support, through debt relief, has led to free
healthcare for 5 million rural people.
- Two million people are now on anti-retroviral treatment, which helps
to slow the progression of HIV to AIDS.
- Since 2002, the UK has delivered more than 4.8 million mosquito nets
to Malawi, which now protect more than 60% of under-five year olds in
some districts, up from 8% in 2000.
- In Bangladesh, improved immunisation, with support from DFID, has
helped save the lives of 2 million children in the last two decades.
Environment, Water & Sanitation
- Funding worth £800m for the International Environmental
Transformation Fund will help countries respond to climate change.
- DFID has helped bring clean water to almost 2 million more people in
India; doubled the clean water supply to poor homes in Basra, Iraq (to
100,000); and brought drinking water to an extra 170,000 people and
sanitation to an extra 225,000 people in Pakistan.
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Aid, Trade, Growth & Global Partnership
- The UK's official development assistance (ODA) has trebled since
1997, from £2.1 billion to £6.85 billion a year in 2006.
- The UK is the world’s second largest bilateral donor government.
- The UK led the negotiations at Gleneagles in 2005 for a new deal to
deliver an extra $50 billion in aid, $1 billion a year in debt
cancellation, and HIV and AIDS treatment for all who need it by 2010.
- 21 developing countries have had all of their debt ($38 billion)
wiped out.
- Spending on health and education has nearly trebled since 1999 -
from $5.9 billion to $16.5 billion - in the 28 countries that have
benefited from debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
(HIPC) Initiative.
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Other ways that DFID is helping to fight global poverty:
Humanitarian aid
- UK gave £550 million in 2005/06.
- UK aid is working in more than 20 countries around the world,
meeting humanitarian needs.
- In Sudan, UK aid has provided food, water, shelter and education to
over 5.5 million people.
- The UK has been instrumental in establishing the Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF), which has helped 8 million people in Kenya, the
Horn of Africa, Sudan and Lebanon.
Conflict
- DFID has supported peacekeeping activities in Sierra Leone, Eritrea,
Ethiopia and Darfur.
- DFID has returned child soldiers to childhood in the Democratic
Republic of Congo and promoted peace there and in Angola, Sudan and
Rwanda.
Governance and corruption
- DFID supported the first democratic elections in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo for 40 years.
- The UK Government has led the international fight against
corruption. A new unit is in place dedicated to this and the
Metropolitan Police have already seized £35 million of fraudulently
obtained assets.
- In 2002, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative was
launched; the Medicines Transparency Alliance in April 2007; and the
Construction Sector Transparency Initiative in June 2007. All will
tackle corruption, increase transparency and aim to make these
industries more beneficial to poor countries.
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Last updated: 01 August 2007
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