The Millennium Development Goals for Romania

"Romania's objective of developing a modern, inclusive, European society will take time and commitment"- said the former Prime Minister of Romania, Adrian Nastase in 2003.

In the last seven years, many things has been changed in our country, because when the MDGs were developed, Romania was a beneficial of the development aids.

Nowadays, Romania contributes with an exact sum of money to the fund for the developing countries. During the last years, to reach the MDGs, Romania has learnt valuable lessons regarding the cooperation between government, international organizations, civil society and the private sector.

Romania managed to satisfy partially all the MDGs, but there is still work to do.

More precisely the situations of MDGs were the following based on a report made in 2003, and updated in 2007:

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

Halve the severe poverty rate by 2009, as compared to 2002. This target was achieved in 2005. Figure 1 shows the dynamics of the severe poverty rate, and the second one shows the dynamics of the severe poverty rate by residence.

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Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education:

Ensure that at least 95% of children in rural areas complete a full course of primary and secondary education as of 2012. Increase the literacy rate of the Roma population.

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Increase women’s level of employment and the level of representation in the national parliament.

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Halve the mortality rate in children aged 1-4 years between 2002 and 2015.

Reduce infant mortality by 40% between 2002 and 2015.

Eliminate measles by 2007

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Halve the maternal mortality rate, between 2001 and 2009

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Maintain, by 2007, the incidence of HIV/ AIDS at the level of 2002.

Have halted by 2005 and begun to reverse the incidence of tuberculosis. (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course).

Provide access to affordable essential drugs.

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Ensure a growth of the rate of tree plantation, from 27% to 35% by 2040 .

Increase the proportion of protected land area from 2.56% in 1990 to 10% by 2015.

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Double the number of people with sustainable access to drinking water by 2015.

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Double the number of subscribers to fixed telephony networks between 2001 and 2015.

Increase by at least 20% the number of personal computers every year.

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