BELIZE First Millennium Development Goals Report. 2004

In September of 2000, 191 member countries of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration which outlines the main challenges confronting the world at the start of the new millennium. Governments agreed to a set of goals and related targets known as the International Development Targets (IDT) that essentially constitute a twenty-five year global agenda to address issues of development, human rights, environmental sustainability peace and security. The combination of goals and targets now known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been integrated and designed to measure countries’ performance in relation to the challenges of the global development agenda and establishes a deadline of 2015 by which they are to be achieved.