The document discusses Ukraine's progress toward achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) established by the UN in 2000 to be achieved by 2015. Ukraine has made progress in reducing poverty, improving access to education, and reducing child and maternal mortality, but still faces challenges in ensuring education quality, promoting gender equality, reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, and improving environmental sustainability. The UN is working with Ukraine to continue progress on the MDGs through 2015.

1. Millennium Development Goals:
Ukraine’s progress and way forward
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2. In 2000, 189 nations made a promise
to free people from extreme poverty
and multiple deprivations.
This pledge became the eight MDGs
to be achieved by 2015. In September 2010, the world recommitted
itself to accelerate progress towards these goals.
UNDP's Leadership on the MDGs:
Accelerating progress/Tracking the MDGs
The MDGs provide a framework for the entire UN system to work
coherently together toward a common end. UNDP, global
development network on the ground in 177 countries and
territories, is in a unique position to advocate for change, connect
countries to knowledge and resources, and coordinate broader
efforts at the country level.
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3. Millennium
Development
Goals
approved by the
UN Millennium
Declaration in
September 2000
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development 3

4. MDGs set for Ukraine
Goal 1. Reduce poverty
(3 targets, 5 indicators)
Goal 2. Ensure quality lifelong
education
(2 targets, 6 indicators)
Goal 3. Promote gender equality
(2 targets, 4 indicators)
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
(1 target, 2 indicators)
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
(1 target, 2 indicators)
Goal 6. Reduce and slow down the spread of HIV/AIDS and
tuberculosis and initiate a trend to decrease their scales
(2 targets, 6 indicators)
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 4
(4 targets, 8 indicators)

5. Olivier Adam, UN Resident Coordinator
in Ukraine: “While it is clear that these
are challenging times for all countries,
and in particular for Ukraine, achieving
the MDGs is possible, given political will,
adequate commitment, efforts and
resources”.
3 September 2010, MDGs-Ukraine report
presentation, Kiyv, Ukraine
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanykovych:
“The MDGs are both a reference and a
system of priorities for implementation of
the strategy of reforms in Ukraine
because they indicate the acutest
problems our society faces today”.
22 September 2010, MDGs Summit, speech from
the UN General Assembly rostrum, New York
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6. Progress in achieving MDGs:
Ukraine has managed to achieve certain progress
in poverty reduction in absolute terms,
in ensuring access to primary and secondary education,
in improving maternal health, in reducing child mortality…
HOWEVER …
• poverty is an acute problem troubling society
• education quality causes discontent in society
• no progress in gender disparity reduction has been achieved,
there being an income gender gap
• environmental problems have become sharper
AND…
the scale of HIV/AIDS and TB spread has grown substantially
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7. Goal 1: Poverty Reduction
The poverty level as per the relative criterion in
2010 was 24.1%. During the recent ten years,
the relative poverty level has remained comparably stable (at 26-
27%) although the national poverty line has increased almost
fivefold over that period (from UAH 175 in 2001 to UAH 944 in
2010).
A high poverty level can be seen in the families with two children
(40.7%) and families with many children (58.4%) as well as in
the families having children and unemployed adults (36.3%).
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8. Goal 2. Ensure Quality
Lifelong Education
Net enrollment rate
…in preschool educational institutions for children aged 3-5
in urban areas - 87.5% in 2010
in rural areas - 49.7% in 2010
…for for children in secondary education - 97.3% in 2010
…in post-secondary institutions for those aged 17-22 - 47% in 2010
Sociological surveys showed that about half of Ukraine’s
population is not satisfied with secondary education quality
(47.5%) while one third is satisfied (33.5%)
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9. Goal 3. Promote Gender
Equality
The women’s share among the members of the Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine is 8% at present, reflecting both the lack
of political will to complete gender transformations at the
highest level of management and the lack of legislatively
enshrined changes concerning parity representation of
women and men in representative management bodies.
The actual value of the women-to-men ratio among top-level
managers was 25/75 in 2010. The average wage ratio
between women and men increased to 77.8% in 2010
(average wage of women in Ukraine was UAH 1974 per
month in 2010, as opposed to that of men - UAH 2538). 9

10. Goal 4: Reduced Child
Mortality
Child mortality in Ukraine has decreased,
it was 9.1 per 1000 births in 2010.
One of the most important ways to prevent mortality is to
promote birth of healthy babies through preservation and
strengthening of young people’s reproductive health
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11. Goal 5: Improve Maternal
Health
A decrease in the maternal mortality level has been
observed in Ukraine, from 24.7 per 100,000 live births in
2000 to 23.5 in 2010.
However, a comparison of values on the indicator throughout
2000–2010 is incorrect, since from 2005 Ukraine has been
coding mortality data according to the International
Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision
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12. Goal 6: Reduce and Slow
Down the Spread of
HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
and Initiate a Trend to
Decrease Their Scales
The number of new HIV infection cases in Ukraine has been
constantly growing: in 2009 and 2010, respectively 19840
and 20489 new HIV infection cases were officially recorded.
These are the highest figures over the entire history of
epidemiological HIV surveillance (commenced in Ukraine in
1987). However, the HIV incidence growth has been going
down since 2006
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13. Goal 6: Reduce and Slow Down the
Spread of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis…
Tuberculosis rate decreased by 6.1% among general population
in 2010, by 5.2% among adolescents, and by 10.9% among
children. Tuberculosis-related mortality dropped by 7% in
2010 due to complete provision with anti-TB drugs. However,
the tuberculosis incidence rate is still higher than the epidemic
threshold.
Problems such as growing morbidity and mortality caused by
TB/HIV co-infection, as well as multidrug -resistant TB spread
are becoming extremely topical
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14. Goal 7: Ensure
Environmental
Sustainability
Share of urban population with access to centralized water
supply, % of overall urban population was 90.5% in 2010.
Volume of emissions of pollutants into atmosphere from
stationary sources, million tonnes per year was 4.13 in 2010
The ecological situation in Ukraine is characterized by
significant regional discrepancies in the level of human-
induced burdens on the environment. Problems with the
collection, use, disposal and removal of waste of all types of
hazard have increased.
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