The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), derived from this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators that were to be achieved by 2015.

The Eight Millennium Development Goals are:

1. to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. achieve universal primary education
3. promote gender equality and empower women
4. reduce child mortality
5. improve maternal health
6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. ensure environmental sustainability
8. develop a global partnership for development.

Even though attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has shown uneven progress, which some have attributed to likely limitations arising from the MDG framework, there is no doubt that the MDGs have indeed aided improved health and well-being in many nations. Accordingly, the International Family Foundation shall continue promoting and canvassing achievement of these goals, in the interest of the Family worldwide. Moreover, as those constraints with the MDG framework are progressively identified and better understood, we are very optimistic that the post-2015 agenda shall have much larger impact.