Social Contribution

Millennium Promise
Cox Capital supports the initiatives set out in the Millennium Development Goals. These goals are also referred to as the Millennium Promise and are as follows:

End Poverty & Hunger

• Target 1: 
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
• Target 2: 
Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
• Target 3: 
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

       
Universal Education

• Target 1: 
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Gender Equality

• Target 1: 
Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

Child health

• Target 1: 
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Maternal Health

• Target 1: 
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
• Target 2:
 Achieve universal access to reproductive health

• Target 1: 
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Target 2:
 Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
• Target 3:
 Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Environmental Sustainability

• Target 1: 
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• Target 2:
 Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
• Target 3:
 Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
• Target 4: 
By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

           
Global Partnership

• Target 1: 
Address the special needs of least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states
• Target 2:
 Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
• Target 3:
 Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt
• Target 4: 
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
• Target 5: 
In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications

For further information regarding the Millenium Development Goals click on the following links:   

www.un.org/millenniumgoals/index.shtml

www.millenniumpromise.org