At the global level, CARE is committed to contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Developments Goals (MDG), with a specific emphasis on the following goals:

• MDG target 3:

Ensure that, by 2015, Hispanic, Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian children, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of basic education.

• MDG target 4:

Eliminate disparities in terms of gender and diversity in the areas of education, health, access to public and private jobs, no later than 2015.

• MDG target 5:

Reduce the under-five mortality rate from 40.7% (1990) to 13.6% (2015) per thousand live births.

• MDG target 7:

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

• MDG target 8:

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases (tuberculosis).

• MDG target 9:

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and slow down the loss of environmental resources.

• MDG target 10:

Reduce, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, in rural areas, from 60% to 30%.

• MDG target 11:

Reduce, by 2015, the percentage of people who lack sustainable sanitary services in rural and urban areas, by 25%.

• MGD target 12:

Achieve good management of public affairs and poverty reduction in Ecuador.

• MGD target 16:

Develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.