Abstract
Each year we celebrate World Habitat Day on the first Monday in October. The theme of the event being spearheaded from Jakarta Indonesia this year and marked in cities around the world is The Millennium Development Goals and the City. It is my intention to use this theme and World Habitat Day as an occasion to launch a new integrated slum upgrading and disaster mitigation programme in Indonesia. We chose this theme because the year 2005 marks the fifth anniversary of the Millennium Declaration in which world leaders agreed on a set of eight ambitious goals. These goals are aimed at eradicating poverty achieving universal primary education empowering women reducing child mortality improving maternal health fighting AIDS malaria and other diseases ensuring environmental sustainability and forging a new partnership for development. These goals are people-centred timebound and measurable. They are simple but powerful objectives that every woman man and young person in the street from Washington to Monrovia Jakarta to Nairobi and Oslo to Cape Town can understand. They have the political support because they mark the first time our leaders have held themselves accountable to such a covenant. (excerpt)
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