For sustainable development to be achieved globally the United Nation has set eight goals to be achieved by 2015 as a response to the world's main development challenges and these goals are known as the MDGs. These goals were drawn from the actions and targets contained in the millennium declaration that was adopted by 189 nations and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. The primary objectives of the MDGs are to synthesize, in a single package, many of the most important commitments made separately at the international conferences and summits of the 1990s; recognize explicitly the interdependence between growth, poverty reduction and sustainable development; acknowledge that development rests on the foundations of democratic governance, the rule of law, respect for human rights, peace and security; these developments are based on time-bound and measurable targets accompanied by indicators for monitoring progress; and bring together, in the eighth goal, the responsibilities of developing countries with those of developed countries. These goals were founded on a global partnership endorsed at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, and again at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in August 2002 (UNDP 2006).