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The Millennium Development Goals
By Setting Time-Bound Targets for Poverty Reduction
By Marcia Paredes
World leaders, in September 2000, gathered at the United Nations for the Millennium Assembly. This resulted in the signature by 192 countries of a compact to achieve eight goals to reduce poverty by 2015. The eight goals, now called the Millennium Development Goals, include halving extreme hunger and poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and providing universal primary education by 2015. The eight MDGs are divided into 18 specific targets with ways to evaluate progress. The expectation is that there will also be improved cooperation, trade and security as a result of working to achieve the goals.
 There is progress being made, especially in China and India, but the year 2015 is not distant. Criticisms include concern either that the goals are too ambitious or not ambitious enough, that not enough is being done and that the goals do not consider growing inequality. See what you think about the goals. How do you think they relate to the new Peruvian administration's programs to reduce poverty? Note that Goal 8 recognizes that eradicating poverty worldwide requires a global partnership for development.
1. 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
More about Definitions and Promotion
Wikipedia (short introduction)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals
Also, Wikipedia for info on World Summit and MDGs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_World_Summit
United Nations core documents
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/policy/policy03.htm
Also
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/index.htm
Group and individual action.
http://www.milleniumcampaign.org Join STAND UP
http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=1806429
UN Cyberschoolbus promotes student participation
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/
Why are the goals important?
(Readings and a few numbers on chronic poverty and propoor growth)
http://www.chronicpoverty.org
http://www.worldbank.org/propoorgrowth
http://www.borgenproject.org/
Country Strategies
Investing in Development
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/index.htm
Diez Recomendaciones Fundamentales
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/recommendationsS.htm
How to Guide MDG-based National Development Strategies
http://mdg-guide.undp.org
Capacity Development for MDGs
http://www.developmentgateway.org/mdg
Millennium Project Tools for Assessment
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/policy/needs03.htm
Questions for DebategpgNet Discussion Forum
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/gpgn/topic05.php
Examples of Policies: Canada, US, Britain, European Commission
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/EN/JUD-13175444-H69
See also the CIDA policy suite for interesting strategy papers.
United States Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)
http://www.mca.gov/
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0303/ijee/contacts.htm
British Government Department for International Development (DFID)
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg
European Commission Press Papers on the MDGs
http://ec.europa.eu/comm/development/body/communications/communications_en.htm
Center for Global Development (info on efforts to improve, for example, aid effectiveness, debt relief, administration of international organizations, and trade)
http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/
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