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Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals Inter-Agency Working Group of the UN Development Group, led by UNFPA, UNDP and the UN Statistics Division, including important collaboration with the World Bank
This handbook provides guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of data for each of the indicators that are used to monitor the MDG targets. It expands on an earlier exercise to provide the metadata for the socio-economic indicators that make up the UN Common Country Assessment Indicator Framework. 04-10-2003 10:17 am

The Millennium Development Goals in Africa: promises & progress
In 2001, Mr. Nelson Mandela asked, "Will the legacy of our generation be more than a series of broken promises?" This report attempts to answer that question by reviewing the progress made in Africa in achieving the set of development goals agreed at the United Nations Millennium Summit of September 2000. 01-01-1970 12:00 am

The United Nations and the MDGs: a core strategy
The adoption of the Millennium Declaration in 2000 by all 189 member states of the UN General Assembly was a defining moment for global cooperation in the 21st century. The Declaration sets out the key challenges facing humanity at the threshold of the new millennium, outlines a response to these challenges, and establishes concrete measures for judging performance through a set of inter-related commitments, goals and targets on development, governance, peace, security and human rights. 01-01-1970 12:00 am

Poverty Reduction – a Global Responsibility Program of Action 2015 The German Government’s Contribution Towards Halving Extreme Poverty Worldwide German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
"We can reduce suffering and poverty in our world. If we all take decisive action, we can help create a world in which fewer children die and more people can look forward to a peaceful future."
Gerhard Schröder
Federal Chancellor of Germany  

The MDGs: an information note on selected initiatives UNDP/MDGs Unit
[Information Note] The Millennium Project has made a solid start, with its basic infrastructure in place and a first set of outputs delivered by mid-2003. The focus now is shifting to the primary research being commissioned in the build-up to the Interim Task Force Reports, due in December 2003; to the synthesis Interim Project Report, due in June 2004; and to connecting the intellectual efforts and expert networks of the Project to the policy advocacy and analytic work of UN Country Teams.   application/msword

Summary of UNESCO's contribution to the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) BSP
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: an overview of the current process and its implications for UNESCO BSP
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The Millennium Challenge Account: A Policy Paper From InterAction Nancy A. Aossey and Mary E. McClymont, Chair of the Board President and CEO, InterAction
[Policy Paper] This paper offers a set of recommended guidelines for the design and implementation of the Millennium Challenge Account for overseas development, announced by President Bush in March 2002. The paper was developed through consultations with our membership. We hope it will serve as an important resource for policymakers as they craft this new initiative. Our InterAction community looks forward to an open and constructive ongoing dialogue with the Administration and the Congress on the Millennium Challenge Account in the months ahead.   text/html

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