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UN Millenium Development Goals

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.

  "We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual.

We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve the Goals."

United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi A. Annan

 

UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) -

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

 

World Bank Group Millenium Development Goals

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/GMIS/home.do?siteId=2

 

Cost of Attaining the Millennium Development Goals

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/mdgassessment.pdf

 

Gender Goal


Promote Gender Equality and Promote Women. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

 

WomenWatch: Directory of UN Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women

www.un.org/womenwatch/world/

 

Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

http://www.mdgender.net/goals/mdg_3.php

 

Department for International Development (DFID) – Millennium Development Goals: Gender

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/gender.asp

 

DFID Gender Factsheet

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/mdg-factsheets/genderfactsheet.pdf

 

Women’s Human Rights Net (WHRnet) – Millennium Goals

http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-mdg.html

 

UNIFEM is one of a number of UN agencies charged with helping countries move forward on the Millennium Development Goals, but it has the only specific mandate to advocate for gender equality.

http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/millennium_development_goals/

 

Ensuring Gender Equality is Essential to Meet MDGs, Says New Report

http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2006/9974-regional-MDGs/default.asp