Reaching the MDGs is possible if we align our efforts and work together. Here are some resources to get you started to align your work with the global effort of reaching the MDGs.
One of the main challenges posed by the MDGs is accepting the goals are achievable and visualizing what it would look like when we get there. At MIDEGO, we have the vision and share it so we can start to reach the MDGs now! MIDEGO puts together all the pieces of the puzzle of how to reach the MDGs in its "7-Day MPH Program." For information about this innovative and cost-effective program, click here.
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Resources by MDG:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1: Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Target 2: Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
For information about reaching this MDG in Africa, visit Africare's website: click here
For more information, The Millennium Project and Millennium Campaign are also actively working on this goal. Please visit their websites.
For the Millennium Project's Report "Halving Hunger": It Can be Done, click here.
To see the Millennium Campaign's webpage on Poverty and hunger, click here.
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target 3: Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.
Some of the most relevant work in this area is done through partnerships with other UN Agencies and National governments. Projects such as India's Community Based Education Program are important examples of UNDP's work at country level in collaboration with other UN Agencies.
For information on advocating for Universal Education, visit the Universal Education Foundation, click here.
For the Millennium Project's Report: Toward universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions, click here.
For the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' report on Universal Education, click here.
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by
2005, and at all levels by 2015.
Equality between women and men is a worthy goal that is central to progress in human development. For MIDEGO's views on gender, see Dr. Ruth Hope's papers: click here (link missing)
For the work for 47 wonderful organizations in improving the wellbeing of women and children, visit the CORE Group's website: click here.
UNDP is committed to making gender equality a reality, not only because it is a moral imperative, but because it is a way to promote prosperity and well-being for all. UNDP works on pro-women's policy advice, capacity development, and supports projects for gender equality in collaboration with UNIFEM.
For UNDP's Website on Women's Empowerment, click here.
For the Millennium Project's Report: Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women, click here.
For the Millennium Campaign's page on Goal 3, click here.
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five
For MIDEGO's "7-Day Child Health Program Manager" online coaching program, click here (link missing).
For information about the US Coalition for Child Survival, click here.
For the Millennium Project's Report: Who's got the power? Transforming health systems for women and children, click here.
For the Millennium Campaign's page on Goal 4, click here.
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.
For MIDEGO's "7-Day Maternal Health Program Manager" online coaching program, click here (link missing).
For the work of the White Ribbon Alliance on saving mothers' lives, click here.
For the Millennium Project's Report: Who's got the power? Transforming health systems for women and children, click here.
For the Millennium Campaign's page on Goal 5, click here (link missing).
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
For MIDEGO's "7-Day HIV/AIDs Program Manager" online coaching program, click here< (link missing)/a>.
For more on UNDP's work on HIV/AIDS, click here.
For the Millennium Project Reports:
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Combating AIDS in the developing world, click here. Prescription for healthy development: increasing access to medicines, click here. Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB, click here. Coming to grips with malaria in the new millennium, click here. |
For the Millennium Campaigns page on Goal 6, click here.
For National Human Development Reports on HIV/AIDS, click here (link missing).
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs
reverse loss of environmental resources
Target 10: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Target 11: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
For UNDP's work in Energy and Environment, click here.
For the Millennium Project Reports:
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Environment and human well-being: a practical strategy, click here. Health, dignity, and development: what will it take?, click here. A home in the city, click here. |
For the Millennium Campaigns page on Goal 7, click here.
For Human Development Reports on Environment, .
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial
system Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction both nationally and internationally
Target 13: Address the special needs of the least developed countries Includes: tariff and quota
free access for least developed countries exports; enhanced program of debt relief for HIPCs and cancellation
of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction
Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States
Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and
international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and
productive work for youth.
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs
in developing countries
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies,
especially information and communications
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For the Millennium Project Reports: Trade for development, click here. Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development click here. For the Millennium Campaign's page on Goal 8, click here. |
