United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates 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. The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. From this site, explore the efforts of the UN and its partners for building a better world. ... more
News on Millennium Development Goals
Far greater effort needed to eradicate extreme poverty in world’s poorest nations – UN report
UN Photo/Kay Muldoon
While the world’s 48 most vulnerable nations continue to make in-roads into poverty reduction, a far greater effort is needed if these countries are to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020, according to The State of Least Developed Countries 2014. The report calls for paying greater attention to eradicating extreme poverty in the poorest countries within the on-going post-2015 development agenda.
Ten million childhood disabilities prevented in campaign to end polio – UNICEF
Every day, a thousand or so children have been protected from disability during a 26-year global effort to eradicate polio. The worldwide campaign has immunised millions of previously-unreached children across the globe, UNICEF said. Some 10 million people today would otherwise have been paralysed, while an additional 1.5 million lives have been saved through the routine administration of Vitamin A during polio vaccination drives.
Leave no one behind focus of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty” is the focus of this year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Events organized by the UN, ATD Fourth World, the International Committee on 17 October as well as the Missions of Burkina and France, seek to raise awareness of the challenges and need to secure the participation of those living in extreme poverty in the post-2015 development agenda.
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News on Post-2015 development process
Ireland and Kenya to lead on post-2015 negotiations
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
H.E. Mr. Sam Kutesa, President of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly, appointed H.E. Mr. David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland and H.E. Mr. Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya, as Co-Facilitators “to lead open, inclusive, and transparent consultations on the post-2015 development agenda, including the organization and modalities for the intergovernmental negotiations and the remaining issues related to the Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda.”
High-Level Panel members say stakes are huge for post-2015 with less than one year to summit
UN Photo/Mark Garten
One Year On: An open letter from former members of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Agenda. The countdown has begun in earnest. There is now just one year until the summit where – we hope – heads of state and government will agree on a new global agenda for inclusive, sustainable development to build upon the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals.
Private sector urged to invest in sustainable development at World Investment Forum
UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
Leading members of the global investment community gathered to meet sustainable development stakeholders at the World Investment Forum 2014. Held from 13 to 16 October in Geneva, the Forum allowed for inclusive dialogue and policy formulation on investment-development needs at the highest level, bringing together investment partners to discuss challenges, opportunities and policy solutions to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.