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A Future Within Reach:

This is the third in a series of regional reports on the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region. It assesses the prospects of reaching the goals and targets, highlighting the potential gaps and indicating how these can be filled. It also looks at the potential for adding value to national initiatives through broader international partnerships through which the United Nations and other international organizations 'deliver as one'.

http://www.mdgasiapacific.org/files/shared_folder/documents/A-Future-Within-Reach-2008.pdf

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Millennium Development Goals: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007

The latest report from from the ADB and UNDP on progress in Asia and the Pacific towards the Millennium Development Goals. The report finds that in many areas Asia and the Pacific are on course to meet the 2015 targets (UN, 2007).

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/MDG-Update-2007/MDG-Update-2007.pdf

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Millennium Development Goals: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2006

This report is the latest update on the progress towards MDGs in Asia and the Pacific. By zooming in on specific indicators, the report highlights the region's achievements and exposes issues on which much work remains to be done. Asia-Pacific countries continue to make progress towards the MDGs, but on present trends many are likely to miss some vital targets, including those for infant mortality, HIV prevalence and access to water and sanitation in urban areas. Even more worryingly, some countries are at risk of failing to reach even two-thirds of the targets. (ESCAP, UNDP and ADB, 2006)

http://www.mdgasiapacific.org/2ndMDGReport/MDG-Progress2006.pdf

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Youth for a Sustainable Future

The largest network empowering Pacific Island youth to engage their communities in achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDG) & other key regional development priorities.

http://www.pacifikayouth.org/

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NZAID Field Blog

NZAID's field blog gives an up-close and up-to-date insight on the realities of aid on the ground. NZAID staff will update the blog as they travel to the field to visit NZ funded programmes and projects. The first blog will be written by NZAID Communication Manager, Catrina McDiarmid, who is travelling to Papua New Guinea on a visit focussing on the Millennium Development Goals and the Pacific, HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive health issues. (NZAID, 2006)

http://nzaid.blogspot.com/

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Marshall Islands: Millennium Development Goals National Progress Report [PDF - 620kb]

This report - jointly produced by the UNDP and the government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands - details the Marshall Islands' progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The report contains information on Poverty, Education, Health, Child Health, Gender, Disease and the Environment in the Marshall Islands.

http://www.spc.int/prism/mdg/Countries_natrpts/MDG%20RMI%20Report%20Rev%20II.pdf

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Millennium Development Goals: Fiji National Report [Word File - 993 kb]

This report (produced by the Fijian Government) details Fiji's progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The report also outlines Fiji's proposals for meeting the Goals. Ultimately, all the Pacific Island Countries will produce similar reports on a regular basis; however, thus far only Fiji and PNG have done so.

http://www.undg.org/unct.cfm?module=CoordinationProfile&page=Country&CountryID=FIJ&fuseaction=UN%20Country%20Coordination%20Profile

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"A Future Within Reach" Asia Pacific Second Regional MDG Report

September 2005. The report entitled "A future within reach: reshaping institutions in a region of disparities to meet the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific " is the second in a series of regional reports on the MDGs in the region. It was commissioned through a tripartite initiative of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). As an advocacy document, it is intended to provide government policy makers and other development stakeholders with the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the region's progress towards the MDGs. It also offers a range of policy options for improving the region's prospects for meeting the goals, particularly those related to providing basic services on health, education, water and sanitation and to enhancing regional cooperation.

http://www.mdgasiapacific.org/files/shared_folder/documents/Regional_MDGs_report_2.pdf

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MDG Pacific Region data by goal

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community. This webpage provides Pacific Region for each of the Millennium Development Goals.

http://www.spc.int/mdgs/MDGs/MDGs.htm

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Millennium Development Goals in the Pacific: Relevance and Progress

Asian Development Bank, March 2003. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, 147 heads of state and Government adopted the Millennium Declaration and reaffirmed their commitment to working toward a world in which sustaining development and eliminating poverty would have the highest priority. The declaration led to the formulation of a concise set of goals, numerical targets and quantifiable Indicators--the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)--that focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvement in people's lives. At the Monterrey Conference in March 2002, multilateral development banks, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reached a consensus to relate their long-term strategic frameworks to the MDGs and to examine how MDGs could be reflected in country strategies and programs. This report presents ADB's first steps in this direction with regard to its Pacific developing member countries.

http://www.adb.org/documents/books/MDG_Pacific/default.asp

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PRISM Millennium Development Goals Indicators

This is a selection of the MDGIs based on the number of countries that have them from the Pacific Regional Information System.

http://www.spc.int/prism/mdg/mdgs.html

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Promoting the MDGs in Asia and the Pacific

UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), May 2003.

http://www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=672

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South Pacific MDG Indicator Country Summaries

(SPC) For the following Pacific Islands nations: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Republic of Nauru, Niue, Republic of Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, Republic of Vanuatu.

http://www.spc.int/mdgs/PIC_reports/reports.htm

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Declaration of the Pacific Youth Summit for MDGs

Declaration from the Pacific Youth Summit for MDGs held 8-12 May 2005 Tofamamao, Samoa.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/PacYouthMDGDec.pdf

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Global Monitoring Report 2005

The Global Monitoring Report 2005 is the second in a series of annual reports assessing progress on the policy agenda for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related outcomes. It is prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in close collaboration with partner agencies. This report comes at an important time, when the international development community is taking stock of implementation of the Millennium Declaration in the five years since its adoption and discussing how progress toward the MDGs can be accelerated. We hope that the analysis presented in this report will make a useful contribution to those efforts.

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/GLOBALMONITORINGEXT/0,,contentMDK:20445926~pagePK:64022011~piPK:292245~theSitePK:278515,00.html

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The Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the Pacific region

SPC has taken a proactive role in promoting Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the Pacific region, recognising the significance of the MDG framework as a mechanism to assess and monitor social development in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). This webpage provides a useful resource on MDGs in the Pacific.

http://www.spc.int/mdgs/

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Draft MDG Pacific Regional Report

This draft regional report for the Pacific is produced by the Secretariat for the Pacific Community. It outlines how well Pacific Island Countries are doing in their work to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

http://www.spc.int/mdgs/MDGReport/Reg_report.htm

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The adoption of the Millennium Declaration -implications for national statistical systems in the Pacific

Paper prepared by Garth Parry, SPC Statistician. The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), targets and indicators had obvious and immediate implications for development in the Pacific region, with particular relevance for development of the national statistical systems (NSSs) providing information for the measurement of these indicators. The link between the MDGs and NSSs is well illustrated by the phrase "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it". The importance of measuring the state of national development against MDG targets, both now and in the future, flows on to a need for national statistical systems that can produce timely and reliable information related to the underlying indicators. This paper aims briefly to assess the present capability of the region's NSSs to measure those indicators, how that capability has developed in recent years, and the prospects for improvement in areas where there are still significant deficiencies. The conclusion is that many MDG indicators are either already being produced or can be derived from existing data sources (PDF file, 186 Kb).

http://dev-zone.net/downloads/MDG_Stat.pdf

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