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A Toolkit for Pacific Youth: Localising the MDGs

This is the first Pacific specific MDG action toolkit aiming to empower the many youth in the region. The toolkit contains general information about what are Millennium Development Goals, why they were initiated and evidence to the progression of these Goals in the Pacific. It also focuses and mainly contains solutions and steps that Youth in the Pacific can take to achieve these Goals in their community. (Youth for a Sustainable Future Pacifika, August 2006)

http://www.peacechild.org/YSF/toolkit.htm

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Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals

CIVICUS has produced a Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals. The manual aims to build upon material that already exists from other sources. It provides a framework and a starting point for those interested in linking their efforts with the MDG Campaign at all levels.

http://www.civicus.org/mdg/title.htm

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Faith in Action: Working Toward the Millennium Development Goals

An Action Toolkit for Religious Leaders and Communities. This manual was created by Religions for Peace with feedback and collaboration from religious leaders from countries around the world. It was created to equip religious leaders and inter-religious councils to carry out advocacy and action campaigns that support achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The manual introduces the MDGs, identifies ways that religious leaders could actively engage their faith communities in support of the MDG process, and provides a list of resources to support this engagement. (Religions for Peace, UNDP, 2005)

http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?r=http://www.wcrp.org/files/English%20African%20MDG%20toolkit.pdf

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MDG Monitoring and Reporting: A Review of Good Practices [PDF]

This UNDP booklet presents good practices in MDG Monitoring and Reporting, based on a review of 98 national MDG reports. It highlights country level examples from the national MDG reports and provides guidelines for how countries can produce high quality MDG reports and strengthen MDG monitoring systems. It was published in August 2005.

http://topics.developmentgateway.org/mdg/rc/ItemDetail.do~1048091

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Millennium Development Goals : United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service

During the Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000, all 189 UN Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration, which contained a core group of goals and targets, some of which were later refined through the Roadmap towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration: Report of the Secretary General to the General Assembly (A/56/326, September 2001), and have since become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These eight goals are essentially centered on national targets for poverty, education, gender equality, and environmental sustainability, but also include targets for establishing an international trade and finance policy framework that favors development. Numerical targets have been set for each goal, most of which are to be achieved by 2015. Over the last two years, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has taken a lead in building up political support for the MDGs. This support was evident during the International Conference on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in which the international financial institutions (IFIs), World Trade Organization (WTO), UN agencies and scores of governments highlighted their importance. While some civil society organizations (CSOs) were initially more circumspect with regard to the MDGs as a concept, they too have entered the debate and are beginning to explore if and how the MDGs might fit programmatically into national and international strategies.

http://www.un-ngls.org/mdg

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Millennium Development Goals Toolkit

This is a collection of training materials on the Millennium Development Goals. The emphasis is on explaining and applying the concepts, building skills and encouraging attitudes that support collaboration among development partners. You do not have to be a UN staff member to use these materials.

http://mdgtoolkit.undg.org/

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Preparing National Strategies to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: A Handbook

To achieve, or exceed, the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Millennium Project's central recommendation is that countries should prepare and implement ambitious goal-based strategies anchored in the 2015 targets and time horizon. Development partners need to match their efforts with adequate increases in financial and technical support as well as improved market access for trade. This handbook aims to help developing countries prepare strategies to achieve the MDGs.

http://www.undp.org/poverty/docs/mdg-support/handbook/handbook111605_with_cover.pdf

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The HuriLink WebPortal

The HuriLink WebPortal has been developed in conjunction with the Primer. It is an on-line tool which presents the experiences and challenges that practitioners face when striving to link human rights and the Millennium Development Goals in their work. It is a resource that has been developed by practitioners, for practitioners. It features lessons learned, common challenges, tools and resources.

http://www.hurilink.org/

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The Primer: Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals: Making the Link

The Primer provides a conceptual overview of the links between human rights and the MDGs and explores the key questions that practitioners face in this area. The content is based on the input and observations from the e-discussion and the deliberations of a 'Working Group Meeting' held in Oslo in September 2006.

http://hurilink.org/Primer-HR-MDGs.pdf

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Web site to monitor poverty eradication

The United Nations, Google and Cisco have joined forces to launch a web site that tracks progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDG Monitor also allows users access to Google Earth so that they can virtually visit any of the places across the globe where work is being done.

http://www.mdgmonitor.org

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