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- A Dev-Zone Onepager on the MDGs
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This Onepager, produced by Dev-Zone provides you with the basics on the MDGs: what they are; how they work; what common criticisms of the Goals are; and what progress is being made to meet them.
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/MDGs%20onepager.pdf
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- Africa: NGO calls for new MDGs
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Africa Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) Voice says it is vital to introduce a new United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) requiring governments to prevent and reduce prevalence of Internal Displacement and put in place frameworks for their protection and assistance as an indispensable part of the fight against poverty. (Pambazuka news, 28/2/08)
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/refugees/46439
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- Are the MDGs feasible? (doc)
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By Jan Vandemoortele, UNDP July 2002. "It is often said that global targets are easily set but seldom met, which begs the question whether the MDGs are feasible. Progress in over 130 developing countries regarding the many dimensions of human development-such as education, health, nutrition and income-is difficult to summarise. The 1990s saw many success stories ... But for each success story there have been setbacks."
http://www.socialwatch.org/en/acercaDe/beirut/documentos/VANDERMOORTELE.pdf
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- Civil Society Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals [Doc 741KB]
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This compilation, which features the viewpoints from several members of the UNDP CSO Advisory Committee, focuses on issues of gender, trade, environment and indigenous peoples.
http://www.un-ngls.org/CSO%20perspectives%20on%20the%20MDGs%20FINAL.doc
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- Countdown to 2015: Tracking progress in maternal, newborn and child survival : the 2008 report [pdf]
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Mortality in children under age five is now concentrated in sub Saharan Africa (50%) and South Asia (almost 30%). Maternal and newborn mortality are similarly concentrated in those regions. Meanwhile, within countries, the richest quintile is gaining access to key interventions more quickly than the poorest. Reducing both types of inequity - between regions and within countries - is crucial for achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals. (United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2008)
http://www.countdown2015mnch.org/documents/2008report/2008Countdown2015fullreport.pdf
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- Demystifying the Millennium Development Goal Processes: An Interview with Joanna Kerr
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AWID, 13 February, 2005 - By Kathambi Kinoti. AWID's Executive Director Joanna Kerr explains the key processes associated with the Millennium Development Goals which will occur in 2005.
http://www.awid.org/go.php?stid=1437
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- Development Deadline 2015
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IPS - Inter Press Service is launching a new section of its website that will provide independent news reporting on how the Millennium Development Goals are influencing policy decisions and making a difference on the ground. "Development Deadline" provides a selection of updated stories that will bring you the latest thinking on the progress towards attaining the MDGs, their relevance, and key stories on the issues from poverty to partnership.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/devdeadline
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- Do Donors Target Aid in Line with the Millennium Development Goals? A sector perspective of aid allocation
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This paper analyzes the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritized aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). it employs Tobit models that combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with various indicators (UNU-WIDER, 2007)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/discussion-papers/2007/en_GB/dp2007-04/
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- Does GDP really capture economy's health?
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America's so-called gross domestic product is an enormous number and an important number, but is it the right number? That's the question that comes before the US Senate Wednesday in an unusual hearing on the far from perfect science of measuring economic activity. CSM, 8 March, 2008
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0312/p02s01-usec.html
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- Eight Ways to Change the World
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This Guardian weekly site highlights Panos Pictures' award-winning, internationally recognised and highly committed photographers to bring the Millennium Development Goals to life. Each photographer, sponsored by a leading development agency, has produced a set of poignant photographs from the developing world, along with a personal testimony about what the experience meant to him or her.
As Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to UN secretary general Kofi Annan, asserts this photography "highlights our common humanity. We look at photos of people living in extreme poverty but see first and foremost their humanity and spirit and dedication, even in the midst of extreme deprivation. Their eyes don't call for our pity but for our camaraderie and partnership and empathy."http://www.guardian.co.uk/millenniumgoals/0,16440,1560528,00.html
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- Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific [pdf]
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In this study ESCAP stresses how energy deprivation in the region's developing countries impacted poverty reduction efforts and impeded the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It warned that if the region's energy needs continued growing at the current rate, it would account for half of the world's energy demand by 2030. (Environment and Sustainable Development Division (ESDD), May 2008)
http://www.unescap.org/esd/energy/publications/theme_study/themstudy.pdf
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- Global Monitoring Report 2006: Strengthening Mutual Accountability - Aid, Trade & Governance
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The third report on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights economic growth, better quality aid, and trade reforms, as well as governance as essential elements to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The elements of global monitoring examined in detail in the report include poverty and malnutrition; human development outcomes; meeting commitments on aid, trade, and debt relief; performance of international financial institutions; governance in developing countries; and global checks and balances to strengthen governance. (World Bank and International Monetary Fund, 20 April 2006)
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- Global Monitoring Report 2008
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A new World Bank-IMF report warns that most countries will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight globally agreed development goals with a due date of 2015 (World Bank,2008).
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- Human Development Report 2003 (PDF)
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Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty (UNDP). The range of human development in the world is vast and uneven, with astounding progress in some areas amidst stagnation and dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor, and a global development compact to extend the wealth of possibilities to all people.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2003/
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- Making Sense of MDG Costing (pdf)
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By Jan Vandemoortele & Rathin Roy, UNDP August 2004. MDG costing is necessary for integrating global development goals into national poverty reduction strategies. But the price tag of the MDGs depends on strategic choices about the ways and means for reaching the targets. Since the technical experts seldom agree on the optimal path towards the MDGs, it is best to approach MDG costing through a participatory process of political economy, driven by tailored targets for 2015 that are expressed in intermediate targets and actionable propositions. When estimating MDG costs, the key words must be flexibility, humility and learning. None of the existing methods yield robust or accurate cost estimates. In making sense of MDG costing, more attention must be paid to country-level estimates than to global ones; to the short-to-medium time horizon than to the long-term one; to relative cost estimates than to absolute ones; to domestic sources of funding than to foreign aid; and to national ownership than to donorship. Three practical steps are proposed for aligning the PRSP and the MTEF with MDG targets in a meaningful way. They are based on the premise that for the sake of the MDGs, prudence is silver but ambition is golden.
http://www.undp.org/poverty/docs/prm/MakingsenseofMDGcosting-August.pdf
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- Making the MDGs Matter: a country perspective
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This is a report on a UNDG Survey (August 2005) that sought the perceptions of UN Country Teams (UNCTs) concerning major changes taking place "on the ground" with regards to the MDGs. In general, it found that there is some movement on the ground but no breakthrough yet in the effort to achieve the MDGs. The detail of their responses provides a better understanding of challenges at country level and, in a number of significant cases, unsettles the conventional wisdom, most notably about Africa.
http://www.undg.org/archive_docs/6458-Making_the_MDGs_Matter__a_country_perspective.pdf
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- MDG Reports and Indigenous Peoples: A Desk Review [pdf]
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The study addresses whether indigenous peoples are taken into account in the context of the overall MDG reports, if there are any benchmarks generated, and if the participation of indigenous peoples in the process of developing interventions and programmes is taken into consideration. (United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous People (UNFPII), February 2008)
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/MDG_Reports_and_IPs_2008.pdf
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- MDG Targets: Misunderstood or Misconceived?
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This UNDP IPC One Pager is written by Hamid Tabatabai from the International Labour Organisation. In it, he takes issue with characterisations of the MDGs expressed by Jan Vandemoortele in a previous IPC one pager.
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager33.pdf
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- MDGs: Misunderstood Targets?
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This one pager, written by Jan Vandemoortele for the UNDP's International Poverty Centre, explains why the MDGs were set as they were, and discusses why globally set targets may not be appropriate for individual countries. It also notes that individual countries can (and should) tailor the goals to their domestic realities.
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager28.pdf
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- Millenium Development Goals Report
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The Millennium Declaration set 2015 as the target date for achieving most of the Goals. As we approach the midway point of this 15-year period, data are now becoming available that provide an indication of progress during the first third of this 15-year period. This report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on a set of data prepared by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system. (United Nations, 2007).
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/mdg2007.pdf
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- Millennium Campaign: Voices Against Poverty
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The Millennium Campaign was launched in October 2002 to encourage citizens around the world in their efforts to hold governments to account for the promises they made at the September 2000 Millennium Summit, where government leaders from the highest political level of every country in the world agreed to a set of eight time-bound targets that, when achieved, will end extreme poverty across the planet. Working at both the national and international levels, the ambition of the Campaign is to inspire a global movement to achieve the Goals and eradicate extreme poverty by 2015.
http://www.millenniumcampaign.org
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- Millennium Development Goals indicator database
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The "MDG Dashboard of Sustainability" is a free, non-commercial software which allows to present complex relationships between economic, social and environmental issues in a highly communicative format aimed at decision-makers and citizens interested in Sustainable Development. The database contains 40 MDG indicators for about 200 countries.
http://esl.jrc.it/envind/mdg.htm
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- Millennium Development Goals National Reports: A look through a Gender Lens (PDF 1MB)
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UNDP, May 2003. In preparing national MDGRs, each country has the flexibility to set its own targets. Nearly 40 country reports have been released as of 3 June 2003. Most of these documents include an analysis of the development context, assessment of the situation with regard to each goal, identification of major challenges in achieving each target, highlights of actions taken to create a supportive environment, and enumeration of the priorities for development assistance. Goal 3 - "Promote gender equality and empowerment of women" - is the culmination of years of determined advocacy and action by the international women's movement. The high priority accorded to Goal 3 represents a global affirmation of women's rights and gender equality as core values of development.
http://www.undp.org/women/docs/mdgs-genderlens.pdf
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- Millennium Development Goals Report 2006
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The eight Millennium Development Goals provide countries around the world a framework for development, and time-bound targets by which progress can be measured. This report shows that there are clear signs of hope. Yet we also know that disparities in progress, both among and within countries, are vast, and that the poorest among us, mostly those in remote rural areas, are being left behind. This report contains the latest and most comprehensive figures available through improved data collection and monitoring worldwide. (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2006)
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2006/MDGReport2006.pdf
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- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Synthesis Report
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment assessed the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being. From 2001 to 2005, the MA involved the work of more than 1,360 experts worldwide. Their findings provide a state-of-the-art scientific appraisal of the condition and trends in the world's ecosystems and the services they provide, as well as the scientific basis for action to conserve and use them sustainably.
http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx
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