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The
UN has established a three-pillar strategy as part of its
support to help countries achieve the Millennium Development
Goals. The three main areas of this framework are: campaigning,
country reporting, and a research project.
Millennium
Campaign
The
role of the Millennium campaign represents
the main gateway through which the United Nations is mobilizing
people and raising awareness for the Millennium Development
Goals. Outside the Millennium Campaign, the UN has led and
supported other campaigns (link: Other
UN-Led MDG Campaigns) aimed at involving governments, citizens,
volunteers, etc. --more
Millennium Project
The
UN has set up a special initiative, entitled the Millennium
Project, mandated to identify the operational priorities,
organizational means of implementation, and financing structures
necessary to achieve the MDGs. The Millennium Project was
designed to contribute to the policy dialogue between partners
and cultivate a shift from the aspirational to the practical
measures required to make headway towards the MDGs. The analysis
produced by the Project is also expected to serve as a platform
for campaign messages. --more
Reporting
The
United Nations Development Group (UNDG), led by UNDP has developed
a country level reporting system for developing as well as
donor countries. These reports are to act as vehicles to mobilize
national populations in support of the Goals.In addition,
international reporting mechanisms have been set up to monitor
the progress relating to the implementation of the MDGs. This
international reporting is undertaken by the UN Secretary-General
who presents annual reports to the General Assembly. More
general reporting activities have also been organized by such
bodies as the World Bank. --see
the reports
Millennium +5 Summit
In
September 2005, the United Nations will hold a high level
plenary meeting -- also referred to as a summit -- to review
the implementation of the Millennium Declaration (2000), and
the integrated follow-up to the major United Nations conferences
and summits in the economic, social and related fields. Member
States at the summit will also deliberate the Secretary-General’s
report – expected to be released in March 2005 – on the implementation
of the Millennium Development Goals and issues of peace and
security, as well as UN reform. --more
- New Website : Informal Hearings of the General Assembly
with Non-Governmental Organizations, Civil Society Organizations
and the Private Sector (31 May 2005)
visit
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NGO Response to SG's Report
on modalities for 2005 Millennium Summit
UN Programmes and Agencies
UN
Agencies have become very active in supporting the MDGs. In
pursuing the MDGs through their respective area of expertise
- women's issues, health, children, trade, finance, etc. -
agencies and programmes have added and complemented to the
work of the campaign, reporting processes and research project.
--more
The
Millennium Campaign
was initiated in late 2002, as part of the core MDG strategy
of the UN in the attainment of the Millennium Development
Goals. The campaign aims to raise awareness and build political
will for the achievement of the MDGs, while encouraging citizens
to take action to hold their own governments to account for
their Millennium pledges.
In
its efforts to inspire a global movement for the MDGs, the
Millennium Campaign encourages and supports existing campaigns,
initiatives, and people's movements working at the regional
and national levels to hold governments to account for their
promises in the Millennium Development Goals. However different
the backgrounds of these groups and actors may be, they are
increasingly uniting in the common mission of achieving the
Millennium Goals. The Millennium Campaign serves as a provider
of information and facilitator for networking groups that
are campaigning together for the MDGs.
As
the UN heads into 2005, the Campaign is gathering momentum
and bringing a palpable sense of urgency to the Millennium
Development Goals. Register to the Millennium
Campaign Newsletter to get up-to-date information on the
Campaign’s activities at the local, national, regional and
international levels.
The
Millennium Campaign
website provides a platform for independent campaigns
to inform a large audience about their work and encourage
people to join them in making the millennium goals a reality.
The Millennium Campaign actively encourages actors from civil
society, the media, schools, universities, etc. to share their
events, achievements, messages, materials and news via the
website.
One
of the major global initiatives currently on the radar screen
of the Millennium Campaign is the
Action
Rights Week "New". Organised by the Global Call
to Action Against Poverty (G-CAP), the Action Rights
Week is an international week of action to show global solidarity
in the fight against poverty and injustice by demanding basic
human rights for all. Some examples of action include holding
a protest or musical performance; forming a human chain ;
designing a T-shirt; handing out educational pamphlets; lobbying
for a newspaper supplement; creating posters, banners, stickers;
and recruiting opinion formers and makers as ambassadors.
UN's
Millennium Campaign calls upon broadcasters to play a bigger
role in ending world poverty - Only
With Your Voice.
Other
campaigns:
Civil
Society Campaigns
National
Campaigns
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Other
UN-Led MDG Campaigns
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In
addition to the Millennium Campaign, other
campaigns have been led or supported by the UN system.
Many of these campaigns have taken place at the national level
assisted by UN Country Teams through the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP). Other UN agencies have
also initiated projects within their own direct constituencies.
For the most part, these UN led campaigns have involved governments,
but also citizens, including athletes, celebrities, political
leaders, religious leaders, writers, intellectuals, etc.
A
prime example of UN agencies taking action on the MDGs is
the United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV), which in addition
to mobilizing volunteers on-site and online, is advocating
to channel the ingenuity, solidarity and creativity of volunteers
around the world to achieve the MDGs by 2015. To learn more,
please visit:
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UN Volunteers and the Millennium Development Goals
more
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Volunteers and the Millennium Development Goals
Produced in partnership with the World Alliance for Citizen
Participation (CIVICUS), UN Volunteers and the International
Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE)
more
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UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, UNAIDS : Declaration of the Pacific
Youth Summit for MDGs - more
The
UN has set up a special initiative, entitled the Millennium
Project, mandated to identify the operational priorities,
organizational means of implementation, and financing structures
necessary to achieve the MDGs.
Directed
by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, who serves
as Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the Millennium
Development Goals, the Millennium Project is comprised of
ten thematically-orientated task forces designed to produce
the bulk of the research on the MDGs. They are comprised of
representatives from academia, the public and private sectors,
civil society organizations, and UN agencies. The 15-20 members
of each task force have been selected on the basis of their
technical expertise and practical experience.
Through
its task forces, the Millennium Project released 10 interim
reports, available on the
Project website. Collating the findings from each of these
interim reports, the Millennium Project presented, in January
2005, its final report, entitled: "Investing
in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium
Development Goals" to the Secretary-General.
Among other things, the report calls for a overhaul of the
international development system, which it broadly found to
be unfocused and inefficient. Only about 30 cents of each
dollar of international aid actually reaches on the ground
investment programmes in poor countries aimed at extreme poverty,
hunger and disease, the Project’s research showed. The report
also identified "quick wins" that governments should
undertake in the short term to save millions of lives at a
modest cost. Some of these "quick wins" include:
free school meals, diesel or solar power generators for hospitals,
malaria bed nets, etc.
The
following are links to the Millennium Project and its different
initiatives:
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Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieving
the Millennium Development Goals (January 2005)
more
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The Millennium Project Website
more
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The Ten Task Forces of the Millennium Project (Background
Papers and Reports)
more
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Millennium Project Needs Assessment Methodology (Report)
more
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Millennium Development Compact (Report)
more
The
reporting tied to the implementation of the Millennium Development
Goals is conducted at both an international and national level.
At a country-level ,
MDG reports (MDGRs) provide a systematic and identifiable
follow-up to the global conferences and world summits of the
1990s as well as to the Millennium Development Goals. UNDP,
in its capacity as chair of the UN Development Group, co-ordinates
support for preparing these reports, which are submitted by
individual member-states. At the global level
, the Secretary-General reports annually to the General
Assembly on progress towards a sub-set of the MDGs.
Additional
reporting exercises and country studies on the progress of
implementation of the MDGs have also emerged outside these
two official levels of monitoring. These reports have been
produced by UN regional bodies and UN
agencies and programmes .
Secretary-General's Reports:
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In
Larger Freedom -- Towards Security, Development and Human
Rights for All (Report by the Secretary-General for Heads
of State and Government for September 2005)
more
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Secretary General report on Millennium Summit + 5 (October
2004)
more
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Implementation of Millennium Declaration (August 2004)
more
Press
Release on the report: UN Finds Progress on World Anti-Poverty
Goals, But Crisis Remains
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Implementation of Millennium Declaration (September 2003)
more
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Implementation of Millennium Declaration (September 2002)
more
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Implementation of Millennium Declaration (July 2002)
more
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Road Map Towards the Implementation of the Millennium Declaration
(September 2001)
more
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'We the Peoples' - The Role of the United Nations in the 21st
Century
more
Reporting by the International System:
International Organization of Migration (IOM)
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Guatemala: Measuring the Work Towards Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals
more
United
Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) & World Health Organization
(WHO)
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Meeting the MDG Drinking Water & Sanitation Targets: A
Mid-Term Assessment of Progress
more
United
Nations Department of Public Information / UN Statistics Division
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Status report prepared by 25 UN agencies and international
organizations on reaching the MDGs (June 2005)
more (2.01
Mb PDF file)
- Millennium Development Goals: Status 2004
(Progress Chart for All Regions)
(August 2004)
more
United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
-
Voices
of the Least Developed Countries of Asia and the Pacific:
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals Through a Global
Partnership (August 2005)
more
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Country Progress Towards the Goals (2002)
Ranking
1
Ranking
2
Civil
Society Division of the UNDP
- UN
MDGs: A Resource Sheet
- Perspectives
from International Institutions and Civil Society
(September
2005) (PDF file 2 Mega)
more
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CSO Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals(2005)
more
United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
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Education for All - Global Monitoring Report 2004-2005
more
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Education for All - Global Monitoring Report 2003-2004
more
Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS -- UNAIDS
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2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic: 4th Global Report
(July 2004)
more
UNIFEM,
UNDP, ILO
- Progress of The World's Women 2005 (August 2005)
more
(PDF file 1.5Mb)
World
Bank Group
- Global Monitoring Report 2005
more
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Global Monitoring Report 2004: Policies and Actions for Achieving
the MDGs and Related Outcomes
more
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Getting Serious About Meeting the Millennium Development Goals:
A Comprehensive Development Framework Progress Report (2003)
more
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Various papers and reports on World Bank website
more
World
Health Organization
- Health in the Millennium Development Goals - September 2005
more
In
2004, under Resolution
A/RES/58/291, the General Assembly decided to convene,
in New York in 2005, a high-level meeting of the Assembly,
in which Heads of State and Government would take part.
In preparation
for this high-level meeting, the Secretary-General released
a report, in October
2004, on the event’s modalities, format and organization.
The report recommends, among other things, a three-day event
taking place at the commencement of the 60th session of the
General Assembly in September 2005. Following a similar format
to the first Millennium Summit in 2000, the high-level meeting
would consist in a combination of plenary meetings and interactive
roundtables. The Secretary-General also recommended that Member
States develop an open and inclusive preparatory process that
delivers consensus and results for the summit. For the process
to be efficient and flexible, it was suggested that the preparatory
meetings make use of existing conferences and meetings, such
as the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development.
The Millennium
+5 Summit is expected to undertake a comprehensive review
of the progress made towards the commitments articulated in
the United Nations Millennium Declaration, including the internationally
agreed development goals and the global partnership required
for their achievement. In addition, the event will review
the progress made in the integrated and coordinated implementation
of the outcomes and commitments of the major United Nations
conferences and summits in the economic, social and related
fields.
The summit
will also draw on issues of peace and security, more specifically
the findings of the High-Level
Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change – established
by the Secretary-General in early 2004. The report of this
panel will be released in December 2004.
The 59th
General Assembly, currently in session, will be making a final
decision on the format and structure of Millennium+5 Summit
in the coming months.
For the
latest developments on the Millennium +5 Summit and its preparatory
process, please register to our Millennium
+5 Listserv.
- New Website : Informal Hearings of the General Assembly
with Non-Governmental Organizations, Civil Society Organizations
and the Private Sector (31 May 2005)
visit
NGO
Response to SG's Report on modalities for 2005 Millennium
Summit
This
is a comprehensive list of United Nations agencies and programmes
that are promoting, reporting and researching the Millennium
Development Goals. Many of these sites specifically relate
to the MDGs, while others focus on one of the eight Goals
or the cross-cutting issues. (Listed
in alphabetical order)
United Nations
Agencies, Programmes, and Funds:
Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Office
of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Islands Developing
States (OHRLLS)
United
Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
United
Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
United
Nations' Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United
Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
United
Nations Development Group (UNDG)
United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United
Nations' Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat)
United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United
Nations Volunteer Programme (UNV)
Specialized Agencies:
Food
and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International
Labor Organization (ILO)
International
Monetary Fund
United
Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
(Also visit UNESCO's Water
Portal)
World
Bank Group
World
Food Programme (WFP)
World
Health Organization (WHO)
Regional Commissions:
United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC)
United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP)
United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Others:
Gender
Equality & The MDGs - MDGender.net
Commission
on Sustainable Development
Financing
For Development Secretariat (FFD)
United
Nations Inter-Agency Group on Indigenous Issues - Indigenous
Peoples and the Millennium Development Goals ( September 2004)
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