MDGs
- Parliamentary engagement development with the Millennium Goals
- 2010
- This manual outlines mechanisms that can be used in parliaments to improve engagement around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights examples of best practice in making MDGs a central part of Parliamentary work, and pro...
- Linking Rio +20, Cairo +20 and MDGs +15 from South Feminist Perspectives – DAWN panel at the People’s Summit
- Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2012
- This article outlines a panel session organised by Development Alternatives with Women of a New Era (DAWN) at the People’s Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The panel, moderated by Gita Sen, focused on looking beyond poverty to environm...
- New dynamics for gender equality in a changing context
- W Harcourt / The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2012
- Wendy Harcourt delivered this keynote address at the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) Vienna Policy Dialogue, the aim of which was to make policy recommendations for more effective and coherent international cooperation to achie...
- The Millennium Development Goals Report Gender Chart 2012
- United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2012
- The biennial Gender Chart, an addendum to the Millennium Development Goals Report, depicts the situation of women and girls in developing regions with indicators used to monitor the MDGs. It is divided into eight sections – one ...
- Slowing population growth in Malawi is essential for poverty reduction strategies to work
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi, 2012
- Malawi adds over 400,000 people each year to its population. Without a reduction in the average number of births per woman, health, education and employment services will be overstretched. This trend will continue to challenge the cou...
- National Human Development Report in the Russian Federation 2010. Millennium Development Goals in Russia. Looking into the Future
- United Nations Development Programme, 2010
- Using the MDG concept, the authors determine targets and priorities, which are specific to the present stage of Russia’s development, and propose scenarios and indicators for achieving the MDGs in Russia by 2015 and 2020. The rep...
- MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets and Timeframe?
- A Sumner / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are widely cited as the primary yardstick against which advances in international development efforts are to be judged. At the same time, the Goals will be met or missed by 2015. It is not too e...
- Recurrent cost boom threathens Millennium Development Goals
- O Therkildsen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2010
- At the September 2010 UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals the Secretary-General stressed that tremendous progress in school enrolment, disease control and access to clean water had been achieved. This policy brief addresses ...
- Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will need accelerated interventions in key areas. This Brief illustrates how social protection programmes can help to accelerate progress to the MDGs by facilitating access to essential servi...
- After 2015: progress and challenges for development
- Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have set the benchmark for global development policy since 2000. In 2015 the current set of MDG targets will expire, and although much progress will have been made, many targets will not have be...
- Parliamentary engagement development with the Millennium Goals
- 2010
- This manual outlines mechanisms that can be used in parliaments to improve engagement around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It highlights examples of best practice in making MDGs a central part of Parliamentary work, and pro...
- Linking Rio +20, Cairo +20 and MDGs +15 from South Feminist Perspectives – DAWN panel at the People’s Summit
- Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2012
- This article outlines a panel session organised by Development Alternatives with Women of a New Era (DAWN) at the People’s Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The panel, moderated by Gita Sen, focused on looking beyond poverty to environm...
- New dynamics for gender equality in a changing context
- W Harcourt / The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2012
- Wendy Harcourt delivered this keynote address at the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) Vienna Policy Dialogue, the aim of which was to make policy recommendations for more effective and coherent international cooperation to achie...
- The Millennium Development Goals Report Gender Chart 2012
- United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2012
- The biennial Gender Chart, an addendum to the Millennium Development Goals Report, depicts the situation of women and girls in developing regions with indicators used to monitor the MDGs. It is divided into eight sections – one ...
- Slowing population growth in Malawi is essential for poverty reduction strategies to work
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi, 2012
- Malawi adds over 400,000 people each year to its population. Without a reduction in the average number of births per woman, health, education and employment services will be overstretched. This trend will continue to challenge the cou...
- National Human Development Report in the Russian Federation 2010. Millennium Development Goals in Russia. Looking into the Future
- United Nations Development Programme, 2010
- Using the MDG concept, the authors determine targets and priorities, which are specific to the present stage of Russia’s development, and propose scenarios and indicators for achieving the MDGs in Russia by 2015 and 2020. The rep...
- MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets and Timeframe?
- A Sumner / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are widely cited as the primary yardstick against which advances in international development efforts are to be judged. At the same time, the Goals will be met or missed by 2015. It is not too e...
- Recurrent cost boom threathens Millennium Development Goals
- O Therkildsen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2010
- At the September 2010 UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals the Secretary-General stressed that tremendous progress in school enrolment, disease control and access to clean water had been achieved. This policy brief addresses ...
- Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals will need accelerated interventions in key areas. This Brief illustrates how social protection programmes can help to accelerate progress to the MDGs by facilitating access to essential servi...
- After 2015: progress and challenges for development
- Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have set the benchmark for global development policy since 2000. In 2015 the current set of MDG targets will expire, and although much progress will have been made, many targets will not have be...
- United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
- On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities. Recognizing that climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and shifting demogra...
- Countdown to 2015
- The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institu...
- Centre for the Millennium Development Goals (CMDG)
- Information on the MDGs
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Centre in Colombo
Centre of UNDP's work in Asia and the Pacific
