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What are Millennium Development Goals?
- Eradicate poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure environment sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development.
What is the purpose?
- Need for a comprehensive development agenda with quantitative,
time- bound targets and indicators
- Specific targets help to:
- mobilize international partners
- benchmark and assess progress
- initiate policy reforms, institutional change and budget
reallocations
Why Have A National Millennium Development Goals
Report?
- A tool for awareness raising, advocacy, alliance building and
renewal of political commitments at the country level
- To build national capacity for monitoring and reporting on goals
and targets
- Generate a “can do” atmosphere so that policy -makers and other
actors are encouraged to act
Challenges for UN Country Teams
- Identify where country stands in relation to the MDGs
- Support country in defining national goals and targets
- Contribute to analysis of alternative strategies to achieve
national goals
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