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The Economic Commission on Africa (ECA) has released the 2011 Millennium Development Goals(MDG) Report. 

 

This report is organized as follows. After this first introductory section, Section II assesses progress on each of the eight Goals. Section III takes as its thematic focus social protection programs as they relate to the MDGs in a selected number of African countries. Section IV concludes with recommendations on the way forward. UN Pulse: Permanent Link: 2011 Millenium Development Goals Report

Previous Reports:

2010

2009

The MDG Gap Task Force 2011 report is now available (full report, pdf). The report notes that due to economic difficulties since the 2008 financial meltdown, many developing countries need to channel an additional 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In a message on the launch of the report,the UN Secretary-General noted that "the stakes are high, but so are the rewards" and also urges developing nations to step up efforts in the drive to reach the MDG targets by the 2015 deadline.

Related resources

• MDG Gap Task Force 2011Factsheet
• Millennium Development Goals website
• Links to other reports on the MDGs

From UN Pulse Permanent Link: MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011

Two-thirds of developing countries are on track or close to meeting key targets for tackling extreme poverty and hunger. This year’s Global Monitoring Report 2011:  Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs by the World Bankdelves into country performance and reveals a diverse, and often hopeful, picture. For example, among developing countries that are falling short on the Millennium Development Goals, half are close to becoming on-track. With improved policies and faster growth, these countries can still achieve the targets in 2015 or soon after. The full report, progress charts, and country information are available at www.worldbank.org/gmr2011.

From UN Pulse: Permanent Link: Global Monitoring Report 2011

This report report presents an overview of the UNDP's work on environment and energy and how such efforts are helping to accelerate achievement of the MDGs. It aims to demonstrate the importance of environment and energy across multiple MDGs; share experiences as contribution to the MDG Review Summit; and to highlight some of the ways in which the UNDP is equipped to offer support. UN Pulse Permanent Link: UNDP’s Work in Environment and Sustainable Development

The United Nations has launched an initiative to monitor the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Available at MDG Monitor, the site is designed as a one-stop-shop for information on global and country level progress towards the MDGs. The initiative is intended as a tool for policy makers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others interested in learning about the Goals and tracking progress toward them. The Monitor is will be continually updated as new data becomes available.

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Permanent Link: MDG Monitor

The MDGs: Everyone’s Business is a new report from UNDP’s GIM Initiative covering 40 case studies and over 140 supporting institutions referenced by specific MDGs, released on 21 September 2010 in the framework of the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals.

Download the report

Full Report (3.5MB)

1. Individual Chapters
2. Overview
3. MDG 1 – Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
4. MDG 2 – Achieve Universal Primary Education
5. MDG 3 – Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
6. MDG 4 – Reduce Child Mortality
7. MDG 5 – Improve Maternal Health
8. MDG 6 – Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
9. MDG 7 – Ensure Environmental Sustainability
10. MDG 8 – Develop a Global Partnership for Development
11. How UNDP Collaborates with the Private Sector
12. Further Reading

 

The World Bank eAtlas of the Millennium Development Goals lets you visualize and map the indicators that measure progress toward the Goals, with clear explanations of each Goal and its related Targets as the context. When you select an indicator, the eAtlas creates a world map keyed to that indicator, with country rankings and data in your choice of tables or graphs. You can pan or zoom to view different countries or regions, view the dynamic change in that map with a time series, compare two maps and sets of data, and do much more. UN Pulse: Permanent Link: World Bank e-Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals

Unfinished Business: Mobilizing New Efforts to Achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goals

In this report, prepared for the Millennium Development Goals review summit, the World Bank estimates that as a result of the recent food, fuel and financial crises, 64-million more people are living in extreme poverty in 2010, and some 40-million more people went hungry last year. By 2015, 1,2-million more children under five may die, and about 100-million more people may remain without access to safe water. From Polity.org.za

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has issued a new publication, Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals in Practice: A review of country strategies and reporting (full report, pdf). Its primary objective is to review the extent to which—and how—human rights are reflected in national MDG-based development strategies and policies in a selected number of African and Asian countries, to identify critical gaps and challenges, and to see what practical lessons can be learned from these experiences.

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Permanent Link: Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals

 

 

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 has been released. The report notes that even though the economic crisis took a heavy toll on jobs and incomes around the world, the world is still on track to achieve the MDG target of cutting the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015. It also cites big gains in getting children into primary schools in many poor countries, especially in Africa; strong interventions in addressing AIDS, malaria and child health; and a good chance to reach the target for access to clean drinking water.
Read more about the report through the press materials and download the report (full-text, pdf) from the web site.

From UN Pulse

Permanent Link: 2010 Millennium Development Goals Report

An international assessment

Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) via Reliefweb

Making the MDGs Work Better for Women is a new publication published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).This publication draws on good practices to elaborate key strategies for accelerating the pace for reaching the MDGs. From UN Pulse. Permanent Link: Making the MDGs Work Better for Women

Beyond the midpoint: achieving the millennium development goals

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the third edition of the State of the world's vaccines and immunization.

The first part of the report discusses:

• impact of immunization on achieving the Millennium Development Goals
• challenges in meeting the immunization-related global goals
• development and use of vaccines
• cost of scaling up immunization

 

The second part describes over 20 vaccine-preventable diseases and reviews progresses made since 2000 in protecting populations through the use of vaccines.

The full report is available in English. Executive summaries are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

UN Pulse Permanent Link: State of the world's vaccines and immunization

The overview of the report on the World Social Situation 2009 has been issued (A/64/158).The report notes that although considerable progress has been made in reducing levels of absolute poverty, overall, the world is not on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals of halving levels of extreme poverty by 2015. UN Pulse: Permanent Link: World Social Situation 2009

UN Millennium Development Goals e-learning materials
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) have created some e-learning materials on the UN Millenium Development Goals. These can be found in the 'Guide to the MDGs' section, and include information on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) goals, targets and indicators; the ability to track progress through interactive maps and country profiles; and establishing the data source for any particular indicator. The site explains about the concepts, definitions, implementation and sources of data for the 48 official MDG indicators. The website also contains more information about ESDS, and the importance of the correct use of data. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/elearning/unmdg/

The Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency notes that the global financial crisis is imperiling attainment of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and creating an emergency for development. The report warns that, although the first goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 from its 1990 level is still reachable based on current projections, risks abound. Download the report in full-text (pdf, 9MB), or by chapters from the website.

From UN Pulse

The Fifth Annual United Nations’ Web4Dev conference is hosted by UNICEF from 11-13 February 2009. Created by the World Bank in 2003 the Web4Dev is a community that is focused on applying Internet related technologies towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Main themes of the 5th conference:

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently posted for comment a Draft code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel. The WHO announcement, reads, in part,

"The numbers of migrating health workers have significantly increased in the past decades, and patterns of migration have become more complex and have involved more countries. Health worker migration from those countries that are already experiencing a crisis in their health workforce is further weakening already fragile health systems and presents a serious impediment to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals."

Related documents are linked from the announcement.

UN Pulse: 

Permanent Link: International recruitment of health personnel 

... On the Gapminder website, visitors are reminded to mind a variety of gaps, whether they be in income inequality or quality of health care. This rather absorbing website was created as a non-profit venture to promote "sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information." The site makes use of Trendanalyzer software to offer visualizations related to questions that include "Which country has the best teeth in the world?" and "Who gets what: Farm subsidies". Visitors can find such information under the "Latest News" area, and they can also take advantage of the videos, "Gapcasts", and world charts offered here. The "Gapcasts" are quite good, and they cover carbon emissions, public services, and globalization. Also, if visitors have their own set of statistical indicators they can create their own unique Gapminder-like bubble graph on their website. It's a powerful tool, and one that might be important for other non-profits, think tanks, educators, and students. Scout Report
[KMG]http://www.gapminder.org/

Claiming the MDGs: a human rights approach
A new publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: a human rights approach (full text, 57.7 MB) analyses whether there are similarities or conflicting issues between the human rights and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); it proposes a human rights-based approach to achieving the MDGs and applies human rights to individual millennium goals.
UN Pulse entries on MDGs

UN Pulse Permanent Link: Claiming the MDGs: a human rights approach

Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Progress towards A World Fit for Children
Children and the Millennium Development Goals is an adaptation of the Secretary-General’s report ‘Follow-up to the special session of the General Assembly on children’ (A/62/259), 15 August 2007, considered by the General Assembly at its 62nd session in September 2007. It contains updated data and presents information from 121 country and territory reports.

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The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) has posted three new publications to its website.

• A Future Within Reach 2008: Regional Partnerships for the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific (full text, pdf, 920 KB)
• Delivering as one: Asia-Pacific Regional MDG Road Map 2008-2015 (full text, pdf, 1.4 MB)
• Energy Security and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific (full text, pdf, 9.73 MB)
  
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  Permanent Link: New UNESCAP publications

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International Year of the Potato 2008 The potato is the world's fourth largest food crop, and a valuable nutritional staple of the human diet. The Sixtieth Session of the UN General Assembly invited FAO to facilitate the implementation of the International Year of the Potato - IYP 2008.The resolution noted that the potato could play an important role in achieving internationally agreed development objectives, including the Millennium Development Goals. The main objective of the IYP is to promote the sustainable development of potato-based systems and the potato industry. This IYP website from FAO provides information about the potato, its global production and consumption, and nutritional value. There are factsheets covering topics such as potato biotechnology, potato economy, and biodiversity; an events calendar; and activities for schools. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.potato2008.org/en/index.html

MDGs: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007

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