Millennium Development Goals
World leaders from 189 nations agreed and signed the United Nations (UN) Millennium Declaration in 2000, committing these governments to a set of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
However, a decade later the MDGs are badly off-track. On 20-22 September 2010, the UN General Assembly held a High-level Plenary Meeting in New York, also referred to as the "UN MDG Review Summit". The Summit's main focus was to build on what we have learned during the past 10 years since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration and how to accelerate progress towards the internationally agreed development goals, in particular the eight MDGs. The Summit took stock of the successes, best practices, lessons learned, obstacles and gaps related to the MDGs and other development goals.
The 2010 MDG Review Summit was a very significant moment for joint advocacy by international and UK NGOs.
Bond's work on the MDGs
Bond led and suppported policy and campaigning initiatives in the UK, the EU and internationally to achieve the best possible result at the MDG Review Summit. Many Bond members are working on the eight different MDGs, lobbying the UK Government and other countries for progressive outcomes of the Summit. Bond helped coordinate these different positions, ensuring coherence of message in the sector.
Bond and CONCORD position paper
Bond and CONCORD have now finalised a joint position paper on the MDGs. The paper, which looks at overarching issues as well as each goal area, has clear demands both to the EU member states and for the EU to take to the September Summit.
Read: Towards the UN MDG Review Summit 2010. CONCORD's recommendations to the EU
You can also download the introduction to the paper and the chapters on individual MDGs separately:
Introduction - Towards the UN MDG Review Summit 2010. CONCORD's recommendations to the EU
MDG 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
MDG 2 - Achieve universal primary education
MDG 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women
The health MDGs (4, 5 and 6) - overarching recommendations
