Millennium Development Goals Reports

Millennium Development Goals Report 2005

As a preparation for the Millennium+5 Summit at the United Nations in September 2005, the report details the progress/lack of progress, toward the eight Millennium Development Goals, and how large an effort is needed to achieve them. While some countries are on track to achieving the goals, Sub-Saharan Africa lags far behind and will require unprecedented effort and action. http://www.globalpolicy.org/msummit/millenni/2005/05mdgreport2005.pdf

All National MDG Reports

To see a full list of MDG Reports, visit http://www.undg.org/content.cfm?id=79.

To view the most updated MDGR Status Table, go to http://www.undg.org/documents/2762-MDG_Report_Status_Table.doc

International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations and World Bank Group, ‘A Better World for All: Progress towards the international development goals’, 2000.
This publication is an overview of international development goals that closely mirror the Millennium Development Goals. It evaluates progress through data from selected countries and makes recommendations for achieving the targets established by these goals. http://www.paris21.org/betterworld/home.htm

The World Bank’s “Global Monitoring Report 2005”. See especially Chapter 3 on scaling up service delivery. It discusses ways to improve aid delivery mechanisms, arguing that pouring new money into existing systems is no guarantee of better results and could lead to greater corruption. In addition to improvements in health and education service delivery--equally critical are improvements in public financial management; parliamentary scrutiny of budget execution; transparency of government accounts; monitoring and evaluation systems that identify what works, what doesn't and why, etc.  

International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, ‘Achieving the MDGs and Related Outcomes: A framework for monitoring policies and actions’, Background Paper, 2003.

The paper provides a framework for monitoring policies and actions related to the Millennium Development Goals and other development outcomes. It describes the conceptual basis for the proposed framework, reviews current policy indicators and supporting data, and outlines required steps for meeting the goals’ targets.
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Capacity Development for the MDGs: Research, Experiences, Resources, Tools. This is a rich, practical resource on capacity development. The resource contains a mix of program descriptions related to UNDP's efforts to mainstream new thinking on capacity development, case studies documenting in-country efforts around the globe, and key papers that provide the theoretical analysis underpinning UNDP's approach to capacity development. The authors and perspectives represented in these publications form a good mix of perspectives from policy-makers, academics, and practitioners. http://www.adbi.org/cdrom-review/2005/01/25/881.capacity.development.mdg/

Grown, Caren, Geeta Rao Gupta and Zahia Khan, ‘Promises to Keep: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women’, Background Paper of the Millennium Project Task Force on Gender Equality, 2003.

The paper reviews country progress in achieving the third Millennium Development Goal – promote gender equality and empower women – and proposes ways to accelerate progress. http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/tf03genapr18.pdf

ILO study says youth unemployment rising, with hundreds of millions more working but living in poverty. The number of unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 rose over the past decade, while hundreds of millions more are working but living in poverty, according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO).
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