Millennium Development Goals MDGs The Importance of MDGs: a Global Perspective by Olympios Katsiaouni UN-DESA

MDGs derive from a series of world conferences and global summits of the 1990s  World Conference on Education for All  World Summit for Children  UN Conferences on the LDCs  UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)  International Conference on Nutrition  World Conference on Human Rights  Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States  World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction  International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)  World Summit for Social Development (WSSD)  4th World Conference on Women, Beijing  UN Conference on Human Settlements  World Food Summit  UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)  World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002 and others...

Millennium Development Goals ( to be achieved between 1990 – 2015) 8 Goals 18 Targets 48 Indicators

Millenium Development Goals: Goals and Selected Targets GOAL ONE: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER  Target: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day;  Target: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger;motion Achieve universal primary education GOAL TWO: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION  Ensure that by 2015, children will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling; GOAL THREE: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN  Target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015 GOAL FOUR: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY  Target: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, under-five mortality rate;

Millenium Development Goals: Goals and Selected Targets (con’t.) GOAL FIVE: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH  Target: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio GOAL SIX: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES  Target: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS;  Target: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria; GOAL SEVEN: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY  Target: Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse the loss of environmental resources;  Target: Have by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water; GOAL EIGHT: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT  Target: Develop an open, rule-based, and non-discriminatory trading and financial system;  Target: Address the Special Need of Least Developed Countries  Target: Deal comprehensively with debt problems of developing countries.

Achieving the MDGs requires National ownership Capacity development Mobilization of resources to finance them

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: MONITORING AND SUPPORT The first annual Report of the United Nations Secretary-General dealing with the Implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration, A/57/270, was submitted to the General Assembly in July, In its introduction the Report stressed that the reaching of the Millennium Goals rest, more than ever, on the ability of Member States to take sustained individual and united action. The United Nations system is committed to work with national governments, civil society, the international financial institutions and other partners to produce a series of regular national reports – complementing the global report – to measure and monitor progress towards achieving the MDGs on a country basis. As of October, 2002, twelve country reports have been issued, and another twenty are expected by year end. The intention is for every developing country and country in transition to produce at least one MDG by the end of year 2004.

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: MONITORING AND SUPPORT (con’t) The Administrator of UNDP, and chairperson of the United Nations Development Group, UNDG, is leading the UN contribution to the MDG Campaign. It has been announced recently, October, 2002, that an Executive Coordinator for the MDG Campaign has been appointed and a Campaign Director will soon be recruited. The overall Campaign will be supported by research from a new initiative, The Millennium Project, that will mobilize networks of scholars from developing and developed countries to work with experts from across the UN system around MDGs. In terms of financing, a report prepared last year for the Secretary-General estimated that meeting the MDGs will cost an additional US $ 50 billion per year. At the Monterey Conference on Financing Development, 2002, the US pledged to increase aid spending by 50 percent, or 5 billion a year, and the European Union promised an additional US $ 7 billion a year. At the World Summit for Sustainable Development, September, 2002, further progress was made including a target to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation. This is to match the MDG goal of halving the proportion of people without access to clean water.

 Coordinates intergovernmental policies (global thematic summits, Economic and Social Council, Commission on Social Development)  Studies and publications (United Nations yearbooks on the world economic and social situation)  Technical cooperation for development United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA)

Technical cooperation at the request of Member States: -Advisory services -Training activities (workshops, seminars) -Programmes and projects of technical cooperation: experts/consultants (national and international), contracts, training, equipment/supplies Currently with more than 200 programmes/projects in 76 countries in transition, Africa, Asia/Pacific, Americas, financed by UN-system financing agencies (UNDP and others), bilateral and international donors, special funds (UN Development Accounts…) Socio-economic Policy Advisory Services Branch (SPASB/UN-DESA)

-national and subnational/local strategies, policies and plans for poverty reduction and employment creation - developing national technical and institutional capacities - coordinating international financial and technical assistance - socio-economic reconstruction and rehabilitation - structural adjustment and its consequences - social impact - sectoral and regional planning - investment programming - environmental accounting and management - mobilizing financial resources for development - human resource development SPASB substantive areas

-governments (national and subnational), other national entities (public- and private- sector, NGOs, regional and local) -donors (UN-system agencies, including UNDP; bilateral and international; private- sector) -other executing and implementing agencies (other DESA and UN units, specialized agencies, national institutions) Partners in technical cooperation