MDGs: from results at global to country level DAC Development Partnership Forum December 2002 Jan Vandemoortele UNDP, New York

2 economic growth education – 1959/61 smallpox water & immunisation Global target setting: what’s new ? Easily set, seldom met ?

3  shape of track  mixed results: never total success or total failure  global or local targets On-track or off-track ?

4 Tailor the targets ChadChile Global MDG targets

5 U5MR and NER ( all developing countries ) U5MR NER 2015

6 U5MR: bottom/top quintile

7 K progress was very uneven L progress by-passed poor L progress slowed down Story of 1990s

8 MDG Strategy Millennium Project MDG Reports Millennium Campaign Operational support Where do we stand? What will it take? How to raise profile and awareness? What can we do about them?

9 UNDP and MDGs As UN Co-ordinator – MDGs as unifying agenda – UNCT reporting/campaigning – Align UNDAF with MDGs As UN Programme – 4 key functions

10 1.Tailor targets 2.Monitor progress 3.Advocate & campaign 4.Support operationally Key functions

MDG Reports Country

12 4Tailor targets 4Monitor progress 4Advocate & campaign 4Support operationally Key functions

13 Practical support Training Financial Software Technical/editorial

14 “One of the developed world’s greatest problems today is its indifference to Third World countries. R. Kapuscinski, 2002 We might listen to ‘ethic’ music and travel to exotic places, but we really aren’t interested in what is happening in those places.”