The United Nations MDG Strategy

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THE MILENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
OVERVIEW PROGRESS, PROSPECTS AND PRACTICE
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The Crisis
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• POVERTY More than one billion people in the
  world live on less than a dollar a day. Another
  1.8 billion struggle to survive on less than 2
  per day.
• ILLITERACY Around the world, a total of 114
  million children do not get even a basic
  education and 584 million women are illiterate.
• PRE-MATURE DEATH Life expectancy in sub-Saharan
  Africa is less than 55 years and dropping.
• WATER AND SANITATION Four out of every ten
  people in the world don't have access even to a
  simple latrine and two in ten have no source of
  safe drinking water.

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The Action

• At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the
  largest gathering of world leaders in history
  adopted the Millennium Declaration, committing
  their nations to reduce poverty improve health
  and promote peace, human rights, and
  environmental sustainability.
• The Millennium Development Goals set out a mutual
  commitment between developed and developing
  countries to make sustained progress towards
  achieving this vision.
• Specifically, the Millennium Development Goals
  aim to reduce poverty, reduce mortality, fight
  disease and hunger, get girls and boys in school,
  empower women and give more people access to safe
  water. African countries need to make the most
  progress if they are to meet these Goals.

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The Opportunity

• The Millennium Development Goals can be achieved
  by 2015, even in the poorest countries, if
  strategic action is taken.
• The world already has affordable tools to win
  this fight, such as
• Bed-nets to fight malaria
• Vaccinations against disease
• Antiretroviral therapies to treat AIDS
• Fertilizers and agro-forestry to raise crop
  yields
• Bore wells to provide drinking water
• Diesel generators for village electricity.

• If the Goals are achieved
• More than 500 million people will be lifted out
  of extreme poverty and 250 million will no longer
  suffer from hunger.
• 30 million children will be saved who would
  otherwise die before reaching age 5 and 2 million
  maternal deaths will have been averted.
• 350 million people will have access to safe
  drinking water and 650 million people will have
  access to basic sanitation

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The Millennium Development Goals

• Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower
  women
• Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5 Improve maternal health
• Goal 6 Halt and begin to reverse the spread of
  HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8 Develop a Global Partnership for
  Development
• The MDGs are the worlds first shared set of
  integrated, quantitative and time-bound goals for
  poverty reduction

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Another Perspective on the Goals

• Developing Country Responsibility
• To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• To achieve universal primary education
• To promote gender equality and empower women
• To reduce child mortality
• To improve maternal health
• To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• To ensure environmental sustainability
• Developed Country and Development Assistance
  Agency Responsibility
• To establish a global partnership for development

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Prerequisites for Countries to Achieve the Goals

• Vision
• Country ownership
• Country-led partnership
• Focus on development results

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What is meant by vision?

• Coherent long-term-vision
• Medium-term strategy derived from vision
• Country-specific development targets
• Holistic, balanced and well sequenced strategy
• Capacity for implementation (e.g., expenditure
  management)

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What is meant by country ownership?

• Vision and strategy homegrown
• Government involved stakeholders
• Civil society involvement
• Private sector involvement
• Parliamentary involvement
• Capacity to formulate strategy

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What is meant by country-led partnership?

• Government leadership and coordination
• Partners assistance in strategy alignment
• Financial and non-financial support alignment
• Coherent capacity support
• Harmonization of policies and procedures
• Appropriate partnership behaviors

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What is meant by focus on development results?

• Development information systems
• Stakeholders access to development information
• Managing for development results

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PROGRESS TO DATE GROUP 1

• A relatively small leading group of 12 countries
  has made good progress in implementing CDF
  principles and faces a reasonably good chance of
  achieving the MDGs defined in their poverty
  reduction strategies, provided that they stay the
  course. These countries have put in place the
  processes needed to achieve success, and have
  defined relatively clearly the goals they are
  pursuing. Most have taken action to align
  government and partners' actions with those
  goals, and to track development outcomes.

Bolivia Burkina Faso Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kyrgyz
Republic Mauritania Rwanda Senegal Tanzania
Uganda
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PROGRESS TO DATE GROUP 2

• An intermediate group of 11 countries is making
  selective progress in implementing the CDF
  principles. With concerted internal actions and
  focused external partner support, they may more
  firmly embark on the road to achieving the MDGs

Albania Cape Verde Gambia Guyana Honduras Malawi M
ozambique Niger Pakistan Yemen Zambia
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PROGRESS TO DATE GROUP 3

• At the other end of the spectrum, a group of 25
  countries-more than half of which have features
  of low-income countries under stress (LICUS)6 or
  are affected by conflict or both-has made little
  progress in implementing the CDF principles. They
  are unlikely to reach the 2015 poverty reduction
  goals or related country goals under present
  circumstances. Closer adherence to the CDF
  principles can help these countries get on the
  right track

Armenia Azerbaijan Benin Cambodia Cameroon
CAR Chad Congo DR Cote dIvoire Djibouti Eri
trea Georgia Guinea Bissau Kenya Laos Leso
tho Madagascar Mali Moldova Mongolia Nicaragua
Sao Tome e Principe Serbia/Montenegro Sierra
Leone Tajikistan
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WHERE WE ARE TODAY
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WHERE WE ARE TODAY
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WHERE WE ARE TODAY
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WHERE WE ARE TODAY
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Ten Key Recommendations

• 1 Developing country governments should adopt
  MDG-based poverty reduction strategies bold
  enough to meet the Millennium Development Goal
  (MDG) targets for 2015. To meet the 2015
  deadline, we recommend that all countries have
  these strategies in place by 2008. Where Poverty
  Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) already exist,
  those should be aligned with the MDGs

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 2 The MDG-based poverty reduction strategies
  should anchor the scaling up of public
  investments, capacity building, domestic resource
  mobilization, and official development
  assistance. They should also provide a framework
  for strengthening governance, promoting human
  rights, engaging civil society, and promoting the
  private sector.

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 3 Developing country governments should craft
  and implement the MDG-based poverty reduction
  strategies in transparent and inclusive
  processes, working closely with civil society
  organizations, the domestic private sector, and
  international partners.

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 4 International donors should identify at least
  a dozen MDG fast-track countries for a rapid
  scale-up of official development assistance
  (ODA), recognizing that many countries are
  already in a position for a massive scale-up on
  the basis of their good governance and absorptive
  capacity.

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 5 Developed and developing countries should
  jointly launch a group of Quick Win actions to
  save and improve millions of lives and to promote
  economic growth.

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 6 Developing country governments should align
  national strategies with such regional
  initiatives as the New Partnership for Africas
  Development and the Caribbean Community (and
  Common Market), and regional groups should
  receive increased direct donor support for
  regional projects.
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Ten Key Recommendations

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• 7 High-income countries should increase
  official development assistance (ODA) from 0.25
  percent of donor GNP in 2003 to around 0.44
  percent in 2006 and 0.54 in 2015 to support the
  Millennium Development Goals, particularly in
  low-income countries, with improved aid quality
  (including aid that is harmonized, predictable
  and largely in the form of grants-based budget
  support). Each donor should reach 0.7 percent no
  later than 2015 to support the Goals and other
  development assistance priorities

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Ten Key Recommendations

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• 8 High-income countries should open their
  markets to developing country exports through the
  Doha trade round and help Least Developed
  Countries raise export competitiveness through
  investments in critical trade-related
  infrastructure, including electricity, roads, and
  ports.

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 9 International donors should mobilize support
  for global scientific research and development to
  address special needs of the poor in areas of
  health, agriculture, natural resource and
  environmental management, energy and climate. We
  estimate the total needs to rise to approximately
  7 billion by 2015.

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Ten Key Recommendations

• 10 The UN Secretary-General and the UN
  Development Group should strengthen the
  coordination of UN agencies, funds, and programs
  to support the MDGs at headquarters and country
  level.The UN Country Teams should be strengthened
  and should work closely with the international
  financial institutions to support the Goals.

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Priority Interventions Quick Wins

• Quick Wins can start countries on the path to the
  Goals
• Eliminating school and uniform fees to ensure
  that all children, especially girls, are not out
  of school because of their families poverty
• Providing impoverished farmers in Sub-Saharan
  Africa with affordable replenishments of soil
  nitrogen and other soil nutrients  
• Providing free school meals for all children
  using locally produced foods with take-home
  rations  
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Priority Interventions Quick Wins

• Training large numbers of village workers in
  health, farming, and infrastructure (in one-year
  programs) to ensure basic expertise and services
  in rural communities  
• Distributing free, long-lasting,
  insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in
  malaria-endemic zones to cut decisively the
  burden of malaria 
• Eliminating user fees for basic health services
  in all developing countries, financed by
  increased domestic and donor resources for health
  
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Priority Interventions Quick Wins

• Expanding access to sexual and reproductive
  health information and services, including family
  planning and contraceptive information and
  services, and closing existing funding gaps for
  supplies and logistics  
• Expanding the use of proven effective drug
  combinations for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
  For AIDS, this includes successfully completing
  the 3 by 5 initiative to bring antiretrovirals to
  3 million people  
• Setting up funding to finance community-based
  slum upgrading and earmark idle public land for
  low-cost housing 
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Priority Interventions Quick Wins

• Providing access to electricity, water,
  sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals,
  schools, and other social service institutions
  using off-grid diesel generators, solar panels,
  or other appropriate technologies  
• Launching national campaigns to reduce violence
  against women  
• Establishing an office of science advisor to the
  president or prime minister to consolidate the
  role of science in national policymaking
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Time Pressure
There is still enough time to meet the
MDGsthough barely. With a systematic approach
over the next decade, many countries now
dismissed as too poor or too far off track could
still achieve the Goals, but only if the world
moves urgently with specific, scaled-up actions.

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Next Steps
LAUNCHING A DECADE OF BOLD AMBITION

• To launch the decade of bold ambition towards
  2015, several worldwide initiatives are needed to
  translate the Goals from ambition to action
• Identify fast-track countries
• Prepare MDG-based poverty reduction strategies
• Launch a global human resource training effort
• Launch the Quick Win initiatives
• Engage middle-income countries in the challenge