The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was discussing action on climate change recently at a conference of young people, in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, starting in Copenhagen within the next 24 hours. One of the questioners talked of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and asked how the world would be able to tackle global warming successfully given that the pr
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This year marks the halfway point since the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set in 2000 with a 2015 target date. This juncture is the perfect time to take a close look at how much progress has been made towards meeting the goals and how organizations like the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Microcredit Summit Campaign (MCS) can make a significant contribution to accomplishing these audacious goals. It is also appropriate to assess which strategies have been most effective in achieving the apparent gains over the last seven years. In July 2008, the Group of Eight (G-8) countries met and ...
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From the Inquirer, comes this analysis of the natural disasters in the Philippines. Each time bad weather strikes the nation, it sets it further back from meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Barely six years before the deadline for achieving its Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the Philippines continues to lag behind on its MDG targets. Worse, the series of natural disasters that hit the country have further set back government’s efforts to reduce, if not eradicate, extreme poverty by 2015. With the Arroyo administration “on its last mile,” it would be great if they could focus hard on the achievement of the country’s MDG goals ...
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ASSISTANT REGIONAL COORDINATOR (WEST AFRICA) – UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN Location : Dakar, SENEGAL Application Deadline : 04-September-2009 Additional Category Management Type of Contract : FTA International Post Level : P-3 (Fixed Term Appointment) Languages Required : English French Starting Date : (date when the selected canditate is expected to start) 01-Oct-2009 Duration of Initial Contract : 1 Year Background The United Nations Millennium Campaign was launched in October 2002 to encourage citizens around the world in their efforts to hold governments to account for the promises they made at the September 2000 Millennium Summit, where 189 world leaders agreed to a set of eight ...
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Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a United Nations partnership initiative to eradicate extreme poverty and other forms of disadvantage and human crises by 2015. This conference, hosted by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) & Institute for Human Security, La Trobe University, will take place from 30.11 - 1.12 2009 in Melbourne and will look at what needs to be done to ensure we do not lose momentum as we near the mid-point of the MDGs. The key concepts of learning, innovation and partnerships will shape this conference; new ideas, success stories, challenges ...
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