What comes after the MDGs? What will replace the millennium development goals (MDGs) after their expiry date in 2015?
This is an increasingly pertinent question for people working in development, for many reasons: the 2015 deadline is rapidly approaching, the MDGs took 10 years to formulate and agree on a global stage; at least some of the MDGs will not be met in some countries by the deadline; and a recent study, Cafod's 100 Voices, demonstrates that people in the developing world tend to think it is important to have a global international development framework.
Before last September's UN MDG summit, the world was unwilling to spend time thinking about what would happen beyond 2015, preferring instead to focus on achieving the goals. Yet the summit was something of a watershed. There are three main options on the table. We could simply extend the MDG deadline, we could build on the existing goals, making improvements based on existing research and consultation, or we could try something completely different. The World We Want 2015. A Public Forum on “The Privatization of the Post-2015 Development AgendaIssues and Challenges in Partnerships with the ‘Private Sector’” 8 April 2014, 1:15 – 2:45 PM 2nd Floor Conference Room, UN Church Center.
Poverty Over reports. Christian Aid's series of Poverty Over reports set out our view of what constitutes poverty in the world today.
They explore some of the measures that can and ought to be taken to help those living in poverty. Poverty and development reports Poverty Over report: September 2013. Trócaire event: Where Next for MDGs? Beyond2015: Reports & Research. The Ecological Dimension in the Post-2015 Agenda German environmental and development organizations have drafted a set of ecological sustainability goals to be included in the Post-2015 Agenda.
These suggestions are intended to focus attention on existential ecological baselines as well as the necessity of regarding ecology as an integral part of the new Post-2015 Agenda. Particular emphasis was given to issues that have so far received little attention from existing conventions and international processes. The following proposed goals assume that issues are cross-cutting and that they will be linked with each other as well as with development goals.
A short history of the MDGs. MDGs at a glance. Learning the lessons of the MDGs: second time round, let's get it right. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon speaks during the millennium development goals summit at UN headquarters in New York last September.
Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA As the 2015 deadline for the millennium development goals (MDGs) draws near, there is an urgent need for inclusive global consultations to draw up a successor agreement. With only four years left to go, many of the world's poorest people, particularly women and children, are being left behind in efforts to meet the current commitments. Should global goal setting continue? Realizing the future we want for all. We are the generation that can end poverty. Act Now on 2015.ie. The Issues. 2015 will be a critical year for the international community’s efforts to make poverty history: this is the deadline for the eradication of the worst forms of poverty, and over the next three years, our promises need to be turned into action.
When the leaders of 189 countries signed onto the Millennium Declaration at the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, there was a palpable sense of urgency. Urgency to "free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected. " In March 2010, the UN Secretary-General presented his MDG Progress Report , in which he indicated that if nations deliver on their financial commitments, the world can still achieve the MDGs. He said that "falling short of the MDGs would be an “unacceptable failure, moral and practical”.
And for the first time, governments have agreed to measure their performance. Irish Aid and the MDGs. Irish Aid - Our Work - MDGs. BKM urges greater MDG partnership. 20 September 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged a stronger global partnership to advance progress on the development targets world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015, as a new United Nations report finds that significant gains risk slowing due to declining aid.
“The report paints a troubling picture,” Mr. Ban told reporters as he launched the 2012 MDG Gap Task Force Report at UN Headquarters in New York. “It is clear that we need a stronger global partnership to achieve the MDGs by the 2015 deadline.” The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), agreed on by world leaders at a UN summit in 2000, set specific targets on poverty alleviation, education, gender equality, child and maternal health, environmental stability, HIV/AIDS reduction, and a ‘Global Partnership for Development.’ MDG Gap report 2012. MDG report 2012.