On behalf of Annan, from 2002-2006 he chaired the UN Millennium Project, which was tasked with developing a concrete action plan to achieve the MDGs.

Sachs dismissed that view in a reply to PLoS Medicine, saying that only a handful of the MDGs are immeasurable, but Attaran then cited the United Nations ' own data analysis ( which the UN subsequently blocked from public access ) showing that progress on a very large majority of the MDGs is never measured.

Many development experts question the MDGs model of transferring billions of dollars directly from the wealthy nation governments to the often bureaucratic or corrupt governments in developing countries.

The Millennium Project worked from 2002-2005 to devise a recommended plan of implementation that will allow all developing countries to meet the MDGs and thereby substantially improve the human condition by 2015.

Ending poverty is a global responsibility and the international community unites at the 20th anniversary of the World Economic Forum on East Asia held from June 12 to 13 in Jakarta, Indonesia under the theme “ Responding to the New Globalism .” GK chairman and Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Philippines for 2010 Tony Meloto was one of the panelists in a plenary session on Inclusive Asia: Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

Many achievements have brought the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) targets for 2015 within reach in some cases.

UNWTO encourages the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, to maximize tourism ’ s socio-economic contribution while minimizing its possible negative impacts, and is committed to promoting tourism as an instrument in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ), geared towards reducing poverty and fostering sustainable development.

The Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) called for different sectors to join forces to secure wetland environments in the context of sustainable development and improving human wellbeing.

According to researchers at the Overseas Development Institute, the lack of infrastructure in many developing countries represents one of the most significant limitations to economic growth and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) include a target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.

One of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) set by the UN includes environmental sustainability.

Working in partnership with private and public sectors and civil society, WorldFish develops pro-poor sustainable aquaculture that supports the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

Yoshihiko Noda was formally appointed as Prime Minister on 2 September 2011 .. On August 1, 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

Since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) in 2000, Sachs has been the leading academic scholar and practitioner on the MDGs.

But Sachs and Attaran part company in their opinion of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDG ), and Attaran argued in a paper published in PLoS Medicine and an editorial in the New York Times that the United Nations has misled people by setting specific, but immeasurable, targets for the MDGs ( for example, to reduce maternal mortality or malaria ).

The MDGs have catalysed a significant amount of action, including new initiatives such as Millennium Promise.

Takuro also made a donation of 10 million yen to " Mudef " ( Music Design Foundation ), an organization that aims at the accomplishment of all the United Nations Organization 8 MDGs ( Millennium Development Goals ) and seeks to help out people all over the world through music and arts.

EWB-I member groups and partner organizations contribute to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) through capacity building in their projects.

Another international policy that has indirect implications for the use of ICT by people with disabilities are the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

" Mainstream the ten principles in business activities around the world " and " Catalyse actions in support of broader UN goals, such as the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

The Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) are eight international development goals that all 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015.

The approval of the MDGs was possibly the main outcome of the Millennium Summit.

The Millennium Summit Declaration was, however, only part of the origins of the MDGs.

The MDGs were developed out of the eight chapters of the Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000.

Thus, while the MDGs are a tool for tracking progress toward basic poverty reduction and provide a very basic policy road map to achieving these goals, they do not capture all elements needed to achieve the ideals set out in the Millennium Declaration.

The Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc., or Millennium Promise, is a U. S .- based non-profit organization dedicated to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and founded in 2005 by renown international economist and Special Advisor on the MDGs to the UN Secretary General, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and Wall Street leader and philanthropist, Ray Chambers.

The MDGs were made to operationalize these ideas by setting targets and indicators for poverty reduction in order to achieve the rights set forth in the Declaration on a set fifteen-year timeline.

The 2005 World Summit, 14 – 16 September 2005, was a follow-up summit meeting to the United Nations ' 2000 Millennium Summit, which led to the Millennium Declaration of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

In Africa, in order to reach the seven percent annual growth calculated to be required to meet the MDGs by 2015 would require infrastructure investments of about fifteen percent of GDP, or around US $ 93 billion a year.

Its key concepts of integrated rural development to achieve the MDGs are now being applied at national scale in Nigeria and Mali, and are being used by many other countries to help support national anti-poverty programs.

Because the MDGs were agreed as global targets to be achieved by the global community, they are independent of, but by no means unrelated to, individual national interests.

Most of these initiatives however work in small scale interventions which do not reach the millions of people required by the MDGs.

Furthermore, ‘ global social justice ’ surely has to mean more than simply ‘ achieving income, health opinion and education targets as defined by the MDGs ’.

Although developed countries ' aid for achieving the MDGs has been rising over recent years, more than half the aid is towards debt relief owed by poor countries, with remaining aid money going towards natural disaster relief and military aid which does not further development.

The aim of the MDGs is to encourage development by improving social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries.

The MDGs leave out important ideals, such as the lack of strong objectives and indicators for equality, which is considered by many scholars to be a major flaw of the MDGs due to the disparities of progress towards poverty reduction between groups within nations.

Household surveys are often used by the UN organisations to estimate data for the health MDGs.

The MDGs are also argued to help the human development by providing a measurement of human development that is not based solely on income, prioritizing interventions, establishing obtainable objectives with operationalized measurements of progress ( though the data needed to measure progress is difficult to obtain ), and increasing the developed world ’ s involvement in worldwide poverty reduction.

The joint responsibility of developing and developed nations for achieving the MDGs increases the likelihood of their success, which is reinforced by their 189-country support ( the MDGs are the most broadly supported poverty reduction targets ever set by the world ).

In the same time as China, Sub-Saharan Africa reduced their poverty about one percent, and are at a major risk of not meeting the MDGs by 2015.

In December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 ' The International Year of Sanitation ', in recognition of the slow progress being made towards the MDGs sanitation target.

They travel to workplaces, schools, universities, community groups and churches around Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States to equip people with the knowledge and resources they need to encourage the achievement of the MDGs.

His main responsibilities as the Special Adviser include promoting UNITAID and other sources of innovative financing for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ), advising the United Nations Secretary-General on innovative financing solutions to the implementation of the Monterrey consensus, coordinating with the High-Level Group on the MDGs, and liaising with various UN and non-UN related institutions, such as the main Bretton Woods institutions, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee ( OECD-DAC ), the United Nations Development Group and the Millennium Communication Campaign.

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 world leaders initiated the development of MDGs and had set a completion date for the project of June 2005.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ) has teamed up with the United Nations Development Program ( UNDP ) to run this campaign as a focus on how corruption hinders efforts to achieve the internationally agreed upon MDGs, undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to human rights violations, distorts markets, erodes quality of life and allows organized crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to flourish.

It was followed by the United Nations High Level Event on the MDGs in New York on 25 September and the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar, 29 November-2 December.