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.

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.

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 MDGs also emphasize the role of developed countries in aiding developing countries, as outlined in Goal Eight.

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 MDGs also strengthen the commitment of developed countries to helping developing countries, and encourage the flow of aid and information sharing.

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 ).

Although developed countries ' aid for the achievement of the MDGs have been rising over recent years, it has shown that more than half is towards debt relief owed by poor countries.

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.

Although these do not specifically mention the right to access ICT for people with disabilities, two key elements within the MDGs are to reduce the number of people in poverty and to reach out to the marginalised groups without access to ICT.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The MDGs originated from the Millennium Declaration produced by the United Nations.

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

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 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 ).

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.

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.

' Instrumentalists ' argue that extreme poverty, inequality and vulnerability, is dysfunctional in the achievement of development targets ( e. g. the MDGs ).

Emphasis is being placed on the Bank Group's collaboration with multilateral and local partners to quicken progress toward the MDGs ' realization.

Beyond being a goal in itself, gender equality is also a driver for all the MDGs, and is intimately linked and specifically connected to goals to improve maternal and newborn health and reduce the spread of HIV.

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.

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.

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.

He chaired the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health ( 2000-1 ), which played a pivotal role in scaling up the financing of health care and disease control in the low-income countries to support MDGs 4, 5, and 6.

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.

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

Education is seen as a vital input to addressing issues of poverty, gender equality and health in the MDGs.