The Armenian government receives foreign aid from the government of the United States through the United States Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

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* COHAB Initiative Biodiversity, the CBD and the Millennium Development Goals

Universal Primary Education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great improvements have been achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal remains to be done.

The Special Programme for Food Security is FAO's flagship initiative for reaching the goal of halving the number of hungry in the world by 2015 ( currently estimated at close to 1 billion people ), as part of its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

The mission of the Alliance originates from the first and eight UN Millennium Development Goals ; reducing the number of people that suffer from hunger in half by 2015 ( preceded by the “ Rome Declaration ” in 1996 ) and developing a global partnership for development.

Recent reports on progress on the Millennium Development Goals by the Overseas Development Institute indicated four key reasons for economic success.

As the figures now stand, Mozambique is one of the few countries on track to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal ( MDG ) of reducing the maternal death rate by 75 percent by 2015.

As a point of reference, the Millennium Development Goal for least developed countries by 2015 is 8. 16 Internet users per 100 population.

The program was designed to achieve the first objective of the United Nations ' Millennium Development Goals, " to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce hunger to zero.

According to Stephen Spratt, " the revenues raised could be used for ... international development objectives ... such as meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

The UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health ( Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ) works directly on the global water crisis., The three core functions of UNU-INWEH are: ( i ) helping developing countries meet the Millennium Development Goals through capacity development: ( ii ) facilitating global knowledge enhancement and networking to address the global water crisis ; and ( iii ) fostering better approaches to water management and governance through applied research designed to fill critical policy gaps

Another special session was held in September 2000 to celebrate the millennium ; it put forward the Millennium Development Goals.

A further special session ( 2005 World Summit ) was held in September 2005 to commemorate the UN's 60th anniversary ; it assessed progress on the Millennium Development Goals, and discussed Kofi Annan's In Larger Freedom proposals.

These two new programs are a product of the benchmarks set out by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

It supports the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

UNIDO believes that competitive and environmentally sustainable industry has a crucial role to play in accelerating economic growth, reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

The central focus of the Partnership is for Australia to assist Vanuatu in achieving its UN Millennium Development Goals ( MDG's ).

To halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water is one of the Millennium Development Goals.

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

This event is part of the campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, specifically to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger and poverty by 2015.

In the twenty-first century, the Stop TB Partnership was created in 2000, along with the UN's formulation of the Millennium Development Goals.

As part of the United Nations, the World Health Organization supports work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

A longer-term economic development program is the United Nations ( UN )- sponsored National Millennium Goals for Nigeria.

Of the eight Millennium Development Goals, three – reducing child mortality by two-thirds, to reduce maternal deaths by three-quarters, and to halt and begin to reduce the spread of HIV / AIDS – relate directly to WHO's scope ; the other five inter-relate and have an impact on world health.

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.

As reflected in the strategic framework, IFAD is committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the target to halve the proportion of hungry and extremely poor people by 2015.

Its multilateral base provides a natural global platform to discuss important policy issues that influence the lives of rural poor people, as well as to draw attention to the centrality of rural development to meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

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.

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 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 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.