Millennium Development Goals

In 2000 the world’s governments adopted the Millennium Declaration, the stated aim of which is to address people’s needs for the new millennium. The hope held out by the Declaration is that there is a consensus among rich and poor countries that poverty is a collective focus, and that the resources needed to eradicate poverty exist. The Declaration calls for the political will to achieve such a fair distribution.

For more details view Banúlacht’s Briefing Paper on the MDGS, which covers

• The Millennium Development Goals
• The Millennium Declaration
• The Millennium Development Goals
• Women and the MDGs
• The MDGs, the Beijing Platform for Action and CEDAW
• The World Summit 2005

Links

United Nations
www.un.org/millenniumgoals

UN Millennium Project
www.unmillenniumproject.org

For critical feminist perspectives on the MDGs, download Banúlacht’s MDGs Briefing Paper (2005) (in PDF or Word) and the MDGs poster.

Read issue 8 (July 2010) of Banúlacht’s Gender & Development Bulletin, focusing on the MDGs.

Making the Missing Link: MDGs, Gender and Macroeconomic Policy, a 2005 briefing paper by Zo Randriamaro.

Women Debate the MDGs, Development 48 (2005), by Carol Barton, Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ).

Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), Seeking Accountability on Women's Human Rights: Women Debate the UN Millenium Development Goals - Mobilizing Women for Economic Justice (2004).

For further reading on the MDGs, see:

UNIFEM/UNDP: Making the MDGs Work Better for Women: Implementing Gender-Responsive National Development Plans and Programmes (2010). Download the report by clicking here or view the report at here and here.

Overseas Development Institute: Gender and the MDGs: A gender lens is vital for pro-poor results (September 2008) by Nicola Jones, Rebecca Holmes and Jessica Espey. Download the report here or view the report online by clicking here.

UNIFEM report Gender Justice: Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Irish Aid has produced factsheets on each of the Goals: see here for the fact sheets on MDG3 (Promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment) and MDG5 (Improve Maternal health) and see Irish Aid’s website for further fact sheets.

UNIFEM report: The Cost of Gender Equality vs. Losses in Monetary Terms and Human Fulfillment of Women and Girls with Gender Inequality. To download the report, click here. here.