Millennium Development Goals

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Millennium Development Goals

• Background Information
• 147 heads of State and Government and 191
  nations in total adopted the Millennium
  Declaration.
• MDGs help focus national and international
  priority setting as goals and targets are limited
  in number, stable over time, and being
  communicate easily to a broad audience
• Goal 1 Halving extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2 Achieving universal primary education
• Goal 3 Promoting gender equality
• Goal 4 Reducing under-five mortality by
  two-third
• Goal 5 Reducing maternal mortality by
  three-quarters
• Goal 6 Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria
  and TB
• Goal 7 Ensuring environmental sustainability
• Goal 8 Developing a global partnership for
  development,
• with targets for aid, trade, debt
  relief

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WHAT ARE THE MDGs

• MDGs help focus national and international
  priority setting goals and targets
• are limited in number,
• stable over time,
• being communicated easily to a broad audience
• Millennium Declaration set 8 mutually reinforcing
  time-bound development goals and related targets
  for progressively eradicating poverty
• MDGs and targets now at forefront of development
  agenda agreed by developing countries and
  development partners capture multidimensionality
  of poverty
• Baseline for MDGs 1990 target for realisation
  2015

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Millennium DeclarationBy 2015

• Halving the proportion of people who
• have income of than one dollar a day
• who suffer from hunger
• who do not have access to safe drinking water
• Ensure that
• all children complete primary education
• girls and boys have equal access to all levels of
  education
• Reduce
• infant and child mortality by 2/3
• maternal maternity by 3/4

Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
and malaria Provide special assistance to
children orphaned by HIV/AIDS By 2020, to improve
lives of at least 100 mill. slum dwellers

• Progress towards these 7 goals and 11 targets
  monitored through 31 agreed indicators

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What are the MDGs? (3)

• New eighth goals to monitor developed country
  commitments for supporting efforts of developing
  countries
• Develop a global partnership for development
• - includes 7 targets, eg trade, aid, debt and
  special needs of
• LDCs, partnerships with private
  sector
• - 17 additional indicators
• MDGs can also be monitored by qualitative
  assessments, eg
• - Provision of special assistance to children
  orphaned by HIV/AIDS
• - Significant improvement in lives of at least
  100 million slum dwellers

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MDGs and Human Rights

• Focus on goals and targets consistent with
  rights-based approach to development can help
  create awareness of rights and mobilise resources
  for meeting obligations and entitlements
• - Generally poor and excluded whose rights are
  ignored and who lack access to information and
  services
• - Time-bound goals and targets can accelerate
  progress if they help build alliances and
  trigger complementary actions
• MDGs need prioritising in relation to country
  setting and combined with national poverty goals
  and targets

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What is the purpose?

• Need for a comprehensive development
• agenda with quantitative, time- bound
• targets and indicators
• Specific targets help to
• mobilize international partners
• benchmark and assess progress
• initiate policy reforms, institutional change and
  budget
• reallocations

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MDG Core Strategy
MDG Reports
Where do we stand?
Millennium Project
What will it take?
How to raise profile and awareness?
Millennium Campaign
What can we do about them?
Operational support
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MDG Reports

• Part II

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MDG Reporting

• Global reporting annually led by UN-DESA to
  General Assembly with comprehensive report every
  3 years
• Country-level reporting led by UNDP / UNCT
  through production of periodic MDG reports
  (MDGRs)
• - Advocacy tool for stimulating debate and
  mobilising resources
• - Intended to be reader-friendly
• MDGRs help provide a focus to national
  development debate and mobilise UNCT around
  concrete and common development agenda

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Purpose of MDGR

• Public advocacy constituency
• Customise targets
• Concise assessment, jargon-free, not prescriptive
• Based on existing data analyses
• Involving main partners

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Why Have A National Millennium Development Goals
Report?

• A tool for awareness raising, advocacy, alliance
  building and renewal of political commitments at
  the country level
• To build national capacity for monitoring and
  reporting on goals and targets
• Generate a can do atmosphere so that policy
  -makers and other actors are encouraged to act

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Contents of MDGRs

• Context and setting
• For each MDG
• - status of progress
• - major challenges
• - resources requirements
• - capacity for monitoring
• And other priority national development goals
  should be included

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Analysis and the MDGs

• Where is country in relation to goal?
• What progress made in past n years?
• What are the linkages with other goals?
• What are the constraints and challenges?
• - Generally declining levels of ODA, mounting
  debt burdens derailing achievement of MDGs,
  especially in poorest countries
• How can constraints be overcome and challenges
  met?
• Are there multisectoral plans to meet goals?

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MDGs and CCAs/UNDAFs/PRSPs

• MDGs provide a core and common development focus
  for CCAs/UNDAFs
• Indicators used for tracking MDGs a sub-set of
  those in 2002 revised CCA Indicator Framework
• MDGs can be used as entry point for UN engagement
  in PRSPs and enhance social sector focus
• Use of MDGs in CCAs/UNDAFs and PRSPs helps give
  momentum to ensuring provision of basic social
  services targeted towards poorest

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Opportunity for Collaboration

• Increasing common ground in aim to eradicate
  poverty provides new partnership opportunities
  for jointly addressing development challenges and
  for measuring results
• Use of common indicator framework helps
• - build evidence-based culture
• - identify weaknesses in national statistical
  capacity
• - build alliances for supporting data
  collection activities
• - awareness campaign
• - mobilizing technical and financial support
  for building national capacity

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• The role of UN
• UNCT
• Part III

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UN Reform - New Developments

• 2nd term for the Secretary-General
• 2nd Wave of UN Reforms

• Millennium Declaration
• Lessons Learned
• Triennial Review
• Good Practice from 105 CCAs 58 UNDAFs
• New Guidance
• MDG, PRSP, CCA UNDAF

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UN MILLENNIUM DECLARATION

• Global political consensus
• Focus on outcomes
• Linkages peace, security, development
• Cross-cutting themes
• Partnerships
• Substance for UN reform at various levels

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No shift in the way we think or act can be more
critical than this We must put people at the
centre of everything we do.
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UN MANDATE/OBLIGATIONS

• AREAS OF SUPPORT
• MONITORING / REPORTING
• ANALYSIS
• CAMPAIGNING / MOBILIZATION
• OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES

• ISSUES ?
• DATA
• INSTITUTIONS
• INDEPENDENT CS FORUMS
• DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOALS TARGETS
• DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MDGs AND STRATEGIES ( such as
  PRSP)
• GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT / OWNERSHIP
• LINKAGE BETWEEN THE MDGs THE PRSP ( OTHER
  STRATEGIES SUCH AS EU ACCESSION CRITERIA, etc)
• INSTITUTIONS
• UNDAF
• ALIGNMENT OF THE UN PROGRAMMES

1.Road map towards the implementation of the
United Nations Millennium Declaration Report of
the Secretary General (A/56/326) 2. Reporting on
the Millennium Development Goals at the country
level. Guidance note, October 2001 3. The United
Nations and the MDGs, a core strategy , 7 June
2002.
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Support for UN Reform at the Country Level

• RCSelection
• Appraisal
• Team Building
• Learning

• Policy Collaboration
• DevLink
• Learning Network
• Theme Groups

Increased Knowledge Networking
Better RCs UNCTs

MDGs
National Priorities and National Development
Planning Process
CCA/UNDAP
CCA/UNDAF
Wider Linkages Partnerships
Institutional cost-effectiveness

• Humanitarian
• Normative
• Rights
• IFIs

• Simplification
• Harmonisation
• UN House

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Challenges for UN Country Teams

• Identify where country stands in relation to the
  MDGs
• Support country in defining national goals and
  targets
• Contribute to analysis of alternative strategies
  to achieve national goals

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CCA
PRSP
Situational Assessment and Analysis
PRSP Reports MDG Reports Joint Mid- Term Reviews
National Development Planning Process
National Development and Poverty Plan
Monitoring Implementation and Impact
Resource Allocation and Aid Co-ordination
UNDAF CAP
Implementation
Country Programme, Projects Joint Programmes
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Relations
Advocacy with civil society etc
CCA - including MDGs
National Priorities (including PRSP) and
Plans/Budgets
UNDAF
Individual agency Programmes
Other Programmes
MDG Reports/monitoring
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MDGs and UNDG

• Translate global MDGs to focus national
  development debate
• Enhance policy advice and PRSP participation
• Mobilize UNCT around concrete and inclusive
  agenda
• Help engender development
• Increase visibility as scorekeeper with
  ramification for funding

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• Millennium Development Goals
• Albanian Context
• Part IV

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Millennium Development Goals

• Albanian Context
• The UN System in Albania has commissioned the
  preparation or the Albanian Response to the
  MDGs which was launched on July 8th, 2002
• Follow-up activities under the UN Resident
  Coordinator include
• MDGs Campaign to raise awareness among the
  Albanian Population
• Civil Society Organization Forum to monitor the
  progress towards the MDGs
• Costing of the MDGs in Albania
• Follow-up activities of UNDP include
• Mission on Operationalisation of MDG 1 (Poverty
  reduction)
• and 3 (Gender equality)

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Millennium Development Goals

• Recommendations of the MDGs Report
• Integration of MDGs into national Development
  Strategies
• Improved Data Collection and Analysis
• Strengthen the capacity of the Government to
  follow-up and report on MDGs and other UN
  Conventions
• include MDGs in governmental policy planning
• strengthen capacity of Focal Points in each
  Ministry
• Raise awareness on MDGs among the Albanian
  population
• Partnership with the Non-Governmental Sector
• Adopting a Sub-regional Approach
• Coordination of Intervention

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MDGs IN THE ALBANIAN CONTEXT

• Low levels of knowledge about the MDGs
• Some targets and indicators irrelevant to Albania
• No effective reporting system in place
• Low level of disaggregated data
• No single source of information
• Urgent need to reflect and integrate the MGDs in
  strategic and policy documents.
• Low levels of participation in policy
  formulation, implementation and monitoring

• 1. ALBANIAN RESPONSE TO THE MILLENIUM
  DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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MDGs IN THE ALBANIAN CONTEXT

• CAMPAIGNING / MOBILIZATION

• MDG Regional Advocacy Tour
• MDG Ambassadors
• MDG Lectures
• TV Spots for specific goals
• TV Series to discuss the Albanian Response to the
  Millennium Development Goals
• Internal Learning hours on MDG.
• Promotional material (calendars, posters, pens,
  mugs, brochures etc.)

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MDGs IN THE ALBANIAN CONTEXT

• BDP mission to formulate a capacity building
  project on MDGs reporting (MoFA) and to reflect
  necessary linkages with policies, strategies and
  monitoring / evaluation via ongoing projects (Aid
  Management and Economic Management)
• Operationalizing MDGs 1and 3
• Costing the MDGs
• Initial capacity assessment of INSTAT
• TORs for an MDG civil society forum
• MDG programme cross-cutting framework
• UNDAF workshop
• Learning sessions
• Training on MDGs and HD Approach

• 3. OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES

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FINDINGS
PARALLEL STRUCTURES!!!??
WHAT ABOUT THE PRSP!!!??
BIG SPLASH
DATA!!!
BIG SPLASH
HOW RELEVANT IS THIS FOR US!!!??
ANOTHER STRATEGY!!!
ANOTHER CONDITIONALITY!!!
ANOTHER LAYER!!!
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CONCLUSIONS

• URGENCY
• OPPORTUNITY
• COHERENCE LONG TERM / SHORT TERM
• NEW TOOLS, SYSTEMS, SKILLS, PROCESSES
• BROAD RANGE OF PARTNERS
• GOVERNEMENT COMMITMENT
• BALANCE CENTRAL GOVERNEMENT LEVEL AND LOCAL
  AUTHORITIES

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FUTURE CHALLENGES
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REMEMBER

• TIMING
• PRSPs ARE MACRO-ECONOMIC SECTORAL PROGRAMMES -
  MDGs NEED A MULTI-SECTORAL PROGRAMME APPROACH
• UN SHOULD BE AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE ON ECONOMIC AND
  SECTORAL STRATEGIES AND POICIES - THE HUMAN
  DEVELOPMENT APPROACH PRO - POOR POLICIES
• GENDER
• FEASIBILITY - LINKED AT THE LEVEL OF ASSESSMENT
• PUT THE POWER OF DATA AND INFORMATION IN THE
  HANDS OF THE PEOPLE

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MDG RESOURCES

• Part V

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What is MDG Net?

• An e-mail based discussion group of the UN
  Development Group, facilitated by UNDP
• A bi-monthly MDG Net Digest with updates on the 4
  components of the Core Strategy
• A MDG Net web-based Resource Corner

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MDG Net Resource Corner, contains

• Draft items for discussion on MDG Net
• Archives of the MDG Net Digests Discussions
• Short List of consultants recommended by
  colleagues for assistance with MDGRs
• MDG Report Status Table
• MDG Tools, Research, and Experiences, including
  MDG Presentation Tool kit
• Visit at www.undg.org - 'Implementing the
  Millennium Declaration/ 'MDG Net

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TO JOIN MDG NET

• Write request to facilitator Sarah Renner at
  sarah.renner_at_undp.org include your e-mail
  address, duty station, position employer.
• Dont have enough time to discuss all of the
  important component of MDG strategy at your
  Workshop?
• Continue your discussions on MDG Net!

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Other web resources on MDGs

• UN website http//www.un.org
• UNDP website http//www.undp.org
• UN Statistics Division with the Millennium
  Indicators Database
• World Bank website http//www.developmentgoals.org
  
• More in the pipeline