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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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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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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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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Linking Development Priorities through the MDGs
Global Millennium Declaration
Local MDG RDS formulated and approved by local
governments
National Signed the Millennium Declaration,
Parliament has passed a Resolution on the MDGs,
NSSED incorporates MDGS
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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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• The role of UN
• UNCT

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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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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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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 as an Advocacy Tool
9 clear and simple goals that are easily
understood by everyone, thus encouraging
participation. Coherent and consistent
messages for the UN system and other
stakeholders. Numerous examples in Albania
including - MDG Advocacy tour to all Regions
bringing the message to the local level -
Television Information Spots - Poster and
leaflet campaign - MDG Documentary is being
produced - Radio broadcasts, wesbsites, etc.

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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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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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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 in
  2004
• 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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WHY THE MDGs MATTER IN ALBANIA

• LLONG PAINFUL TRANSITION
• People resigned to high poverty, corruption and
  organized crime
• CCONFRONTATIONAL POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
• SLOW PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
• However, highly committed to EU accession
• LOW DEMAND FOR DEMOCRACY
• Weak sense of community

• NNEW TOOL OF ACCOUNTABILITY EMPOWERMENT
• PPARLIAMENTARY RESOLUTION ON THE MILLENNIUM
  DECLARATION
• CCOMPREHENSIVE SAp/MDG/PRSP INDICATOR MATRIX TO
  GUIDE DATA COMPILATION FOR ALL STRATEGIC
  INITIATIVES IN ALBANIA
• DMDG LOCAL PILOTS BASED ON MDG REGIONAL REPORTS
  REGIONAL STRATEGIES TO ALL REGIONS IN ALBANIA

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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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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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COOPERATION OPPORTUNITIES

• MDG SUBSTANTIVE PROGRAMMES
• MDG ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
• ADVOCACY PARTNERSHIP

• EXAMPLES AS PER THE INDICATIVE PROJECT/PROGRAMME
  OF THE MDG REGIONAL REPORTS
• Area Based Development for Kukes region
• Support to Local Governance/Community
  Mobilization
• Support to operationalization of the National HIV
  AIDS strategy
• Micro-credit for Poor and Women
• Capacity Development /Civil Service training at
  central and local level
• Schools/Hospitals Rehabilitation
• Support to development sectors like education,
  health, environment etc
• CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE MDGs
• ICT FOR THE MDGs
• DATA
• PUBLIC ADMINISTARTION REFORM
• Support to reporting on UN Human Rights treaties
  conventions maintaining a Rights Based
  Aproach to development
• LINKING THE GLOBAL MDG CAMPAIGN TO THE LOCAl MDG
  CAMPAIGN
• FUND RAISING FOR THE MDGs

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Grounds of our work

• The second Common Country Assessment Report (CCA)
  for Albania was launched in October 2004 and
• the first United Nations Development Assistance
  Framework (UNDAF) was produced at the beginning
  of 2005.
• The overarching goal of the UNDAF is to promote
  Albanias integration into the European Union,
  using the localized MDGs (national and
  sub-national) as the common UN objectives.
• The National Strategy for Socio-Economic
  Development (NSSED) is guiding Albania towards
  European Union integration by establishing
  long-term objectives aimed at reducing poverty,
  increasing economic growth, raising education
  enrollment and reducing child mortality.
• The UN works in cooperation / partnership with
  central and local government including
  Parliament, as well as civil society and donors

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CCA Common Country Assessment UNDAF United
Nations development Assistance Framework M7E
Monitoring Evaluation JSM Joint Strategic
Meeting Exb Executive Board CPD Country
programme Document CPAP Country Programme
Action Plan AWP Annual Workplans
Common Country Programming ProcessAlbania
2004-2006
Strategic Planning
Implementation, and M and E
1 2 3 4 5
June -Dec. 2005
October 2004
By 31 Dec 2005
15 Dec 2004
Feb - Mar 2005
23 Feb 2005
Nov- 2005
June 2005
CPDs UNDAF to Bureaus Ex B
JSM
JSM
ExB feedback on CPDs
UNDAF ( zero draft sent to readers group
CPAPsdrafted
CCA
UNDAF Evaluation CCA 2 UNDAF 2
ExBs approve CPDs
ME plan
April UNDAF signed with Govt
CPAPssigned
AWPs
Results Matrix
AWPs
Annual Review RC Annual Report
Joint Programming
AWPs
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UNDAF Outcomes UNDAF Outcomes UNDAF Outcomes UNDAF Outcomes
1 2 3 4
A transparent and accountable government, developing and implementing effective national policies An enabling environment is in place to ensure peoples participation in policy formulation and the national decision making process Increased use of quality public services delivered in an efficient, transparent, accountable and equitable manner. Regional and local development strategies implemented with full participation of communities
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Grounds of our work contdMillennium Development
Goals Albanian Context

• Cross Cutting Issues Human
  Rights / Youth
• MDGs at National Level Monitoring /
  Analysis / Advocay
• MDGs at Sub-National Level Monitoring /
  Analysis / Advocay
• MDGs Costing Needs Assessment
• MDGs Campaigning Using the Media to Advocate for
  MDGs, Involvement of Civil Society in Monitoring
  the MDGs and National Policies bringing MDGs to
  national stakeholders as well as to local
  communities Regional Advocacy Tour covering 11
  regions MDG Good Will Ambassadors UN open
  forum
• MDG Documents http//www.mdg.org.al/?docsMDG
  Photo Gallery http//www.mdg.org.al/?photos

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Annual Year Priorities

• 2005 main objectives for the UN Country Team
  include
• having Albania included in the list of MDG Fast
  Track Countries and to
• showcasing Albania at the 2005 Millennium
  Declaration 5 Summit.
• Specific activities to support the achievement of
  these objectives are planned such as
• The setting up of an independent panel to review
  a series of Quick Win actions,
• The reviewing of the MDG needs assessment carried
  out in 2003 in the light of Professor Sachs
  Needs Assessment methodology and
• To set up a strategy leading to the inclusion of
  Albania in the list of MDG Fast Track Countries.

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Specific Objectives include

• Improved support to national efforts to achieve
  the MDGs
• Broad dissemination of MDG promotional materials
  designed for school children youth to create
  generic ownership of the MDGs and to make sure
  that MDGs are comprehensible for children youth
  
• Provide a forum to strengthen youth efforts,
  enhance youth involvement in the countrys
  efforts to achieve the MDGs
• Establish more effective and efficient channels
  of communications and modes of cooperation
  between and among youth and youth-serving
  organizations and the youth-related organizations
  and agencies of the United Nations System and
  other youth-related intergovernmental
  organizations promoting the MDGs.
• Increased commitment of the media to report on UN
  programmes activities like MDG Human Rights
  related, etc.
• MDGs localized at regional level and MDG Regional
  Reports prepared
• Support to Integrated Planning Systems
• Operational support to the achievement of
  specific MD Goals
• Support to national policy processes
• Enhanced UN cooperation through networking and
  knowledge and information exchange

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MDG Resources
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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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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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MDGNet

• The Millennium Development Goals Network (MDGNet)
  supports UN Country Teams as well as Government
  and Civil Society practitioners in their efforts
  to produce high-quality national MDG
  Reports  (MDGRs) as well as in their efforts to
  support countrys achievemnt of MDGs.
• To subscribe to MDGNet, send an email to
  mdg-net_at_groups.undp.org. Indicate your name,
  email address, agency, position and duty station.
  We encourage UN staff as well as Government and
  Civil Society development partners to join
  MDGNet.
• To subscribe to Albania UN MDG net
  mdg.taskforce.un.al_at_undp.org
• Send an email to eldisa.lloshi_at_undp.org or
  fiorela.shalsi_at_undp.org

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web resources on MDGs

• UN website http//www.un.org
• UN Albania web site
• UNDP website http//www.undp.org
• UNDG website www.undg.org
• UN Statistics Division with the Millennium
  Indicators Database
• World Bank website http//www.developmentgoals.org