Resources by Issue: MDGs
The Millennium Development Goals have been derived by the Millennium Declaration adopted by 147 Heads of State and government ad the Millennium Assembly in September 2000. The MDGs are a set of 8 goals assorted with specific indicators and timeframes that government have committed themselves to achieve by 2015. The first MDG aims to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and the others deal with social issues that somehow cristallyse the commitments taken at the world conferences of the nineties in terms of women's rights, education, health, environment, etc. CONGO has been a co-organizer of the Millennium NGO Forum that has preceded the official meeting of the General Assembly in 2000 and since the beginning it has been at the forefront of raizing the awareness of NGOs about the existence of the Goals, in order to keep governments accountable, and help them assessing their implementation. We do this mainly in the regions - through our regional civil society fora -, at major UN commission and events and through the Millennium + 5 network that has prepared the official assessment of the implementation of the MDGs by governments in September 2005.
CONGO has been actively contributing and providing inputs into the on-going reform process within the United Nations. The organisation, while celebrating its 60th anniversary in September 2005, hold a high-level plenary meeting with Heads of States and Governments at the beginning of the General Assembly's 60th session on 14-16 September 2005.[more]
As called for in the Consensus, a follow-up intergovernmental process has been sent in motion and a standing secretariat - The Financing for Development Office - has been established in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) to support the process. The Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus will be held in Doha, Qatar, from 29 November to 2 December 2008.[more]
- Background information on WSIS and its follow up and implementation process
The statement from civil society on the World Summit on the Information Society entitled "Much More Could Have Been Achieved" is now available in English (Word and html versions) and French (Word and html versions.)[more]
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a plan agreed to by all the world's countries and leading development institutions, aimed at mobilizing unprecedented efforts to meet the need of the world's poorest by 2015.[more]
- Renate Bloem
Standing before this honorable Assembly after such a vote of confidence, I feel deeply moved and honoured, and I hope I can live up to your expectations and trust.[more]
- UN-NGO Partnerships for Democratic Governance in Asia
Bangkok, Thailand, December 9 to 13, 2002 Introduction[more]
- Building UN NGO partnership for Democratic Governance through MDGs
Sorry, no summary is available.[more]
- Partnerships for a New Era
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) June 1 - 4, 2004[more]
- February 2005
Underlying ideas that were repeated most frequently in the interventions:[more]
- AfCSF 22-24 March 2007, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) and the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) organizes in cooperation with the Economic Commision for Africa (ECA) and the African Union (AU) the African Civil Society Forum "Democratizing Governance at Regional and Global Level to Achieve the MDGs" to be held between 22-24 March 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of the Forum is to bring together representatives of national, regional and international NGOs from Africa to explore the most effective ways to partner with and impact on African institutions: the African Union, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). This Forum is part of CONGO's outreach program, in which - in the past five years - we have organized civil society fora (twice in Asia and once in Latin America), aimed at bringing the UN agenda into the regions and the regional input back to the glo[more]
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Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
MDGs / Millennium + 5
Asian Civil Society Forum 2002, Bangkok
Asian Civil Society Forum 2004, Bangkok
African Civil Society Forum 2007