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The
UN Millennium Development Goals &
Millennium + 5 Process
"The
arrival of the new millennium is an occasion for celebration and
reflection." --
(UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, 2000)
"The world did celebrate the arrival of the new century,
and people of all cultures joined in. But there are many things
…to correct," declared Secretary General Kofi Annan
in 2000. "The century just ended was disfigured, time and
again, by ruthless conflict. Grinding poverty and striking inequality
persists…. Diseases, old and new, threaten to undo painstaking
progress. Nature's life- sustaining services, on which our species
depends for its survival, are being seriously disrupted and degraded
by our own every day activities….The world's people look
to their leaders… to identify and act on the major challenges
ahead", from "We the People"
Annan's
words lead to the UN
Millennium Summit, which was held in New York in September
2000. 191 States in total adopted the
UN Millennium Declaration, which outlines peace, security
and development concerns, in such areas as environment, human
rights and governance. The declaration, which stresses the special
needs of Africa, mainstreams a set of interconnected and mutually
reinforcing development goals into a global agenda. This set is
known as the Millennium Development Goals. MDG monitoring will
take place at the global and country levels.
At the global level, the UN Secretary-General will report
annually to the General Assembly on the progress towards achieving
a sub-set of the MDGs; and more comprehensively every five years.
At the country level, the UN Country Team will support
the government in monitoring progress and preparing MDG Reports
Sections:
What
are the Millennium Development Goals?
Documents
and Links
- UN
Millennium Development Goals Home Page
- The
UN Millennium Declaration (pdf file)
- UN
Secretary-General's 2000 Report
-
UN Secretary-General's 2001 Report "Road map towards
the implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration"
- UN
Secretary-General's 2002 Report
- UN
Secretary-General's 2003 Report
- UN
Secretary-General's 2004 Report
- UN
Secretary-General's 2005 Report "In larger freedom: towards
development, security and human rights for all"
- Statistics
on the Achievement of the Millennium Goals
- How the UN will accomplish the goals (Graphs):
Goal
1, Goal
1/2, Goal
3/4, Goal
5/6, Goal
7, Goal
8
- The
MDG and the Role of the United Nations
- Country-
by- Country reports
- General
Assembly adopts Steps to strengthen Implementation of Major Summit
Development Goals
- Paper on CONGO
and the Millennium Development Goals (Word document).
Also available in PDF format.
- Speech
by Salil Shetty, Director, UN Millennium Campaign, at Forum Barcelona,
September 2004
What
progress has been achieved since the Millennium Summit ?
The
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) published its
2003 Human Development Report indicating that the Millennium
Development Goals will not be achieved without a radical change
in development policy. The report states that most of the problems
that were supposed to be addressed by the MDGs have become even
worse in the last years.
Documents
and Links
Millennium
+ 5 Activities (2005)
The year
2005 is a key year for the United Nations, governments and civil
society to evaluate the progress in the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals and other objectives from the UN Millennium Declaration.
CONGO seeks to be a facilitator of civil society involvement and
participation in the Millennium+5 process.
Key Dates and
Events
- 14-16 September 2005: Millennium + 5 High Level
Plenary of UN General Assembly, United Nations, New York
- 10 September 2005: International Mobilization
of Global Campaign Against
Poverty. Events around the world.
- 7-9 September 2005: DPI
NGO Conference, with special focus on Millennium + 5 and MDGs,
United Nations, New York
- 23-24 June 2005: UN
General Assembly Hearings with Civil Society in preparation
for UN Millennium+5 high level plenary, New York.
- 20 May 2005: Millennium+5 Consultation at Forum
on Indigenous Issues, New York. 15:00-16:30, in Conference Room
2, United Nations.
- 13 May 2005: Millennium+5 Consultation at NPT
Review Conference, New York. 15:00-16:00, in Conference Room E,
United Nations
- 19 April 2005: NGO Consultation on the Millennium
Review Summit during CSD13. 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm. Permanent
Mission of Turkey to the UN 821 UN Plaza (1 st Avenue & 46th
Street) 2 nd Floor. Click here
to download the flyer.
- 5 April 2005: "Millennium+5, the MDGs and
Human Rights" side-event at Commission on Human Rights, Geneva.
14:00- 16:00, Room XXI, Palais des Nations. An introduction to
the relationship between the MDGs and human rights in the context
of UN reform, followed by NGOs speaking out on key issues which
should be addressed and assessed by heads of States in the Summit
- 16-17 March 2005:
ECOSOC informal meeting on Millennium Development Goals, including
roundtables on: eradication of poverty and hunger; education and
literacy; health and mortality; global partnerships and financing
development; gender equality and the empowerment of women; environmental
sustainability; and country-level implementation. ECOSOC Chamber,
New York
- 10 March 2005: ECOSOC NGO Forum on Millennium
Development Goals, ECOSOC Chamber, New York
- 2 March 2005: NGO Consultation on Millennium+5
at Commission on the Status of Women.
Summary of discussion.
- February 2005: NGO Consultation on Millennium+5
at Commission on Social Development. Summary
of discussion.
Key
Actors and Facilitators
- Government Facilitators on "Clusters"
of Millennium +5 Agenda: Ten facilitators have
been selected to assist the GA President in the deliberations
among the Member States in preparation for the Millennium+5 GA
plenary. Cluster I (Peace and security): H.E. Mr. John Dauth (Australia);
H.E. Mrs. Laxanachantorn Laohaphan (Thailand); and H.E. Mr. Ali
Hachani (Tunisia); Cluster II (Development): H.E. Mr. Christopher
Fitzherbert Hackett (Barbados); H.E. Mr. Nana Effah-Apenteng (Ghana);
and H.E. Mr. Valeriy P. Kuchinsky (Ukraine); Cluster III (Rule
of law and protecting the vulnerable): H.E. Mr. Iftekhar Ahmed
Chowdhury (Bangladesh); and H.E. Mr. Roman Kirn (Slovenia); and
Cluster IV (Strengthening the United Nations, Institutional reform):
H.E. Mr. Ricardo Alberto Arias (Panama); and H.E. Dirk Jan van
den Berg (Netherlands).
- The Millennium+5 NGO Network:
The Millennium+5 NGO Network is an informal grouping of NGOs brought
together by CONGO and the NGO
DPI Executive Committee. The Millennium +5 NGO Network
is organizing a series of NGO open forums that will take place
at a number of the UN Commissions and fora between January and
June 2005, including the Commission on the Status of Women, the
Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on Sustainable Development,
the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and other key gathering
points for different civil society networks. Groups are
encouraged to bring to the open forums their priority areas for
action that they wish governments to act upon at the Millennium
+5 Summit in September. These various inputs will be brought together
into a compilation document to be submitted to the General Assembly
in June. To join the Millennium + 5 Network email listserv
go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/millenniumplus5ngonetwork/
.
Key Documents
- "We
Will Spare No Effort: A Civil Society Call to Action for the Five
Year Review of the UN Millennium Summmit and the Millennium Development
Goals, the report of the Millennium+5
NGO Network.
-
Application
available for Attendees at GA Hearings with Civil Society.
An
application form is available for groups wishing to observe
the General Assembly hearings with civil society and the private
sector taking place 23-24 June at the United Nations.
You can download the form here
. Note that only NGOs accredited to ECOSOC, or affiliated with
DPI or Financing for Development may attend. Deadline
for applications is 10 June.
-
GA
President releases "draft outcome document" of Millennium+5
Summit. The President of the General Assembly, Ambassador
Ping, has released a "draft
outcome document" for consideration by governments
to be accepted in September by the General Assembly.
We understand that governments have until June 21 to respond
to this document, with a new version being released around July
15. Among the contents of the document, it endorses the
creation of a UN Peacebuilding Commission and a Human Rights
Council, with language supporting the principle of the Responsibility
to Protect.
- Civil
society paper on the modalities for the informal interactive UN
General Assembly Hearings (23 – 24 June 2005) preparatory
to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the 60th session of the UN
General Assembly . Also available in Chinese.
- Civil
society background paper on NGO participation in the preparations
and conduct of the informal interactive UN General Assembly Hearings
preparatory to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the 60th
session of the UN General Assembly, dated 7 March 2005
- Advanced, unedited version of the Report
of the Secretary-General on the modalities, format and organization
of the high-level plenary meeting of the 60th session of the United
Nations General Assembly, which is a follow-up to the outcome
of the Millennium Summit. The report can be viewed online
at: http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/report10-final.pdf
.
Regional
Activity
Latin American and Caribbean Seminar "Partnerships for a New
Era: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"
From 1-4 June 2004, in Santiago, Chile, CONGO, organized a Latin
American and Caribbean seminar on the MDGs, in collaboration with
the NGO section of DESA and the World Federation of United Nations
Associations, under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for
Latin America and the Caribbean and UN/DESA. The official website
of the LAC seminar can be found at
http://www.lacongo.cl. For more information, go to ngomeet/LAC04/index.htm
. The complete report of the LAC Conference can be downloaded in
English and
Spanish.
Asian
Civil Society Forum
CONGO organized
the Asian Civil Society Forum
from 9-13 December 2002 in Bangkok, Thailand, which had as one of
its principal themes the implementation of the MDGs in the region.
For more information please go to the official website at http://www.acsf.net/
or ngomeet/acsf2002.htm
CONGO organized
a second Asian Civil Society Forum
from 21-25 November 2004, in Bangkok, which also focused on the
millennium development goals. The complete report on the Forum,
including the Final Declaration, programme, and participants can
be found here.
For more information, please go to http://www.acsf.info.
Asia
Pacific UNESCAP-UNDP Regional MDG Activity
The
UNESCAP-UNDP regional report on "Promoting
the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Meeting
the Challenges of Poverty Reduction" has been jointly
launched in Bangkok by Mr. Kim Hak-Su, the Executive Secretary of
ESCAP, and Mr. Robert England, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP
Resident Representative on 4 June 2003. For more information on
the MDGs and the Asia Pacific Region, go to http://unescap.org/mdg/index.asp.
Listserve
discussion on the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in
monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This discussion
took place on MDG-Net, a moderated listserve, which has as its members
UN staff; country offices of UN agencies, programmes and funds;
as well as NGOs and CSOs. You can become a member of MDG-Net by
signing up through http://www.undg.org
(password: mdgnet2002) or by sending an e-mail to Sarah Renner at
UNDP <sarah.renner@undp.org>.
For more
information on the Millennium Development Goals, please visit The
Millennium Indicators Database
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