Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are the products of various conferences and Summits, which lead up to their eventual outlining, and implementation in 2000. There are eight goals; all concerning World environmental and humanitarian issues:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

Within each of the goals are specific targets that attempt to clarify exactly what it is that countries need to achieve. The progress made towards the targets is monitored through identified indicators, which further breakdown the eight overarching goals. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) encourage a global commitment to fulfilling development through means that are sustainable and balanced.

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Millennium Development Goals +5 (MDGs +5)

At the 57th Session of the UN General Assembly in 2002, it was agreed that a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Millennium Declaration’s Millennium Development Goals would take place in 2005 (MDGs +5), this is to be a summit level event.

The Summit will bring together a review of the progression made in implementing the Millennium Declaration and address the coherent follow-up to the major United Nations conferences in economic and social fields.

MDGs +5 will provide the opportunity of ensuring the development of policies and action plans to serve the needs of the worlds poorest, while also allowing greater consideration to be offered on how to converge the numerous intergovernmental processes on sustainable development.

With the proposed MDGs +5 date little more than a year away, it is key that governments and stakeholders both begin to engage seriously with the event and the preparatory process. It is fundamental that in advance we reflect on recent world Summits to ensure that MDGs +5 delivers effective results on the ambitious targets under review.

Stakeholder Forum’s mission is to facilitate stakeholders internationally in implementing sustainable development agreements and the MDGs, and is undertaking this, the first UK programme to support the preparation for the MDGs +5; additionally the organization is facilitating an audit on international governance systems. Bringing these two work programmes together, Stakeholder Forum is hosting this critical preliminary Millennium Development Goals +5 conference.

Invited speakers include UK Ministers, UN representatives and stakeholders in the sustainable development field. The conference will be attended by stakeholders from a broad range of sectors of civil society, including businesses and NGOs.

2005 will be one of the most important years for multilateralism and for the UNEP due to the review of the MDGs ( +5); the UK will play a central role as they will hold the chair of the G8 and the Presidency of the EU. Our conference provides the opportunity to establish operative UK working groups in preparation for the MDGs +5 event. Stakeholder Forum will be taking a leading role in stakeholder engagement in the 2005 agenda both in the UK and globally.