Angola

Millennium Development Goals

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Millennium Summit

The year 2000 marked an important event in the history of the world and the United Nations. The Millennium Summit brought leaders of 189 states together to call on the world’s most pressing challenges. They pledged to make the world a better place for all humanity. It is an opportunity of the millennium for states to join efforts to fight poverty, improve access to basic services, reduce the spread of diseases, and care for environment.

The Millennium Declaration set the global agenda for the 21st century and established action-oriented targets around eight specific goals that are known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Millennium Declaration was thus born to reflect the decisions of the world leaders and outlined a road map for progress as far as the year 2015. What are the MDGs?

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The Millennium Development Goals are a framework world leaders agreed upon to reduce poverty and improve the wellbeing of people. They are a set of eight inter-connected development goals with time-bound targets and indicators. The MDGs focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant, measurable improvements in people’s lives by establishing yardsticks for results: Eight Goals for 2015.

The first seven goals are directed at reducing poverty in all its forms: hunger, lack of income, education and health care, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. Altogether, these goals form a comprehensive and mutually reinforcing approach to alleviating poverty.

The eighth goal provides the means to achieving the first seven. It is targeted to developed nations, calling them to provide additional debt reduction and development assistance.

 

Supporting the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Angola

 

Angola signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration, together with 190 other Heads of State and Government, at the United Nations General Assembly Millennium Summit held in New York, in September, 2000.

 

This commitment has effectively informed the long-term agenda for development, aimed at achieving eight specific quantitative development results, known as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), by 2015.

 

It is within that framework that UNDP will seek to engage its key partners – Government, civil society organizations, communities, academia, private sector and international development partners - in building a broad and strong National Coalition to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Angola.