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Preparing National Strategies to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: A Handbook


	Handbook
*	Frontmatter and cover	(889KB)
	Introduction	(327KB)
	Step 1. Launch an effective and inclusive process	(430KB)
	Step 2. Take inventory: reviewing existing strategies and defining the baseline	(324KB)
	Step 3. Conduct a needs assessment	(1 MB)
	Steps 4 - 5. Develop a 10-year framework for action. Write a three- to five-year national development strategy.	(552KB)
*	Tools and annex	(818KB)
*	Download the full handbook	(3.4 MB)

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Additional background

	"Background Paper to 'Ending Africa's Poverty Trap" (as of 3 September 2004) • Full Report (1.28 MB) • Summary of Needs Assessment Method (797 MB)
	"Country Case Studies of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda" (DRAFT as of 17 January 2004) • Full Report (1.6MB) • Executive Summary (797KB)

Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
�Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.�

For a more detailed update on country progress, please see Chapter 2 of Investing In Development (External site)

UN Statistics: MDG Indicators Database (External site)

World Bank - Millennium Development Goals (External site)

Core MDG Documents

Other MDG related sites

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