Core MDG Documents

UN Millennium Declaration (64KB, )
Link to the Millennium Declaration, adopted by 189 Member Nations UN on September 18 2000. The Millennium Declaration outlines the signatory countries' commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

UN Roadmap towards the implementation of the Millennium Declaration (444KB, )
As a follow-up to the outcome of the 2000 Millennium Summit, this Report of the Secretary-General outlines potential strategies for action designed to meet the goals and commitments made by the 147 heads of State and Government, and 189 Member States in total, who adopted the Millennium Declaration.

Monterrey Consensus (735KB, )
Link to the Monterrey Consensus, adopted in March 2002 at the International Conference on Financing for Development, held on 18-22 March 2002 in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico. This United Nations-sponsored conference on key financial and development issues attracted 50 Heads of State or Government, over 200 ministers as well as leaders from the private sector, civil society and all the major intergovernmental financial, trade, economic, and monetary organizations.

Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (1.0MB, )
Link to the final agreement endorsed by all UN Member States at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held from 26 August to 4 September in Johannesburg, South Africa.

We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century (304KB, )
Link to a report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in preparation for the 2000 Millennium Summit. "We the Peoples" sets out a practical vision for the United Nations in a globalized world that has changed dramatically in the 55 years since the Organization was founded. Among its key messages is the need to make globalization more inclusive, to create more opportunites for all, and not leave billions of people in a state of povery and exclusion.