Background Introduction In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed on a set of time-limited but time-bound measures to eliminate poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Also able to measure goals and indicators. These goals and targets are placed at the heart of the global agenda and are collectively known as the Millennium Development Goals. The Summit's Millennium Declaration also made broad commitments on human rights, good governance and democracy. The Millennium Development Goals provide a framework for the entire United Nations system to work together to achieve common goals. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) will help ensure that the Millennium Development Goals remain at the heart of these efforts. In virtually every developing country, the United Nations is uniquely positioned to advocate for change, source knowledge and resources for it, and help coordinate broader efforts at the country level. The world has made progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, but progress is uneven and too slow. The vast majority of countries will achieve the Millennium Development Goals only with strong external support - advocacy, expertise and resources. Whether in the developed or developing world, the challenge for the global community is to mobilize financial support and political will, require governments to recommit themselves, realign development priorities and policies, build capacity, and gain the support of civil society and the private sector. Partner support. The Millennium Declaration and the eight Millennium Development Goals provide a framework for United Nations development activities, a framework informed by the United Nations Millennium Project Report: Investing in Development: A Practical Plan for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and my submission to the High-level Plenary Meeting entitled The issuance of the report "In Greater Freedom: Achieving Development, Security and Human Rights for All" (A/59/2005 and Add.1-3) has gained new focus and impetus. The Millennium Project Report provides a comprehensive analysis and a set of recommendations on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals at the national, regional and global levels. I welcome these recommendations and propose to Member States a set of priorities to advance the development agenda. Over the past few months, member agencies of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) have continued to implement their four-pillar strategy to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The four pillars are: (a) integrating the Millennium Development Goals into all aspects of the work of the United Nations system at the country level; (b) assisting developing countries in preparing progress reports on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals; (c) cooperating with the Millennium Project and the Millennium Movement work together to build global support for these goals; and (d) support advocacy and awareness-raising efforts based on national strategies and country needs. The Millennium Movement has been working with parliamentary networks, local authorities, the press, faith-based organizations, youth organizations, business and industry, NGOs and other entities to mobilize and strengthen political support for the Millennium Declaration. In 2004, the Millennium Movement and its civil society partners helped achieve a major breakthrough with the launch of the Global Call to Action to End Poverty, the largest joint appeal to end poverty in recent years. While the Millennium Movement is only one of several partners that achieved this achievement, its advocacy and catalytic role made a significant contribution to the coalition-building process. A wide-ranging monitoring and reporting system has also been established to track progress at global, regional and national levels. Monitoring progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals at the global level requires cooperation with international agencies and regional commissions, as well as close consultation with national experts and statisticians. The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Millennium Development Goal Indicators coordinates the work of United Nations entities, national statistical offices and regional and international statistical organizations outside the United Nations system. It coordinates the compilation and analysis of indicators, reviews methodologies and supports countries in collecting, analyzing and reporting data on Millennium Development Goal indicators. The results of this work are reflected in the statistics and analysis that inform my annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration, and in the country series of Millennium Development Goal indicators, a database that is updated annually , contains the latest data series provided by the designated leading agency on the indicator. On June 9, I launched the 2005 Millennium Development Goals Report, which is the most complete and up-to-date statistical data on the specific goals and indicators involved in the Millennium Development Goals, compiled by 25 United Nations agencies and global organizations. Finish. The availability of high-quality statistical data and the ability of governments, donors and international organizations to systematically measure, monitor and report reliable indicators are key to development policy and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The Organization's work in providing technical assistance to national statistical offices and in training national statisticians in the production and use of indicators is a major contribution to building national statistical capacity. DevInfo, a software tool developed by the United Nations system for the collection and analysis of general indicators as well as specific user-defined indicators, is becoming increasingly widely used. It is increasingly used by governments, United Nations country teams, academic institutions and others to submit standardized and comparable reports on the Millennium Development Goals. The regional commissions also support national capacity-building in monitoring and reporting on the Millennium Development Goals through workshops and tools such as the Arabic version of the UNDG Indicators Manual for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals.

In order to build national capacity in monitoring the Millennium Development Goals and better use evidence-based approaches to manage development policies, UNDP has developed a project on Capacity Building and Improving Statistics for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals at the Country Level, The project is now steadily entering the implementation phase. UNDP is the lead agency for monitoring at the country level. The Agency has been assisting Governments and country teams in the preparation and dissemination of reports. As of March 2005, 93 countries and regions had prepared 104 such reports, including middle-income countries and some of the least developed countries with the lowest incomes. Eight countries have completed their second annual reports (Albania, Armenia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Egypt, Lithuania, Mauritius and Senegal); two more countries, Cameroon and Vietnam, have released their third annual reports. In collaboration with other United Nations entities, three regional Millennium Development Goals reports were published in 2004, supplementing national reports with data and analysis on the situation and trends in the Arab States, Central Europe and the Caribbean, bringing the regional reports prepared to date to The total number of reports reached six. The growing number of existing and new inter-agency initiatives is a major contribution of the United Nations development system to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. To address the challenges of ending hunger and achieving food security, United Nations food and agriculture agencies have strengthened cooperation with each other. Together, these agencies adopt a two-pronged approach that provides direct assistance to the hungry to meet their immediate food and nutrition needs, while simultaneously addressing longer-term agricultural and rural development issues and supporting sustainable growth, including improving infrastructure. , implement sound natural resource management and improve access to land, water, credit and social services. The majority of the world's poor women, men and children - three-quarters of them - live and work in rural areas. To achieve the Millennium Development Goals, poverty reduction efforts must focus on the rural poor, which means large-scale investments must be made in rural and agricultural development. Some parts of the United Nations system are seeking to achieve this goal by strengthening the capacities of the rural poor and their organizations; by improving equitable access to productive natural resources and technology and by improving access to financial services and markets. Other departments are directing the vast majority of their resources toward countries that the United Nations reports say will be struggling most to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and where a lack of data suggests significant capacity problems. Innovation capabilities can be developed to contribute to the poverty reduction and sustainability targets of the Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations University's Institute for New Technologies in Maastricht, the Netherlands, conducted research on how to do this. The institute studied various success stories, such as floriculture in Colombia and Kenya, shrimp farming in Bangladesh and horticulture in Ghana, activities that were virtually non-existent 20 years ago and are now the top export earners in their respective countries. Of course, it is necessary to address urban poverty and promote cities to play their role as engines of economic growth and social development. Several organizations of the United Nations system are working together to help eliminate poverty in urban areas, promote sustainable urbanization and strengthen industrial development. Further efforts are needed to ensure progress towards the education-related Millennium Development Goals, namely universal primary education and elimination of gender disparities in primary and secondary education. Organizations of the United Nations system have joined forces to carry out joint activities to help achieve these goals. Several actions have been taken to generate sustained global commitments to support the implementation of EFA at the national level, coordinated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). These actions include: the preparation of the Global Monitoring Report on Education for All, which has now become a standard reference document for all partners in the field of education; the collective consultation of non-governmental organizations on Education for All; the organization of national and regional forums on Education for All; Annual meeting of the High-Level Group and the Working Group on Education for All. Other actions include: implementing the Education for All Fast Track initiative, which improves the efficiency of allocating resources to primary education, scaling up systems, financing systems and using primary education funds; supporting the initiative through the provision of nutritious school meals; using the Millennium Development Goals to Education-related indicators to ensure that all children in refugee camps have access to primary education; preparation of a new United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report series entitled "Progress for Children", which is related to the Millennium Development Goals Report card on children's issues raised. Over the years, organizations across the system have made significant achievements in immunizing children and reducing child mortality. An interagency working group on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness was established in 2004. The Child Survival Partnership is another multi-agency initiative that aims to provide a forum for coordinated action to address key factors affecting children's health. This partnership enables Governments and other relevant agencies to agree on consistent approaches and promote coordinated efforts to implement them. Organizations across the system have long recognized that eradicating extreme poverty and hunger will not be possible if population and reproductive health issues are not effectively addressed. Universal access to sexual and reproductive health services is critical to achieving goals related to reducing child and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS and gender equality, and to ensuring that all women, men and children have the right to the highest It is also essential for good health. Post-conflict countries need to take the Millennium Development Goals more seriously.

In the context of joint United Nations-World Bank needs assessments and recovery planning, the Millennium Development Goals provide important targets and indicators for planning post-conflict transitions. For example, use relevant Millennium Development Goal targets and indicators to assess humanitarian relief efforts for refugees and other displaced persons. In post-conflict countries, shorter-term humanitarian relief must help lay the foundation for longer-term development efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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