The aim of these efforts is to help meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on environmental sustainability, water supply, sanitation, food security and poverty alleviation.
It is important both in its own right and for its contribution to many other goals, including the UN Millennium Development Goals and the realisation of universal human rights.
F4D, supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), leads a global campaign to support social and economic growth while simultaneously contributing to UN Millennium Development Goals.
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The Conference also recommended a number of strategies to improve reporting on Caribbean regional integration and the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals, including poverty alleviation, to which regional governments are committed.
In terms of development outcomes, the Meeting agreed that the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) should form the basis for any assessment of the development outcomes of a certified green development land management plan.
It is estimated, for instance, that some 2.5 million new engineers and technicians will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa alone if the region is to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of improved access to clean water and sanitation.
The presentation of the Report was well received, with discussion including reference to the vital role of engineering in social and economic development, global issues of poverty reduction, sustainable development and other UN Millennium Development Goals and issues facing engineering.
The statistics were highlighted ahead of the UN 2010 Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York on 19 September.
The titles of these songs will be inspired by the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The UN's millennium development goals, like most other aid declarations, reflect the old way of doing aid.
And though it often fails to meet its public-service agreements, these are unfeasibly ambitious targets linked to the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
The IMechE says this is the opening salvo in the debate about re-defining the UN's Millennium Development goals, which are up for review in 2015.
The petition will be given to the UN during the 2013 Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2013.
As UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and the UN advocate for the second Millennium Development Goal on primary education, I am passionate about bringing the benefits of education to children and communities across the world.
On June 8th, the UN Development Programme released a statement showing that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which were supposed to cut extreme poverty in half and improve social indicators such as education and health care, has been pitifully slow.
Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mr Jan Eliasson, and the Director of Columbia University and The Earth Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
It means the UN has already achieved one of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
It is designed to accelerate the achievement of the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals, and to inform the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda.
It is an initiative financially sponsored by the Fund for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG-F) composed by the six UN System agencies: UNDP, UNODC, UNESCO, ILO, UN-HABITAT, and UNICEF.
Later that day, Irina Bokova participated in a meeting of the 10 UN entities together with UNAIDS secretariat to revitalize global momentum around AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Programme Culture for Development is a three-year programme funded by the Spanish Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund which is being implemented in partnership of three UN Agencies: UNESCO, UNDP, and UNICEF, in cooperation with the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH, Ministry of Culture and Sports of FBiH, Ministry of Education and Culture of RS, as well as other institutions working in the area of education and culture.
The Millennium Development Goals, set to be completed by 2015, are pledges by UN member countries to increase living standards in poorer parts of the world.
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The UN is a lot better at setting goals than achieving them, as anyone who has followed the Millennium Development Goals will know.
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The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.
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