Partnership to help farmers in Africa increase crop yields and hope for the future
In 2005, Millennium Promise launched with a vision to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. As the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise believes that innovative partnerships and an...
UN-Habitat
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. As the focal point...
UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS)
GLAAS is a UN-Water initiative implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Sustainability and Equity - A better future for all
The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals.
Millenium Development Goals for 2015
Inspirational video about the MDGs from 2009. The video provides background information about the global situation in which the MDGs where created.
2015: MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
This video, co-produced by Cortlan McManus of ReBirth Cinema and the United Nations multi-media project, provides background information about the MDGs as well as ideas about how to achieve them. It also depicts the different goals in an easy understandeble fashion.
KPMG supports Fairtrade Africa
BRIGHT is KPMG Europe’s first skills-based pro-bono project that supports the Millennium Development Goals. The global financial services group aims to support capacity building in the core areas of finance, risk management, operational excellence, human resources, IT and marketing. During 2011,...
Baaba Maal Millennium Campaign Advert - SUTA 17th Sept 2010
This is a video advertising an event at which the Senegalese Entertainer Baba Maal appeared. The event was organised jointly by the UN Country Office in Senegal together with the National Civil Society Consortium to promote MDG Goals 4 and 5.
Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Phone ladies
In partnership with ITU (the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies), the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their...
The African World Foundation for Human Development
The African World Foundation for Human Development is an NGO based in Ghana. The organisation aims to work with partners towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
DFID plans to support development in fragile states
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has announced plans to support development in a number of fragile and unstable states, including Afghanistan, Somalia and the Congo. These plans support the Millennium Development Goals.
Liberia Youth for Peace and Sustainable Development (LYIPSUD)
The Liberia Youth Initiative for Peace and Sustainable Development (LYIPSUD), is. a school based media development NGO, allied to HISJONET, an organisation for journalists that focuses on demanding greater openness and transparency in the Liberian school system through periodic reports on the vices...
LifeSpring Hospitals help to achieve Millennium Development Goals in India
LifeSpring Hospitals, a privately owned company, is increasing access to maternal health care for low-income Indian women in partnership with Business Call to Action, a global initiative that works to motivate businesses to design responsible investments that help to achieve the Millennium...
Fighting poverty through micro-credit
Mr Wolfonsohn said micro-finance had made a powerful impact on improving poor people's livelihood and was crucial in reducing poverty in poor countries.
World Food Programme (WFP)
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger and is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger. WFP provides food aid to regions facing chronic food deficits, supports education of children through school feeding activities, supports...
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. It is through this dialogue that the world can achieve global visions of sustainable development encompassing observance of human rights, mutual respect and...
Sustainable Livelihoods International (SLINT)-Uganda
SLINT-Uganda (Sustainable Livelihoods International) is a Ugandan NGO working on poverty alleviation, market-oriented agricultural development and food security, environmental sustainability, capacity development and policy advocacy. SLINT seeks to contribute to the realization of the Millennium...
World Food Program - Ecuador
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP Ecuador has been working very closely with the Government of Ecuador (GoE) to ensure the GoE’s feeding and nutritional programmes, as well as assistance for emergency operations focusing on the...
What will it take to achieve the Millennium Goals? An international assessment
Based on a review of 50 country studies, this review by UNDP finds that the resources and know-how necessary to achieve the MDGs exist. Acceleration of progress over the next five years (2010-2015) will need to focus on continuing proven strategies, policies and interventions and making a radical...
Rumah Zakat
Rumah Zakat is an Indonesian NGO aiming to assist in achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through integrated community development programmes. The organisation runs the Big Smile of Indonesia campaign in addition to four "Smile" programmes in the areas of economic empowerment, health,...