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13 unusual facts about Millennium Development Goals


Alicia Bárcena Ibarra

In this position, she has actively promoted the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and on Financing for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

In addition, the CTCC works to maximise the potential of tourism to promote and support cultural diversity, stimulate intercultural dialogue and contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, while maintaining a critical and creative approach.

David Paich

In 2009, he sang the hit song "Africa" at the Millennium Development Goals awards in New York and co-produced a new tune for George Benson.

Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care

This partnership is working together to create solutions to and meet the Millennium Development Goals developed by the WHO—which include reducing maternal and child mortality rates, as well as reducing HIV rates—“through improvement in the quality and safety of clinical procedures (essential surgical and anaesthesia care)” ("Global Initiative").

Michel Sidibé

He is committed to transforming UNAIDS into a results-oriented organization and to supporting countries to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and to meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Millennium Development Goals

Attempts to increase U.S. political attention to the Millennium Development Goals include The Borgen Project which worked with then Senator Barack Obama on the Global Poverty Act, a bill requiring the White House to develop a strategy for achieving the goals.

Misia

The principal aim of mudef is "to raise awareness on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to accelerate its accomplishment".

Non-pneumatic anti-shock garment

This is of such great concern that in 2000, world leaders decided that improving maternal health should be one of the 8 Millennium Development Goals for the international community.

Owain James

After the NUS, James worked for Oxfam as their Education Campaign Manager and then their Millennium Development Goals Campaign Manager.

Richard M Kavuma

In 2008 his award-winning articles – about Millennium Development Goals – were published into a book by the United Nations Millennium Campaign.

Sergio Carlo

Sergio Carlo is an ambassador of Yo Nado con Marcos (also known as Swim Across the Continents) part of the Millennium Development Goals initiative supported by the United Nations.

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

Along with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) process, the Education For All (EFA) movement, and the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), the DESD also aims to achieve an improvement in the quality of life, particularly for the most deprived and marginalised, fulfillment of human rights including gender equality, poverty reduction, democracy and active citizenship.

Yaho Department

Currently 2009, the Yaho population is working to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs).


Ecoagriculture

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious targets which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, were put forth by the United Nations in 2000, to be achieved by 2015.

Global Forum on Agricultural Research

The third was held in New Delhi, India, in 2006 with the theme "Reorienting Agricultural Research" to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)".

Mercy Beyond Borders

Mercy Beyond Borders was founded in 2008 by Sister Marilyn Lacey in response to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.

Mission Ustaad

These four pairs of singers sang songs based on weekly themes linked to the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and were judged by the three judges and the viewers.

Featuring eight famous Indian singers as contestants, the show aimed to create awareness about the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) across the country.

Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

At the September United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, AusAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dfid and USAID adopted the 100 million metric as a cornerstone of their International Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health.

Robert V. Lee

Dr. Lee began talks with Hellen Wangusa, Anglican Observer at the United Nations; and Olara Otunnu, president of the LBL Foundation for Children, winner of the German Africa Prize in 2002 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 2005, and 2011 Uganda presidential candidate, about creating a Global Action Partnership (GAP) that would address all of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals at once, the first program of its kind.

Shoba Raja

Raja has worked in collaborative research projects with Kingston University in Ontario, Canada, and currently manages BasicNeeds’ collaborations with the London School of Economics, UK; University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of Melbourne, Australia; Queensland University of Technology, Australia; and Millennium Village Project of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).