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MDG midpoint: Too little progress? - The UN MDGs Report 2007

19 July 2007 12:00-13:30 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

  • At this event, Guido Schmidt-Traub from UNDP presented the findings of the report, and Salil Shetty, Prof Sir Richard Jolly and Simon Maxwell offered their thoughts on the report itself, as well as the future of the MDGs and development efforts more widely.

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    Speakers:
    Guido Schmidt-Traub    , Team Leader, MDG Support Unit, Poverty Group, UNDP
    Prof Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor and Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and Member, UNA-UK Expert Advisory Panel
    Salil Shetty, Director, Millennium Campaign, United Nations
    Simon Maxwell, Director, ODI
    Chair:
    Hugh Bayley MP, APGOOD

     

  • An ODI, All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development, UK and United Nations Development Programme public event in the The midpoint of the Millennium Development Goals series.

Halfway to their 2015 deadline, some clear progress has been made towards implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but a recently published progress report from the United Nations has found that their overall success is still far from assured, and will depend in large part on whether developed countries deliver on their aid commitments.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the launch of the report:

"We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual. We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve the Goals."

At this ODI, APGOOD, UNDP and UNA-UK event, Guido Schmidt-Traub from UNDP presented the findings of the report, and Salil Shetty, Prof Sir Richard Jolly and Simon Maxwell offered their thoughts on the report itself, as well as the future of the MDGs and development efforts more widely.