2005: Five years after signing up to the Millennium Development Goals, world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York from 14 to 16 September to review progress and agree on actions needed to accelerate efforts by poor countries towards meeting the MDGs by 2015. This page collates relevant ODI resources.

UN Millennium Project

• The Millennium Project: A Sound Strategy for Reaching the MDGs? John Roberts
• Aid and the Millennium Development Goals Felix Naschold
• Scaling Up versus Absorptive Capacity: Challenges and Opportunities for Reaching the MDGs in Africa
• Can we Attain the Millennium Development Goals in Education and Health through Public Expenditure and Aid?

Africa

• Can More Aid Be Spent in Africa? Paolo de Renzio
• Should we provide a guarantee that no child will be brain-damaged by malnutrition in Africa if money can prevent it? Simon Maxwell

Funding development

• More Aid? Yes - and use it to reshape aid architecture Simon Maxwell
• The International Financing Facility: Issues and Options Andrew Rogerson
• The UN's Role in Grant-Financed Development: Is there a funding crisis?
• Aid to 'poorly performing' countries, the Poverty and Public Policy Group

Humanitarian process

• How Humanitarianism is Changing Joanna Macrae
• Redefining the Official Humanitarian Aid Agenda Joanna Macrae, Adele Harmer, James Darcy, and Charles-Antoine Hofman
• Behind the rhetoric: the relevance of human rights for development and humanitarian action Laure-Helene Piron
• Humanitarian needs assessment and decision-making James Darcy and Charles-Antoine Hofman
• Measuring the impact of humanitarian aid: A review of current practice Charles-Antoine Hofman
• The changing role of the UN in protracted crises Bruce D. Jones

UN reform

• UN Reform: How? Simon Maxwell
  
• Global Governance: An Agenda for the Renewal of the United Nations?