United Nations Millennium Project
UN project (2000–2015)
The United Nations Millennium Project was an initiative of the United Nations that focused on detailing the organizational means, operational priorities, and financing structures necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals or (MDGs). The goals were aimed at the reduction of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and gender-based violence. The project was initiated in 2000 and superseded after 2015 by the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
History
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, world leaders initiated the development of the MDGs and set a completion date for the project of June 2005. In order to support the MDGs, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Mark Malloch Brown launched the Millennium Project to determine the best strategies for achieving the MDGs. The project was headed by economist and academic Jeffrey Sachs.
The Millennium Project worked from 2002 to 2005 to devise a recommended plan of implementation that would allow all developing countries to meet the MDGs and thereby substantially improve the human condition by 2015. The Millennium Project presented its final recommendations in its report to the Secretary-General Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, completed in January 2005.
The final Millennium Development Goals Report was published in 2015, after world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations in September. In his foreword to the report, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote: "The global mobilization behind the Millennium Development Goals has produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history...
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