When 189 governments from the North and the South signed the Millennium Declaration at the UN’s Millennium General Assembly in September 2000,there was a sense of urgency. Urgency to ‘free our fellow men,women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty,to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected’. They committed to work together to build a safer, more prosperous and equitable world for all its citizens by 2015 and they adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that put people-centered development at the heart of the global and national agendas.

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