New Analysis Reveals African Countries Top List of 20 Countries Making Most Overall Progress on MDGs
As G-8 and G-20 leaders prepare to gather in Canada, new analysis issued by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the United Nations Millennium Campaign finds that, in absolute terms, many of the world’s poorest countries are making the most overall progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – the set of promises world leaders made to significantly reduce extreme poverty, illiteracy and disease by 2015.
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UN Millennium Campaign Africa Office based in Nairobi, Kenya, supports civil society and citizen engagement in the campaign for the achievement of Millennium Development Goals. The organisation works with various partners including civil society organisations among them faith based organisations, youth and women organisations, parliamentarians and local governments in 14 priority countries in the South, East and West Africa.
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The Millennium Declaration was unanimously adopted at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000 by 189 heads of state andgovernments. The declaration was then summarized into concrete, achievable; time bound sets of 8 goals with clear targets and indicesof progress known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015.
The 64th Global Peace Boat, which set sail in Yokohama, Japan on January 15, arrived in Cape Town on February 13 after a successful 30-day voyage across two continents.
Passengers traveling on the Peace Voyage called on African and Western governments to treat the rising levels of poverty in many African countries as a global emergency.
The passengers, who included youth from various African countries and Japan, demanded that world leaders take immediate action and decisive steps to accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
22 September 2008
Amid growing concerns that Africa is lagging behind other regions in the global campaign to halve poverty by 2015, the General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting today on “Africa’s development needs: the state of implementation of various commitments, challenges and the way forward”.
Yesterday President George Bush reported on his recent trip to Africa to members of the diplomatic corps, NGOs, and development policymakers at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington.
Africa Campaigners Planning meeting
Between 6th – 8th December, 2007 the UN Millennium Campaign (UNMC) organized a retreat for its partners from the 13 priority countries in Africa to discuss the achievements and lessons learnt from campaigning in Africa. Key stakeholders who attended the meeting included civil society partners (including GCAP National Coalitions and the GCAP Global Secretariat), media partners and other CSOs not linked directly to GCAP. Two members of the funders group Oxfam GB and ActionAid International Africa Regional Office were invited to attend.
