For both government and local and international agencies working on the attainment of the targets, the Millennium Development Goals represent a common framework that steers national development priorities and raises a number of challenges.

For the international agencies, this connecting framework implies, first, the responsibility of providing technical assistance to place the countries on a better footing to deal with the commitments undertaken in the targets and, second, the opportunity to generate far-reaching changes conducive to the self-sustaining development of the economies.

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