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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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2008

New MDG Report: Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs

U.N. Experts Warn on New Threats to MDG Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

Family planning as a means to improve maternal health, MDG 5

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March 13, 2009
New Initiatives Hope to Boost Information and Communications Technologies in Latin America
Financed by the European Union, three projects aim to improve productivity, efficiency, education and innovation in the midst of the international crisis.

March 11, 2009
Three Documents on the Impact of Climate Change in the Region were presented at ECLAC
ECLAC, the World Bank and the Government of Chile analyzed the relationship between climate change and development.


United Nations Agencies Launch Report on Health-Related Millenium Development Goals
The publication will be distributed in the framework of a High-level event convened by the Secretary-General