Summary: 'Important gaps remain in delivering on the global commitments in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, and access to new technologies and to affordable essential medicines. In the countdown to 2015, urgent responses are needed to bridge the existing implementation gaps to make good on the promises made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

A recently released report by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force identifies these gaps in detail and provides more...

Challenges with regard to advocacy, awareness-building and human rights education are very much there. Challenges also remain in terms of concrete practical work in terms of rights-based approach to programming. But one area that needs to be focused is the issue of bringing in the human rights-based approach to the Poverty Reduction Strategy papers (PRSPs) – both in terms of content as well as the process. Since PRSPs would be the major strategies for poverty reduction in most developing count more...

Opening new opportunities for women is a key to development, as well to strengthen efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In Nigeria, where cultural attitudes and traditional beliefs often circumscribe women’s roles and hinder access to training and education, a women’s project is changing lives. The initiative supported by the Japan Women-in-Development Fund, established in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is helping women farmer more...

Oneworld South Asia is part of the global network of the online civil society organiozations dedicated to the cause of balanced development, achievement of Millenium Development Goals and poverty reduction. The organization is one of the most reputed civil society organizations in the South Asia region and has been actively involved in multiple development initiatives across the region.

In this video blog, prepared for the G8 meeting in Japan (July 2008), Yasmeen Khwaja of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)argues for a renewed commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and offers a five point plan to deliver faster progress.

Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Private sector development is seen as increasingly necessary to stimulate economic growth, reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. But Zambia, along with many of its African neighbours, lacks growth-oriented companies. Source id21.

"Some years ago a consensus emerged in the development community on the idea of an international poverty line of around $1 a day at purchasing power parity. This became the focus of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which calls for halving the 1990 $1 a day poverty rate by 2015.
In a recent IPC One Pager, “ Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?”, Sanjay Reddy asserts that this poverty line is “arbitrary” and “unreliable.” He feels that the line is too low to more...

"What is the level of income poverty in Latin America and has it been decreasing? Are current estimates reliable?
The most influential approach to gauging income poverty regionally as well as globally uses the World Bank’s international poverty lines of ‘one-dollar-a-day’ and ‘two-dollars-a-day’ per person. The Bank uses ‘purchasing power parity’ (PPP) factors to translate these international lines into local currencies". Reddy, S. (2008) International Poverty Centre (IPC): Brazil more...