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This video shows a snapshot of what has been achieved so far for each Millennium Development Goal and what still needs to be done before 2015. Move through the video to find statistics for individual Millennium Development Goal.

Global leaders and high-profile advocates gathered 24 September at the United Nations headquarters to show support for quality education and to pledge their commitment to placing the cause at the centre of the development agenda.

Every day, a thousand or so children have been protected from disability during a 26-year global effort to eradicate polio.  

Interact Worldwide has worked in partnership with local organisations in Malawi to ensure people from poor, rural communities can access mother and newborn health services

Interactive map, click on the red dots to hear stories of empowerment and gender equality around the world.

Through the Girls Education Project in Nigeria, barriers are being broken down and an education passed on to girls

Zulie shares the story of her 14-year-old sister, Afisha, whose father promised her in marriage to an older man when he could no longer afford to send her to school

Twenty years ago, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. But the opening up of its markets has led to a reduction in poverty levels. As part of its Development Progress project, the Overseas Development Institute looks at how this has been achieved

While the world met the MDG target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water five years ahead of the 2015 deadline, 2.5 billion people still lack proper toilet facilities. More than one billion people - most of whom live in rural areas - have to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or into water.

This a crucial year for GCE. Its campaigns include the UN millennium development goal of securing a primary education for every child by 2015. The organisation's UK young ambassadors will travel to Bangladesh with the charity ActionAid to see the work that has been done and - with 57m children around the world still not in school - the barriers that remain.

This  project's goal in India was to lower that rate of anaemia in adolescent girls by providing regular iron and folic acid supplements. To do that, they engaged multiple government departments and community and school leaders. 

A grossly inefficient sewage system makes the city's tap water filthy and consigns millions to disease, will it ever improve?

Green roofs sprouting across Mexican capital not only purify the air but aid recovery of hospital patients, says environment chief. Note podcast: The global battle for clean air. 

Thanks largely to vehicle emissions, Mexico City was once the world's most polluted urban centre. But over the past decade, a focus on sustainable alternative transport has persuaded a growing number of citizens to leave their cars at home. 

he Egypt Network for Integrated Development (ENID) is a five-year initiative that links literacy education with vocational training to generate new income, improve food security and enhance basic and public services for the marginalized communities and people of Upper Egypt.

This project promotes legal education for women and provides job placement to fill the justice sector with qualified female law students and graduates.

The government of Zambia has embarked on a mass distribution of free insecticide-treated mosquito nets, to combat malaria and to benefit 8.2 million people across the country.

The reduction in malaria in Bolivia is due in part to Malaria-Free Bolivia project geared towards reducing the mortality rate associated with the disease.  

Since 2011 UNDP is leading an intervention on the integration of climate change risk and resilience in forestry management in Samoa (ICCRIFS). Financed by a grant from the Global Environment Facility through the Least Developed Country Fund, with co-financing by the Government of Samoa, the 4-year, US$4.9 m project was implemented across the island to raise climate awareness, improve livelihoods and increase reforestation.

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