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The World Social Summit identified poverty eradication as an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of mankind and called on governments to address the root causes of poverty, provide for basic needs for all and ensure that the poor have access to productive resources, including credit, education and training. Recognizing insufficient progress in the poverty reduction, the 24th special session of the General Assembly devoted to the review of the Copenhagen commitments, decided to set up targets to reduce the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by one half by 2015. This target has been endorsed by the Millennium Summit as Millennium Development Goal 1.

Over the coming months, Devex will host a global conversation on each of the eight Millennium Development Goals - we want you to share your success stories, thoughts on what obstacles remain, and ideas for how the development community is Making the Millennium Development Goals Happen.

"The Forum recommends that agencies and bodies of the United Nations and other inter-governmental organizations rethink the concept of development, with the full participation of indigenous peoples in development processes, taking into accoUnt the rights of indigenous peoples and the practices of their traditional knowledge."

Simply put, malaria kills. Nets can save lives. Here  are some harsh realities about malaria:  Fact: Malaria is preventable, but causes nearly 500 million illnesses each year and kills more than 1 million of those who become infected. Fact: Ninety percent of deaths caused by malaria occur in Africa, where the disease is a leading killer of children. Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies from malaria.  Fact: Malaria is the #1 killer of refugees in Africa.  Two-thirds of the 33 million refugees worldwide live in malaria endemic countries.  So, as engaged global citizens, what can we do to help? 

Launched in 2001, the Measles Initiative is a partnership - led by the American Red Cross, united Nations Foundation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unICEF and World Health Organization - committed to reducing measles deaths worldwide.The Measles Initiative founding partners provide technical and financial support to governments and communities conducting mass vaccination campaigns, improving routine immunization services, and establishing effective disease surveillance. To date, the partnership has invested US $670 million in measles control activities, helping to save an estimated 4.3 million lives.

The goal of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is to ensure that no child will ever again know the crippling effects of polio. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is the largest public health initiative the world has ever known.

From the site: We know what needs to be done, so let's do it and do it together. Therein lies one challenge. Look around the room. Where are the foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), religious organizations and corporations? They are critical partners in reducing poverty and improving people's lives. But their voices and views are not well represented at this official roundtable. Development requires decisive governmental action: governmental leaders must keep their promises. But development is not solely a governmental task.

We are the first generation that can end poverty.

I am going to be more outgoing (the word that more naturally arises is pushy) in support of the Millennium Development Goals by including posts from my blog Milestones for A New Millennium. This post is on Food Security. Give me a shout if you think that this is not a good idea.

A United Nations event to focus on the UnFPA. Population impacts are 8 of the Millennium Development Goals. This Bloggers Unite event focuses on the work of the UnFPA

The United Nations Capital Development FUnd (UnCDF) offers a Unique combination of investment capital, capacity building and technical advisory services to promote microfinance and local development in the Least Developed CoUntries (LDCs):

This is an official Online Event in support of the 3 day global Stand Up Take Action End Poverty Now event. For the past four years millions of people around the world have made the decision to be counted and "Stand Up and Take Action" www.standagainstpoverty.org demanding that world leaders end poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 189 world leaders made a promise at the united Nations Millennium Summit through he Millennium Declaration in 2000 adopting the MDGs as a roadmap to end poverty and its root causes. That promise is still unfulfilled by all but a few countries, including the united States.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the united Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The Conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. The conference resolved that "an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries". One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world's poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.