Millennium Development Goals

At the UN Summit in September 2000, 191 member states – including Romania – pledged to halve severe poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, and reduce environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. It was an unprecedented global agenda, which called for a global partnership for poverty reduction framed around the principle of respecting the lives of all people.

A series of measurable targets – the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) – were established for monitoring progress. As Chair of the UN Development Group (UNDG), the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) monitors and coordinates the MDG campaign both globally and at the country level. The Millennium Project Report, launched in January 2005, recommends the best strategies and practical action plans to achieve the MDGs by 2015.

The road map for the implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration asked the Secretary-General to present an annual report on the progress towards achieving these goals. In addition, comprehensive reports issued every five years will provide progress accounts on the complete set of indicators. UNDP links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach the MDGs. With the help of UNDP, all member states have adapted the MDGs to their national priorities.

Millennium Development Goals for Romania

Along with all other UN agencies, UNDP played a crucial role in assisting Romanian ministries in drafting the first Millennium Development Goals Report (MDGR), tailored to the realities of Romania. The first Romanian MDG Report established a set of eight development objectives and 21 related targets to monitor progress.

Millennium Development Goals for Romania