Europe
The UN Millennium Campaign in Europe is focused on building accountability for Goal 8 commitments, including increasing aid quantity and quality, debt relief, and trade opportunities that will help poor people and countries to achieve the MDGs. Our premise is simple: we are the first generation that can end poverty and we refuse to miss this opportunity.
KEY RESOURCES
Reaching Our Development Goals: Why Does Aid Effectiveness Matters?
This booklet aims to stimulate dialogue around the aid reform effort embodied
by the Paris Declarationon Aid Effectiveness.
Download the booklet here: english | french | italian | portuguese | spanish
NEWS FROM EUROPE
Salil Shetty, director of the UN Millennium Campaign, told the Financial Times that developing nations are estimated to be facing losses of at least $300bn to their economies up to 2010 as a result of the economic slowdown and are particularly vulnerable to global shocks.
While the media confront us daily with yet more alarming news from financial markets, few people are aware of the international meeting taking place at the end of this month in Doha, not on the moribund Doha trade Round, but on Financing for Development— another likely victim of the present crisis, with grave repercussions on global poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
(STRASBOURG, November 15th) More than 1 million Europeans mobilized on October 17th --the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty -- under the Stand Up and Take Action initiative, to ask their Governments to keep their commitments on increasing aid quantity and quality, debt relief, and trade opportunities that will help poor countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
(Strasbourg, November 15h) During the European Development Days in Strasbourg, the French Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) - an alliance comprising a growing number of civil society organizations which mobilize to fight extreme poverty - organized an event in the center of town to draw attention to the current economic crisis afflicting poor countries. The symbolic action took place on November 15, while the G-20 economic summit was taking place in Washington, D.C.
