Report by Overseas Development Institute and UN Millennium Campaign Reveals Many of the Poorest Countries are Making Most Progress on Millennium Development Goals

While Europe boasts that it is the world’s largest donor of development aid, it’s recently- announced position for the upcoming UN MDG Review High Level Plenary Meeting in New York on September 20-22 undermines its role in accelerating progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

8 Goals for Africa music video to be screened across South Africa during World Cup
Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 May 2010 – Helen Clark, the chair of the UN Development Group which brings together all UN agencies working in development, today launched 8 Goals for Africa, a campaign song by eight of Africa’s best known musicians, calling for commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight internationally-agreed goals designed to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, and maternal and child deaths by 2015.

Not a good start for the “premier forum for international economic cooperation”

The United Nations Millennium Campaign is disappointed that the recently concluded G‐20 meetings ended with nothing more than vague commitments to the needs of the world’s poorest represented by the Millennium Development Goals.

United Nations Millennium Campaign Warns that Poor Countries Risk Being Left Out of Looming Economic Recovery

Ahead of Friday’s G‐20 summit in Pittsburgh, the United Nations Millennium Campaign is releasing new figures which show that unless rich countries marshal additional resources at the summit, they are likely to deliver $33 billion less aid than promised to the poor countries which are hardest hit by the global economic crisis. At the same time, packages intended to help poor countries address the crisis might drive them deeper into debt.

Ahead of G‐8 summit, United Nations Millennium Campaign warns that developing countries will be forced to slash desperately‐needed expenditures for the poor; Campaign calls on G‐8 leaders to urgently provide financial resources to poor countries

Ahead of UN General Assembly’s high‐level summit on the economic crisis on June 24‐26, UN Millennium Campaign says new analysis indicates that finding money for aid is a matter of political will – not lack of resources – and calls on donors to finally meet their aid commitments

As host to the G-8 Summit and 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada – one of the world’s richest countries but lower aid donors — is urged to seize historic opportunity to reclaim leadership in the fight against global poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals

UN Millennium Campaign vows to support citizens’ monitoring of commitments made by G-20 leaders

(April 2, 2009) — The UN Millennium Campaign welcomes the recommitment from G-20 leaders to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the needs of the world’s poorest. The Campaign also welcomes the massive resources pledged by G-20 leaders to developing countries – in both recommitments to previous aid commitments and new pledges.