United Nations Millennium Campaign in Africa aims at stimulating active citizens’ engagement with governments to enhance delivery of quality services for all in order to achieve the MDGs. UNMC Africa promotes citizen feedback initiatives such as utilizing a mobile phone platform dubbed ‘Huduma’ in Kenya, Mozambique, and Nigeria with plans for rolling it out in other countries. UNMC Africa also focuses on communication outreach; targeted policy platforms and capacity building activities.
UNMC Africa partners with governments and inter-governmental organizations; civil society organizations including those with mass memberships such as faith-based groups, youth organizations; women’s organisations; artistes; the media, farmers’ organizations; Parliamentary bodies, including the African Network of Parliamentarians for the MDGs, and local government associations and also leverage multi-agency initiatives and resources within the UN system. The campaign has staff presence in all regions of Africa, except North Africa.
- August 25, 2015Raise your voices on climate change – Ban Ki-moon, urges African Youth - ABUJA – 25 AUGUST 2015: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has charged the youth of Nigeria to be ambassadors and champions in advocating for climate change issues. Speaking during a twitter chat as part of … Continue reading
- July 10, 2015UN Millennium Campaign screens second Virtual Reality film about Ebola survival and recovery in Liberia - 10 July 2015 – New York The United Nations Millennium Campaign screened a Virtual Reality film today at the United Nations. Waves of Grace follows a young woman’s struggle for life amid the Ebola epidemic. … Continue reading
- February 25, 2015Building Bridges kicked off! From Amsterdam to Cape Town #BB2015UN - 24 February 2015 – Building Bridges kicked off in The Netherlands! From now until August, Jilt van Schayik (UN Youth Representative for The Netherlands) and Teun Meulepas will be cycling from Amsterdam to Cape Town. From … Continue reading
- February 10, 2015UN Chief tasks Nigeria on the post MDGs agenda - 6 February 2015, Abuja, Nigeria With on-going efforts aimed at designing a successor development framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations has tasked political and civic leaders in Nigeria on the early … Continue reading
- November 5, 2014Report: Assessing Progress in Africa Toward the Millennium Development Goals - While an increasing number of Africans are enjoying higher living standards, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa should redouble efforts to ensure crises such as the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa do not reverse development achievements, … Continue reading
- July 2, 2014African Faith Leaders debate the Post MDGs Agenda - Kampala, Uganda, 2nd July 2014 The role of African faith leaders in promoting human development on the continent came to the fore at the beginning of a two-day African Faith Leaders’ Summit on Sustainable Development … Continue reading
- July 1, 2014Post 2015 Agenda: UN Millennium Campaign Supports African Faith Leaders - With the deadline to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaching, different levels of implementations as well as emerging development challenges have made it imperative to draw up a successor framework building on the success, … Continue reading
- April 4, 2014Conference on Inequalities in Africa: Accra, 28-30 April, 2014 - The Pan-African Conference on Inequalities in the Context of Structural Transformation will take place in Accra, Ghana on April 28-30, 2014. Inequalities are a recurrent theme in the debate on development. The Millennium Declaration recognized the concern over … Continue reading
- February 26, 2014The African Narrative - The UN Millennium Campaign and the UNDP Regional Service Centre in Africa have published Structural Transformation and the Challenge of Financing Africa’s post-2015 Development Agenda. The paper is a powerful synthesis of a 2-day forum … Continue reading
- January 7, 2014“Global Financial Crisis Forgotten Too Soon” - Read UN Millennium Campaign African Director, Charles Abugre, weekly column on international economic and development matters at Business Daily Africa. …. THE ARRIVAL of 2014 marks the sixth year since Lehman Brothers Investment Bank of the United States … Continue reading
- December 16, 2013UN Millennium Campaign tasks African Film Practitioners on human development - Lagos, Nigeria.-The United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) has called on African film practitioners to use their medium to promote good governance and human development on the continent. In a goodwill message delivered at the annual … Continue reading
- July 1, 2013Big Strides on Millennium Development Goals with More Targets Achievable by 2015: UN Report - With some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) already met, more targets are within reach by the 2015 target date, while challenges to achieving others must be urgently addressed, according to a new report launched … Continue reading
- May 16, 2013‘MY World’ Survey – First Results – Over 600,000 Citizens Tell the United Nations their Priorities - Over 600,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think … Continue reading
- April 1, 2013April, 5th: 1,000 days to keep the Millennium Promise - A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but starting this week we can march a thousand days forward into a new future. On April 5th, the world will reach a vital … Continue reading
- January 31, 2013Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Outreach with High Level Panel Members in Monrovia - The voices of the voiceless were heard and Civil Society will make sure their recommendations are taken into account and effectively inform the High Level Panel report to be presented in April to the UN Secretary … Continue reading
- January 30, 2013Day Two of the CSO Pre-Consultative Forum Post 2015 High Level Panel Meeting - A successful second day of the CSO pre-consultative forum culminated in the presentation of five key statements to Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who attended the meeting at 4pm GMT. Five vulnerable group representatives addressed … Continue reading
- October 5, 2012Side Event on Multi-level Partnerships in MDGs Acceleration – Nigeria - Stream videos at Ustream On September 27th the UN Millennium Campaign, with the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will be co-hosting a side event entitled: “Multi-Level Partnerships in MDGs Acceleration: Experiences from the … Continue reading
- August 12, 2012Conspiracy Against Pupils: Case Study of Kibera Primary School - Background Kibera Primary school was founded in 1953. The school has a population of 2193 pupils and 28 teachers. The first sponsors to the school were returning Sudanese soldiers who had fought in the first … Continue reading
- August 12, 2012The Anti-Counterfeit Court Case - The Kenyan constitution guarantees the right to a life, right to health care services, adequate housing, food, clean and safe water, education, and social security. Central to the constitution is devolution of resources which guarantees … Continue reading
- July 16, 2012UNMC and African CSOs Meet WIth Liberian President and Co-chair of Post-2015 High Level Panel Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - The Co-chair of the UN High-level panel on UN Post 2015 Development Framework, Her Excellency President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia has said that the new global agenda will draw from the voices of the people. … Continue reading
