 On Thursday, 19 July UNA-UK co-hosted an event titled 'MDG Midpoint: too little progress?', which served as the UK launch of the Millennium Development Goals Report 2007, which assesses progress made towards achieving the Goals.
Click here to view the Millennium Development Goals Report
Although the Report finds that some clear progress has been made towards implementing the Goals, it also highlights that their overall success is still far from assured, and will depend in large part on whether developed countries deliver on their aid commitments.
To listen to audio recordings of the event, click on the relevant [audio] links below.
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Welcome and introduction
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Presentations and reports
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- Guido Schmidt-Traub,Team Leader, MDG Support Unit, Poverty Group, UNDP [audio]
- Prof. Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor and Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and UNA-UK expert Advisory Panel member [audio]
- Salil Shetty, Director, Millennium Campaign, United Nations [audio]
- Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) [audio]
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Discussion session
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