Jakarta Declaration on Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: The Way Forward 2015
The document highlights the key items in the Jakarta Declaration on Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: the Way Forward 2015. The Declaration was adopted by the Ministers and representatives of countries of Asia and the Pacific who had met at the Regional Ministerial Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: the Way Forward 2015, held in Jakarta from 3 to 5 August 2005.
The document reviews the progress made by countries in the ESCAP region towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and highlights some of the key challenges. It proposes key actions to support the achievement of the Goals, taking into account the main findings of the ESCAP/United Nations Development Programme/Asian Development Bank publication entitled A Future Within Reach: Reshaping Institutions in a Region of Disparities to Meet the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific and the outcomes of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, held in New York from 14 to 16 September 2005 (also known as the 2005 World Summit).
The document also highlights action by ESCAP to support national efforts to achieve the Goals through promoting policy dialogue, facilitating the exchange of good practices and providing comprehensive regional analyses on progress towards the achievement of the Goals.
At the 2005 World Summit, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders reaffirmed the need to keep gender equality, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health at the top of the development agenda. The World Summit followed up on and added to the Millennium Summit, an historic convocation of world leaders in 2000.
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
The Paris Declaration, endorsed on 2 March 2005, is an international agreement to which over one hundred Ministers, Heads of Agencies and other Senior Officials adhered and committed their countries and organisations to continue to increase efforts in harmonisation, alignment and managing aid for results with a set of monitorable actions and indicators.
International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey Consensus
This first United Nations-hosted conference to address key financial and development issues attracted 50 Heads of State or Government, over 200 ministers as well as leaders from the private sector and civil society, and senior officials of all the major intergovernmental financial, trade, economic, and monetary organizations. Their statements to the plenaries and the Monterrey Consensus provide a picture of the new global approach to financing development.
Road Map Towards the Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration
The road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration contains an integrated and comprehensive overview of the current situation. It outlines potential strategies for action that are designed to meet the goals and commitments made by the 147 heads of State and Government, and 189 Member States in total, who adopted the Millennium Declaration.
The report addresses fully each and every one of the goals and commitments contained in the Millennium Declaration, and suggests paths to follow and shares information on "best practices". It draws on the work of Governments, the entire United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, intergovernmental organizations, international organizations, regional organizations and civil society.
The turn of the century is a unique and symbolically compelling moment for the 189 Member States of the United Nations to articulate and affirm an animating vision for the Organization in the new era. In resolution 53/202 adopted on 17 December 1998, the General Assembly decided to designate its fifty-fifth session "The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations", which opened at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York in the afternoon of 5 September 2000 (resolution 53/239).
Heads of State and/or Government of the Member States of the United Nations gathered at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York to participate in the Millennium Summit from 6 to 8 September 2000. The Summit was a historic opportunity to agree on a process for fundamental review of the role of, and challenges facing the United Nations in the new century.
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