Resources by Themes

Costing and Financing the MDGs

• Moving Forward: Financing Modalities Towards the MDGs, April 2005, OECD
• Innovative Approaches to Funding the Millennium Development Goals, 2004, OECD

• Making Sense of MDG Costing, August 2004

Education

• A Situational Analysis of Education for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2005, UNESCO
• Children out of school: Measuring exclusion from primary education, 2005, UNESCO

Gender

• State of the World's Mothers 2007, May 2007, Save the Children
• UNIFEM Discussion Paper, Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific: Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration, 2007
• Change, Choice and Power: Young Women, Livelihoods and HIV prevention, 2007
• The State of the World's Children 2007, 2006, UNICEF
• Pursuing Gender Equality through the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific, 2006, UNESCAP/UNDP/ADB
• Progress of the World's Women, 2005
• Resource Guide for Gender Theme Groups, 2005
• 2005 World Summit, On the Agenda: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals
• Addressing violence against women and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 2005, WHO
• Gender and the MDGs, February 2004, ADB
• Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality and the MDG, 2004
• Gender Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals, 2004
• The Millennium Development Goals: Why Every Woman Counts, UNFPA
• ‘En-gendering' the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Health, 2003, WHO
• Pathway to gender equality: CEDAW, Beijing and the MDGs, 2004, UNIFEM
• Progress of the World's Women 2002, Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals, UNIFEM

General

• A Future within Reach 2008: Regional Partnership for the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific 2008
• Delivering as One: Asia-Pacific Regional MDG Road Map 2008-2015, 2008
• UNICEF Annual Report 2007, June 2008
• United Nations System-wide coherence, Report by the Director-General, 2008
• Global Monitoring Report 2008: MDGs and the Environment-Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
• Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Progress towards A World Fit for Children, 2007
• The Millennium Development Goals and Migration, June 2006
• How-to-guide: MDG-based National Development Strategies, May 2006
• A Future within Reach: Reshaping Institutions in a Region of Disparaties to Meet the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific, 2005
• Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
• Voices of the Least Developed Countries of Asia and the Pacific-Achieving the MDGs through a Global Partnership, 2005
• FAO and the Challenge of Millennium Development Goals-The Road Ahead, 2005
• MDG Monitoring and Reporting: A Review of Good Practices, August 2005
• The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005
• Global Monitoring Report 2006: Strengthening Mutual Accountability-Aid, Trade & Governance
• Global Monitoring Report 2005: Millennium Development Goals-From Consensus to Momentum
• Global Monitoring Report 2004: Policies and Actions for Achieving the MDGs and Related Outcomes
• Millennium Development Goals - A Resource Sheet; Perspective from International Institutions, 2005
• The MDGs and the City, 2005
• Report of the High Commissioner to ECOSOC, 2005
• Investing in Development, A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, 2005
• The Millennium Development Goals: Will Asia and the Pacific AchieveThem?, 2004
• Energy Report

• Building Capacity to Measure and Monitor MDGs
• Staying on Track for 2015: How ADB supports the MDGs
• ILO Information Folder on Decent Work and the Millennium Development Goals
• The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals
• Global Monitoring Report 2004: Policies and Actions for Achieving the MDGs and Related Outcomes
• Strategic Plan 2004-2007
• Millennium Development Goals and Diaster Risk Reduction Site (ISDR)
• Words into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework-Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities diaster
• UNICEF: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Monitoring
• UNIFEM at a Glance: The Millennium Development Goals site
• UNDP International Poverty Centre (IPC)
• Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, OzonAction Brance on MDGs
• Diaster Proofing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Minimise Diaster Maximise Development
• 8 Ways to Change the World: Local Authorities Guide
• Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights
• IPCD and the MDGs: Master Plan for Development
• Mini Atlas of Millennium Development Goals: Building a Better World
• Agriculture and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
• WHO's work on the Millennium Development Goals site

Governance

• Governance and the Millennium Development Goals, UNDP
• Good policies and enabling legislation for attaining MDGs: a methodology for participatory review and assessment, 2005

Health

• Thematic Fund for Maternal Health, 2008
•  World Hunger Series 2007, Hunger and Health
• Reproductive Health -- The Missing Millennium Development Goal: Poverty, Health, and Development in a Changing World, June 2006, World Bank
• 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, May 2006, UNAIDS
• Scaling up the Capacity of Midwives to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, 2006
• Attaining Millennium Development Goals in Health: Isn't Economic Growth Enough?, 2005
• Health and the Millennium Development Goals, 2005
• Addressing violence against women and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 2005
• High level forum on the health millennium development goals - Selected papers 2003-2005
• Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target: A mid-term assessment of progress, 2004
• ‘En-gendering' the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Health, 2003
• WHO Water Sanitation and Health site
• Sexual and Reproductive Health Report

ICT

• ICT and Human Development: Towards Building a Composite Index for Asia - Realising the MDGs, 2004
• World Telecommunication Development Report 2003: Access Indicators for the Information Society, 2003

Poverty

• Asian Experience on Growth, Employment and Poverty: An Overview with Specific Reference to the Findings of Some Recent Studies, 2007
• ADBI study shows potential of organic agriculture to contribute to the MDGs
• Achieving the MDGs in Asia: a Case for More Aid?, 2006, UNESCAP
• Are We Reaching the Hungry?, 2006
• MDG Based PRSPs Need More Ambitious Economic Policies, January 2005, UNDP
• Investing in Development, A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, 2005, Millennium Project
• Task Force Reports, Millennium Project
• Reducing Poverty and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 2005, UNFPA
• The Role of Employment in Promoting the Millennium Development Goals, 2005
• Jobs and the MDGs: Working out of Poverty (World of Work Magazine), 2005
• Migration Development and Poverty Reduction in Asia, 2005
• More than a Number Game? Ensuring that the Millennium Development Goals Address Structural Injustice
• Paying the Price: Why rich countries must invest now in war on poverty, 2005, OXFAM International
• Concrete steps forwards a millennium free from hunger, 2004
• Gender Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals, 2003
• Promoting hte MDGs in Asia and the Pacific: Meeting the Challenges of Poverty Reduction, 2003 (PDF)
• PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool
• Tool for Calculating Poverty Levels
  
  

Statistics

• The Living Conditions of Refugees in Armenia and Pakistan, Asylum-Seekers in Ecualdor and Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka, Sub-Project Monitoring Report, Narrative Report, 2007
• Millennium Development Goals Analysis of People to the Concern of UNHCR, 2006
• ADB, ESCAP, UNDP: The MDGs: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2006
• Statistical Challenges in Assessing the Achievement of the MDGs and Other Internationally Agreed Development Goals, December 2006
• Millennium Development Goals Analysis of People to the Concern of UNHCR, 2006
• The living situation of refugees, asylum-seekers and IDP's in Armenia, Ecuador and Sri Lanka: The Millennium development indicators and Coping strategies, Sri Lanka country report, 2006
• MDG Report Statistical Annex 2006
• MDG Progress Chart 2005
• Human Development Report 2005: International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
• Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals, 1990-2005
• Millennium Indicators Database, UNSD
• World Bank Millennium Development Goals
• PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool
• Indicators for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, 2003
• Measuring the Millennium Development Goals indicator, 2003
• Millennium Development Goals in the Pacific: Relevance and Progress, 2002
• Reports of the Secretary-General

Water and Sanitation

• Global cause and effect: how the aid system is undermining the Millennium Development Goals, 2007, Wateraid
• Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres - Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities 2006, UN-HABITAT
• Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target, A Mid-Term Assessment of Progress, 2006
• Asia Water Watch 2015, 2006, UNESCAP/UNDP/ADB/WHO
• Monitoring Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation: A review of experiences and Challenges, 2005
• Meeting the MDG drinking-water and sanitation target: A mid-term assessment of progress, 2004, UNICEF and WHO
• WHO Water Sanitation and Health site, WHO