Women, MDGs & Africa - A Resource Guide

Select Resources on the MDGs

Publications:

Amnesty International 'From promises to delivery - Putting human rights at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals' (2010) 

Bond for International Development and Concord 'Towards the UN MDG Review Summit 2010: Recommendations to the EU' (2010)

Center for Global Development ‘Who are the MDG Trailblazers? A new MDG Progress Index – Working Paper 222’ (2010)

Commission for Africa Report 'Still our common interest' (2010)

European Union – United States Road map on the Millennium Development Goals 2010-2011 (2010)

Institute of Development Studies 'Can the MDGs provide a pathway to social justice? The challenges of intersecting inequalities' (2010)

International Alert 'Working with the grain to change the grain: Moving beyond the Millennium Development Goals' (2010)

McKinsey Global Institute 'Lions on the move: The progress and potential of African economies' (2010)

Overseas Development Institute 'Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Measuring progress accross countries' (2010)

Physicians for Human Rights 'Achieving the MDGs by investing in human resources for health' (2010)

The Lancet and London International Centre Commission 'The Millennium Development Goals: a cross –sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015' (2010)

The Millennium Project 'Investing for Development' (2005)

The World Bank 'Unfinished business: Mobilizing efforts to achieve the 2015 Millennium Developing Goals' 

The World Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ‘Global Monitoring Report 2010, The MDGs after the Crisis’ (2010)

The World Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ‘Global Monitoring Report 2009: A Development Emergency’ (2009)

UN Report of the Secretary-General ‘Keeping the Promise: A forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015’ (2010)

UN Millennium Development Goals Report (2010)

UNDG MDG Thematic Papers (2010)

UNDP MDG Gap Task Force Reports ‘Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of Crisis’ (2009) and ‘Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs’ (2008)  

UNDP, UNECA, ADB and the African Union Commission ‘Assessing progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals - MDG Report 2010’

UNDP ‘What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals?’ (2010)

UNECA, AfDB and the African Union Commission Millennium Development Goals Africa Report (2009) 

UN General Assembly MDG Outcome Document 'Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals' (2010)

UNICEF 'Progress for children; Achieving the MDGs with equity' (2010)

W. Easterly, New York University ‘How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa’ (2008)

 

Organizations:

International Labour Organization (ILO)

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

MDG Africa Steering Group

Stand Up Take Action

The World Bank

The MDG Achievement Fund

The Millennium Project

United Nations

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

UN Development Group (UNDG)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

UN Foundation

UN Global Compact

UN-NGLS at 10 and Civil Society

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Volunteer Web

 

Blogs:

Center for Global Development

From Poverty to Power

Ideas for Development Blog

ODI Blog

Millennium Village Blog

World Bank Blogs

 

Best practices:

UNDG MDG Good Practices (2010)

UNDP 'Unlocking progress: MDG acceleration on the road to 2015 - Lessons from the MDG Acceleration Framework pilot countries' (2010)

UNDP ’The path to achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A synthesis of evidence from around the world’ (2010)

 

Outreach material:

End Poverty 2015

Good Magazine - 'GOOD:The UN Millennium Declaration' (You Tube Video)

ITUC ‘A breakthrough plan to accelerate progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015: Trade Union Statement to the 2010 Summit of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals’ (2010) 

Kick Out Poverty

MDG Info 2010

My Story My Goal Campaign

ONE International 'Africa's future is female' (2010)

Stand Up Take Action

UN Millennium Development Goals: 2010 Progress Chart

UN We Can End Poverty 2015 Press release: 'Extra push needed on aid, trade and debt
to meet global anti-poverty goals' (2010)

UN DESA 'Millennium Development Goals: Gender equality and women's empowerment. Progress chart 2010' (2010)

 

Statistics and other resources:

DevInfo MDG Info 2010

Millennium Development Campaign and the Overseas Development Institute ‘Millennium Development Goals Report Card’ (2010)

Mo Ibrahim Governance Index

The EU Millennium Development Goals Dashboard

The World Bank Africa Development Indicators 2010

The World Bank World Development Indicators

The World Bank ‘Monitoring the MDGs Selected Indicators Annex’ (2009)

The World Bank Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals

UN Data

UNDP Human Development Report 2009 Statistical Annex

UNDP Tracking country progress

United Nations MDG Indicators

United Nations MDG Monitor

United Nations MDG Report 2010 Statistical Annex

UNECA MDG Mapper

UNFPA Data for Development

 

Media:

BBC World Service Trust

BBC World Debate Focus on MDG Achievement

This is Africa Millennium Development Goals 2010

Guardian and the MDGs

IPS To 2015: Progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals

The UN News Centre

UN Foundation and Devex Making the Millennium Development Goals Happen