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MDG Gap Task Force Reports
Millennium Development Goal 8
The MDG Gap Task Force was created by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to improve the monitoring of the global commitments contained in the Millennium Development Goals. The Report identifies implementation gaps to achieve the MDGs and provides recommendations to all major stakeholders on how to address these gaps.
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2010: The Global Partnership for Development at a Critical Juncture
In September 2010, world leaders will take stock of MDG achievements to date at the High-level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Much progress has been made since 2000, but there is still a great deal more to be achieved in order to fulfill the promise of the MDGs. In this sense, the global partnership for development stands at a critical juncture, with only five years left until the 2015 deadline to deliver on the commitments made and to achieve the MDGs. Remaining gaps are still very large and there have been setbacks because of the global food, energy and financial crises. The deadline for commitments in a number of crucial areas (including increased aid volume, improved aid effectiveness, and the conclusion of the Doha Round of trade negotiations) is 2010, but there is little prospect of successful delivery.
The 2010 issue of the report identifies the implementation gaps in the commitments made under MDG 8 and provides recommendations on how to address them, on strengthening the global partnership, and ultimately supporting developing countries in achieving the MDGs.
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2009: Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of Crisis
Further progress has been made towards fulfilling the promises embodied in the Millennium Development Goal 8 (MDG 8). However, the Global Partnership for Development has suffered important setbacks, most of which have arisen from the current state of the world economy which is experiencing its severest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Important gaps remain in delivering on the global commitments in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, and access to new technologies and to affordable essential medicines. In the countdown to 2015, urgent responses are needed to bridge the existing implementation gaps to make good on the promises made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
The 2009 issue of the A recently released report by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force identifies these gaps in detail and provides recommendations to all major stakeholders on how to address these gaps.
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2008: Delivering on
the Global Partnership for Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals
Important gaps remain in delivering on the global commitments in the areas of aid, trade, debt relief, and access to new technologies and to affordable essential medicines. In the countdown to 2015, urgent responses are needed to bridge the existing implementation gaps to make good on the promises made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
A recently released report by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force identifies these gaps in detail and provides recommendations to all major stakeholders on how to address these gaps.
MDG 8: The Global Partnership for Development
MDG Matrix of Global Commitments
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Press Releases
2011 Press Releases
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Country Case Studies
Four country case studies were contracted out to the Overseas Development Institute as inputs to the 2010 MDG Gap Task Force Report