Executive summary

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration. Among the outcomes of this Declaration were a set of global political commitments, namely, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aimed at tackling major challenges impeding socio-economic development. These formalize eight development goals, whose progress is monitored and reported upon through a series of targets and associated indicators for measuring achievement by the target year 2015.

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