Millennium Development Goals: Measuring and Monitoring Global Progress

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Millennium Development GoalsMeasuring and
Monitoring Global Progress

• Paul Cheung
• Director, United Nations Statistics Division

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The Millennium Declaration

• Adopted in September 2000 by 189 Member States
• Addressing the issues of peace, security and
  development
• Integrating a set of inter-connected development
  goals into a global agenda

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Monitoring development goals, targets and
indicators

• MDG framework specific goals and targets on
  development progress
• 8 goals
• few in number
• stable over time
• easy to communicate
• balance between South North
• 18 time-bound targets,
• 48 indicators

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The 8 goals

1. Eradicate poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

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Targets Indicators
Time-bound and quantifiable Improve, halve, reduce the 1990 levels by 2015 Poverty and hunger Consumption poverty, hunger and malnutrition Health Under-five mortality, measles immunization coverage, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria Education School enrolment, literacy Gender Women in wage employment, women political participation and women education Environment Forest, energy, protected areas, CO2 emissions, use of solid fuels access to water and sanitation Global partnership ODA, market access, trade, youth employment, access to ICT
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International Monitoring Efforts

• The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG
  Indicators
• Coordinated by DESA/SD
• Composed of representatives from
• specialized agencies,
• regional commissions,
• NSOs
• Responsible for
• data compilation and analysis,
• review of data availability and technical
  specifications of indicators
• methodological development and statistical
  capacity building

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Monitoring at the country level

• MDG country reporting principles
• national ownership
• capacity development
• minimized cost and effort for monitoring progress
• Widely used to inform national debate and promote
  the production and use of statistics for policy
  making and monitoring

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76 country reports
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Critical challengeStrengthening statistical
capacity

• The situation
• Lack of sustainable programmes of household
  surveys and administrative data systems
• The initiatives
• Launching of programmes to improve data
  production at both national and international
  levels
• Strengthening national statistical services
• Improve use and dissemination of data