Strategies for the MDGs: Knowledge Network
MDG-NET
MDGNet is a knowledge network, led and hosted by UNDP, that supports
all Development Partners striving to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs). Through this network, participants are invited to exchange
creative approaches to MDG advocacy, monitoring and reporting, share
good practices and lessons learned, circulate information on MDG related
events, and share expertise with the preparation of the MDG Reports
as well as MDG related analytical and operational activities.
The network has now grown to include over 1900 members, representing
over 130 countries, 25 parts of the UN system, and more than 600 representatives
from governments, civil society groups, donors, academia, research institutes
and the private sector. MDGNet is open to everyone who is interested
in the MDGs and would gain from receiving as well as contributing to
discussions around the Millennium Development Goals.
To subscribe to MDGNet, send an email to mdg-net@groups.undp.org.
Indicate your name, email address, agency, position and duty station.
MDGNet encourages UN staff as well as Government and Civil Society development
partners to join MDGNet.
Within the past year, MDGNet members received valuable responses to
requests such as:
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The Paris Declaration
and MDGs;
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Lao PDR / MDGs Advocacy
to National Parliaments;
Mexico / MDG inclusion in national priorities;
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Samoa/ UN Sports and
Development Partnerships around MDGs;
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Asia Pacific / MDG-Based
Development Strategies Workshop;
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Uzbekistan / Reviewing
examples of MDG and PRS statistical monitoring;
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Malaysia / Improved indicators
for sustainable development;
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UNDESA / Addressing demographic
transition to meet MDGs;
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Brazil / Monitoring MDGs
at the State level – Sao Paolo;
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Philippines / Methodologies
to assess probability of meeting MDGs;
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India / National strategies
and studies for urban poverty reduction;
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Guyana / Gender, MDGs
and Entrepreneurship;
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Albania / Initiatives
to Implement ‘Quick Wins’;
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Rwanda / MDG Costing.
During the past twelve months, the MDGNet hosted some lively e-discussions
that received considerable attention. The topics reflected interest
of the network members as well as global debates on achieving MDGs.
The following is the list of e-discussion topics held on the network
in the past year:
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MDGs and Human Rights:
How to Link MDGs and Human Rights in Development?
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Quick Impact Initiatives
to Accelerate MDGs
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Measuring Multi-dimensional
Poverty
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Fiscal Decentralization,
Poverty Reduction and MDGs
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Aligning Poverty Reduction
Strategies (PRS) and National Development Plans (NDPs) with the MDGs
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Moving forward with MDG-Based
PRS: The role of United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs)
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Disaster Risks and MDGs
For more details on MDGNet e-Discussions, please, visit the
MDGNet
Resource Corner
