Millennium Development Goals

 

 Conference

 


The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America: Inclusion and Human Development




In September 2000, at the beginning of a new millennium, 189 world leaders gathered at the United Nations World Summit for a historical event of global partnership that lead to the adoption of the Millennium declaration. The commitment of World Leaders to eradicate poverty took shape in the Millennium Development Goals, specifying 8 goals with time bound targets designed to ensure human rights and social justice with a deadline of year 2015.

In year 2005 the world leaders gathered again to review progress towards the MDGs. The balance is that progress is uneven. Both in countries with good progress and in countries lagging behind, there are population groups that suffer from more acute deprivation.

 

Because progress towards the MDGs should include all population groups in all countries, the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Poverty Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (IPC-UNDP), co-sponsored by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), have designed a conference to promote the use of statistical evidence and the importance of disaggregated MDG indicators in the design of policies and in the analysis of the situation towards the MDGs, so these can be reached with equity by all groups in the region.

With this objective in mind, the Conference “The Millennium Development Goals in Latin America: Inclusion and Human Development”, thru three presentations based on disaggregated MDG indicators for the region, will seek to contribute to the actual debate on policy analysis and policy management for a deeper and more inclusive human development in Latin America.