UNDP Project

National framework for the Millennium Development Goals

A thematic Forum on environmental issues took place at the beginning of November as part of the project called “Millennium Development Goals for the Republic of Macedonia”. Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is a list of goals, sub-goals and indicators which altogether form a network for measuring the progress, as well as a framework that enables all parties to share the responsibility for their mutual goals. The projects aim, supported and financed by UNDP is to support the Government’s activities for creating a national strategic development framework based on the responsibility (task) for accomplishing the Millennium Development Goals and the perspective (progress) of Macedonia. The project promotes the overall understanding of poverty with all its dimensions, and in the global context, the international community is determined to cooperate and promote the reduction of poverty, in accordance with the UN Millennium Declaration passed in September 2000. By signing it, Macedonia obliged itself to prepare a national framework for the Millennium Development Goals by the end of the year. UNDP will support the process of wider (extended) consultations on the development priorities by organizing a public discussion on the strategic development goals for Macedonia.

-The main objective when preparing the national reports on the Millennium Development Goals is the reduction of poverty and providing a sustainable development. The environmental problems are significant as well since they mostly strike the poor categories, says Brigitte Coohar, consultant on MDG at the UNDP. 

 

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