Global Commitment to the Millennium Development Goals

In September 2000, 189 United Nations (UN) member-countries -- rich and poor alike -- reaffirmed their commitment to peace and security, good governance and attention to the most vulnerable with the adoption of the Millennium Declaration.

Containing commitments to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals or MDGs (and the specific targets under them) by 2015, the declaration reflects the vision of entire nations, working together with international and country-based organizations, to wipe out poverty and the worst forms of human deprivation, and lay the foundations for sustainable human development by the year 2015.

The overarching need is to ensure that the MDGs are integrated into and given top priority in each committed country's development planning efforts with: efficient monitoring, localization, and advocacy systems put in place; crucial financing secured; multisectoral support mobilized; and an enabling environment created with an MDG-responsive policy framework and legislation.

For its part, the UN fully supports efforts of the Philippines (and of other nations committed to the MDGs) to eventually attain the MDGs by 2015, and realize the vision of sustainable human development-evident in the lives of people, regardless of gender or age or ethnicity; evenly felt across continents, among nations, within communities.