Download Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The Road Forward for the U.S.

InterAction looks to the September 20-22, 2010 UN Millennium Development Goals Summit to address the progress of the eight goals set upon to slash poverty, hunger, child and maternal mortality, preventable disease, and other ills by a 2015 deadline. With only five years left to achieve them, U.S.-based international NGOs are wondering if the U.S. government will do its part to meet the goals.

To move the U.S. policy discussion forward, InterAction’s policy paper, Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The Road Forward for the U.S., outlines key recommendations from the U.S. NGO community on each of the eight MDGs that it strongly believes the Obama administration should include in its U.S. action plan to be presented at the MDG Summit in September 2010. View the list of member organizations and partners who have contributed to the paper.

Member and Partner Organization Highlights

Bread for the World:
Millennium Development Goals: Stepping Up Efforts
CARE:
Millennium Development Goals Page
Global Health Council:
Millennium Development Goals
Jubilee:
STAND UP AND TAKE ACTION AGAINST DEBT & GLOBAL POVERTY!
Tell Congress and President Obama to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
The One Campaign:
The Data Report 2010
Path to 2015: Ask President Obama to follow through on his pledge
Bono on G8/G20 Summits, Upcoming UN Session on MDGs
New U.N. “International Assessment” Report on the Millennium Development Goals
UN Millennium Campaign:
2010 MDG Reports and Resources
U.S. Global Leadership Coalition:
InterAction Recommendations on the MDGs

Additional Resources

UN:
The Millennium Development Goals Report
Opening remarks at press conference launch of 2010 Millennium Development Goals report

Join InterAction and the UN Millennium Campaign to Stand Up Against Poverty in September

"Stand Up" is a global mobilization effort that allows citizens to collectively voice demands to their leaders to come to the MDG Review Summit prepared with an action plan to achieve the MDGs. Last year over 173 million people participated. Register events to support the campaign!

Campaigns to Fight Poverty

End Poverty 2015 is a website formed to support and inspire people from around the world to take action in support of the Millennium Development Goals. They encourage people to join the UN Millennium Campaign and be part of the generation that puts an end to poverty.

The ONE Campaign is a diverse coalition of groups working together to expand the number of Americans committed to fighting global AIDS and extreme poverty.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is a worldwide alliance of organizations, networks and national campaigns committed to eradicating extreme poverty.

The UN Millennium Campaign was established by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to galvanize support for, and stimulate public debate on, the Millennium Goals. The Campaign advocates at both the global and national levels to hold governments and other key actors accountable to the Millennium Development Goals.

The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs.

For more information on InterAction's work around the MDGs, please contact Lindsay Coates.