Delivering on commitments

The MDG Fund is helping to reduce poverty and inequality and make the Millennium Development Goals a reality for all: we run 130 programmes in 50 countries.

Children, Food Security & Nutrition

Tackling child hunger & under nutrition

Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment

Increasing women’s access to equality & opportunity

Environment & Climate Change

Reducing vulnerabilities & helping adapt to climate change

Youth, Employment & Migration

Promoting productive & decent work for young people

Democratic Economic Governance

Democratizing access to services & utilities

Development & the Private Sector

Inclusive markets & pro-poor development

Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding

Fostering an enabling environment for development

Culture & Development

Protecting & enhancing cultural rights & political participation

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1Children, Food Security & Nutrition 2Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment 3Environment & Climate Change 4Youth, Employment & Migration 5Democratic Economic Governance 6Development & the Private Sector 7Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding 8Culture & Development

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Empowering the world’s indigenous people

The MDG-F proposes new Millennium Development Goals that reflect the values of the world’s 370 million native peoples.

Canning food for better nutrition in Afghanistan

An MDG-F programme that teaches food processing is bringing extra income and improved diets to Afghan women and children.

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MDGs IN IMAGES

Photo Essay: Raising native voices

Through 47 programmes in 20 countries, the MDG-F is working to reduce the inequalities suffered by the world's indigenous people.

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In the News

Turning the tide in one of Brazil's most violent cities

A three-year peace-building MDG-F program in Nacional has made shootings and drug traffickers' curfews a thing of the past and reduced youth murders from 20 a year to zero.

Brazilian indigenous youth learn about their right to food

An MDG-F programme is boosting awareness about food security among youth in indigenous communities, where 4 in 10 people live in extreme poverty.

Maternal health program benefits 1.2 mln Chinese

The number of underweight children fell by 60% and stunting and anemia rates dropped by more than a third during MDG-F program to improve nutrition in poverty-stricken areas of China.

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LATEST VIDEO

Ninety-one per cent of the indigenous population of Panama's remote Ngäbe-Buglé Region suffers from extreme poverty, including lack of access to safe water and sanitation. This project, supported by the MDG-F, empowered the people of four villages in the area -- particularly women -- to take charge of the creation, management and maintenance of their own water resources.

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As the parable says: if my neighbour is poor, I am poor too. Our world will never be truly at peace with itself while gross inequities denying the basics of a decent life continue.

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator

If we form strong global partnerships, if we support what works, if we back people of vision and action - we can meet the MDGs.

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator

Investing in women and girls [is] a key part of the breakthrough strategy we need to accelerate MDG progress.

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator

At their heart, the Millennium Development Goals are about giving the world's most vulnerable children a better chance to reach their full potential ... We must always remember that our effort is not simply a statistical exercise. It is a moral imperative.

Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director

The world possesses the resources and knowledge to ensure that even the poorest countries, and others held back by disease, geographic isolation or civil strife, can be empowered to achieve the MDGs.

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General

Achieving the goals will put us on a fast track to a world that is more stable, more just, and more secure. Billions of people are looking to the international community to realize the great vision embodied in the Millennium Declaration. Let us keep that promise.

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General

The international community must continue to work together to expand the horizons of opportunity for ... young women and men and answer their legitimate demands for dignity, development and decent work. Failing to invest in our youth is a false economy. Investments in young people will pay great dividends in a better future for all.

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General

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