UN replaces millennium poverty plan with sustainable development

When a handful of technocrats from the world’s most advanced nations gathered in a UN basement in 2000 to establish global development goals, their objective seemed simply to create a blueprint to help the world’s poor by 2015.

 

But as the deadline nears and many targets remain to be met, the UN is shifting from what it once hailed as the world’s ambitious, unwavering promise to the world’s poor, known as the Millennium Development Goals, to a more inclusive, participatory and sophisticated approach of the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

These new goals, which are to be finalised by the General Assembly in the summer, attempt to revise the previous ones by involving more global leaders and seeking to align national priorities with international goals, rather than imposing international goals on countries with widely varying needs and resources.

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