The Global Partnership for Development: Time to Deliver - MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011
This fourth report of the MDG Gap Task Force challenges the international community and other stakeholders to intensify their efforts to realize the potential of the global partnership for development. There are many initiatives, large and small, official and non-State, to monitor their...
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011
The annual report presented at the September 2010 MDG Summit is the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system. The aggregate figures in the report provide an overview...
Keeping the promise: a forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
This report, which is issued pursuant to General Assembly resolution 64/184, presents information on progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals through a comprehensive review of successes, best practices and lessons learned, obstacles and gaps, and challenges and opportunities,...
The MDGs after the Crisis - Global Monitoring Report 2010
The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says a new report from the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.
World Food Programme (WFP) - Zimbabwe
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...
World Health Organization (WHO) - Zambia
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialised agency for health (established in 1948) aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is being defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Maldives
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Malawi
USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...
Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCF Canada)
Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCF Canada) is committed to helping children and their families who live in poverty around the globe. Assistance includes education, clean water, nutritious food and health care, in partnership with other groups. CCF also runs a child sponsorship programme.
Lesea Feed the Hungry
Distributors of food relief to stricken areas of the world through a global network of offices. One example of their is their ;Every Child Every Day' program which began in 2005. It is an initiative to supply nutritious, daily meals to vulnerable children living in the world's least developed...