How to Set Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are a set of goals to ensure development, peace and security, and human rights for our peoples.

Specific actions are set out in each area that would help bring our goals to fruition.

We need to set our goals and monitor our performance.

Governments are responsible for achieving, or enabling the achievement of, the goals and targets that have been set for education.

Achievement of the Goals that we set is within our grasp.

The Millennium Development Goals are a set of specific commitments aimed at overcoming the key development challenges identified in the Millennium Declaration.

Importantly, there is already broad agreement on a set of shared goals.

To set goals for the New Year, knowing you cannot achieve them.

My delegation believes that the institutional reforms proposed by the Secretary General are in keeping with the ambitious goals that we have set.

We are told that NATO and the West cannot build a nation there and that the goals that have been set for establishing democracy and prosperity are unattainable.

Moreover, this fall, in advance of the Paris talks, the U.N. and world governments are preparing to set out Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to take over for the Millennium Development Goals that expire this year.

These regional legal instruments set goals and tasks for countries and institutions that are responsible for integrated water resources management in a transboundary context.

Clearly, implementation of these measures would contribute to the attainment of the goals set.

7. Stress that, given current trends, many least developed countries are unlikely to achieve the goals and objectives set out in the Programme of Action

Once we set goals, we need reliable information systems to assess progress toward achieving them.

The programme had time bound goals and an explicit set of monitoring and evaluation indicators.

The Forum ended with outstanding recommendations calling for all stakeholders to Think Bold, Do Able with Bold Action in order to have Goals Set Goals Met.

We approve the fourteenth work programme for the next trimester and the goals set out therein.

Voluntary agreements have therefore been adopted as the most important instrument in achieving the set goals.

Its commitment to addressing the challenges facing the goals set at the Millennium Summit is encouraging.

So that the Millennium Development Goals continue to fulfil their purpose, I should like to propose to this Plenary Meeting that countries with a level of development similar to Mexico's set out new goals that are relevant to their realities.

President Jagdeo The international development goals, especially the Millennium Development Goals, which we set ourselves at the Millennium Summit five years ago and which we are called upon to review at this Meeting, have been a major benchmark for development.

But economic policies are set at the national level, and, with a few notable exceptions like trade negotiations and the tracking of terrorist funding and money laundering, policymakers set goals with a view to benefiting the domestic economy.

We are encouraged by key achievements in the eight standards set for Kosovo, and call upon the Government and all other actors to strive to achieve the other priority goals as set out in the technical assessment report.

Gender equality targets set by Beijing and the Millennium Development Goals were indelibly linked and mutually reinforcing.

Some tangible results have already been achieved in pursuing the goals set out in the national policy.

And we can forge a set of updated international institutions to help humanity achieve these noble goals.

We have set for ourselves a target to implement the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.

The strong focus of the goals of the Millennium Declaration on children has created a positive synergy with the goals of A world fit for children and convergence of national planning processes around a common set of goals.

The goals of the meeting are

There are eight Millennium Development Goals.

The Commission continued to operate on the basis of consensus, notwithstanding the ambitious goals set in December 2004.

Progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the target dates set is a matter of shared responsibility.

But will the world align around a clear set of goals in the next 15 years? The United Nations is starting to map out new goals for the years following the 2015 expiration of the current Millennium Development Goals.

The Millennium Development Goals are the world s agreed goals to cut poverty, hunger, and disease.

A prize fund would work well in areas in which needs are well known the case for many diseases afflicting the poor allowing clear goals to be set in advance.

When the Millennium Declaration was rewritten as a set of specific goals, the baseline for calculating the proportion to be halved was set not at 2000, but at 1990.

When UN member states turn to the next set of global development goals, they should learn from the MDGs.

Yet the goals set by the French for their railway system were moralistic, political, and military rather than economic.

Now, these are not goals or desires, these are universal.

The strategic goals of the programme are

The goals set out by Ushahidi are not just to make life better for the participants, but to make life better for everyone in the society in which Ushahidi is operating.

The key for today s UN, therefore, is not to create more goals, but to implement those that have been set.

As it is, therefore, we will be hard put to achieve the Millennium Development Goals within the time frames set.