How to Set Goals

We need to set our goals and monitor our performance.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Panama welcomes the fact that the United Nations has set measurable and quantifiable goals in order to evaluate country by country progress towards achieving the Millennium Goals within a broader concept of freedom.

Third, we should set bold goals for the years ahead to spread prosperity and improve public health while saving the planet.

To achieve these goals, the G 8 should set clear timetables for action, and transparent agreements on how to fund it.

Sport, taught in a structured manner, helps vulnerable children regain a personal balance and to set goals and standards for themselves.

Statistical indicators have been developed for the monitoring of the implementation of goals and targets set out in the Millennium Declaration.

One delegate urged UNICEF to embrace the full set of EFA goals and to consider private and alternative education delivery systems.

Overall, the Millennium Development Goals improved the planet. But when we set new goals in 2015, we will need to be much more honest about focusing on areas where we can achieve the most good.

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.

The Group of 77 and China welcomed the recognition by the World Summit that the Millennium Development Goals did not cover all the development goals and the reaffirmation of and rededication to the broad set of commitments and goals from the various development conferences and summits.

The summit s hosts have set ambitious goals, reflected in the summit s theme BRICS and Africa a partnership for development, integration, and industrialization.

The Government will continue to implement all its programmes in order to further progress towards the goals that we have set ourselves.

(b) The Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals provide a set of shared international priorities with worldwide consensus and a 2015 horizon.

Romania is committed to achieving the set of Millennium Development Goals and targets as it advances on the road of European integration.

It was also important to link the activities set out in the draft programme to the goals contained in the Millennium Declaration.

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

Only broad and non discriminatory participation in those controls can guarantee effectiveness in complying with the goals that have been set forth.

It also sought to strengthen and promote African ownership and leadership, while at the same time ensuring that all partnerships were linked to the Millennium Development Goals and the agreed developments goals and targets set for Africa.