Progress towards the specific goals

Although progress to date on some goals of the MDGs has been made, it has been uneven.

We have prepared a report containing our evaluation on Guatemala's progress along the road towards achieving those goals.

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

A world fit for children emphasizes the importance of monitoring progress towards the adopted goals.

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

(b) Actively participate in the monitoring of progress towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 2

The availability and reliability of data to compile these indicators are essential to monitor progress towards the achievement of those goals and targets.

Five years later, we must acknowledge that the pace of progress towards meeting those goals is too slow.

It hoped that progress towards the medium and long term targets for recruiting and training national staff, as a key capacity building step, would continue.

The report assesses progress made towards attaining the goals outlined in previous reports, as well as reviewing developments during the reporting period.

Trade as a proportion of national income is more important for many developing countries than for most large developed economies.

Conclusions and the way forward

As has been the norm, it assesses progress made towards attaining the goals outlined in previous reports, as well as reviewing developments during the reporting period.

The outcome document should include strategies to strengthen their abilities to develop and implement development strategies and monitor progress towards the achievement of the Goals.

Despite intensive follow up, it was becoming increasingly difficult to track progress of developing countries towards achieving the financial targets of the International Conference on Population and Development.

DevInfo is an important source of data on social indicators and it has now been adopted by the UNDG to monitor and report on progress towards the Goals.

Fortunately, the MDGs point the way forward.

Monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at the global level has involved the collaboration of international agencies and regional commissions and close consultation with national experts and statisticians.

It must be noted that progress towards the Millennium Development Goals has been uneven and some backward movement must be acknowledged, particularly in sub Saharan Africa.

The report tracks the progress made towards achieving the outcomes highlighted in the UNIFEM multi year funding framework, using the indicators applied to the goals set out in the framework.

(a) Complements the regular programme of technical cooperation funding and thus allows implementing entities to further progress towards key development objectives underlying the work of the Organization as a whole

UNHCR's Global Objectives and Indicators of Progress for 2004 were based on the strategic goals established by the High Commissioner for the year.

5. Calls upon States and other relevant actors to evaluate progress made since 1998 towards meeting the goals and targets set at the twentieth special session of the General Assembly

As a consequence, effective monitoring of progress towards achievement of MDGs is first and foremost dependent on the availability of national or country level data.

They told us unequivocally that progress towards the goals we agreed at the Millennium Summit, and towards the commitments we made at Monterrey, has been insufficient.

While Palau is proud of its performance in moving towards the achievement of those Goals, that is clearly not the case in all of our island nations, and we must move aggressively forward in bringing equality of opportunity to all of nations in achieving the Goals through the actions of the United Nations.

It is perhaps telling that the progress charts prepared by the United Nations Development Program, the agency charged with reporting on progress toward achieving the MDGs, track only Internet usage under that goal.

Some advances in the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals are evident today.

A set of pragmatic, targeted policy approaches have made that progress possible.

Progress on implementing the Millennium Development Goals was uneven.

Progress towards their goals has been woefully inadequate.

Despite progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, a great deal must still be done to address the poverty and despair that deprive so many people of basic human needs and dignity.

Towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration

Identifying objectives and strategies towards achieving these objectives are concrete steps towards the achievement of the group's overall goal.

We believe that the one and only approach that should be taken in assessing the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for the least developed countries is to take stock of the implementation of the Programme of Action.

But progress here has been uneven.

Tens of millions of people have been added to the hundreds of millions already below the poverty line, reversing progress toward attaining the world s Millennium Development Goals.

Despite improved collaboration among international agencies and improvement in the data available to support indicators, the quality and availability of data is not yet sufficient to reliably monitor progress in the achievement of MDGs.

As technology advances, it has become more and more difficult to escape it.

I believe that they will continue to advance toward democracy.

To promote gender equality is to promote progress towards global development.

In Africa, progress in achieving Millennium Development Goals remains painfully slow.

Five years after the Millennium Declaration of 2000, they reviewed progress made in implementing the Millennium Development Goals.

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