THE NIGHT OF THE AD EATERS SUPORTS
THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPEMENT GOALS

The Night of the Ad eaters supports The Millennium Development Goals in partnership with The United Nations Development Programme.

The 8 Millennium Development Goals.
The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases.

Set for the year 2015, the MDGs are an agreed set of goals that can be achieved if all actors work together and do their part. Poor countries have pledged to govern better, and invest in their people through health care and education. Rich countries have pledged to support them, through aid, debt relief, and fairer trade.

How is UNDP helping?
UNDP is working with a wide range of partners to help create coalitions for change to support the goals at global, regional and national levels, to benchmark progress towards them, and to help countries to build the institutional capacity, policies and programmes needed to achieve the MDGs.

Guided by the UN Core Strategy, UNDP's work on the MDGs focuses on coordinating global and local efforts that:

• Campaign and mobilise for the MDGs through advocacy.
• Share the best strategies for meeting the MDGs in terms of innovative practices, policy and institutional reforms, means of policy implementation, and evaluation of financingoptions.
• Monitor and report progress towards the MDGs.
• Support governments in tailoring the MDGs to local circumstances and challenge.

To learn more about the MGDs, log on to:

www.undp.org
www.mdgmonitor.org
www.teamstoendpoverty.org

UNDP’S Role
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

• Democratic Governance
• Poverty Reduction
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Energy and Environment
• HIV/AIDS

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

The MDGs provide a framework for the entire UN system to work coherently together toward a common end. UNDP’s global development network on the ground in 166 countries is uniquely positioned to help advocate for change, connect countries to knowledge and resources, and coordinate broader efforts at the country level. UNDP's work on the MDGs is guided by the United Nations Core Strategy on MDGs and focuses on:

• Campaigning & mobilisation: Supporting advocacy for the MDGs and working with partners to mobilise the commitments and capabilities of broad segments of society to build awareness on the MDGs;

• Analysis: Researching and sharing best strategies for meeting the MDGs in terms of innovative practices, policy and institutional reforms, means of policy implementation, and evaluation of financing options;
  

• Monitoring: Helping countries report advancement towards the MDGs and track progress;

• Operational activities: Goal-driven assistance to support governments to tailor MDGs to local circumstances and challenges; address key constraints to progress on the MDGs.