by Johan Bergenas
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by Johan Bergenas
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An impressive consortium of governments, multilateral organizations, philanthropic foundations, nongovernmental organizations and even celebrities answered the U.N.’s call to implement the so-called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the past 15 years, partly due to the MDGs agenda, progress was made on a wide range of these development challenges: Extreme poverty was cut in half; deaths from malaria and tuberculosis were drastically reduced; millions of people gained access to anti-retroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS; and more boys and girls around the world were enrolled in school than ever before.
Available at: http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/15308/sustainable-partnership-security-and-the-post-2015-development-goals