Millennium Development Goals

"We are the generation that can end poverty"

The Millennium Development Goals are a unique opportunity to end poverty with achievable, time-bound and locally defined targets.

This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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Stubborn gaps persist between rich and poor, between rural and urban, between males and females.

In partnership with the UK's Department for International Development,  Business in the Community International has developed a series of programmes that aim to raise awareness on the MDGs. The specific goal is to mobilise business for good around this important agenda. Through a series of events including introductory workshops, MDGs fora, round tables, online resources, publications and our Coffey International Award we both celebrate companies' contributions to the achievement of the eight goals and encourage business to take action on them.

Find out more about the MDGs and the work Busines in the Community is doing around them by clicking on the sections to the left.

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