Government

The Millennium Development Goals must be realised by 2015. The Dutch Cabinet shares this priority. What is the Dutch government doing to achieve the goals? What progress have governments around the world made so far? And what issues will require more hard work to realise?

Some of the Millennium Development Goals are well on their way to completion. China has significantly reduced poverty levels, and more children in India are going to school. A growing group of Africans have access to AIDS medicine. However, world trade is still unfair and much more could be done to improve the environment, clean drinking water and hunger. This will require additional efforts from everyone involved.

Government efforts
The Dutch government has included the Millennium Development Goals as one of the ten cabinet-wide projects in its coalition accord: Project 2015. In so doing, the government hopes to pick up the pace in order to realise the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Read more on the website. Here you can find a brief summary per goal of what the Netherlands is doing to keep its promises.

Millennium Development Goals Atlas
In cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NCDO has developed the Millennium Development Goals Atlas. This atlas provides a glimpse of the current state of affairs in the progress towards achieving the Millennium Goals. Which countries are on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015? And which countries still have much to do?

The atlas provides the most recent statistics on the progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals per country. The map of the world changes dramatically per goal and clearly shows which countries suffer from the worst poverty. The atlas also includes information on what the Netherlands is doing to achieve the goals.

You can use the Millennium Development Goals Atlas in the classroom, and we are currently developing lesson materials to use with the atlas.

Would you like to know more?
Go to: www.Millennium Development Goalsatlas.nl (currently only available in Dutch).