In the year 2000, Member States agreed upon 8 main development goals to ensure a sustainable development for the entire world. Now we are in the year 2015, which is when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are set to expire. It is time to look back to see whether the goals are achieved or not. Member States have come across many problems in implementing the 8 main goals; therefore, during the committee delegates have to find the solutions to these problems. Now, it is time to set up new goals and guidance for the whole world, which will determine the road to development. Before, moving on to details of MDGs, here are the eight Millennium
Development Goals:
1) Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger
2) Achieving Universal Primary Education
3) Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women
4) Reducing Child Mortality
5) Improving Maternal Health
6) Combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
7) Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
8) Global Partnership for Development
Extreme Poverty: A poverty line under which a person can’t survive.
Renewable Energy: The earth friendly energy that is produced from renewable energy sources such as, solar energy, geothermal energy, and wind energy.

Sustainable Development: The long- term development of a country, production of non-temporary solutions to the problems by considering the future.
Global Partnership: Cooperation of Member States. Financial, educational, agricultural, social, technological support of developed countries to developing countries.
Less Economically Developed Countries: Countries that have not achieved economic development. These countries are dependent to other countries and organizations.
These countries consume more than they produce, which results in a debt.
In the past fifteen years, countries achieved a global partnership in order to help other countries to achieve Millennium Development Goals. Each Member State achieved different goals in different amounts, however it can be seen that the world is improved compared to fifteen years ago. While the Millennium Development Goals achieved quite a lot in the past fifteen years, it is important to remember that there are many areas in which there is room for improvement. According to the development reports, some countries made a great shift whereas some countries couldn’t, like the Sub-Saharan country Togo. There are some goals that are required to be revised and improved for next 15 years. In general, here are the problems
Member States encountered in trying to implement the Millennium Development
Goals: a) Inefficient Way of Using Sources and Potentials b) Corruption c) International Conflicts d) Internal Conflicts e) Sustainability f) Prioritizing the Goals g) Measure of the Goals
Every Member State has unique potential and sources; therefore they have again unique problems and solutions for each development goal. In the past 15 years, countries could have used their sources more efficiently in the progress of Millennium
Development Goals. Now, it is the time to ask the questions : Why don’t countries use their sources for their own good? Do they have guidance and support from their country or from international community? For example, some countries in Africa have natural resources such as oil and gas; however most of their citizens don’t have access to electric ity. These countries don’t have the money to invest in oil and gas facilities. They don’t have enough qualified workers to plan, build and control the facilities. Even if the country finds out that there is oil just 100 m below the surface, if there isn’t necessary equipment and workers, the oil stays under the surface. That’s why international partnership is necessary for development of African countries.

During these 15 years, a lot of support has been made to countries for MDGs.
However, do all the money go wherever it supposed to go? Corruption is a problem for funding of the projects that are planned for development. Sometimes, the money can’t find its way and the budget planned for that project doesn’t end up in its initial target. While determining the new Millennium Development Goals, delegates may consider finding a solution to this problem. This problem may be solved when the money initially planned for the project arrives to people directly by organizations.
Also, delegates may consider the solution that is relevant organization can ensure that money is arrived to its target.
Conflicts between countries affect not only the countries that are in conflict, but indirectly affect other countries, as well. Not a long time ago, countries like Ukraine,
Afghanistan and Pakistan have lived with the conflicts that pulled them behind. States that are in a conflict with other state(s) may not be able to use their sources for development because they will have to use them for mi litary expenditures. That’s why; international conflicts are big obstacles for achieving Millennium Development
Goals. If a country spends its budget on militarization by producing weapons, buying war ships, and investing on military development how would you expect this country to focus on extreme poverty or sustainable energy areas? As, said in the beginning, these conflicts don’t only affect two countries, also affects others. For example, when a country increases its military investments and focuses on militarization, its neighbors see this as a threat and the neighbors also increase their military investments. It also decreases the global partnership all around the world. If political stability is ensured in the region, the countries will focus more on their development and achieving goals.
Similar to the conflicts between countries, interior conflicts weaken a country’s progress through Millennium Development Goals. For example, Syria has internal conflicts ongoing approximately for four years, which makes it harder to achieve
Millennium Development Goals. Every day, instead of constructing more on the current situation, the current situation is harmed. Political instability, chaos atmosphere, increase in tension are a couple of results of the interior conflicts. It is a little bit possible for citizens to unite and end conflicts with other countries, however if an interior conflict occurs there is no unity amongst the citizens, the nation fights within itself and therefore it becomes harder to stabilize the country. These conflicts distract a country and prevent development.
During these 15 years, Member States put lots of efforts to achieve development in their countries and in the other countries. They achieved a development; however a question appears in minds: Is this development temporary? For example, Togo and other African countries were under the effect of malaria. During this time area, there were supports arriving from all around the world, such as mosquito nets to families.
However, will Togo and other countries be able to solve the problem themselves? Do they have a healthcare system that can ensure long term solutions for Malaria? In order to ensure a world that lives in prosperity, sustainable development should be

achieved in countries. Sustainable development means that there are long-term solutions to the problems; the solutions are not only for current status quo. If a plan analyses current status quo and sees what will happen in the future, that development program will be sustainable. For example, giving two packets of flour to each family to solve the inefficient nutrition in the region will only be a temporary solution. Going with the same example, every family could get some size of territory where they can plant and grow vegetables to eat. Improving and encouraging agriculture may create a solution that creates a solution where people can help themselves independently.
It is also important to remember that states should ensure environment sustainability and keep the nature clean. The earth has limited sources such as coal, oil and forests. Therefore, the countries should decrease the pollution and effect to the earth.
In last 20 years, Member States became more aware of this fact and initiated nature friendly programs to ensure environmental sustainability. Recycling the produced products and using renewable energy sources should be the aim of the Member
States.
Achievement of 8 goals in 15 years may seem easy for some countries, however some countries are struggling to achieve even one of them. How can you expect a country that cannot supply enough nutrition to its citizens to have a good health system? Delegates may consider prioritizing goals and making them achievable for developing countries. This prioritization may encourage developing countries to become enthusiastic and hopeful for the future. Prioritizing goals may encourage developed countries to improve their sustainable energy usage and producing solutions to global warming.
The countries may first want to focus on basic needs of human nature such as getting enough nutrition, getting good healthcare and having a healthy place to live.
For example, the countries may first focus on the first goal that is eradicating extreme poverty. Then, they can focus on creating a good healthcare system and improving education for the future of the country. Then, the countries can focus on improving human rights and maximize the environmental sustainability in the country. If the country is achieving the goals, the country can assist other countries in terms of global partnership.
In order to understand why all countries couldn’t achieve all or some of the goals, the measures of the goals should be revised. Amongst these 8 goals, some of them are outdated and some of them are utopic. One of the outdated goals is eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. The extreme poverty line is very low compared to prices of products . Therefore, the goal is not suitable for today’s conditions. Also, the prices of products are not low in Less Economically Developed Countries. Economies of
Less Economically Developed Countries are dependent to foreign investments, instead of national ones. Therefore, raw materials necessary for industry and consumer goods are expensive compared to the income level. There is a necessity to renew the measure of economic growth and extreme poverty.
Secondly, the goal that is outdated is achieving universal primary education because it is almost accomplished by most of the Member States. That’s why for the next term, there should be a new goal for education. If you want to learn how developed

countries became successful, the answer would be the diverse higher education. The education determines the future of a country, that’s why it is important for new development goals to aim good education. The country will produce its own human resources for the future.
Thirdly, ensuring environmental sustainability would be utopic for countries that even couldn’t achieve the first goal. If a country has electricity access lower than 25% of its territory, how can you expect this country to transform its energy generating systems from oil to renewable energy solutions? That’s why the measure of the goals should be redesigned for next goals.
United States of America is a developed country that is in the position to have a great involvement in global partnership by supporting developing countries to achieve their development goals. The country is one of the big suppliers of the budget of
United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
France is a country that helped Algeria and other North-African countries in their hard times. The support of France reaches to other continents.
China is the country with the highest population in the world. The country gained a massive shift in their economic growth in previous years with its great work power potential and great amount of qualified workers. However, the country faces with some difficulties to due to its great population. The country needs to improve its healthcare and education systems. There are schools with over 15000 students. It is hard to educate and offer good healthcare system to a population of nearly 1.4 billion people, however there can be solutions to this.
United Kingdom is a developed country with developed economy. Even if there are some difficulties in European Union, United Kingdom is not affected badly because their currency is not Euro. The country is also a big supplier of the United Nations
Development Program’s budget by helping countries to achieve Millennium
Development Goals.
Russia is a developed country with great energy resources such as oil and gas.
Therefore, the country is involved in other country’s industrial development by supplying oil and gas. The natural resources of the country are carried by pipes through Europe, which gives birth to regional development of its neighbors. Projects like Nabucco, creates business areas and employment in the region. Nabucco projects caries Asian natural resources to Europe that has an improved industry. The gas from Azerbaijan and Georgia is carried to Eastern and Central Europe.
Rwanda: Have you ever heard the program that provides computer-involvededucation to students with computers worth only 100 US dollars? It might be hard to believe that there is a widely used computer, which can display educational applications and has wireless connection. Rwanda had a great shift in their education system with these computers. They caught the global education standards only in a couple of years with the help of global partnership. The computer excludes additional functions of a normal computer that are not going to be used, thus eradicating the additional costs of a computer.

September 2000
2002
14-16 September 2005
25 September 2008
2010
25 September 2013
Millennium Development Goals are determined in New York as “United
Nations Millennium Declaration”
The United Nations Millennium
Campaign began
World Summit in New York
High-level Event on the Millennium
Development Goals generated a great support to Millennium Development
Goals
Summit on the Millennium Development
Goals
A High-Level Forum to accelerate development for Millennium
Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals expire 2015
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) works separately for the regions in the world by producing accurate regional solutions to the problems faced in the region.
UNDP has headquarters in each country to achieve development by supporting project in several ways. UNDP may involve directly in a project by working and funding as UNDP or UNDP can support and fund NGO projects. In previous 15 years, UNDP helped mostly to the countries that need the biggest amount of support.
UNDP’s budget is formed of two different parts. One is the budget coming from the
United Nations and the budget coming from the volunteers. For example, developed countries like, Norway contribute to UNDP’s budget. The budget is spent to achieve different projects in different regions.
United Nations publish development reports to see development of countries.
Delegates can find the development report of their delegation on internet.
( http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/mdg/mdg-reports/ ).
Note: Some of them might not be in English.

The summits can be seen in the timeline. The Millennium Development Goals came to today’s form in a couple of years. Therefore, it is slightly different then how they were in 2000. The summits organized through 2000 and 2015 had effects on the
Millennium Development Goals.
This is a huge topic, therefore there are various solutions made for this problem.
These solutions are sometimes made by the countries and sometimes by the United
Nations organizations and NGOs. UNDP, World Health Organization, UNICEF,
UNODA, UNESCO are organizations that are related to Millennium Development
Goals. They make a lot of projects every year that it would be hard to just name them in this document. These organizations sometimes help directly to the countries and sometimes they work in collaboration with countries by supporting them financially. In this way, they try to achieve Millennium Development Goals. There are Non-
Governmental Organizations that are functioning locally and internationally. For example, Doctors without Borders were helping people in previous years. There were a lot of doctors and healthcare personnel in Sierra Leone during the Ebola Outbreak.
Therefore, it is once again important to have global partnership to produce solutions.
As it can be seen over the past 15 years, the Millennium Development Goals were not achieved by all Member States due to several problems. One problem was that developing countries were not able to manage progress for every goal. That’s why the delegates may consider prioritizing the development goals. Every country may have their own development program with the development goals prioritized regarding to their needs. For example, United Kingdom is a developed country that is achieved most of the Millennium Development Goals. The country is nearly achieved the goals 1, 2,4,5,6 and needs more focus on achieving the goals 3, 7 and 8. If the number male and female delegates in a country’s national assembly are not approximately equal, the country should focus on gender equality. On the other hand,
Togo couldn’t achieve the goals and needs to start from the goals for the basic human needs such as food and healthcare. Togo can first focus on the goal 1 before moving on to ensuring environmental sustainability.
Secondly, delegates may consider changing the measures of goals because some goals may be too utopic whereas some goals may not cover the needs of the world.
Some goals are not achieved and may continue to be valid in future development goals whereas some goals are already achieved. Therefore, delegates may consider revising and reconsidering each goal. Delegates may think of adding, removing and editing some goals to the new development goals, which they believe would be better and more efficient for the world.
Thirdly, delegates may consider developing the application of goals. A guide for new development goals is the key for achievement. Therefore, the delegates may consider missionizing UN organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations to work in the field. Similarly, the delegates may want to arrange the budget balance for development. Should every country receive the equal amount of financial support?
Should every goal receive the equal amount of financial support or should specific goals receive more support than the others? It is important to answer these two questions for application of the new development goals.

It is important to have a good knowledge on the issue; therefore delegates may do a further research on the issue. This research can be specifically on de legate’s delegation; however it is crucial to know the situation in other regions of the world.
Delegates may find out some problems that are not tackled in the previous
Millennium Development Goals and they can come up with new goals and solutions to the problems.

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