Report on the Survey-Questionnaire
AICESIS NGO Universities
Project AICESIS NGO Universities for
the implementation of the Millennium
Development Goals
Study on the development of new
academic programmes, pedagogical
tools and educational software, for
promoting the advancement and
achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals in conjunction with
civil society organisations, the National
Economic and Social Councils and
institutions of higher education.
Project AICESIS NGO Universities for
the implementation of the Millennium
Development Goals
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Questionnaire for Non-Governmental
Organizations
Questionnaire for the National Economic
and Social Councils
Questionnaire for the Universities
Questionnaire for NGOs
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2.
To what extent the September 2000 United Nations
Millennium Declaration, the 2015 Millennium
Development Goals and the recent UN reports on
these topics have been promoted and discussed within
your NGO? Can you provide copy of the papers or
reports resulting from such discussions and meetings?
Did you government or Ministry of Education inform
your country’s NGOs of the above UNMD, MDG,
national reports, etc? (examples)
Questionnaire for NGOs
3. Has your NGO (or others) been invited by Universities
or by your government to review and revise existing
teaching/training programmes, in view of making them
more responsive to the 8 most important MDGs?
(examples)
4. If you have not been invited, would you accept such
invitation to improve existing programmes, in order to
better train students and NGOs involved in the
MDGs?
5. Which of your countries universities’ teaching, training
courses, diplomas and departments are currently most
relevant to the eight major development goals? (please
provide a list)
Questionnaire for NGOs
6. Do any of your country’s universities’ teaching and
training courses and diplomas already include
components or modules related to the eight Millennium
Development Goals? (provide list)
7. Do these diplomas lead to careers or professions
related to the implementation of the MDGs? (provide
list)
8. Is your NGO involved with the government in the
implementation and insertion of MDG’s in teaching
and training programmes?
Questionnaire for NGOs
9. Is there a National Plan or strategy by your government
to implement MDGs in its activities or to promote
them in the public and private sectors or your country,
or in any of its regions?
10. What are your suggestions and recommendations for a
strategic approach incorporate more closely MDGs in
training and teaching programmes, at the national level?
At the international level?
The Eight
Millennium Development Goals
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Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Promote Gender Equality And Empower Women
Reduce Child Mortality
Improve Maternal Health
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria And Other Diseases
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Develop A Global Partnership For Development
Millennium Development Goals
Road Map (A/56/326 – 6 September 2001)
Poverty and
Hunger
Primary
Education
Empower
Women
By
Child
Mortality
HIV/AIDS and
other Diseases
2015
191
Member
States
Environmental
Sustainability
Maternal
Health
Partnership for
Development
The 66 NGOs which responded to
the Questionnaire
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Association Mauritanienne pour le Bien-Être et
le Secours de l'Enfant et de la Mère
All India Women's Education Fund Association
All China’s Women’s Federation
AlvarAlice Foundation
Armenian relief society
Associations Points Coeur
Association mondiale pour l'Ecole instrument
de paix
Association Tunisiennes des Mères
ATD quart monde
Association Tunisienne de la Communication
Black Sea University Foundation
Bunyad Literacy Community Council
Business Association for the World Social
Summit
China Association of Women Entrepreneurs
Confederation of European Forest Owners
Chinese Association for International
Understanding
China Association for NGO Cooperation
China Care and Compassion Society
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China Law Society
China Society for Promotion of Guangcai
Program
Chinese People's Association for Peace and
Disarmament
Chinese People's Poltical Consultative
conference Feng Cui
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Community of Sant’Egidio
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Coordination Sud
Development Network of Indigenous
Voluntary Associations
Education International
Fédération Internationale Terre des
Hommes
Federation for Women and Family Planning
Fédération Internationale des Associations
de Personnes Agées
Fondation Internationale Carrefour
Fondation Vertue Nour
Fondation haïtienne pour l'habitat et
l'intégration des sans-abris
Franciscans International
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The 66 NGOs which responded
to the Questionnaire
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Fund of Aid for Youth
Global Policy Forum
Hope For The Nations
International Baccalaureate Organization
Istanbul International Brotherhood and
Solidarity Association
Institute for the Development of
Education, Arts & Leisure
Institute of International Social
Development
International Association “ZNANIE”
International Institute for Education
International
Initiative of Change International
International Chamber of Commerce
International Ontopsychology
Association
International Society Military Law
Japanese Confederation of Trade Unions
Korea Freedom League
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MIAMSI
Organisation for Industrial, Spiritual and
Cultural Advancement
Peace Boat
Peter Hesse Foundation
Rotary International
Sawiris Foundation
Shumei
The International Shinto Foundation
United Nations Association of China
World Alliance of YMCA
World Family Organisation
World Federation of Trade Unions
World Information Transfer, Inc.
World Movement of Mothers
World Scout Bureau
World for World Organization
Zayed International Prize for the
Environment
The 66 NGOs, Divided According To
UN Classification Of Economic
Development Of The Country
9
Least Developed
Countries
4
Developing
Countries
21
Economies in
transition
Economically
Developed countries
25
7
international
The 66 NGOs which replied to
the Questionnaire
Asia and the pacific
(19)
Africa (4)
North America (7)
Europe and CIS (21)
Latin America and
the Caribbean (3)
Arab States (3)
International (9)
Country Reports
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191 countries have committed to issuing a
National Country Report every year
However, to this date only 71 countries
have produced and published National
Country Reports:
www.undp.org/mdg/countryreports.html
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Country Reports (71)
Afghanistan | Albania | Argentina | Armenia | Azerbaijan |
Bahrain | Bangladesh | Benin | Bolivia | Bosnia and
Herzegovina | Bhutan | Brazil | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso |
Cambodia | Cameroon | Central African Republic | Chad |
China | Congo (Democratic Republic) | Croatia | Czech
Republic | Dominican Republic | Egypt | El Salvador |
Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guatemala | Haiti |
Honduras | Hungary | Iran Ivory Coast | Jamaica |
Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kyrgyzstan | Lebanon | Lithuania |
Madagascar | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius| Malaysia |
Mongolia | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Nepal |
Nigeria | Occupied Palestinian Territory | Panama | Paraguay
| Philippines | Peru | Poland | Rwanda | Sao Tome &
Principe | Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Slovakia | Slovenia |
Swaziland | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Tunisia |
Ukraine | Uruguay | Viet Nam
The Global Distribution of
application of the MDGs
according to country reports
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Country reports
Answ ered the questionnaire
Latin America Europe and CIS
and the
Caribbean
Arab States
Asia and the
Pacific
Africa
The
Millennium
Development
Goals
Millennium Development Goal: 1
Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger
Millennium Development Goal: 1
Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger
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Reduce by half the proportion of people living
on less than a dollar a day
Reduce by half the proportion of people who
suffer from hunger
Millennium Development Goal: 1
Eradicate Extreme Poverty And Hunger
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The Virtue Foundation held a panel meeting on eradicating poverty
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The Virtue foundation sent a medical mission to Cambodia to perform
oculoplastic surgery on victims of acid burns and made a documentary
which addressed the interconnection between poverty, security and
injustice and the need for legal reform in developing countries to secure
the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.
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Peter Hesse Foundation organizes campaigns at the national level in
Germany: entitled voices against poverty
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Deniva published a report on the eradication of poverty
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Alvaralice Foundation is involved in the eradication of poverty through
the development of social development projects with the government
Millennium Development Goal: 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Millennium Development Goal: 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education
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Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full
course of primary education
Millennium Development Goal: 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education
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The Virtue Foundation has hosted a panel discussion on education in the
21st century
Peace Boat created its own university with modules dedicated to education
as outlined in Goal two of the MDGs
AIWEFA wants to give all girls the means to complete a full cycle of
primary education.
BUNYAD attended several conferences promoting education for all
Millennium Development Goal: 3
Promote Gender Equality and Empower
Women
Millennium Development Goal: 3
Promote Gender Equality and Empower
Women
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Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education preferably by 2005, and at
all levels by 2015
Millennium Development Goal: 3
Promote Gender Equality and Empower
Women
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AIWEFA attended the 49th session of the Committee on the Status of Women
AIWEFA attended the international conference ‘Gender mainstreaming and
the MDGs’ 28th-30th March 2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan
The Armenian Relief Society organized a workshop in 2004 entitled; an
empathies on engaging boys and men as full partners of women and children
CAWE attended a special forum on macro-management from gender
perspective
Alvaralice Foundation promotes gender equality by supporting programs that
offer social assistance and vocational training to low-income or displaced
women in Columbia
Millennium Development Goal: 4
Reduce Child Mortality
Millennium Development Goal: 4
Reduce Child Mortality
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Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate
among children under five.
Millennium Development Goal: 4
Reduce Child Mortality
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In November 2003 I.D.E.A.L. organised a conference entitled ‘Prenatal
Education and hope for the future’
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BUNYAD published a research paper on infant mortality entitled
“Knowledge and Practice of Reproductive Health Indicators: Safe
Motherhood, Child Survival, Infertility 2000” in collaboration with SPF
Millennium Development Goal: 5
Improve Maternal Health
Millennium Development Goal: 5
Improve Maternal Health
Reduce by three quarters the maternal
mortality ratio
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Millennium Development Goal: 5
Improve Maternal Health
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The Virtue foundation held a panel discussion on ‘Healthcare in the 21st
century’
In November 2003 I.D.E.A.L. organised a conference entitled ‘Prenatal
Education and hope for the future’
BUNYAD created medical colleges which operate in the field of
Reproductive Health.
BUNYAD published a research paper on ‘Maternal Health’
Millennium Development Goal: 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases
Millennium Development Goal: 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases
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Halt and begin to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases
Millennium Development Goal: 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases
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The Armenian Relief Society organised a workshop in 2004 entitled:
‘HIV/AIDS Education, Prevention and Care’
AIWEFA organised a seminar related to the MDGs with the research and
advisory centre for HIV/AIDS as a key speaker.
Alvaralice Foundation deals with projects concerning HIV/AIDS and
health of various segments of the population that are particularly
vulnerable.
Millennium Development Goal: 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Millennium Development Goal: 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
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Integrate the principles of sustainable development into
country policies and programmes; reverse loss of
environmental resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100
million slum dwellers by 2020
Millennium Development Goal: 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
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OISCA contributed to environmental sustainability through a
holistic approach basing themselves on the interconnectivity of
agriculture, ecological integrity and human spirit.
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AIWEFA introduced a committee of experts to create an
obligatory module: a 6 month environmental studies module in all
branches of higher education
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Global Policy Forum attended the Commission on Sustainable
Development as well as the Johannesburg Summit
Millennium Development Goal: 8
Develop a Global Partnership for
Development
Millennium Development Goal: 8
Develop a Global Partnership for
Development
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The Armenian Relief Society organised a workshop in 2002
entitled ‘From less than zero: Opportunities in rebuilding
economies’
Peace Boat is an important partner in the global partnership for the
prevention of armed conflict.
Global Policy Forum organised an NGO work group, which deals
with Security Council issues.
BUNYAD worked on a number of projects in partnership with the
World Bank, the ILO and the Punjab government in India.
The Goals that the 66 NGOs have
targeted
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Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
Goal 4
Goal 5
Goal 6
Goal 7
Goal 8
Examples of two NGOs
North/South
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Institute for the Development of Education, Arts
and Leisure (I.D.E.A.L.) (Canada)
2.
Institute of International Social Development (India)
Natacha Kolesar,
Founder & President
Amy Kraft, Director
Institute for the Development of
Education, Arts & Leisure (I.D.E.A.L.)
(Canada)
MDG: Goal 1,7
1 - Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
7 - Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Model eco-village based on socio-economic sustainability and community
living. Improving the use of natural resources, protecting complex ecosystems,
preventing land degradation and assuring sustainable biodiversity through
permaculture and organic farming by:
• Creating non-transgenic seed banks
• Promoting healthy nutrition through organic agriculture and
permaculture
Sharing material possessions, living space and food production prevents
“sleeping capital” and considerably increases the efficiency of resources. This
model offers a key to eradicate poverty and hunger. (Statistics available).
• The I.D.E.A.L. community has 75 permanent residents who have
supported and participated daily in the above project.
MDG: Goals 2,3
2 - Achieve Universal Primary Education
3 - Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Mothers hold the key for humanity’s future and they need to be given the
conditions to work consciously for their children and future generations. The
first educator is the mother. Why? The mother, with her power of thoughts,
with the power of her beauty and clarity of goal, with her desires, can prepare
the space, the soil, the feelings of her child with unconditional love, especially
during pregnancy.
• Establishing an international network of education, health, and healing
centers.
•Student Scholarship Programme Initiative.
•Seminars, lectures and workshops on education given by Dr. Natacha
Kolesar in Canada, France, the U.S, Switzerland, Russia, Costa Rica, Italy,
Togo, Ivory Coast, Germany, India, Mexico, Honduras, France and North
America.
•Promotion of equality in education of both sexes
MDG: Goals 4,5,6
4 - Reduce Child Mortality
5 - Improve Maternal Health
6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Building prenatal education centers and birth and health centers worldwide, where
specialists in various fields will assist, instruct and prepare future parents, and work
with pregnant women from local and international communities.
• Organized the 3rd International Conference on Perinatal Health in Montreal,
Canada
• 27 month programme for mothers before and after birth
• Lectures at the U.N. and worldwide: “Prenatal Education and the Future of
Mankind”, “Education and Non-Violence”, “The Role of Women in the New
Millenium”, “Health and Nutrition”, “Youth and Creativity in the Future”,
“Preconception Work”, “The New Educational System”
• Alternative therapies and Health Centers offer services such as Midwifery, Music
therapy, Bio-psychology, Bioanalogy (the psychology of illness and its effect on
biology), Sophro-analysis (the discovery of our hidden feelings), Osteopathy, etc.
MDG: Goal 8
8- Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Core social values underlying I.D.E.A.L. activities and programmes: the
creation of a new vision of humanity as one family. Directors, professionals,
contributors, students, and participants represent diverse racial, ethnic,
national, religious, and linguistic backgrounds. Their collective expertise and
growing international network of educators and supporters will allow them to:
1) Advise on issues that relate to social progress and policies that promote that
progress,
2) Suggest practical ways of educating the public about social development issues,
and
3) Help improve international understanding of those issues through the exchange
of information and experience/develop a global partnership for development.
Examples:
• Creation of I.D.E.A.L. Bangladesh, I.D.E.A.L. France and I.D.E.AL. U.S.A.
• Student exchange and lectures with the UN University of Peace, Costa Rica
• Financial assistance to orphanages in India, Rumania and Russia
Institute of International Social
Development (India)
Millennium Development Goal: 1
Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
 Project Shramdaan - Income Generation Program for jobless youths
through recommendations to the Institute’s Corporate Benefactors
 Self Help Groups for Adult Rural Women - Imparting training to use
grinding machines to grind raw spices and sell the ground spices to earn a living.
 Joint Base-Line Survey of Tribal Families with the Government of India,
Tribal Affairs Ministry on ‘Tribal Artisans below Poverty-line’
 Self Help groups for 300 poverty-stricken Tribal Artisans to improve
their living conditions and become bankable by exposing them to new incomegenerating schemes including tribal handicrafts and handloom-making
 Submission of Recommendation on Sustainable Self Help Group
Module which has been accepted as official UN Document by the ECOSOC
for Self Reliance for Least Developed Nations
Millennium Development Goals: 2,3
Achieve Universal Primary Education;
Promote Gender Equality and Empower
Women
 Project Sushiksha: Literacy Program for Rural and Urban Slum Women to
give basic education to themselves and ensure appropriate education of their
children in the long run
 The Institute represented the Government of West Bengal, Ministry
of Social Welfare in the Central Advisory Committee of the Women and
Child Welfare Ministry, Government of India, and gave views on preventing
illicit cross border trafficking of women and children from the neighbouring
Nations or from remote rural areas
Millennium Development Goals: 4,5
Prevent Child Mortality; Improve
Maternal Health
 Pursuance of Condom Legislation to stop the birth of unhealthy or
unwanted children through Mass Signatures submitted to the State
Health Minister-in-Charge, Government of West Bengal, Hon’ble Dr.
Surjya Kanta Mishra, in June 2003
 Conduct regular Health Check-up camps and Nutrition awareness
programmes for pregnant or lactating mothers
 Regular observances of the UN Days on related issues
Millennium Development Goal: 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases
 Project HOPE - HIV Prevention Programs campaigned through the Institute’s Free
Clinic at Sonagachhi Red Light Zone, Kolkata
- Conducting of Free Blood Testing for 500 willing Sex-workers and their Children to
find their HIV status
-Promotion of Condom usage amongst clients of Sexworkers
 Celebration of World AIDS Day at Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the
Governor of West Bengal, in December 2002
 Implementation of ‘Kamasutra’ based Safe Sex Entertainment Module amongst
Sex workers and their clients to diminish the risk of HIV/AIDS infection.
Acknowledged and reported in BBC, Los Angeles Times, AFC and numerous other
international media.
 Conducted a 12-day International 2-Wheeler-Rally on HIV/AIDS from India to
Nepal which touched the route in which trans-border flesh trade is prevalent
 Conducted an Origami Workshop by Miss Chiho Miyake, a Japanese Intern of
IISD, for bringing Self Reliance amongst HIV Patients of West Bengal. Confederation
of Indian Industry ensured afterwards the sales of the Handicrafts
Millennium Development Goal: 7
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Observation of the annual World Environment Week by way of
distributing Green Plants and helping school children with their AntiPollution Rallies
Distribution of Green Plants, in red-light zone by Dr. P.K. Agrawal,
Principal Secretary, Ministry of Social Welfare, Government of West
Bengal
Anti-Pollution Walk, supported by Ms Reshmi Ghosh (Miss India
2001)
Millennium Development Goal: 8
Develop Global Partnership for
Development
 Organization of an UN-NGO –IRENE Meet on the Role of Women
Empowerment in Poverty Alleviation
 Ms. Najet Karaboni, Senior Interregional Advisor and Project Coordinator
UN-NGO-IRENE in Kolkata, with our tribal artisans and their handicrafts
 We organized the United Nations Procurement Conference on “How to
do Business with the United Nations and become its supplier”. Eight High-level
UN Procurement Officials from UNPS, ILO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UN
Oversight, WFP, WIPO, FAO as well as 131 Heads of Indian Companies for a
productive Buyer-Seller-Meet with a sustainable outcome for Indo-UNBusiness!
 Institute appointed ‘Institutional Ambassador’ to the UN system for
Indian Handicrafts, by the Office of the Development Commissioner, Ministry
of Textiles, Government of India
Outcomes of the NGO
Questionnaire
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The NGOs need be better informed and
involved in the preparation of their Country
Report
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The Country Reports are a reference tool for the NGOs
to address the MDGs
These reports will benefit from NGO contribution
Partnership between the NGOs, with
governments and the education sector is
essential
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More cooperation and coordination amongst the
aforementioned is needed for the successful achievement
of the MDGs
Suggestions of NGOs in the
Questionnaire
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Strengthen or establish capacity building programmes
such as human resources, socio-economic and physical
infrastructure.
Cross-fertilisation, networking and partnerships at
national, regional and international levels.
Work with universities to promote the inclusion of
MDGs into their curriculum, enriched by field work
experiences.
Integrate a youth perspective and participation and
develop youth centres of excellence in the evaluation and
solution-seeking for all MDGs.
Select a MDG Youth Ambassador to increase awareness
of the MDGs amongst youth and raise their participation
worldwide.
Suggestions of NGOs in the
Questionnaire
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Increase the number of international conferences
involving students, academia and professionals to
promote awareness and information sharing.
Test the efficiency of MDG teaching programmes
in a controlled manner in order to measure their
impact.
Understand the causes for dehumanising
conditions.
Establish a Communication and Information
service in every school in order to publicise the
progress of the MDGs.
Suggestions of NGOs in the
Questionnaire
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Train NGOs (Training of Trainers “ToT”) involved in
MDG implementation, in order for these NGOs to train
other NGOs and people in the country and region.
Engage educators worldwide to MDGs and commit
more resources to train teachers effectively and include
MDGs as part of their training program in partnership
with local authorities.
Assess MDG awareness to draw up a need-based
program; help local leaders to work within the framework
of the government plan; encourage partnership between
NGOs, civil society, private sector and local leaders.
Suggestions of NGOs in the
Questionnaire
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Prevent the “brain drain” by having the government and the
corporate sector offer attractive alternatives.
Organise symposiums, conferences and workshops aimed at
both educating communities, particularly social development
sector professionals, and working with local structures to
access human and financial resources.
Design a communication campaign directly involving and
targeting specific media segments (written press, radio,
television, internet, etc.) in order to obtain their commitment
in the design and promotion of a MDG awareness campaign.
Utilize organizations to produce public service
announcements encouraging broadcast media to develop
shows on MDGs, approaching production companies and
documentary filmmakers to address MDGs, encouraging
publishers and editors of print media to incorporate stories
about MDG issue.
Suggestions of NGOs in the
Questionnaire
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Broadcast Internet courses on Information
Communication Technology (ICT) as an
essential tool for the MDG implementation.
Have the UN develop school curriculums to be
taught at the elementary and high school levels.
Encourage local NGOs to make themselves
available as guest speakers.
Mobilise communities, municipalities and local
authorities as key actors for an enlightened dayto-day implementation of the MDGs.
NGOs have been active in increasing the
awareness of the Millennium Development
Goals. The NGO survey indicates that
communication and coordination among
governments, academia and civil society are
lagging. Cross-fertilisation amongst them will
enhance the implementation of the MDGs.
A more interactive grassroots approach along
with a fine-tuned psycho-pedagogical tools are
requested in order to engage and enroll the
educators and their students in the achievement
of the MDGs by 2015.
Thank You!
Hanifa MEZOUI, Chief,
NGO Section DESA/ECOSOC
Tel 1 212 963 1183 - Fax 1 212 963 9248 –
Email : mezoui@un.org