Millennium Development Goals links and resources

Websites AusAID Publications Education Kits

Blueprint for a Better World: Millennium Development Goals URL:  http://www.caritas.org.au/blueprint/index.html Blueprint for a better world is a travelling multimedia exhibition which gives a practical face to the eight Millennium Development Goals. Caritas Australia- Millennium Development Goals URL:  http://www.caritas.org.au/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Millennium_Development_Goals A Catholic agency for overseas aid and development, member of Caritas Internationalis, one of the world's largest and most effective emergency respons... End Poverty 2015 URL:  http://www.endpoverty2015.org/publications This website features a number of publications about aid programs and their effectiveness in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Brochures in... Global Education Issues: Millennium Development Goals URL:  http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go/pid/3740 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)global issue module from the AusAID Global Education website includes links and resources to a range of resourc... Main Game: Millennium Development Goals URL:  http://www.worldvision.com.au/resources/globaleducation/maingame/ World Vision's Global Education resource kit is designed to give Australian students an insight into the need for the UN's eight Millennium Developmen... Make Poverty History URL:  http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/ The Make Poverty History campaign brings together a wide cross-section of organisations, faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belie... MDG monitor: Tracking the Millennium Development Goals URL:  http://www.mdgmonitor.org/ The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fas... The millennium development goals 2007 URL:  http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2007/UNSD_MDG_Report_2007e.pdf Since their adoption by all United Nations Member States in 2000, the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals have become a univer... The Millennium Development Goals report 2008 URL:  http://www.undp.org/publications/MDG_Report_2008_En.pdf The eight Millennium Development Goals have been adopted by the international community as a framework for the development activities of over 190 cou... Millennium Indicators Database URL:  http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mdg/default.aspx Statistics measuring progress towards the achievement of the United Nations millennium development goals. A framework of goals, targets and indicators...

AusAID Publications Focus Focus is a quarterly magazine published by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). It provides a variety of items about how the Australian Government’s overseas aid program addresses specific global issues. Vol. 23 No. 2 October - December 2008 profiles the MDGs http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubs.cfm?Type=PubFocus

Education Kits The Main Game – Millennium Development Goals This education package from World Vision Australia works through the MDGs in an informative, entertaining and easy to use manner. It consists of two DVDs with short films and teacher notes and worksheets, posters. There is also an interactive online game for students. Teaching materials include simulations, internet research, map reading, debating, role plays, interpreting statistics and graphs, public speaking and drama. http://www.worldvision.com.au/learn/schoolResources/mdg.asp