Millennium Development Goals links and resources

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Achieving the millennium development goals: Australia's support 2000-2010 URL:  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?ID=3676_8188_8268_6791_554 This AusAID report shows that good progress has been made on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the past decade due to the contribution of g... 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: Millennium Development Goals 2015 URL:  http://mdg2015.caritas.org/ The Millennium Development Goals represent the basic human dignities and rights which everyone should enjoy. This website provides information, resour... 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/Learn/SchoolResources/PlaytheMainGame.aspx 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... Millennium Development Goals (Caritas Australia) 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... 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...

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 MDG posters AusAID have created these three posters to profile the importance of addressing poverty by achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. There is a clear statement of each goal with its targets, a Nauruan classroom to profile the importance of achieving universal primary education (Goal 2) and a Malawian mother and child to focus on reducing child mortality (Goal 4) and improving maternal health (Goal 5). Stock numbers for ordering these posters are as follows: 872: General MDG poster 873: MDG 2 874: MDGs 4 and 5

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