Millenium Goals

Millenium Goals

In the year 2000, the Dominican Republic became a signatory of the Millennium Declaration, in which signatory countries agree to engage in achieving the Millennium Development Objectives of the United Nations by 2015.

The PNUD, in collaboration with the Dominican Government, through the Presidential Commission for the Millennium Objectives and Sustainable development (COPDES), constantly monitors the progress achieved by the country in relation to these objectives.

The Dominican Republic forms part of seven pilot countries within the United Nations Millennium Project, directed by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, at Columbia University. The Dominican Republic is the only Latin American Country in this pilot project, and has completed an Evaluation of Needs and Cost Analysis for the ODM.

Recommended Links:

• Web Page of the ONU about ODM
  
  
• Millennium Project of the ONU
  
  
• Web page of the United Nations Program for Development (PNUD) about ODM
  
  
• Web Page of the system of United Nations Agencies in the Dominican Republic
  
  
• Web Page of the United Nations Development Program in the Dominican Republic (PNUD)
  
  
• Web Page of the United Nations Millennium Campaign
  
  
• Reports presented by the Presidential Commission regarding the Millennium Objectives and Sustainable Development
  
  
• Glossary of terms for Human Development
  
  
• The CIA World Fact Book: Dominican Republic