Advocating for the MDGs

Royal MDG Tiger Bangladesh is committed to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) by 2015 and it is imperative to understand the concept by the mass people. In June 2005, a field survey conducted by the UNDP Bangladesh communications unit shows that less than 3% people knows about the MDGs.

It is crucial to localize the MDGs through a strategic communications and advocacy plan and expand its outreach from policy level to grassroots level. Also, there remains considerable distance to go to achieve all of the MDGs and to assure a balanced progress of the whole nation. UN has to play a major role considering that vast majority of the people live in the rural areas and the MDGs can only be realized through local action.

To develop a global partnership for development with other countries, Bangladesh needs strong communications policy to assure cooperation from the donors. Thus the aim of this project is to bring the MDGs closer to people with elements of education or advocacy that is planned to have maximum effect towards localizing the MDGs within a defined time frame. (more...)

Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report
As the global campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals gains momentum, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh is working on promoting the goals in a number of ways. In 2005, the first Bangladesh MDG progress report was launched. The aim of this report is to help policy makers and other decision makers to understand where Bangladesh stands in terms of the goals, and what areas need attention in order for the nation to meet these goals. (more...)