The first Millennium Development Goals Progress Report in the Kyrgyz Republic. UN system in Kyrgyzstan and UNDP initiated the preparation of this MDGs progress report. The report is to measure the progress made since all the development players in Kyrgyzstan, along with the government, started to exert their efforts to achieve significant improvements in people’s lives. It’s aimed at not only to measure the progress but also to take lessons from it and shape further steps in achieving the MDGs. (source:
UNDP Kyrgyzstan)
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. (source: the
United Nations)