The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) comprise eight goals that emerged from the 2000 Millennium Summit of world leaders in New York. The MDGs provide a set of time-bound and measurable targets for combating poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease, discrimination against women, environmental degradation and promoting a global partnership for development— an accountability framework that all countries, including China, has committed themselves to.
UNDP support to achieving the MDGs in China includes (1) advocating for the MDGs targeting all UNDP partners, (2) assisting in monitoring China’s progress towards the MDGs and reporting, (3) targeted support to achieve MDG 1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, (4) targeted support to achieve MDG 3 to promote gender equality and empower women, (5) targeted support to MDG 6 to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, (6) targeted support to MDG 7 to ensure environmental sustainability and (7) targeted support to MDG 8 to develop a global partnership for development.
As part of the UN Country Team efforts, UNDP supports projects and initiatives to raise awareness among government, media, civil society and the private sector on the MDGs.
Activities include:
- Organizing workshops targeting local media to explain what are the MDGs, the role media should play and strengthen its capacities to report on MDGs.
- Intensifying advocacy efforts through UNDP engagement with private sector partners to improve awareness of the MDGs and foster business engagement.
- Strengthening the technical capacity of the national and local government to collect and analyze MDG data.
- Commissioning China’s Human Development Reports, UNDP’s flagship publication aimed at putting people at the centre of the development discourse.
As part of its mandate and involving the UN Country Team, UNDP works closely with the Government of China to monitor progress on the achievement of the MDGs and contributes to the preparation of national MDG Reports.
Activities include:
- Strengthening capacity of the national and local government to better assess progress towards the MDGs, with support to the production and publication of MDG Reports.
- Undertaking assessment of Xiao Kang goals and indicators in Chinese provinces and supporting production of Provincial Xiao Kang reports.
UNDP supports China in continuing its successful poverty reduction experience by developing new strategies to address persisting and newly emerging challenges, with particular emphasis on vulnerable groups.
Activities include:
- Strengthening government capacity to plan and manage a more balanced development process at national, provincial and local levels
- Developing specific economic sectors and public support structures to enable vulnerable groups including ethnic minorities, landless farmers and migrant workers to better partake in and benefit from economic growth
- Supporting rural development through introduction of innovative agricultural techniques, improved land management and increased access to finance for poor and low-income clients
As the host of the 4th World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, China has long demonstrated its strong commitment to gender issues. UNDP is working closely with UNIFEM and the All China Women Federation and other partners to mainstream gender in development activities and undertake specific pro-gender equity projects.
Activities include:
- Supporting dialogue between the government and CSOs on the effective implementation of the CEDAW Committee recommendations.
- Identifying strategies to protect women’s legal rights during land transfers.
- Providing tailored leadership training targeting both women in high-level positions and at local grassroots levels.
Based on its mandate to lead the human development dimensions of the epidemic and address the socio-economic implications of HIV/AIDS, UNDP advocates for placing HIV/AIDS at the centre of the MDG national strategies. In China, UNDP focuses its response to HIV/AIDS in the area of human development, governance and rights. UNDP also works with the Government and other partners to address the challenge of Avian Influenza in China.
Activities include:
- Strengthening the legislative environment and leadership at national and local levels to improve policy implementation and cross sector coordination.
- Reducing the vulnerabilities and risks within vulnerable populations including ethnic minorities, mobile populations and the rural poor in areas where HDI is low and HIV prevalence rates are high.
- Supporting the full participation of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in AIDS awareness and anti-stigma activities and providing them with training and support for them to serve as effective policy advocates and educators.
- Strengthening UN Inter-agency AI coordinating mechanism and providing a strategic framework for a collective response to Avian and Human Influenza within and beyond the UN system.
- Assisting the Government to improve national multi-sectorial Avian and Pandemic Influenza contingency planning.
China’s growth has placed great pressure on the environment. UNDP is focusing its support on issues related to sustainable energy and climate change, biodiversity and environmental sustainability, chemicals management and environmental governance.
Activities include:
- Cooperation with public and private partners to help reduce emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) that cause climate change, while helping local partners adapt to the impacts of climate change.
- Establish innovative renewable energy power systems that reduce GHG emissions but also bring needed clean energy to poor communities.
- Help to establish one of the world's cleanest coking production factories through introduction of new green technologies and innovative financing with the private sector.
- Support to the early phase out of production of ozone depleting substances and to expand use of energy efficient refrigerators, lighting and air conditioning in major urban areas.
- Awareness activities related to major events like Beijing Olympics, Shanghai Expo and Live Earth.
- Protection of biodiversity by mainstreaming ecosystem conservation into land use planning, development and investment processes.
- Support elaboration of new policies and incentives in cities across the country to integrate market based approaches to achieve improved water conservation and reduction of pollution loads.
- Improve access to clean water in country-side through exploration of new fiscal and institutional mechanisms to improve water conservation.
To assist China increasing its global and regional role and further promote South-South Cooperation as a vehicle for development assistance, to which China has long been committed to, UNDP undertakes several national and regional initiatives linking China to other countries to foster human development and regional integration
Activities include:
- Strengthening of the China-Africa partnership through the establishment of the China Africa Business Council fostering trade and investment between the Chinese and African private sector.
- Forging Public-Private Partnerships to increase the role of the Chinese private sector in development.
- Fostering regional integration and promoting regional economic and human development through initiatives such as the Greater Tumen Initiative in North-East Asia, Silk Road Initiative and establishment of a cross-border economic zone between China and Vietnam.
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Supporting an all-around XiaoKang society
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objective of the project is to assist the government to develop a national
specific development roadmap converging with the MDGs to build China's
overall Xiao-kang (well-off) society | |
MDGs Report 2010
The Millennium Declaration in 2000 was a milestone in international cooperation, inspiring development efforts that have improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Ten years later, world leaders will gather again at the United Nations in New York to review progress, assess obstacles and gaps, and agree on concrete strategies and actions to meet the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Publication Date:June 2010
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