The Millennium Development Goals : A Backgrounder

Notes: "At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, all 189 member states committed themselves to improving the lives of the world's most impoverished people before 2015". Eight specific goals emerged i.e. the Millennium Development Goals and these are broken down into 18 specific targets and 48 indicators. "The ongoing work of Partnerships and The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) contributes in various ways toward the MDGs. In addition to this work, General Synod has taken specific action[s]" including a letter sent to the Canadian Prime Minister in June 2005 by the Ecojustice Committee urging that Canadian ODA (Official Development Assistance) be increased.

Subjects: Millennium Development Goals; Millennium Development Goals - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Poverty - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Economic assistance, Canadian - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada