Millennium Development Goals Pathfinder

 

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Human Development Report 2003: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty Ref HD 72 .H85
This report overviews successes and failures of development over the last decade and presents a plan on how nations can achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The plan, entitled "Millennium Development Compact," lists six policy areas where a number of countries need to make progress to reach the MDGs. Human Development Report 2003 includes the first full set of data indicating the status of each goal in every country.

Hunger Report 2004: Are We on Track to End Hunger? Ref HD 9000.1 .H86 2004
The 2004 Hunger Report probes the long-term progress that has been made against hunger and why we're seeing short-term setbacks now. It assesses U.S. national nutrition programs and international development policies, and offers a set of reforms to get the United States and developing countries back on track.

Hunger Report 2005: Strengthening Rural Communities Ref HD 9000.1 .H86 2005
This report argues that the Millennium Development Goal of cutting hunger in half by 2015 is clearly in jeopardy now unless global leaders focus immediate attention on the problems occurring in rural areas, where three of every four undernourished people in the world live.

UNFPA State of World Population 2005 Ref HC 59 .S73 2005
This report explores the degree to which the global community has fulfilled pledges made to the world's most impoverished and marginalized peoples. It tracks progress, exposes shortfalls and examines the links between poverty, gender equality, human rights, reproductive health, conflict and violence against women and girls.

World Development Indicators 2005 Ref HC 59.15 .W656
An annual compendium of economic, social, environmental, business, and technology indicators, the WDI, reports that only 33 countries are on track to reach the 2015 goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds from its 1990 level.

The World's Water Ref TD 345 .W674 2004-2005
The World's Water provides both detailed analysis of the most significant trends and events and up-to-date data on water resources and their use.  The first chapter addresses the Millennium Development Goals for water.

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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2005, Europe [electronic resource]: Are We on Track to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals?
This source contains articles on trade flows, human capital flows, capital flows and aid flows. It provides a general overview of the links between poverty and migration and insight and opinions on key development issues.

Global Monitoring Report 2005 [electronic resource]: Millennium Development Goals: From Consensus to Momentum
This is the second in a series of annual reports assessing progress on the policy agenda for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related outcomes.

Millennium Development Goals for Health, Nutrition and Population [electronic resource]: Working Together to Accelerate Progress
The report provides data on progress and trends in reaching the Millennium Development Goals for health, nutrition and population. It looks at poor-nonpoor disparities; health system reforms as a means of laying building blocks for the efficient and equitable delivery of interventions; the financing of health spending through domestic resources and aid; and improving the effectiveness of development assistance in health.

Between War and Peace [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
Commencing in the late 1980's over half of the population of Liberia fled their homes in terror during a long and bloody civil war. After 14 years of anarchy, the international community has arrived in force in an attempt to stabilize the country. This program reports on Liberia's attempts to find a way of engaging the combatants (many of them children) in rebuilding their country -- to sustain the peace.

Blue Danube? [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
The Danube, the world's most international river connecting 18 countries, is at the heart of a very modern dilemma -- how to create prosperity through trade and development without destroying the environment? This program examines the consequences when more than one country shares what a river has to offer, investigating how the Danube has become a new battleground in the conflict between the European Union's transport and agriculture lobbies, and environmentalists fighting to preserve the river's unique ecology.

Brazil's Land Revolution [videorecording]  JZ1318 .L54 2005
In Brazil, almost half of the agricultural land is owned by just one percent of the population. The government estimates that land reform would benefit some 4.5 million families -- both agricultural workers and city slum-dwellers. Political opposition has so far prevented meaningful progress. Now Brazil's president has announced plans to resettle more than 100,000 landless families this year and promises additional agrarian reform over the next two years. This film visits the Northeastern state of Bahia to report on an initiative, which encourages the landless to join together to buy up land, with low-interest government loans.

Educating Yaprak [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
Turkey is a country with a large, young population, but literacy rates have traditionally lagged behind neighboring countries. Turkey has identified education as key to reducing poverty, so the state has embarked on an ambitious campaign, targeting those most deprived of education.

Geraldo's Brazil [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
This film revisits Geraldo Da Souza, a worker at Ford in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In 1999, he was among 2000 workers laid off from his factory during the "international financial crisis." Life filmed him then in "Geraldo-off line," trying to work out the connection between the financial crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil and attempting to understand the personal impact of globalization.

How Green is My Valley? [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
The valleys of South Wales once produced much of the coal and steel which powered industrial development in Britain and worldwide. Today those industries are gone but their legacy is a polluted pocket of poverty; where the highest rates for chronic emphysema, cancer, heart disease, asthma, poor housing and sanitation, low birth weight and accidental death combine to create the highest mortality rates in Western Europe.

In the Wake of War [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
Thousands of refugees from Burundi are returning to their homeland convinced that the bitter civil war may be coming to an end. Using traditional mediation systems and peacemakers Burundi is introducing innovative peace and reconciliation projects. The aim is to start a grass roots movement to bring a lasting peace to Burundi and its long-suffering citizens. This program examines the future for Burundi, for power sharing and for a rapprochement between warring factions.

The Millennium Goals [videorecording]: Dream or Reality?  JZ1318 .L54 2005
This DVD explores the ambition and scope of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and the obstacles to their achievement.

Return to Srebrenica [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
In July 1995 the Muslim town of Srebrenica, Bosnia became the site of the worst massacre in Europe since WWII. After a 3-year siege, Serb armed forces entered the town and massacred 8000 civilians while another 35,000 were driven into other parts of Bosnia. Now international aid is allowing the town to begin to build a new future. This story unfolds through interviews with returning refugees, those who cannot face going back.

Returning Dreams [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
This program follows a young refugee on her on her return journey home to Liberia, and the mixed picture she finds there. Jemoh is just one of millions of children caught up in the world's conflicts. Some are forced to fight and kill; others are used as slaves and "wives." Those that do survive are left brutalized and traumatized. How, this program asks, can these children be rehabilitated who have gone through such experiences?

Slum Futures [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
Mumbai is India's financial capital, but the city has massive, sprawling slums, where eight out of the 12 million residents live. This program examines the reality of living in the slums and the various projects attempting to rehabilitate Mumbai's slums.

This Hard Ground [videorecording]: Remembering the Displaced JZ1318 .L54 2005
In Sri Lanka, a civil war has been raging for the last twenty years. During the course of the war, 800,000 people were forced to leave their homes and all their possessions. Even though they were displaced within their own country, they have lost everything: their livelihoods, their community and often their families. In this program we talk to the Sri Lankan army, the government and NGOs and ask what are the prospects for long-term political settlement and lasting peace?

Warming up in Mongolia [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
Today the Mongolian government is working with international development agencies in an attempt to ensure a sustainable transition for its nation into the modern world. This film looks at how Mongolia is powering itself. All electricity produced in Mongolia comes from fossil fuels. What can be done to repair environmental damage and introduce sustainable alternatives?

Whose Agenda is it anyway? [videorecording]  JZ1318 .L54 2005
To fulfill the Millennium Development goals, many poor countries are now implementing Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs (PRSPs). But in Malawi, PRSPs are viewed by many as merely a new version of old World Bank policies, with decisions ultimately made in Washington, rather than by the country's own citizens. This report investigates the PRSP process and its effectiveness in Malawi.

Yemeni Futures [videorecording] JZ1318 .L54 2005
This DVD presents efforts to achieve the UN Millennium development goals in Yemen.

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Webliography. . .

Millennium Campaign http://www.millenniumcampaign.org
A United Nations Millennium Development Goal information web site targeted at youth to encourage their involvement and action for the realization of the MDGs.

Millennium Project http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/
Contains the Millennium Project's report, "Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals." 

UN Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
An official United Nations MDG site that provides information and news about the eight Millennium Development Goals including MDG progress reports.

UNICEF Millennium Development Goals http://www.unicef.org/mdg/
This site presents UNICEF's Millennium Development Goal programs and reports.

WHO and the Millennium Development Goals http://www.who.int/mdg/en/
This site presents the World Health Organization's Millennium Development Goal programs and reports.