In this page you will find reports and publications on the MDGs that describe their history, background and give information on progress towards achieving them. Click on the links to access them. Some links will direct you to a new website and others will open as a PDF.

*NEW* Social Watch Report 2010: After the Fall, Time for a New Deal. A citizens´ global progress report on poverty eradication and gender equity.

Background documents:

The MDGs: A History of the World's Biggest Promise, David Hulme (2009). (pdf 437kb)

EURODAD: Goal 8: Debt Information

OECD factblog- gender and the MDGs

International Development Studies Bulletin special issue on the MDGs- all articles available as PDFs.

Official Reports on the MDGs

Overseas Development Institute (UK) MDGs report card

Institute of Development Studies: Accelerating Progress on the MDGs Country Priorities for Improving Performance

The EU 12 point Action Plan in Support of the MDGs

The UN Summit

The UN’s statement about the outcome of the Summit

CONCORD the European NGO confederation statement about the Summit.

BOND UK- collection of responses to UN Summit

Oxfam reaction

Amnesty reaction

ActAlliance reaction

Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) reaction

Ashwani Saith (June 2010) Sweeping Neoliberal Dirt Under the Rug

Archbishop Ndungane, president and founder of African Monitor

The Guardian podcast from the MDG SUmmit