It should specify goals, workplans and time frames and resource needs for achieving them.

(c) Financing needs for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

States should establish policy goals and benchmarks based on the food security needs of their population.

However, the Millennium Development Goals Needs Assessment is only the first concrete measure.

Among other options, Africa needs market access and investments to generate resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

The Summit goals could be achieved if Governments restructured ODA to meet priority human needs.

Alongside short term goals, the United Nations, with academia and civil society, needs to consider longer term scenarios and desired outcomes.

Even with a clear commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, managerial and implementation capacity is often weak and needs strengthening.

The programmes addressed priority technical cooperation needs emanating from government development goals and policies and the strategies proposed reflected UNDP comparative advantages.

The caring United Nations needs to enhance its efforts for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

The recently launched Millennium Development Goals needs assessment and costing report indicated that Kenya required some 3 billion annually to bridge the funding gap in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Most of the TNA studies completed to date addressed the needs for mitigation technologies, and only a few addressed the needs for technologies for adaptation and their integration in the suitable development goals.

Development objectives, including the Millennium Declaration Goals, must underpin international efforts to ensure prevention and meet the relief and rehabilitation needs of refugees.

At the operational level, this can begin with participatory needs assessments and developing indigenous strategies for achieving and monitoring the Millennium Development Goals.

(a) World Food Programme Meeting the needs of children an essential foundation for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Those were not just visionary goals or mere aspirations they were basic human needs achievable within our lifetime.

However the pace of this change needs to be increased considerably if the Millennium Development and EFA goals are to be met.

In such a critical situation humanity needs not only political programmes and actions, but also a vision of a peaceful living together of human beings, ethnic and ethical groupings, and religions it needs hopes, goals, ideals, standards.

Finally, Europe s energy mix is gradually shifting from the one that it needs to reach its climate change goals.

As elaborated in the Millennium Project, all are essential for meeting the Goals, as well as wider development needs.

Further, we must note that the Goals do not address the special needs of the medium income developing countries.

UNDP is helping to address both the immediate crisis needs and the longer term development goals of Africa at the regional and the country levels.

The Group should also establish clearly defined indicators and criteria that reflected Member States' needs with a view to attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The Bretton Woods institutions could play a stronger role in meeting the financial needs of developing countries for implementing human settlements goals and targets.

These documents stressed that significant additional financial assistance over an extended period of time will be needed to meet Africa's human needs and development goals.

Whereas the role of markets is critical, it needs to be seen within the context of broader societal goals of social equity and environmental sustainability.

While each country needs to develop institutions to meet its specific needs for achieving the development goals and adapting to and managing integration in the global economy, there are certain key features that are essential for building effective institutions.

Policymaking that is consistent with social development goals also needs a decision making system that incorporates the principles of participation and transparency and consideration for equity and equality.

Goals and expectations

Purpose and goals

Finally, we hope to cooperate with the developed countries in implementing the agreements reached in the Millennium Declaration Goals, particularly the Millennium Development Goals, as they pertain to meeting Africa's needs at all levels.

It is vital that the tools the international community has developed to further those goals and to balance the interests and needs of States be applied consistently and fairly.

We state our trust in the Commission on Social Development to fulfil these urgent needs of families and to attain the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

The progress report on implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Mali takes stock of our achievements and of the obstacles encountered, and we have taken this opportunity as well to assess what still needs to be done to attain the Goals.

The greatest challenge, however, was to draw a poverty map which would adapt national development goals to the needs of local communities.

An action plan for children in terms of health protection of mothers and children needs to put an emphasis on implementation of prevention programmes and clearly stated goals that are in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and goals of WHO

Setting goals and targets

10.1 Policies and Goals

There is needs for increased funding and empowerment of the poor communities, especially in the rural areas, as means of accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Within the context of the joint United Nations World Bank needs assessments and recovery planning, the Goals provide important targets and indicators for planning the transition out of conflict.

Special theme the Millennium Development Goals and indigenous peoples redefining the Goals

Within SAARC, we have already set ourselves certain attainable mid decade goals for meeting the basic needs of the children of South Asia.

32. The preliminary report shall take into account all available information on existing programmes and initiatives, shall identify shortcomings and needs for the realization of the goals of the Decade and shall make recommendations for action to effectively address those needs during the Decade.

168. The goals established by the international community for UNICEF include seven overarching goals and a number of supporting goals.

(iv) Presentation of the desired targets, goals and means to achieve those goals and targets