The
adoption of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 was unprecedented: never before had
national governments, within the framework of the United Nations (UN), agreed
on a comparable list of such extensive and concrete goals, for the most part
with an explicit time horizon. Equally remarkable was the level of agreement
between civil society organisations, businesses and international
organisations, who pledged their support for the MDGs in a broad alliance.
Despite conceptual failures and difficulties of implementation the advent of
the MDGs can be considered a milestone of international cooperation.
With the
deadline for achieving the MDGs running out in 2015, the debates on what set of
goals the global community will use to shape international cooperation over the
coming years and decades have picked up speed due to the increasing density of
global challenges, the crisis of multilateral institutions and bilateral
development cooperation and the search for sustainable development paths. Many
of these debates and open questions will be channelled over the next couple of
years in the discussion on a Post-2015 Development Agenda conducted by the
United Nations.
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