EU Contribution to the Millennium Development Goals | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

The MDGs have served as a powerful incentive to mobilise the international community and drive action by developed and developing countries alike. Together with its Member states, the EU provided more than half of global aid in 2012. In addition to aid, the EU is strongly committed to ensuring that all its policies are coherent with the objective of eradicating global poverty.

To accelerate progress towards the MDGs, in 2010 the European Commission established a 12-point action plan.

Two years later, in 2012, the EU and its Member states undertook an ambitious programme of change designed to heighten development impact still further and improve results against the MDGs, by focusing on countries most in need (including fragile countries) and on priority sectors that promote good governance and inclusive, sustainable growth.

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SOURCE: UNDESA DSPD