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- Preface
- I. Luxembourg’s Official Development Assistance in 2012
- DAC peer review
- On the path to 2015
- II. Cooperation with partner countries
- III. Regional cooperation and cooperation with other countries
- IV. Multilateral cooperation
- V. Cooperation with non-governmental organisations
- VI. Humanitarian aid
- VII. Programme support
- VIII. Awareness-raising and development education
- IX. Microfinance
- X. Evaluation
- XI. Progress report on the Inter-ministerial Committee for Development Cooperation
- Appendices
On the path to 2015
The 0.7 % group
The Millennium Declaration, MDGs and the Earth Summit
Since the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, the agenda for development cooperation has been based on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which have defined precise targets and indicators in eight priority areas: the reduction of poverty and hunger, primary education, gender equality, the diminution of infant mortality, maternal health, the battle against HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability and the global partnership for development.
Three years from the deadline envisaged for the MDGs, the year 2012 was also the twentieth anniversary of the “Earth Summit” conference during which global criteria for sustainable development were adopted for the first time and published in the “Agenda 21” action plan. Given this anniversary, but above all because of the approaching deadline for the MDGs, 2012 was an important year for launching the debate and reflection on the post-2015 global development strategy.
