Welcome
At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015, which have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.

The eight MDGs are global targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions—income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion—while promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights, the rights of each person on the planet to food, health, education, shelter and security. Those global targets must be translated into local action.
By early 2004, concerns had been raised that most of Africa had gotten off track with respect to achieving the MDGs, so the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York and the UN Millennium Project (UNMP) established the MDG Technical Support Centre in Nairobi in July of that year.
The Centre, renamed The MDG Centre in 2006, initially focused on policy support at the national level to selected pilot countries of the UNMP (Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal and Ghana). With the successful completion of the UNMP in late 2006, the Centre broadened its scope of work to include advisory services and support to the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and to scale up MDG-related interventions to district and national levels in East and Southern Africa.
The MDG Centre operates in seven countries in East and Southern Africa--Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda—and has plans to engage with at least three more countries in the region. The Centre also provides technical backstopping to the only Millennium Village in Asia, in the Samlaut district of Cambodia.
A second MDG Centre with a mandate for West and Central Africa was established in Bamako, Mali, in 2006.
News
Global health within our grasp, if we dont give up May 2012
Millennium Villages show how a little money can go a long way in vital healthcare May 2012
Village Project a Success in Curbing Child Deaths May 2012
Breatkthroughs in health in the Millennium Villages May 2012
Development Project Touts Healhty Victory May 2012
Child mortality down by a third in Jeffrey Sachs's Millennium Villages May 2012
Child mortality drops sharply in Millennium Villages May 2012
Tommy Hilfiger Launches Promise Collection to Support Ruhiira April 2012
Scholarships Brighten Future of Young Girls in Rural Kenya April 2012
The Costs and Benefits of the Millennium Villages: Correcting the Center for Global Development April 2012
Pigs Give Women's Group a Boost in Income and Security March 2012
Millennium Villages shed light on water and food security on World Water Day, March 2012
Six Months in Ethiopia as a Health Volunteer
Solar Power Lights up New Business in Uganda Village, February 2012
Tanzania: Solar LED langers change Mbola village!, January 2012
Columbia University opens first center for Africa in Nairobi, January 2012
Millennium Villages Project plants trees in Zomba, January 2012
Millennium Village reforests Mwandama, January 2012
Sia village on course to achieve millennium goal, November 2011
Tanzania: Life Innovation Container Donated to Mbola Village, November 2011
Millennium Village Gets Sh300 Million Solar Facility, October 2011
Sauri Millennium Village school feeding program receives Kenya-wide attention, October 2011
Tanzania Courts Foreign Investors for Rapid Growth, October 2011
Perspectives on Monitoring and Evaluation in the African Millennium Villages, October 2011
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Events
New health and community facilities in Sauri, July 2011
Merck Foundation supports the CHW program, May 2011
UNAIDS-MVP partnership: results review, April 2011
Scholarships to 19 students from Mbola, March 2011
Read now Ruhiira's first newsletter, March 2011
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Media
Mbola Millennium Village
Thriving in the Drylands
Mobile technology improves health delivery in Sauri
Livestock trade booms in Dertu
Three Seasons: Progress in the Millennium Villages
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