Leadership from a United Nations perspective

Naked Leader Week – 124 (w/c Monday 3rd October 2005)

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Leadership from a United Nations perspective

With thanks to David Wardrop, promoting Music to Unite Nations…

And with love to you, wherever you are

David

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ONE – The United Nations has eight Millennium Goals:

Goal 1: Eradicate Hunger and Extreme Poverty

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.

Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

 Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education

Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.

 Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

 Goal 4. Reduce child mortality

Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.

 Goal 5. Improve maternal health

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio.

 Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

 Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.

Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.

Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.

 Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally

Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction

Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States

Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term

In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth

In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries

In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies.

 TWO – Increasing Awareness

 88% of Europeans don’t know about the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

yet 91% say International Development is the most important issue. To overcome this, we will be using the  universal language of music – with a difference. Music to Unite Nations, a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 16 October is unique. Artists from different continents and cultures will perform without fee to promote the MDGs. The concert will be televised and the DVD will include a guide to the MDGs with narration in several languages for worldwide listening.

 Naked Leader readers can visit our website www.mtun.org to see more details.

 Why not join us at the Royal Albert Hall? Share in the music and hear how it

gets the message across. Millions depend on us so, together, let’s make it

work.

 David Wardrop