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New online tool will monitor MDG achievement in Brazil

28 Jan 2009

A new tool to monitor the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the local level has just been launched in Brazil. The MDG Portal (www.portalodm.org.br) is an online tool that shows social, economic and environmental indicators that will enable citizens to monitor the achievement of the MDGs in all 5,564 Brazilian municipalities. The MDGs are eight macro-level targets agreed by more than 190 UN member countries to improve people’s lives in a sustainable manner

The new MDG Portal aims to involve people in the implementation of public policies by offering information - in an easy and colorful way - on how their city has been achieving the MDGs. The private sector may also rely on the Portal to effectively define their social responsibility initiatives at the municipal level. Moreover, the updated information made easily made available on the Portal will show mayors where their greatest challenges lie - and what has been accomplished.

 

"Monitoring the MDGs in the local level is particularly important in countries with inter and intraregional socioeconomic disparities", said the executive coordinator of Public Policy Support Center (NAPP, in Portuguese), one of the civil society organizations involved in the Portal. "Averaging the countries' achievements may show great overall advances, but local problems continue," he added.

 

The portal was developed by Sustainability Indicators Observatory (orbis.org.br), a privately funded civil society organization that will also be responsible for updating the MDG Portal. The initiative is coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), along with civil society movements and the national Ministry for Planning, Budget and Management.

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Source:UNDP