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Blog entry 'Ressources to communicating the Millenium Development Goals' by Lise Levesque The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)

At tbe Biovision 2007 Forum we were told to act, to educate our
networks and contacts aware of the MDGs, to disseminate Biovision
actions, and to take action to make the MSGs acheivable. This is
laudable, but you may feel like me that we need more relevant and
reliable information about the message we want to send out.

I suggest that we use this blog session to pool the relevant
informations, and to share ideas about the MDGs, and how they can be
acheived. Here are the proposed steps:

Cultivating awareness about the MDGs : contents and tools for
communication

About the MDGs: some sources of content

Communication... very nice, but we need content. We also need to know
what others are already doing so that our action does not just add to
theirs, but also synergises with theirs. (If I have not convinced you,
UN may! Read this.) This means we have to learn from their experience
and get in tune with their message and committment. But what is being
done exacly? The Millenium Development Campaign web site is
informative.

The page about the 8th Goal is particularly important, because that is
the goal that concerns us all as young Biovisionaires. It contains:
description of the goals, information about the current situation and
international aid, on-going actions that can be jointly undertaken, and
various useful reports.

Other sources of contents and information:

The UN MDGs page: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

The United Nations site for the MDG Indicators and else:
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Home.aspx

Millennium Campaign:
http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=1863...

UN Millenium Project: http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/index.htm

The official MDG Campaign toolkit

A 152-page report for enabling people like us in their involvement
disseminating the MDGs. It is particularly relevant to MDG # 8 as it
gives us some basic information on the Millennium Development Goal
Campaign:

Guiding us through planning a campaign Providing us with some essential campaign tools Alerting us to a few campaign skills Inspiring us through case studies on MDG campaigns that have been run
around the world Motivating us with practical hints and tips Linking us to UN support and to other people with similar aims.

Communicating about the current state of achievement of the MDGs
throughout the world?

It is difficult to communicate this information with words only because
of the differences among countries. You can refer yourself and your
contacts to the UN Cyberschoolbus MDGs world map. It can be easily
accessed at
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/mdgs/maps.asp?mapid=1&LangId=1. It really
is a cool communication tool. You can choose 3 visualisation modes: 1)
world map, 2) single country, and 3) country groupings (e.g.
geo-political entities, like European Union, or official
classifications, like "landlock least developing countries").

The United Cities and Local Governments (UNLG) Millennium Towns and
Cities Campaign toolkit

This web-site is a very interesting source of information for action.
It proposes a structured plan for communicating, networking and
educating the public in general and the governments about the MDGs.
Very practical and pragmatic in terms of communication strategy. This
will certainly enable us to acheive our engagements toward Biovision.

Toolkit, logos and banners are available in English, French and
Spanish. Exerpt: "The Campaign Toolkit has been produced by UCLG to
assist local governments in implementing the Millennium Towns and
Cities Campaign. The toolkit and model banner can be downloaded by
clicking on the links below. The materials in the toolkit should only
serve as a reference and can be changed and adapted to the needs of
individual local governments. Local governments are encouraged to use
the logos of the UN Millennium Campaign and UCLG in their Campaign
materials."

Finding some local partnership for disseminating the MDGs message

The United Cities and Local Governments (UNLG) members

You can find lists of Cities and local governments that have committed
themselves with the UNLG to work on the MDGs. They are everywhere in
the world. It might be a starting point for us when looking for
organisations who might be willing to hear about the Biovision2007
outcomes and to act for the achievement of the MDGs.

The page also contains a thematic searcheable list of organisations and
local governements.

COMMENTS? You are very welcome!

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