The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. Headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the Millennium Project is an independent advisory body and presented its final recommendations, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals to the Secretary-General in January 2005. The Millennium Project has been asked to continue operating in an advisory capacity through the end of 2006.

Investing in Development proposes straightforward solutions for meeting the Millennium Development Goals by the 2015 deadline. The world already has the technology and know-how to solve most of the problems faced in the poor countries. To date, however, these solutions have not been implemented at the needed scale. Investing in Development presents recommendations for doing so in countries both rich and poor.

The Project has been working with developing countries to help identify: how many mothers need access to health clinics; how many children need immunizations; how many teachers should be in every district; how many roads need to be built; how many water pumps should be installed and so on, for individual countries to get on track to 2015. Backed with tried-and-true examples of what is already working to combat the many faces of poverty, Investing in Development recommends concrete strategies for scaling-up throughout the developing world and outline how donor country aid commitments can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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