The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the centerpiece of development efforts of the Government of Pakistan. The 18 global targets and 48 indicators adopted in 2000 have been translated into 16 national targets and 37 indicators keeping in view Pakistan’s specific conditions,priorities, data availability and institutional capacity. Specifically, the MDGs have been incorporated into the Government’s two important macroeconomic frameworks including the Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF), which covers a five-year period from 2005-2010 and the Government’s key planning document on development. The other is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) which is a framework for social and economic policies. To date, however, sufficient progress has only been made on about half of the targeted indicators while others lag behind. Pakistan's progree towards each of the goals can be viewed by clicking on each of the MDG icons below. |
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UNDP MDG-Responsive Pro-Poor Policy Package (MP3) in Pakistan
The integrated MP-3 program framework takes forward UNDP’s engagement with pro-poor policy processes. This program consolidates under one umbrella UNDP’s partnership with the Ministry of Finance for gender budgeting, PRSP formulation and MDG Costing as well as with the Planning Commission on MDG and poverty research, to give our interventions in this area a strategic focus. Planned initiatives on PRSP Monitoring and MDG Advocacy, under this program, further downstream our ongoing efforts to provide for a more comprehensive strategy to address pro-poor policies processes in its entirety.
The development objective supported by MP-3 is to “Contribute to MDG-responsive poverty reduction through evidence-based poverty policy planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting.”
A schematic representation of how the program outputs fit under the program pillars is as follows:
Comprehensive information on this program is available in the MP-3 programme document signed between the Government of Pakistan and UNDP.
