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High-level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly:
“MDG Summit”

20-22 September 2010 | UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

Highlights for Wednesday, 22 September 2010

UNDP Corporate Site on the MDGs

L-R: Helen Clark, UNDP; Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General; Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of Colombia; and Choummaly Sayasone, President of Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos, during the event on “Turning the Evidence into Practice”
MDG SummitIt was hard to avoid running into a prime minister, president, secretary-general, executive secretary, or aging rock star on Wednesday, as the MDG Summit came to a close in a flurry of high-level events. Participants knuckled down to address the high-level panel of biodiversity, and events launching the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, and Inclusive Growth and Employment, all of which garnered significant attention. Numerous side events convened in the UN buildings and around New York, of which IISD attended 11. Please check back here on Friday, 24 September, for a full summary of MDG Summit side events.
Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
Monday, 20 September - Tuesday, 21 September - Wednesday, 22 September
Turning Evidence into Practice
Choummaly Sayasone, President of Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Ib Petersen, State Secretary for Development Policy, Denmark
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of Colombia
Amira Elfadil Mohamed Elfadil, Minister of Welfare and Social Security, Sudan.
Gilbert Houngbo, Prime Minister of Togo
Olubanke King-Akerele, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liberia
Sheikha Hassa Al Thani, Qatar
L-R: Helen Clark, UNDP, and Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of Colombia
L-R: Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of Colombia, and Choummaly Sayasone, President of Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos

1.8 Billion Strong - Young People Driving the MDGs
L-R: Priscilla Vera Hernández, Director-General, Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud; Michael Cashman, European Parliament; Moderator Maria Antonieta Alcalde, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region; Gill Greer, Director-General, International Planned Parenthood Federation; Samuel Kissi, Curious Minds, Ghana; and Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, UN Population Fund
Samuel Kissi, Curious Minds, Ghana
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, UN Population Fund
Moderator Maria Antonieta Alcalde, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
Participants during the session.

Accountability and Transparency to Reach the MDGs - Key Mechanisms and Initiatives
L-R: Martin Dahinden, Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Thomas Stelzer, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA); Beverley Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, Canada; and Bob Geldof, MDG Advocate and Advisor to the ONE Campaign
Martin Dahinden, Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Thomas Stelzer, UNDESA
Beverley Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, Canada
Bob Geldof, MDG Advocate and Advisor to the ONE Campaign
The dais during the session.
Momad Piaraly Jutha, Ministry of Planning and Development, Mozambique
Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State of International Development, United Kingdom
Amara Konneh, Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs, Liberia
Participants during the session.

Inclusive Growth and Employment
L-R: Peter Pinda, Prime Minister of Tanzania; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; President of Liberia; and Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
L-R: Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP; Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank; and Mo Ibrahim, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Peter Pinda, Prime Minister of Tanzania
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP

MDG Achievement in the Drylands
L-R: Olav Kjørven, UNDP; Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCDD); and Nicholas Middleton, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Olav Kjørven, UNDP
Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD
Nicholas Middleton, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Harlan Cohen, IUCN Harlan Cohen, IUCN Harlan Cohen, IUCN Harlan Cohen, IUCN
Participants during the discussion.
Nicholas Middleton’s presentation.

High-level Event on Biodiversity
Pariticipants during the session.
Claudia Salerno Caldera, Venezuela
Stefania Prestigiacomo, Minister for Environment, Land and Sea, Italy
Homero Bibiloni, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development, Argentina
Jairam Ramesh, Ministry for National Development Planning, India
Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK
Juan Rafael Elvira, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico

Investment Promotion: Paving the Way Towards Poverty Eradication
L-R: Álvaro Baltodano, Nicaragua’s Presidential Delegate for Investment; Samuel Santos López, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nicaragua; and Heraldo Muñoz, Regional Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
Samuel Santos López, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nicaragua
Participants during the event.

Bridging the Gap
Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development, UK, being congratulated by Raymond Chambers, UN Special Envoy for Malaria
Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development, UK
Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance
Raymond Chambers, UN Special Envoy for Malaria
Mizengo Kanyanza Peter Pinda, Prime Minister of Tanzania
Bill Gates, Co-Founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization
Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, The Global Fund
Robert Zoellick, President of The World Bank Group
Moderator Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Tim Ziemer, US President’s Malaria Iniative
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health, Ethiopia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia

Global Challenges on Water and Sanitation
L-R: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Saving 16 Million Lives: Launch of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
Panelists during their discussion at the 92nd St Y venue.

Your IISD team at the MDG Summit 2010. L-R: Melanie Ashton, Writer, Australia; Alexandra Conliffe, Ph.D., Writer, Canada; Liz Willetts, Writer, US; Imran Habib Ahmad, Writer, Pakistan; Aaron Leopold, Team Leader, US; IISD President Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica; Kate Louw, Writer, South Africa; Dorothy Wanja Nyingi, Ph.D., Writer, Kenya; and Diego Noguera, Digital Editor, Colombia (who can be seen reflected in the window).
Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
Monday, 20 September - Tuesday, 21 September - Wednesday, 22 September
Related Links
Summit resources
*Summit web site
*Summit programme
*Summit documents
*Summit statements
*“Zero draft” of possible Summit outcome

General resources
*Report of the Secretary General: Keeping the promise: a forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
*MDG Report 2010
*2010 MDG Gap Task Force Presentation
*What will it take to achieve the MDGs? – An Internal Assessment
*Unlocking progress: MDG acceleration on the road to 2015

IISD RS resources
*IISD RS coverage of the High-Level Meeting on Africa’s Development Needs, High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals, and other related events, 22-25 September 2008, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
*IISD RS listservers and other information services
*Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
*MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
*Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
*African Regional Coverage
*Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coverage
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