Why I Believe Shared Roadmaps Are Still Needed to Achieve the MDGs

The Millennium Development Goals come to an end in just 609 days. Whatever the endgame looks like, there will be no disputing the fact that the MDGs enabled – and are still enabling – historic global alignment and unparalleled collective action. That is the power of clear and quantifiable goals – something I learned time and again early in my business career, and even more so over my 30 years as a philanthropist.

So why, over the past quarter, have we been working with our partners to produce “acceleration roadmaps” to meet the MDGs, when many others have moved on to thinking about a future set of goals? The answer is simple: If we can bend the curve of the current trajectories for MDGs 4, 5 and 6 even further than we already have, we will save over one million additional children's and women's lives in the process and lay the foundation for healthier societies for years to come.

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