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Focusing on the pragmatic steps that can be taken in the next five years to meet the MDGs, UNDP developed the MDG Acceleration Framework.

A fresh approach to tackling off-track MDGs at the country level, the framework was developed drawing on the past decade's evidence base UNDP has constructed.

What is the MDG Acceleration Framework?

The framework provides a systematic way for countries to develop their own action plan based on existing plans and processes to pursue their MDG priorities.

It also helps governments to focus on disparities and inequalities, two of the major causes of uneven progress, by particularly responding to the needs of the vulnerable.

Earlier this year, 10 countries (Belize, Colombia, Ghana, Jordan, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda) began to pilot the MDG Acceleration Framework with the support of UNDP and the broader UN system. The pilot experience has shown that when governments take the lead and have effective assistance from all partners, progress is possible.

Read about the pilot experience: "Unlocking progress: MDG acceleration on the road to 2015".

Country Experience

Belize
Accelerating the achievement of the MDGs on Water and Sanitation (MDG 7)

Colombia
Accelerating MDGs attainment at the local level by developing action plans for some of the poorest departments (provinces) and municipalities (towns). The various local action plans relate to MDG 1 on rural income poverty, MDG 3 on gender empowerment, MDG 5 on maternal health, and MDG 7 on human settlements

Department of Cundinamarca (Click here for Spanish) Department of Nariño (Click here for Spanish) Cartagena's CEMPRENDE programme Gobernadores

Ghana
Developing an acceleration plan for maternal health (MDG 5)

Jordan
Accelerating achievement of food security as part of reaching MDG 1

Lao PDR
Developing an MDG Acceleration Plan, as part of the process towards the 7th National Development Plan. The acceleration plan focuses on six priorities identified across all the MDGs and relevant cross-MDG issues

Innovative options for reaching the unreached

Accelerating and sustaining MDG gains

Papua New Guinea
Analyzing MDG-related interventions on education (MDG 2) and other secotrs to inform the next generation of poverty reduction strategies

Tajikistan
Accelerating poverty reduction (MDG 1) through energy access for the poor

Tanzania
Accelerating the achievement of food and nutrition security, focusing on the strategic interventions required to achieve MDG 1 by 2015, building on the national development plan MKUKUTA II

Togo
Developing an acceleration plan for MDG 1 by increasing agriculture productivity of small producers

MDG Acceleration Framework: Poverty Reduction Achieving agricultural goals in Togo

Uganda
Accelerating the achievement of maternal health (MDG 5), with the development of an action plan to operationalise the existing Roadmap for Maternal Health from 2007

Uganda on MDGs and MDG Acceleration