About the Global Governance Initiative

The Forum's Global Governance Initiative monitors international progress in implementing the social, economic and environmental goals set forth in the UN's Millennium Declaration and other documents.

Guided by a high-level international Steering Committee, the Initiative is intended to be an independent watchdog for the follow-up to the Millennium Declaration, drawing on expertise around the world to persistently remind the international community of its commitments, and constructively advocate greater involvement by all stakeholders.

The Global Governance Initiative: Identifies specific examples of successful programmes and partnerships to spread awareness of what models should be used or avoided. Publicizes ideas about what governments, intergovernmental organizations, businesses, and civil society organizations can do to meet specific goals that will help bring about the realization of widely shared goals laid out in such documents as the Millennium Declaration.

• Halve the number of people living in poverty by 2015
• Ensure universal primary education by 2015
• Reduce and stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and other major diseases by 2015
• Fulfill commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement conventions related to the conservation of biodiversity
• Halve the number of people suffering from hunger by 2015
• Uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other agreements related to the rights of women and migrants, and ensure media freedom and the public's right of access to information
• Seek ways to eliminate: war between, within and on states; the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction.