Global partnership for development

Global cooperation today is based on the commitment of the international community to work together to promote poverty reduction and human development as the key to sustaining social and economic progress as outlined in the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of inter-related goals, targets and indicators provide a single framework, which allows to measure progress and to enable all parties to hold each other accountable for common objectives.
Aid recipient countries committed themselves to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and donor countries promised to increase aid and to support their efforts.

What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals? A lot. Economies need to grow to provide jobs and more incomes for poor people. Health and education systems must deliver services to everyone, men and women, rich and poor. Infrastructure has to work and be accessible to all. And policies need to empower people to participate in the development process. While success depends on the actions of developing countries, which must direct their own development, there is also much that rich countries must do to help. … Goal 8

Achieving the MDGs will necessitate a coordinated effort of the donor community - globally and on the national level.
As part of the national MDG process in Macedonia a working group "Partnership for development' will be established in order to discuss how the donor community can support the country in achieving its development objectives.