Alliance2015 High Level Objectives

The overall goal of Alliance2015 is to contribute to reaching
The Millennium Development Goals

During a historic three-day summit in the year 2000, the United Nations had recommitted themselves and their governments to a binding international agreement first signed in 1995. The long-term aim of the agreement is the eradication of global poverty. More immediately, it layed out a number of specific targets, the Millennium Development Goals - the MDGs:

  1. To reduce by half the number of people living in absolute poverty, by 2015;
  2. To ensure access to primary education for all children, by 2015.
  3. To promote gender equality and empower women
  4. To reduce by two thirds the number of children that die before their fifth birthday, by 2015;
  5. To reduce by three quarters the number of women that die in childbirth, by 2015;
  6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  7. To reverse environmental degradation by ensuring countries originate and implement 'green strategies' by 2015
  8. To develop a global partnership for development

Why the Year 2015?

A wealthier world will not, of itself, eliminate poverty. We cannot rely solely on economic growth. Especially after the financial crisis, we see that the ‚market’ is not a panacea for all the world’s ills.

The 2015 deadline gives the battle against global poverty a real focus and a sense of urgency. The realisation of a world without poverty by the year 2015 would represent a massive and hugely significant shift away from a world of growing inequality.

A shared commitment towards more aid effectiveness and to keeping the Millennium Development Goals on the global agenda, is the driving force behind Alliance2015

Specific Alliance2015 Objectives:

  • Develop and implement joint projects and programmes, including larger-scale programmes that are beyond the capacity of any one partner;
  • Coordinate and cooperate on emergency response operations;
  • Share best practice in programming and develop higher standards;
  • Implement joint advocacy campaigns;
  • Initiate joint investment in areas such as technology and new administrative/financial systems;
  • Share assets, resources and personnel;
  • Avoid duplication and ensure optimum use of resources by working in the most flexible and practical manner possible.