Serbia

National MDG Targets

The Millennium Development Goals need to be adjusted to specific citizens’ needs and problems, both at a national and at a local level. Hence, on October 22, 2004, the Government of Serbia set up a Task Force for monitoring the implementation of goals and plans from the UN Millennium Declaration. This is a multi-sectoral Task Force, composed of the representatives of Government Ministries, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Implementation Team, the EU Integration Office, the Institute for Public Health “Dr Milan Jovanović-Batut” and UN agencies in the Republic of Serbia.

MDG Task Force’s activities were aimed at defining national development goals to be reached by 2015, in active cooperation with the NGO sector, professional associations, business and media, as well as at preparing information for a campaign through which the citizens would become aware of the Millennium Development Goals.

Special groups have been established to focus on the identification of national MDGs and targets. The UN Millennium Development Goals have been nationalized through an extensive consultation process, which directly involved around one hundred participants.

The National Millennium Development Goals and targets presented here are the result of the work of the MDG Task Force and groups within the process of nationalization of the UN Millennium Development Goals in the Republic of Serbia.

UNDP Serbia and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister have commenced preparations for initiating a comprehensive review and reporting analysis in relation to the progress made to date, which will be conducted throughout 2009, so as to ensure timely submission of the MDGs progress report by the Republic of Serbia due for submission in 2010.

Please click on each of the MDGs to see national MDG targets in Serbia.