The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are going to expire at the end of 2015r; and the United Nations are currently negotiating a new development agenda for the coming years. The proposal for ‘Sustainable Development Goals' submitted by the Open Working Group (OWG) in 2014 serves as a...

In September 2001, the MDGs were approved by the 56th UN General Assembly. The international community is thus in possession of a common goal system that has been agreed upon by all relevant actors and that is both measurable and set to be implemented by a fixed date. The intention is that both,...

Effectiveness can always be measured only in relation to a specific, pre-defined goal or goal system. In the case of aid effectiveness, this system should be the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are now recognised by all relevant stakeholders as the central objectives of international....