Millennium Development Goals - MDGs
Updated: 12 August 2005

The Millennium Development Goals unite the international development community around a common, global agenda to reduce poverty.

Dedicated to its vision of an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty, ADB strongly supports the Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs define specific goals and targets with indicators for measuring and monitoring progress toward poverty reduction.

They provide an important basis for ADB's developing member countries to prepare their own poverty reduction strategies, in collaboration with development partners.

They also help align ADB's assistance programs with country-specific needs and priorities.

Discover and understand through this website how ADB assists the MDGs in its developing member countries.