This year’s report, entitled "Living Up to Commitments", highlights UNDP's continued support to developing countries as they address the current economic and financial crisis. UNDP is staying true to the shared sets of values set out in the Millennium Declaration.

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The report is an extensive assessment of what must be done to advance sustainable development and reduce global poverty in various countries including Mozambique. The report, titled What Will It Take To Achieve The Millennium Development Goals? An International Assessment,  identifies an action agenda to inform the outcome of the World leaders’ MDG Summit in September 2010. The assessment finds that well-targeted and predictable aid is a critical catalyst for meeting the MDGs and has produced significant results in Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Uganda and Vietnam by making more resources available for service delivery. Evidence, however, also suggests that countries need to expand their own domestic resource mobilization  and to adjust their budgets to ensure maximum return on their investment.

Allowing for migration - both within and between countries - has the potential to increase people’s freedom and improve the lives of millions around the world, according to the 2009 Human Development Report. Migration can expand their choices - in terms of incomes, accessing services and participation - but the opportunities open to people vary enormously.

• The full report (in several languages including Portuguese)
• Human Development Indicators
• Summary
• UNDP Mozambique press release, 7 October 2009

"The last year held great promise for developing countries in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other development objectives. In early 2007, the world economy was still in its third year of exceptionally rapid growth, progress which has had a positive impact on poverty reduction in general, and on the performance of the least developed countries, in particular sub-Saharan African countries grew, on average, at more than six percent in 2007. Robust growth in a number of large developing countries, led by China, India and other members of the “emerging South,” gave further proof that rapid advancement towards reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs is possible."

Kemal Dervis , UNDP Administrator

The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business-as-usual climate change points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and acute risks for our children and their grandchildren.

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"Globalization has fundamentally altered the world economy, creating winners and losers. Reducing inequalities both within and between countries, and building a more inclusive globalization is the most important development challenge of our time."

- Kemal Dervis , UNDP Administrator

This year’s edition outlines the new Administrator’s vision for UNDP. It focus on the importance of pro-poor policies for development, highlighting UNDP’s key role of working alongside countries to develop their capacities for healthier, better educated and prosperous communities. The report also reviews the outcome of the 2005 World Summit and detail UNDP’s support for UN reforms. The report showcases UNDP successes in the five practices as well as in the empowerment of women, South-South cooperation and building partnerships.