The Challenge We Face

"All partners must deliver on commitments – on official development assistance, climate finance and domestic resource mobilization...For all our efforts, we will need one thing above all: a renewed and stronger global partnership – and we are here today to help advance that effort for one and all". Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2013: The Challenge We Face, launched today in New York, reports that while there are advances in increasing access to new technologies and some essential medicines, in achieving greater duty-free access for exports from developing countries, and in completing the debt relief initiatives, the international community is not fully delivering on many of its commitments. For the first time since 1997, official development assistance fell for a second year in a row; negotiations to reach an agreement on a development-oriented multilateral trade are stalled; more developing countries are in need of debt restructuring; and essential medicines are still unaffordable and insufficiently available in many countries.