Monitoring and attaining the Millennium Development Goals
The Figures for Latin American & the Caribbean

An international process of dialogue and consensus building that took place between 1990 and 2002 led to the creation of a comprehensive global agenda for development focused on the elimination of poverty. This agenda establishes a set of objectives and targets called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of which are to be achieved by 2015.

The Inter-American Development Bank plays an important role in assisting borrowing countries in their efforts to adapt and implement the MDG agenda. Since the goals were first unveiled, the IDB implemented several types of supporting activities: institutional arrangements, sector strategies and policies, political consensus-building, country dialogue, capacity building, lending, monitoring, and honing of lessons learned. While these are important individually, collectively they constitute the Bank’s institutional response to support countries in reaching the goals.