National Voluntary Presentation (NVP) For the Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) at ECOSOC 2014 on the theme “Addressing ongoing and emerging challenges for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and for sustaining development gains in the future”

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the targets set by the United Nations in 2000 to improve the living quality of people by addressing hunger, poverty and inequality, illiteracy, sickness and environmental degradation through international cooperation. Thailand had achieved several important MDG targets prior to the 2015 time-frame, including goals on the eradication of poverty and hunger, as well as goals on education, gender equality and health. These early achievements have allowed Thailand to pursue the more ambitious and challenging Millennium Development Goals Plus (MDG+) with prospects for achievement in several areas. Thailand’s NVP report is an extract of the most recent Thailand MDGs Report and contains 5 main parts: (1) Progress on achieving the MDGs; (2) Challenges to achieving the MDGs; (3) Keys to success; (4) Development gaps; and (5) Focus areas of the post-2015 Development Agenda.