ARCMDG

Objectives

In response to the declaration of the ASEAN Regional Roundtable and following the TOR of the center, the objectives are as follows:

• To popularize the MDGs, by spreading, disseminating, and propagating information on MDGs, starting with 4 Goals: Goal 1, Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger; Goal 3, Promotion of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women; Goal 7, Ensuring Environmental Sustainability; and Goal 8, Global Partnership for Development, throughout the ASEAN Region.
• To develop and offer pedagogical modules, educational materials and tools for MDGs training in government and academic institutions, civil society, NGOs and private sector, complementing similar initiatives by other Centers of Excellence on MDGs operating elsewhere in the world.
• To help establish National Centers of Excellence, starting with the ASEAN Region and to exchange information and competencies on MDGs between the Centers of Excellence.
• To stress the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women as a cross-cutting issue of all MDGs, viewed within the human rights perspective and linked to the MDGs.
• To establish a bank of trainers and of networks of experts in MDGs and to train the trainers and professionals involved with MDGs.
• To conduct research of psycho-pedagogical impact for the spread of MDGs.
• To collaborate and cooperate with internal units of AIT and external institutions, countries and regional organizations, including UN, NGOs, civil societies engaged in MDGs focused activities.
• To document research on related themes of the MDGs and to disseminate the impacts of MDGs