Restructuring the millennium development goals: post-2015 phase

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a promise to the mankind. The present Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framed in 2000 are going to expire in 2015 and a new set of goals are required for the post-2015 phase. Restructuring of the Millennium Development Goals for the post-2015 phase has to address various problems of importance. A 27 member High level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLP) has been constructed to make recommendation regarding the vision and shape of a post-2015 development agenda. India, home to a large segment of humanity and quite far from meeting the present Millennium Development Goals will have a key role to play in the agreement over a relevant development framework for post-2015. With two years to go before the 2015 deadline we can't lose momentum. This paper is an attempt to identify and analyze the significant principles which should be taken into account in the process of framing the new goals.