Millennium Promise Alliance

MOBILIZING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND BEYOND

Specializing in Solutions for

Sustainable Development

Since 2005, Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA) continues to be a leading organization addressing the root causes of extreme poverty by taking a holistic, community-led approach to Sustainable Development.

MPA projects, services, and initiatives are strategically planned, designed, implemented, and monitored with attention to scientific accuracy. It is priority that our activities include input of the communities we serve, as well as local and national level governance institutions to help bring forth a sustainable, greener, and inclusive Africa.

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2024 SDSN Ghana International Symposium

By Samuel Travis • September 3, 2024

The University of Education, Winneba (UEW), in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Ghana hosted the maiden international symposium on SDGs on Wednesday June 19, 2024. The symposium used a participatory approach to engage a wide range of stakeholders to discuss, review and share data on Ghana’s SDGs achievements. Some of the issues discussed included Climate change, eco-sustainability and livelihood through the prism of the SDGs, Achieving sustainability through innovation, technology and empowerment, leveraging technology, innovation and digitalization to initiate new possibilities on the SDGs in Ghana and a panel discussion on empowering communities to own the SDGs through school curricula and social campaign. Prof. Stephen Jobson Mitchual, Vice-Chancellor (known elsewhere as President) of UEW, in his welcome address emphasized the university's commitment to sustainability through education, research, and community engagement. He highlighted the partnership between UEW and SDSN as a testament to their dedication to sustainable development. Prof. Mitchual expressed UEW's readiness to collaborate with other universities globally to mobilize scientific and technological expertise and resources for implementing the SDGs.

Lives & Livelihood Fund visit Local Economic Growth Support Project

Lives and Livelihoods Fund Engages with Ugandan Officials to Boost Economic Growth and Food Security

By Samuel Travis • September 4, 2023

The Ministry of Local Government, Uganda, hosted a 13-member senior delegation from the Lives and Livelihoods Fund (LLF) from August 14–18, 2023. The 5-day working visit was organized under the LLF-supported initiative, titled, Local Economic Growth Support (LEGS) Project, co-financed by the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Local Government. The Project is executed through the Ministry of Local Government with The Microfinance Centre (MSC) and Millennium Promise Alliance, Uganda as an Implementing Partner and Technical Backstopping Consultant. The LEGS project is a collaborative initiative of global partners such as the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), and King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief). The LEGS Project covers 17 Districts of Uganda including Adjumani, Alebtong, Bunyangabu, Buikwe, Buyende, Gomba, Kabarole, Katakwi, Kyenjojo, Kibuuku, Kumi, Luweero, Nakaseke, Ntoroko, Nwoya, Rukungiri and Tororo. The objective of the workshop was to articulate and reinforce the joint efforts of the Fund and the Government of Uganda in prioritizing medium to long-term development goals such as poverty reduction, sustainable development, and climate change management through the LEGS project. The Islamic Development Bank investment in Uganda through the Lives and Livelihoods Fund (LLF) has been a milestone achievement for the country. The Fund started its field activities in 2019 through a US$ 33 million flagship initiative to construct rural infrastructure and $10 million IsDB Rural Finance Scheme loan for the Local Economic Growth Support (LEGS) Project, covering the 17 districts. LLF’s work in Uganda supports a range of direct and indirect sectors, while focusing on three programmatic pillars: agricultural productivity and value chain development sustainable and inclusive economic growth human capital and institutional capacity development The LLF partners witnessed the impacts of LEGS Project during the mission visit. The delegation headed by Dr. Issahaq Umar Iddrisu, Manager Islamic Development Bank Regional Hub Kampala, engaged in senior-level talks with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries of Ministry of Local Government; Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development; Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities; Ministry of Water and Environment; Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries; and Ministry of Trade, Industries and Cooperatives. The meetings focused on fostering greater collaboration towards ensuring steady economic growth and sustainable food security in Uganda.

PADEF-EJ officially launches ultra-modern health post in Senegal's Keur Serigne Louga district

By Samuel Travis • August 28, 2023

The Support Project for the Development of Female Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment (PADEF-EJ) coordinator, Mame Thierno Gueye and the Governor of Senegal's Louga region, El Hadj Bouya Amar, on Wednesday, August 9th 2023, officially launched an ultra-modern health center in the Keur Serigne Louga district. The health center includes an ambulance, two reception rooms, offices, treatment, observation and hospitalization rooms. The medical post also has a maternity ward, pharmacy, and staff accommodations. Millennium Promise Alliance is supporting PADEF-EJ by providing technical assistance, and implementation of the infrastructures and services components including the establishment of the new health post. The new health infrastructures are a result of a partnership between PADEF-EJ and the Association of Residents of the Keur Serigne Louga district. The center will solve a great obstacle of lack of quality healthcare for the surrounding communities. The center and medical expertise have been well received as up to now, more than 1,700 people have been consulted by practitioners. The health center is also contributing to a reduction in home births, thus far, 27 women haven given birth in the new maternity ward. The project coordinator, Mame Thierno Gueye, declared that PADEF-EJ embraces the State's vision based on the observation that Senegal is faced with a deficit in terms of basic social infrastructure, particularly health. "As part of PADEF-EJ, in partnership with Millennium Promise, the project continued an initiative of emigrants from the Keur Serigne Louga Sud district who had already started to build this building," informed Mr. Gueye. He points out that "the position has made it possible to solve a good part of the problems of home birth in the Keur Seringe Louga district and the surrounding districts".

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By mobilizing cutting-edge science and technology through a multi-sector and multi-scale approach for effective development, Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA) is helping to accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as support governments and communities eradicate poverty across the continent of Africa and beyond.

Our methodology to achieve the SDGs centers on the deployment of systems and tools through collaboration with partners in research and applied field work, as well as the communities we serve on SDG focused solutions addressing developmental obstacles and reduction of inequalities. MPA specializes in technical and operational project design, development of uniquely tailored ICT based solutions, real-time data monitoring and reporting, and capacity building for government agencies, institutions, partners, and localities in our intervention areas.

MPA provides an array of technical services in Agriculture, Health, Education, Environment, Gender, Infrastructure, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Equality, WASH, and Women's Empowerment with support of our innovative ICT solutions to implement effective and unprecedented holistic science-based, community-led approaches to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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In September 2015, United Nations member states adopted the most ambitious agenda in history: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs present a new universal agenda that promotes economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, including gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. These ambitious goals seek to end global poverty and transform the world we live in by 2030.

Seizing on the opportunity of a new global agreement on the SDGs, Millennium Promise Alliance is a “go-to” organization for action-oriented efforts for the SDGs, continuing with our successes in incubating high-impact, low-cost initiatives, advising on policies and strategies, mobilizing multi-stakeholder networks and raising awareness of the Goals.

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At Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA), we believe that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the end of poverty, can be achieved by 2030, even in the most challenging and remote parts of the world.

MPA is a non-governmental not-for-profit organization in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Millennium Promise Alliance Inc. is an organization exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to section 501(c) (3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue code of 1986, and whose purpose is to participate in the mobilization of resources and technical expertise for the implementation of sustainable development projects based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to advance living standards of populations in Africa.

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