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Millennium Development Goals

Worldconnectors believe that the UN Millennium Devlopment Goals (MDG's) are currently the most valuable shared programme in the global fight against poverty, hunger and disease. Never before has the global community of governments agreed to formulate and act upon such specific promises to end extreme poverty. Never before have they accepted accountability vis-à-vis world public opinion. Never before have such promises been benchmarked by concrete, measurable, realistic, time-bound, and tough indicators. We see the MDG's as a part of the Millennium Declaration that encompasses a wider agenda of global human security, conflict prevention and peace building.

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Royal Decoration for Worldconnector Hans Eenhoorn

Hans Eenhoorn studied Economics and Business-Administration at Groningen University and in the USA. He started his career at Unilever in 1969. From 1987 to 2001 he successively filled the positions of chair of Unilever Argentina, Product Group Executive of the worldwide Ice Cream business of Unilever, chair of Unilever Austria and Senior Vice President of the worldwide Unilever Foods Division.

During his entire career at Unilever he showed interest for world food problems. In the sixties and seventies he was involved in the ‘Club of Rome’ and from the beginning he has been a member of the steering group Sustainable Agriculture, where he represented the Foods Category. Furthermore he applied himself to the importance of healthy food and played a key role in the development and expansion of the brand ‘Becel’. He introduced Becel, the margarine that decreases the absorption of cholesterol in the bloodstream, and other Becel products successfully all over the world. By doing so, he definitely contributed to making and keeping many people vital.

Hans Eenhoorn has always had a great interest in coaching young talents as well. He has guided numerous young people through the business of marketing. As member/chairman of the marketing resource committees, he was responsible for the career development of young marketeers.

In 2002 Hans Eenhoorn was invited to join the Millennium UN Taskforce on Hunger. This international Taskforce consisted of 30 top experts from the world of science, civil society, governments and business. The Taskforce, initiated by the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, had to advise on how to realise one of the millennium goals:
to reduce hunger in the world by 50% before the year 2015.
Since the acceptance of the plans of action by the General Assembly of the UN in 2005, Eenhoorn is actively involved in the implementation of these plans in Africa.

Hans Eenhoorn has been a board member of SOS Kinderdorpen (children’s villages) for 8 years of which the last 2 as chairman. Eenhoorn is the initiator of the organisation SIGN, the Schoolfeeding Initiative Ghana Netherlands, and he is a Worldconnector.

Since 8 December, Hans Eenhoorn is also Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Read a speech by Ad Melkert on Gender and the Millennium Development Goals.

Read the press release on the results of the campaign 'Stand Up Take Action'
Read article

Read an interview in Prospect with Hans Eenhoorn on the UN Taskforce on Hunger. Read article (in Dutch)

In newspaper NRC Worldconnector Hans Eenhoorn stresses that African farmers need to work together in order to deal with the foodpricecrisis. Read article (in Dutch)

Worldconnector Naema Tahir delivered a ‘Millennium Development Goals’ speech about the position of women in society at the Waterstaatskerk during the Schokland event on Saturday 30 June. Her speech can be read here.

Read the Worldconnectors' statement on the Millennium Development Goals
 
Where can I read more about the Millennium Development Goals?
September 09 2010
Amsterdam
Meet Jan Pronk at lecture 'The Moral History of Development Cooperation'
September 13 2010
The Hague
Meet Johan van de Gronden at Sustainable Trade debate
September 16 2010
The Hague
Meet Herman Mulder and Joris Voorhoeve at Strategy meeting 'Coherence in Development – The Case of Climate and Agriculture'



 






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