Bottom line: Millennium development goals in Caldas

Abstract

This paper presents efforts to define a global agenda to improve the living conditions of the world´s poorest people. This agenda represented an ideal of solidarity and cooperation of 189 world leaders, who attended the United Nations Millennium Summit held in 2000. The measurable goals set out for the year 2015, defined defines progress towards universal purposes, intends to make a follow-up of the dynamics, relevance and achievements reached. Colombia confirms its commitment by means of the “Social Conpes 91” document called “Colombia's Goals and Strategies to Reach the Millenium Development Goals by 2015.” This bottom line shows the effort of many institutions and sectors to try to remedy poverty and marginalizing conditions around an important population group. Also, the document evidences the existence of enough leaders committed to the collective construction of a regional project in Caldas, which can offer equal opportunities to everybody