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25-Feb-2005
The European public expects the European Union to play a central role in development cooperation, especially in Africa. According to Eurobarometer, public awareness of Commission activities in this field and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is limited. It is the first time that this two-yearly opinion poll on development policy has covered the 25 EU Member States. The polling of Europeans on the MDGs is also a first, and results from a collaboration between the EC's DG Development and the OECD Development Centre, on behalf of the informal network of DAC Heads of Information.
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10-Nov-2004
Monitoring changes in public awareness and attitudes in rich countries towards aid and other international development policy issues is extremely difficult: due to lack of systematic polling or monitoring, there is no reliable, comparable data across DAC member countries. This paper suggests a way to address this problem: a common questionnaire for all DAC countries to use in their national surveys, centred on the Millennium Development Goals.
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13-Apr-2004
Citizens in OECD countries quite unambiguously support more solidarity and justice at the international level; however, despite the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their governments in 2000, they remain insufficiently informed and educated about global development challenges. With increased understanding of the issues, citizens could provide greater support for more efficient and coherent development policies as well as for more funding.
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