Millennium Villages Project - Guiding Principles

Guiding Principles

  • Promote sustainable, scalable, community-led progress toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals through the use of scientifically validated interventions—one village at a time
  • Ensure African ownership of the Millennium Development Goals, and work in partnership with African governments and regional groups
  • Increase capacity and community empowerment in Africa through training and knowledge sharing with local African governments, NGOs, and village communities.
  • Partner with the public and private sectors, innovative NGOs, universities and leading experts, and the international donor community throughout Africa and the world to continually improve and coordinate development strategies.
  • Transform rural sub-subsistence farming economies into small-scale enterprise development economies and promote diversified entrepreneurs

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