UN Millennium Project

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The Millennium Project

Contributors:

	· Task Forces
	· Secretariat Team
	· UN Experts Group

Statements of Support:

	· by Heads of State
	· by International Organizations
	· by Civil Society and Academia

Maite Irurzun-Lopez

Maite Irurzun-Lopez is an Economic Affairs Officer at the UN Economic Commission for Africa, working under the Economic and Social Policy Division as the HIV/AIDS focal point. Ms. Lopez is a Social Economist who specializes in HIV/AIDS issues in the African region. Previous professional experience includes work with the Poverty Reduction Department of IDS, the Social Policy Division of the Asian Development Bank based in Manila (The Philippines), Southern Health Improvement Sanity (SHIS) Tuberculosis Hospital in Calcutta (India), Department of International Economics at Javeriana University (Colombia), Monitoring and Evaluation Office of Valencia Regional Government (Spain), and ASEFIC consultant for small and medium enterprises. She received an MPhil in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

As of Jan 1, 2007, the advisory work formerly carried out by the Millennium Project secretariat team is being continued by an MDG Support team integrated under the United Nations Development Program.

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Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
"Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."

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