Secretary-General Launches 2012 MDG Gap Task Force Report
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) launches the 2012 MDG Gap Task Force Report. The Task Force was created by the Secretary-General in 2007 to track progress in strengthening the Global Partnership for Development -- the eighth Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Shown with the Secretary-General at the launch of the report: Shamshad Akhtar (centre), Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; and Selim Jahan, Director in the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Bureau for Development Policy.