Faith in Action: Working Toward the Millennium Development Goals

This manual was created by Religions for Peace with feedback and collaboration from religious leaders from countries around the world. It was created to equip religious leaders and inter-religious councils to carry out advocacy and action campaigns that support achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The manual introduces the MDGs, identifies ways that religious leaders could actively engage their faith communities in support of the MDG process, and provides a list of resources to support this engagement. It is designed to provide religious leaders with the information they need to:

• raise awareness about the MDGs and empower their faith communities to take action;
• build networks and coalitions with like-minded communities around the world;
• hold policy makers accountable to the commitments their countries made in signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000; and
• engage both local and national media to promote the MDGs.

Religions for Peace aims to build, equip and network inter-religious councils to harness the untapped power of religious communities to transform conflict, promote peace and advance sustainable development.

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