Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took part in a discussion with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the MDG innovation forum in New York.
The UN secretary general invited the leaders from the private and public sectors with the goal of the MDG advocate-led innovation forum to catalyse connections to accelerate progress on the MDGs, said a press release issue by Yunus Centre.
The MDG advocates are a special group of eminent persons and each of them has shown outstanding leadership in promoting and working towards MDG achievement.
In June 2010, Ban Ki-moon launched the MDG advocacy group to support him in building political will, rallying additional support and spurring collective action to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
The MDG advocacy group has currently a total of 17 members under the chairmanship of Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. The members include Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Sheikha Moza, first lady of Qatar, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries (India), Graça Machel, former first lady of South Africa, and Ted Turner, founder of CNN.
The forum showcased four high-impact projects including one presented by Yunus meant to help advance traditional philanthropy in the direction of smart targeted investments and creative partnerships, with a specific goal of garnering new commitments to aid in their implementation. Ban Ki-moon opened the forum.
Yunus focused on expanding social business globally towards achieving the target of MDGs in the field of education, healthcare and food security, the release said.
Yunus also participated in Clinton Global Initiative at a special session ‘Advancing Progress: Investing in Healthy and Educated Girls and Women’.
-With New Age input
