how is Fiji going to archieve the MDG's ?

After identifying the main priorities for each Goal and its strategy to archieve it, some Goals and targets have been adjusted to ensure alignment to Fiji’s objectives and reflect national contexts and priorities.

To monitor progress, MDG National Task Forces and Committees have been created, showing national commitment and ensuring enhanced ownership.

But, data collection is difficult: the absence of accurate data in some sectors, the lack of full exploitation of available data, unconsolidated data/storage and reporting, the lack of capacity and resources to analyse data, and the lack of coordination in data gathering, analysis, documentation and reporting, both among national agencies and between national agencies and development partners is a problem. The quality of survey information, statistical tracking and analysis capacity, as well as the ability to incorporate statistical analysis into policy, planning, programming, and resource allocation mechanisms are challenges to be addressed.
The challenge for Fiji now is to cost policies and correctly allocate budgets (both domestic and external resources) to implement, monitor and evaluate results towards MDG achievement. Ongoing efforts are directed towards expanding knowledge on the MDGs more widely as information should not be confined to the national policy and planning levels. Fiji needs to ensure that lower levels of sectoral planning and implementation are also provided with the relevant knowledge, understanding, and support to be able to implement and monitor the activities needed to facilitate MDG achievement.

Conclusion: communication & information are needed to put the words (policy) into facts (practice)