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The Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc.

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Sustainable Development: Agriculture Education Gender equality Health Poverty Rural Development Sanitation Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Geographic scope:	International
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Ensure environmental sustainability
Mission statement:	The mission of Millennium Promise is to promote sustainable development across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond through innovative solutions and scalable systems aimed at ending extreme poverty. At Millennium Promise, our vision is the eradication of extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease within our lifetime. We believe that extreme poverty can be eradicated and cut in half by the end of 2015 worldwide, even in the poorest, most remote regions. Our vision becomes action through the Millennium Villages Project (“MVP”), which takes a community-led, science-based approach to accomplishing the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (“MDGs”) in rural Africa. The MVP’s premise is that integrated, community-based improvements in health, food production, education, water access, essential infrastructure, and business development will enable the villages to propel themselves on a path of self-sustaining economic growth. Our work reaches half a million people in communities in 10 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, with scale-up initiatives launching throughout the region. The MVP is the collaboration between Millennium Promise and the Earth Institute, Columbia University, with Millennium Promise providing operational oversight (e.g., oversight of funds, human resources administration, procurement and other logistics, legal compliance, and audit matters), and the Earth Institute providing scientific, technical and policy advice, and know-how, to the villages. Millennium Promise is headquartered in New York City and has two regional offices in Africa: in Nairobi, Kenya and Dakar, Senegal. The Earth Institute provides technical expertise to the MVP through two centers in Africa: the MDG Center for East & Southern Africa, based in Nairobi (“MDG East”), and the MDG Center for West & Central Africa, based in Dakar. Millennium Promise also works with the United Nations Office for Project Services (“UNOPS”) to implement the MVP in sub-Saharan Africa. Through this relationship, UNOPS contracts directly with individual contractors, who are paid by Millennium Promise via UNOPS, to work in the MVP sites on behalf of Millennium Promise. Millennium Promise is responsible for the hiring, management and termination of this staff. Millennium Promise has recently entered into collaboration with IDB that will benefit the existing MVP sites in Mali, Senegal, and Uganda. Under this partnership, IDB has agreed to offer financing packages to the three host country governments, with a portion of the financing to be used to fund staff and interventions in the MVP sites already in operation in those countries. The Sustainable Villages Program In addition to the collaboration between Millennium Promise and IDB on the MVP sites, Millennium Promise and the Earth Institute are also teaming up with IDB to assist with the implementation of the SVP in the following countries: Sudan, Chad, Mozambique, Kyrgyzstan, Niger, and Guinea. Similar to the MVP, the goal of the SVP is to help remote and impoverished communities achieve the MDGs by using an innovative, integrated, and inclusive approach to development. IDB generally funds the SVP by providing financing to host country governments that agree to use the funds to implement key interventions in the chosen sites. In January 2013, Millennium Promise and IDB entered into a Framework Technical Services Agreement, pursuant to which Millennium Promise agreed to perform baseline surveys in the SVP sites through the Earth Institute as its sub-contractor. These surveys will be used as a basis for benchmarking, monitoring, and evaluating the impact of development interventions carried out in the SVP sites.
Year established:	2005
Year of registration:	2005
Organizational structure:	Millennium Promise is managed as follow: 10 Board members Chief Executive Officer Legal Officer Finance Officer Staff Members
Funding structure:	Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations Donations and grants from domestic sources

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