second millennium development goal which is education for all we do can see the better early childhood care in education have an extremely important role in the life of every human being afterwards. the recent scientific research also shows for one dollar invested in preschool education in child care it means that we can save eighty eight dollars for the run during the education process and i'm happy that we have this conference here in moscow moscow has offered to its hospitality and the russian government of course and we could also share experience we have discussions also among sixty eight ministers of education from all over the world and also with the delegations of more than one hundred twenty countries i would say that this is a conference which is the last of a whole series of important conferences on education that unesco has organized in the last two years. you know probably to all to well that education is so one of our priorities it's within our mandate we are the only united nations agency which looks at age occasion from a holistic point of view we follow education start

. >> i want to circle back to this millennium development goals. as you say, we are two-thirds of the way home. these leaders made this commitment. the haves kind of helping the have-nots. do not want to say that in a disrespectful way. people who are in great poverty throughout the world -- did the economic crisis that swept across the globe -- did that hurt some of these countries in being able to meet their obligations, to make good on their promises? >> there were concerns expressed, particularly by the developing countries. when a whole world is experiencing financial and economic downturn, what will the the other to countries? at the same time, the whole world is united. believing in our responsibility that despite economic crises, the world leaders should not neglect and should not forget the challenges of developing countries. i've emphasized that while i will strongly welcome any domestic, economic stimulus packages, at the same time, economic consolidation or budget cuts should not be made on the backs of the poor. this is very important.

it is now on the way to meeting theunited nation's millennium development goals on poverty and hunger and its first lady is not just content for the world to sit back and make all the right noises >>mutharika: the developed roadmap on scaling up nutrition with nutrition being at the heart of the mdgs will be achieved by 2015 in malawi. malawi is therefore calling upon the global to walk the talk and not to superficially place nutrition as a weight in documents without action. >>reporter: that view was echoed by lesotho's first lady: >>mosisili: the problem on the continent has not been availability of plans and programmes but lack of implementation. when you go through that policy, we see a lot of good and a lot of things that could be done but all this beautiful policies are always locked up in the big offices. so if we want to develop any of these ideas in the policies in nutrition i think our best target should be the grass-roots. >>reporter: timing is critical. africa has enormous untapped potential. it could achieve stunning economic growth but only if its huge young population i

if you walked down the street and said united nations millennium development goals. it does not come tripping lay off of the tongue. what are we talking about? let's get that framed. this goes back to the year 2000, right? what was of that declaration? what was that coming together all about? >> it is multifaceted. it requires deep poverty -- it is very wide. in 2000 the united nations came together and put all of the development agendas into eight classes, eight millenium development. very well described and defined course, which the implementation of which can be measured and monitored. for example, halfing extreme poverty by 2015. exact targets. halfing, or reducing by two- thirds, or reducing by three- fourths, even dared clear goals which can be measured. this is a great advantage because we can hold all of the stakeholders accountable to the speed and scale of implementation. >> quick question. " was an all going back to 2000? was it countries, governments? who sat down and said we are going to cut a deal? >> the u.n. has been beating power. to bring the whole

in the president's speech at the united nations a few weeks ago in connection with the millennium development goals summit, the president laid out of focus -- a focus on trying to enhance economic growth, build middle classes around the world because that correlates with stability and increasing political freedom and democracy historically. it also means, though, doing a really hard scrub of u.s.a.i.d. the new administrator and i are working very closely to really change procurement policies, personnel policies, trying to streamline the delivery of aid. we have 24 different agencies and the our government that provide some sort of aid -- some sort of development aid. it makes it difficult to speak with an authoritative voice in a country and to avoid redundancies. if you are an african woman in a rural part of the country in sub-saharan africa and perhaps you are hiv-positive, you might be able to go one place and get entire trials -- antiretrovirals. you may go to another place and with the u.s.a.i.d. program get your children immunized. you may go to another place to try to get health care for pr