Achieving the MDGs: Health systems as core social institutions
Lynn Freedman of the Millennium Project argues that strategies for meeting the MDGs should be premised on an understanding of health systems as core social institutions that help define the very experience of poverty and citizenship. MDG 5 on maternal mortality provides a strategic entry point for addressing health systems. Read more (PDF 41Kb)

SID-SAN strategy on maternal mortality in South Asia
Representatives from women's NGOs, medical associations, media, donor and research communities met for a day long planning meeting in October 2004 to produce an advocacy resource book for South Asia on Maternal health and well-being, a set of media advocacy tools aimed at informing different constituencies of the MDG process and to plan a strategic meeting to be held in Lahore 3-5 February. Read more

On The Road to the UN Millennium Development Goals: Some insights into the international debate
This report by Wendy Harcourt for NCDO, ‘is a timely and frank look at how the different actors, in particular civil society, see the progress of the MDGs. The report focuses in particular on those goals that relate to women, reproductive and sexual health, gender and development. Read more (PDF 705Kb)

The Millennium Campaign: Goal 5. Improve maternal health
The Millennium Campaign's approach is to persuade existing organizations, networks, and movements focusing on issues like trade, education, health, women's rights, debt, AIDS, and development--essentially all those working for a fairer and better world--to come together under a single banner to show a unity of purpose and the strength of common determination.
Visit their web-pages on goal 5.