Sustainable Development Solutions
Millennium Promise Alliance (MPA) is a leading organization addressing the root causes of extreme poverty by taking a holistic, community-led approach to Sustainable Development. MPA specializes in the design, development, and implementation of Sustainable Development solutions on behalf of our multitude of partners and government agencies in the quest to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since 2005, we continue to be well positioned in our technical support to the communities we serve, our partners, and client’s application of the tools, systems, and protocols created, tested, and refined over 10 years of the Millennium Villages Project to present.
Our large networks of partners and experts have accumulated invaluable expertise and experience on multi-scale, multi-level sustainable development interventions and economic development. These teams continue to help drive the SDG Agenda alongside government partners through various uniquely-designed services and evidence-based, client-friendly solutions.
MPA Innovations
Millennium Promise Alliance works with world leading scientists and engineers to create and mobilize cutting-edge solutions to help end extreme poverty. From energy efficient lighting to cell phone-based mHealth and TeleAgric systems, new technology is boosting progress in the communities and countries we serve.
Our SDG Services and Solutions:
MPA specializes in the design, development, and implementation of Sustainable Development solutions. These solutions include mobilizing unique innovations, multi-sector project Implementation, technical capacity building, real-time data monitoring & reporting. Our SDG interventions are customized for application to various geographic locations and community demographics.
Examples of our innovative solutions include:
- Technical advisory, capacity building, and training modules for multi-sector, multi-level, multi-scale SDG-based development projects
- Monitoring and Evaluation Systems and Platforms
- SDG-based project design and implementation
- MPA TeleAgric Program and Mobile Application
- Tropical Laboratory Initiative (TLI)
- MPA Telemedicine Program
- Solar Powered Irrigation Systems
- Solar Powered Energy Systems
- Regenerative agriculture tools and systems
- Customizable ICT-Based Solutions
- Data visualization dashboards for SDG indicators and project deliverables
- Awareness and sensitization campaigns
- Multi-sector systems optimization for accurate, effective, cost-efficient, and high impact interventions
'MPA Thermocheck' installed at Terminal 3 of Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana to support the Government of Ghana's management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millennium Promise’s Specific Goals are as follows:
- Build and strengthen the capacities of the national and local authorities and their partners toward the integration of the SDGs into the local planning systems.
- Generate, capitalize on and disseminate best practices and scientific knowledge on the policies, institutions, methods and technologies to ensure proper planning and effective local implementation of the SDGs.
- Support government and non-government partners and develop partnerships in the implementation of the SDGs at subnational level.
- Improve performance in the implementation of the SDGs for government, non-governmental and private partners through appropriate technical assistance tailored to specific needs.
- Equip partners with on-demand expertise through a pool of experts specialized in the development and implementation of SDGs related activities at meso and local levels.
- Building low cost integrated SDG based real time M&E systems to benefit localities in Africa.
MPA Priority Areas:
- Technical Leadership: providing technical support to countries in the sub-region in several sectors experiencing difficulties such as gender, agriculture, health, infrastructure, and the identification of business opportunities in rural and urban areas and support for private entrepreneurship
- Technical Partnerships: developing key strategic and technical partnerships with research, education and development institutions at the national, regional and international levels, with governmental and non-governmental organizations, Government Ministries, Agencies of the United Nations System, and financial partners
- Technical Assistance for Development: providing quality technical assistance to governments of the sub-region to help design and implement national and local development plans that integrate the SDGs
- Research, Lessons Learned, and Policy Development: ensuring that the pertinent lessons learned from the experiences of different research and development projects are integrated into policy discussions relative to the SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Quick Impact Initiatives and the African Green Revolution: working closely with government organizations and NGOs to identify and implement initiatives that have high potential impact and can be implemented immediately, in health, education and agriculture to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs.