Still about the MDGs Summit and the NYC trip, it is largely known that no comprehensive real plan was made. Instead, brilliant and beautifully delivered speeches were meaningful and cast a romantic spell on us.

As Ian said, urgency was not a priority, but 'small' plans were launched and re-launched, and more governments and institutions engaged with it and took upon new commitments. So do not ignore them. Look on the bright side. That is what Kevin pointed out: “this sort of good news doesn’t grab the headlines but it is the stuff that really counts”.

Kevin has already talked about the Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health, dubbed ‘Every Woman, Every Child’, but it deserves to be highlighted once more as it must be one of the largest programmes announced. Take a detailed look at some important speeches I got to record during the UN Summit week on the video below. It will be deepened below on the fourth Millennium Development Goal.

Moreover, do not forget that the MDGs Summit was organized to present information, both shortfalls and successes (best practices and lessons learned, obstacles and gaps, and challenges and opportunities), to lead to concrete strategies for action. Also, it was done to remind all stakeholders to accelerate progress.

Here you are the main commitments announced.

Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

- The World Bank will give more support to agriculture between US$ 6 bn and US$ 8 bn each year in the next three years, besides the US$ 4,1 bn given each year , to help to increase wages, job security and food security in developing countries.

- South Korea promised US$ 100 million to support food security and agriculture in developing countries.

- Chile announced a “Ethical Wage Initiative of Family” to be launched in 2011 to complement the poorest families’ wages.

- The “Monster.com” initiative is expanding access to job opportunities to rural youth in India, promoting access to Rozgarduniya.com, a job site on the internet, present in 40,000 villages in India.

Millennium Development Goal 2: To achieve universal primary education

- The World Bank will invest extra US$ 750 million into basic education, focusing on countries that are off track, specially countries from the Sub-Saharan Africa.

- Dell will concede US$ 10 million to education technology’s initiatives this year.

Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower women

- The Earth Institute, Ericsson and Millennium Promise launched “Connected to learn”, a non-profit global education initiative to improve access and quality of basic education to children all over the world, specially for girls. The initiative will offer grants, scholarships, covering expenses, books, uniforms, as well as access to broadband internet. The first 100 schoolarships will be available in Ghana and Tanzania in 100 days’ time.

- UPS Intenational promised US$ 2 million to the World Association of Scouts, to foster women leadership in 145 countries.

- ExxonMobil will donate US$ 1 million in a partnership with the Association of Social Entrepreneurs Ashoka to help women to increase their productivity and to take part effectively in economy. This programme will benefit over 13,500 people, with indirect benefits reaching 475 thousand people in the next two years.

Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality and Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve maternal health

- Creation of a joint fund of US$ 40 bn to women and children’s health around the world. It will be invested during the next five years to preserve 16 million lives. It had Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, US government, UK government and Australian government’s support.

- Canada reassured its commitment of mobilizing over US$ 10 bn from G8 countries in the next five years, through Muskoka initiative.

- Trinidad and Tobago announced the launch of a Fund to Children’s Life, focused on emergency procedures.

- Hospitals LifeSpring are committed to give 82,000 Indian women and their families access to health care. LifeSpring will increase the number of hospitals that assist mothers and children in the whole India to 200. Currently, there are 9.

Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

- France announced a US$ 1,4 bn programme for the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2011-2013, what represents an increase of 20%.

- The UK announced that it will triplicate its financial contribution to combat malaria, increasing the budget to combat the disease from £150 million per year to £500 million by 2014.

- World Bank announced one enlargement in the scope of its health programmes of over US$ 600 million until 2015 to amplify health essential services , as well as to strengthen health systems in 35 countries in South Asia, East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

- Sumitomo Chemical is committed to donate 400,000 anti-malaria networks to each of the Millennium Villages between 2010 and 2011.

Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

- The US launched a programme worth of over US$ 50 million in the next five years to the Global Alliancefor Clean Cookstoves, which intend to install 100 million clever stoves all over the world.

- Cameroon launched one development programme in the energy sector to double clean energy production by 2015 and triplicate it by 2020.

- WaterHealth International promised to construct 75 plants to purify water in Bangladesh and expand its networks to another 100 villages in India.

- PepsiCo is committed to guaranteeing water access to three million people around the world.

Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

- EU offered 1 billion euros to countries in need to make the pace of progress go swift.

- Belgium promised 400,000 euros to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2011.

And there is much more. However, unfortunately, such big announcements are something that we tend to ignore. Do not anymore. Smile on it.