Introduction: moving from MDGs to GDGs: development imperatives beyond 2015 / David Hulme, Rorden Wilkinson -- Millennium Development Goals: milestones on a long road / Margaret Joan Anstee -- Recapturing the narrative of international development / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr -- From the Millennium to Global Development Goals / Ramesh Thakur -- Women and the MDGs: too little, too late, too gendered / Sophie Harman -- MDGs meet religion: past, present, and future / Katherine Marshall -- ECOSOC and the MDGs: what can be done? / Thomas G. Weiss -- Lessons to be learned from the challenges to achieving the MDGs in Africa / Craig N. Murphy -- Africa and the MDGs: challenges and priorities / Admos Chimhowu, David Hulme -- Challenges to the achievement of the MDGs in Africa / Frances Stewart -- Global Development Goals and the international HIV response: a chance for renewal / Ilaria Regondi, Alan Whiteside -- Combating poverty in Africa: 2015 and beyond / Yusuf Bangura -- Taking Africa beyond the MDGs: the role of higher education in development / H. Russel Botman -- Appendix 1: The Millennium Development Goals -- Appendix 2: The Johannesburg Statement on the Millennium Development Goals