ABSTRACT
The Millennium Declaration has outlined detailed development goals that were further elaborated in the ‘Road Map towards the Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration’. The Road Map contains 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators. Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11 (MDG T 11) is: ‘By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers’. Reporting on the MDG T 11 requires a global and regional estimation of the number of slum dwellers. Similar country estimates are required as part of the country-level MDG reports.
