This special issue of Alliance is timed to come out just before the UN Summit in September that will review progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) five years on. Three things in particular have struck me in putting it together. First, this is a question of political will. We clearly can achieve the Goals by 2015 if we, the international community, want to. ‘Don’t tell us you haven’t got the money,’ said Wahu Kaara of the All Africa Council of Churches speaking in London on the first day of the recent G8 Summit. The resources needed are modest, especially …