This report highlights the main issues raised at the conference, presenting some of the strategies proposed and includes the full texts of four of the papers presented: An answer to the skeptics: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals / Caren Grown: MDGs and gender equality, another fallacy of mainstreaming? Reflections .from a Dutch civil society perspective / Ireen Dubel, Hivos: MDGs, gender and macroeconomic policy / Zo Randriamaro, WEDO: Gender and human security: women’s movements’ responses to the SG 2005 Report / Wendy Harcourt, SID/WIDE.