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In Micah Challenge the Body of Christ is finding its voice as a global constituency for poor and marginalized people. In this area you can explore deeper into the thinking and strategy behind our approach to achieving the 2 aims of Micah Challenge. Micah Challenge's overall strategy has two primary dynamics, as shown in the diagram below.
- The horizontal dynamic, the primary strategy for achieving Aim 1, is to bring rich and poor within the Body of Christ into mutually transforming relationship.
- The vertical dynamic, the primary strategy for achieving Aim 2, is to biblically motivate and empower Christians to use the levers of democracy to influence the governments of their own countries (i.e. as 'constituents') to implement policies and budgets that will achieve the MDGs.
AIM 1. To deepen Christian engagement with impoverished and marginalised communities
The focus of Aim 1 is to Christians everywhere to commit ourselves to work as agents of hope for and with the poor. The Micah Challange campaign is not only a call on others to take action. It calls on us to take action ourselves and to grow in our understanding of what God requires of us.
AIM 2. To challenge international leaders and leaders of rich and poor nations to keep their promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and so halve poverty by 2015!
At the Millennium Summit of 2000, leaders of all 189 United Nations Member Nations pledged to achieve the MDGs by 2015. The MDGs are a set of 8 goals addressing critical poverty issues including hunger, child and maternal health, gender equality, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDs, aid, trade and debt. The Micah Challenge aims to influence international and national decision-makers of both rich and poor nations to fulfil their public promise to achieve the MDGs and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015.