The ‘Dominican Model’: A ‘work in progress’ towards sustainable human development

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1 More formally referred to as Investing in the Sustainable Development of the Dominican Republic: An MDG Needs Assessment, it was developed and released in 2005 by President Fernandez at the UN World Summit on the MDGs in September 2005.

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John R. Gagain

John R. Gagain, Jr. was named by Dr. Leonel Fernandez, President of the Dominican Republic, as the Executive Director of the Presidential Commission on the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development (COPDES) on 16 September 2004, where he leads the first Presidential Commission ever to be established for monitoring and evaluating a country's achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and coordinating multi-sectoral sustainable development planning. Prior to that, he served as Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), an international research-based non-governmental organization located in the Dominican Republic and founded in 2000 by Dr. Fernandez after his first term as President (1996–2000).