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UNESCO's ethical and intellectual mandate and its role in standard setting and policy advocacy - combined with on-the- ground action projects and capacity-building initiatives of various kinds - provide it with special responsibilities as well as opportunities in respect to the alleviation of poverty. And more particularly in contributing to the first of the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), that of eradicating poverty, especially the halving of extreme poverty by 2015.