The following 'quick win' ideas were proposed in the report to 'save lives, promote economic growth and build community level expertise':

Free mass distribution of malaria bed-nets and effective antimalarial medicines.

End user fees for primary schools and essential health services.

Complete the 3 by 5 campaign to bring 3 million AIDS patients in developing countries onto anti-retroviral treatment by 2005.

Expand school meals programmes using locally produced food to cover all children in hunger hot spots.

Replenish soil nutrients for smallholder farmers on lands with nutrient-depleted soils through affordable distribution of chemical fertilizers and agroforestry.

Provide a massive training programme to ensure that each community has expertise in:

• health, agriculture, nutrition, infrastructure, water, sanitation and environmental management
• public sector management
• gender equality and participation.

These and longer term initiatives should be paid for by:

• Increasing overseas development assistance (ODA) to support MDGs from .25% of GNP in 2003 to .44% in 2006 and .54% in 2015 (Overall ODA should reach .7% for all donor countries to support MDG and other development goals by 2015)
• Opening high-income country markets to developing country exports through completion of the Doha trade round
• Strengthening United Nations (UN) agency, fund and programme coordination.