SPC has taken a proactive role in promoting Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the Pacific region,  recognising the significance of the MDG framework as a mechanism to assess and monitor social development in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). SPC has clearly stated its intention to assist its Pacific Island member Countries to achieve their MDG commitments through forming the SPC MDG Task Force (SPC MDGTF). The Task Force crosses and assimilates the marine, land and social resources divisions within the organisation. The SPC MDGTF goal is to significantly improve decision-making process in PICs through integration of the MDGs into national decision making and  monitoring frameworks.

SPC provides its members with assistance to develop their potential in collecting, processing, analysing, disseminating and effectively using MDG-related information  through capacity building in its PRISM (Pacific Regional Information System) and PopGIS projects, in its role as the Principal Recipient for the Pacific Islands Regional Multi-Country Project under the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the soon to be operational Pacific Poverty Program, and through existing programmes such as the Pacific Women's Bureau and the Pacific Youth Bureau.

The SPC MDGTF coordinates its activities with other regional and international organisations through the UN/CROP MDG Working Group. The United Nations Development Programme have contracted SPC to prepare a regional MDG report to provide baseline information for monitoring  progress toward achieving the MDGs for the region.

SPC has taken the lead in the region and has coordinated MDG activities with other UN/CROP agencies in Vanuatu since early 2003 and is planning to do the same for at least two other PICs later in 2004 and early 2005.