Transcript Beyond 2015 governance CIVICUS World Assembly 11 September

Towards a post-2015 global framework
Mwangi Waituru
Seed Institute Kenya/Beyond 2015
The Post 2015 development agenda:
Origin
UN Process: UN Task Team on the Post-2015
Development Agenda
A Task Team was set up in January 2012 which is system wide – it includes all UN agencies, plus
IMF, WB
See http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/Task%20Team%20member%20entities.pdf
6 working groups are doing a series of reports, one final report being issued to the UN Secretary
General (expected at the end of May 2015), covering:
UNDG 100+ (United Nations Development Group) Country
Consultations
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June – December 2012.
Led by UN Resident Coordinators, guidance issued by UNDP in New York (expected imminently)
75% of necessary funds have been raised.
Apparently there are great improvements in the guidance notes being sent to UN offices.
UNDG Thematic Consultation
First UN consultation (ILO / UNDP led) on growth and employment held in Tokyo
on 15th-16th May 2012. Remaining thematic consultations were to be held after
Rio +20, between June 2012 and early 2013.
UN Global Conversation
Led by UN Millennium Campaign / UNDP Post-2015 Outreach Strategic Planning Group
A UN wide effort that will be led by communications teams within the UN system.
Aim to use social networks, web based tools and mobile technologies to engage and
exchange information with ordinary citizens around the world.
Include a webplatform with...
- content library, with materials in different formats + multimedia
- space for interactive discussions
- calendar of post-2015 events
- Links
- Space for communities of practice or discussion groups
-main objective of the Global Conversation was to facilitate the establishment of
mobilisation and outreach mechanisms for citizens and key stakeholders to engage in the
post-2015 dialogue and contribute directly and indirectly to the formal post-2015
processes led by the UN.
The outcome from the national consultations, thematic meetings and online
conversation were consolidated into a single report, issued by UNSG in early
2013 to inform the September 2013 MDG High Level Event.
• UN High Level Panel on post-2015
• Recommended Five transformative shifts
UN Open Working Group on SDGs
• Proposed Seventeen Goals
• Many issues that were raised were taken in as targets
under the goals. Critics say this is mainly a list of
everything that needs to be done and lacks the
transformational element that tackles the structural
causes of poverty
• Proponents say it is ambitious, aspirational and
transformative and they quote such things as
elimination/zero goals, tackling of discriminations etc.
- 2015 THE YEAR OF OPPORTUNITY
UNGA, NEW YORK
September 2015
COP 21, PARIS
December 2015
The post-2015
development framework
unveiled
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC)
For good, or for bad, this brief window in history will have far reaching consequences
Two or Three?
Financing for
Development
Conference
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
July 2015
Post-2015
Framework
Intergovernment
al Negotiations
The post-2015
development
framework unveiled
COP 21, PARIS
December
2015
United Nations
Framework
Convention on
Climate Change
(UNFCCC)
For good, or for bad, this brief window in history will have far reaching consequences
Demands: Strong Goals should be
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Universal - The question of Common But Different
Responsibilities
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Ambitious (Is it wise in this regard to open the OWG document
for further discussions or not?)
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Taking into consideration the questions of the means of
implementation/financing the new agenda
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Legitimate
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Strong
WHO IS BEING LEFT BEHIND
Disconnect between the UN in NY and the
capitals/people in Africa
Complex politics in the United Nations
World leaders not prioritising the two
processes
Ordinary people don't know about them and
their voices are not being heard