Towards a post-2015 global framework

Mwangi WaituruSeed Institute Kenya/Beyond 2015

The Post 2015 development agenda: Origin

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:

UN Process: UN Task Team on the Post-2015Development Agenda

UNDG 100+ (United Nations Development Group) Country Consultations • 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

• 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.

UN Open Working Group on SDGs

- 2015 -THE YEAR OF OPPORTUNITY

UNGA, NEW YORKSeptember 2015

The post-2015 development framework

unveiled

COP 21, PARISDecember 2015

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?

Post-2015 Framework

Intergovernmental

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

Financing for

Development Conference

Addis Ababa EthiopiaJuly 2015

• Universal - The question of Common But Different Responsibilities

• Ambitious (Is it wise in this regard to open the OWG document for further discussions or not?)

• Taking into consideration the questions of the means of implementation/financing the new agenda

• Legitimate

• Strong

Demands: Strong Goals should be

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