This background paper by Deepak Nayyar was prepared for the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 UN Development Agenda and reflects on options and possibilities beyond 2015.
Section I sets the stage. It outlines the origins and significance of MDGs, to highlight why they are the focus of attention once again. Section II attempts an evaluation of MDGs. It provides a critical assessment of their conception and design. Section III contemplates their future. It discusses options beyond 2015 in terms of possible choices to explore the necessary and desirable contours of change which could be the foundations of a modified or alternative framework. Section IV examines what developing countries could do in their respective national contexts for the pursuit and attainment of development objectives embedded in the MDGs. Section V is about the international context, where the focus has been narrow and the progress has been slow so far. It highlights possibilities of change for the better, but argues for a different approach and framework which would be conducive for development.
Download ‘The MDGs after 2015: Some reflections on the possibilities’.
Discussion on post MDGs is very important as there is very short time in our hand 2.3 years only is remaining! Progress according to set target so far satisfactory but there are many areas where still many developing countries are very lagged in attainment as per their set target. I think in this discussion civil societies should come forward as without people’s participation even the target of 2015 will not be achieved if we set another five years for remaining areas which would have been left in the given timeframe!
zMd. A. Halim Miah, Senior Policy Specialist, ASC, BRAC
Posted by Md. A. Halim Miah | September 26, 2012, 7:09 am