Post2015.org – what comes after the MDGs?
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Campaign for People’s Goals Statement statement to OWG on food security and agriculture
As the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) meet this week in New York to discuss food security, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, desertification and land degradation, the Campaign on People’s Goals for Sustainable Development has issued a set of recommendations, calling for the OWG to address the privatisation and expropriation of natural and … Continue reading
Financing our future: The Expert Committee on Sustainable Development Financing
By Amy Cutter, Project Officer, Stakeholder Forum “Finance is one of the most frequently cited barriers to the implementation of sustainable development, and the need for significant mobilisation of resources to support countries in their efforts to promote sustainable development, including the achievement of SDGs, was acknowledged in the Rio+20 Outcome Document (para. 254). This sentiment was … Continue reading
Let’s reconnect green issues and development post-2015
Post-2015 discussions offer a chance to link the environmental and development agendas — it shouldn’t be bypassed, says Myles A. Wickstead. “A quarter of a century ago, scientists could justifiably take some sense of satisfaction from their ability to set in motion policy shifts towards protecting the global environment. They had become increasingly worried by the … Continue reading
National Stakeholder Consultations on Water: Supporting the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The report on the national stakeholder consultations on water has been released and includes recommendations for national-level action on water resources management, supply, sanitation and hygiene, waste-water treatment systems, water quality management, and risk management: “The purpose of the national stakeholder consultations on water was to listen to country needs and priorities regarding the post-2015 … Continue reading
MDGs: facing up to the limitations of global goal setting
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, from the European Centre Development Policy Management, in The Guardian. “Simplicity, numerical targets and consensus are often cited as key strengths of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But before adopting these for a post-2015 development agenda, we must fully assess the MDG experience and acknowledge the research findings that show that these attributes are … Continue reading
MY World Survey: Summary of Results May 2013
By May 16th 2013, the MY World survey had mobilized over 570 000 participants in 190 countries to vote for their most important priorities. The data that the survey is generating yields important information not only on global priorities, but also how these differ by characteristics: by gender, age, education level, and location. This paper provides information on the current findings … Continue reading
Monitoring progress on poverty: the case for a high global poverty line
This is the second in a series of blogs that debate how a post-2015 framework ought to measure poverty - find out more. By Lant Pritchett, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development “There is an easy, simple and obvious solution to monitoring progress in reducing consumption expenditure poverty post-2015: • a low global poverty … Continue reading
MyWorld country focus: Nigerians vote for a better world
By Claire Melamed and Jonathan Couturier from the Overseas Development Institute, and Frances Simpson-Allen, from the United Nations Millennium Campaign. “I have faith in my country, in the government and in the MY World Survey to reach out to people at this level (rural). Don’t let me down among few others who still believe in … Continue reading
What do we know about the world’s proposals for post-2015 goals? First analysis from the Future Goals Tracker
By Gina Bergh and Jonathan Couturier at the Overseas Development Institute All eyes are on the post-2015 High Level Panel this month as it prepares its report of recommendations on future development goals to the UN Secretary-General, and on the Open Working Group as it holds its second substantive meeting on SDGs. Yet while these … Continue reading
Would tax on arms exports and protectionism help achieve post2015?
By Mark Tran, in The Guardian: “What should come after the millennium development goals (MDGs)? We will soon know the thinking of the UN’s high-level panel, on which Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, is a co-chair. Ahead of the release of the panel’s report, expected at the end of this month, comes a strong critique of the … Continue reading
