Post2015.org – what comes after the MDGs?
Opinion
Post-2015 Focus on Sustainable Development: How Education and Learning Can Play a Role
By Allison Anderson, Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development at Brookings. “While the theme of the third meeting of the High-Level Panel on Post-2015 in Bali was on global partnerships, the meeting’s communiqué set up the handover from the high-level panel to the intergovernmental Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (OWG). The communiqué calls for “a single and coherent … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
A post-2015 development goal for inequality?
By Francisco Ferreira, World Bank Research Department: “High level committees within the United Nations and other organizations are busy thinking about a framework of development objectives to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, upon their 2015 deadline. The World Bank has recently announced its own two central goals, which are intended to guide its work in … Continue reading
Labour’s vision for development
By Mark Tran in The Guardian: British shadow development secretary says Labour would focus on inequality and behaviour of donors as well as aid recipients “Labour is calling on the UN high-level panel on the future of development to focus on inequality and provide a new definition of good governance that not only applies to governments in … Continue reading
