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Post 2015 Agenda

Mike Battcock Civil Society Department

• Millennium Development Goals
• Progress
• The remaining task
• Post 2015 Agenda
• High Level Panel
• A million voices – global conversation
• Next steps in negotiations
• Civil society voice

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Millennium Development Goals

• 8 goals
• 21 targets,
• UN Millennium Summit in 2000
• All UN Member States pledged to

achieve them by 2015

• UK has led the way in galvanising

international commitment and delivering results.

• Millennium Development Goals

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MDG 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Poverty rates have been halved
• 700 million fewer people living in conditions of extreme poverty

MDG 2 - Achieve universal primary education

• In 2011, 57 million children of primary school age were out of school,

down from 102 million in 2000. MDG 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women

• Gender parity is closest to being achieved at the primary education.

Globally, 40 out of 100 wage earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector are held by women. MDG 4 - Reduce child mortality

• Since 1990, child mortality dropped by 41 per cent;
• 14,000 fewer children are dying each day.

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Progress against MDGs

MDG 5 - Improve maternal health

• East Asia, North Africa and Southern Asia, maternal mortality down by two thirds.

MDG 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• In 2011, 230,000 fewer children under age 15 were infected with HIV than in 2001,
• 8 million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV.
• In the decade since 2000, 1.1 million deaths from malaria were averted.
• Treatment for tuberculosis has saved some 20 million lives since 1995

MDG 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability

• More than 2.1 billion people and almost 1.9 billon people, respectively, have gained

access to improved water sources and sanitation facilities since 1990. MDG 8 - Develop a global partnership for development

• 83% of least developed country exports enter developed countries duty free.
• Debt service of developing countries consumes only 3 per cent of their export

revenues.

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Progress

MDG 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• One in eight people still go to bed hungry
• Nearly one in six children under age five are underweight
• One in four are stunted.

MDG 2 - Achieve universal primary education

• 123 million youth (aged 15 to 24) lack basic reading and writing skills;
• 61 per cent of them are young women.

MDG 3 - Promote gender equality and empower women

• 2 out of 130 countries have achieved the gender parity target at all levels of

education

• Average share of women members in parliaments worldwide is just over 20%

MDG 4 - Reduce child mortality

• 6.9 million children under age five died in 2011.
• In sub-Saharan Africa, one in nine children die before age five, 16 times the

average for developed regions.

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More to be done

More to be done

MDG 5 - Improve maternal health

• Half of pregnant women in developing regions receive minimum of 4 antenatal

visits. MDG 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 1 in every 20 adults are infected with HIV
• 2011 over 800,000 women and men aged 15 to 24 were newly infected with HIV
• More than 60 per cent of them were women.

MDG 7 - Ensure environmental sustainability

• Global emissions of carbon dioxide have increased by more than 46 per cent

since 1990

• Nearly one third of marine fish stocks have been overexploited
• Estimated 863 million people reside in slums in the developing world.

MDG 8 - Develop a global partnership for development

• Cost of broadband access in relation to average income remains far too high for

most in developing countries..

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By 2012-13, DFID had achieved the following

• enabled 30.3 million people, including at least 14.6 million women, to work their way
• ut of poverty by providing access to financial services
• given 19.6 million people access to clean water, better sanitation or improved

hygiene conditions

• prevented 12.9 million children and pregnant women from going hungry
• ensured that 1.6 million births took place safely
• reached 8.7 million people with emergency food assistance
• supported 5.9 million children - 2.8 million girls - to go to primary school
• improved the land and property rights of 3.8 million people
• helped 33.4 million people to hold their authorities to account and have a say in their

community’s development

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What DFID achieved

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Country differentiation

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Post 2015 agenda

• 2010
• High Level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly
• To review progress towards the MDGs,
• Governments called for accelerating progress and for

thinking on ways to advance the development agenda beyond 2015

• Process led by the United Nations
• Aims to help define the future global development framework

Succeed the UN Millennium Development Goals.

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UN Task Team

• To support UN system-wide preparations for the Post-2015 UN

Development Agenda.

• 60 UN agencies, as well as the World Bank and the International

Monetary Fund

• June 2012
• “Realizing the Future We Want for All” outlined the vision of the United

Nations system on the global development agenda beyond 2015

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High Level Panel of Eminent Persons July 2012, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed 27 civil society, private sector, and government leaders from all regions of the world to advise him on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

• David Cameron (co-chair), Prime Minister of United Kingdom
• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (co-chair), President of

Indonesia

• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (co-chair), President of Liberia

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A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development

• 30 May 2013
• Universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and

deliver on the promise of sustainable development.

• World to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person

in the world. – Leave No One Behind – Put Sustainable Development at the Core – Transform Economies for Jobs and Inclusive Growth – Build Peace and Effective, Open and Accountable Institutions for All – Forge a New Global Partnership

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Million V illion Voice

• ices: The Wor

: The World We ld We Wan Want t Global conv Global convers ersation ation

• To facilitate an inclusive global conversation, the United Nations Development

Group initiated consultations. – Regional Consultations: to formulate regional positions on the Post-2015 Development Agenda e.g. African Common Position on the Post 2015 Development Agenda. – National Consultations to open to crowdsourcing the usually closed multilateral negotiation process in 87 countries – 11 global thematic consultations to organize formal and informal meetings with different stakeholders around current and emerging challenges. – Online consultation: In order to facilitate a global conversation where each citizen can make their voice be heard, the initiative My World and World we want were established.

• September 2013
• Produced “A Million Voices: The World We Want" report

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A Life of Dignity for All

• On 15 August 2013,
• Secretary-General released his report on the MDGs and the

post-2015 agenda.

• This report draws on the results of the UNDG-facilitated

consultations, and the reports and inputs received from HLP, SDSN, Global Compact Office, UN Task Team, Regional Commissions, and the discussions of the OWG.

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Way Way forw forwar ard

President of the General Assembly events High-level events

• Contributions of women, the young and civil society to the post-2015

development agenda (March)

• Contributions of South-South, North-South and Triangular Cooperation and

information and communication technologies for development to the post-2015 development agenda (May)

• Human rights and the rule of law in the post-2015 development agenda (June)

Thematic debates

• Water, sanitation and sustainable energy in the post-2015 development agenda

(February)

• Role of partnerships and their contributions to the post-2015 development agenda

(April)

• Ensuring stable and peaceful societies (April)

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Open Working Group

• Mandated by the Rio+20 Outcome document to prepare a proposal on

Sustainable Development Goals

• Will make proposals to the UN General Assembly by September 2014.

Expert Committee on Sustainable Development Finance

• Will develop options for a sustainable development finance strategy by

September 2014. UN Secretary General Synthesis Report

• Will summarise contributions by Oct-Dec 2014.

Inter-governmental negotiations

• Will begin in 2015.
• EU is likely to negotiate for all Member States, including the UK.

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Civil society voice

• Beyond 2015 is a global civil society campaign, pushing for

a strong and legitimate successor framework to the MDGs, Bond is a founding member

• Convened dialogue on the Essential Must Haves for a

legitimate post-2015 framework

• Currently working on what the Vision, Purpose, Values and

Criteria for this new framework should be.

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Bo Bond B nd Beyo eyond 2015 UK Group nd 2015 UK Group

• Platform for UK NGOs active in this agenda to work together to ensure the UK

plays a leading role in securing a legitimate, overarching and cross-thematic framework for development after 2015.

• 100 member organisations
• Elected steering committee
• Campaign creates a unified concept of what the post-MDG framework should

look like and how it should come about: – That a global overarching cross-thematic framework succeeds the Millennium Development Goals, reflecting Beyond 2015’s policy positions. – That the process of developing this framework is participatory, inclusive and responsive to the voices of those directly affected by poverty and injustice.

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Bond Beyond 2015 UK draft paper

• Over 65 Bond members participated
• 19 thematic areas.
• 3 pillars of sustainable development

– Social, – Environmental – Economic

• Analyses elements of the High Level Panel report and outlines key issues that

would like to see the UK uphold and defend in future negotiations.

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Cross cutting issues identified

• Inequality
• Climate change
• Inclusive development
• Governance of the political-economic context
• Addressing conflict and violence
• Environmental sustainability
• Human rights
• Data disaggregation

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