This document discusses the process of developing the UN's post-2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs). It outlines key milestones like the 2012 Rio+20 conference and the establishment of the Open Working Group on SDGs in 2014. The document emphasizes the importance of including access to information in the post-2015 framework and SDGs. It provides details on the Lyon Declaration, which calls for recognizing access to information as critical for development. Finally, it discusses next steps like learning the language of development and engaging policymakers to incorporate libraries' role in national development plans.
2. Roadmap to Post-2015
• Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)
– Outcome: ‘The Future We Want’ (June)
• UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel (2013)
– Outcome: Report inc. ‘The Data Revolution’ (May)
• Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (2014)
– Outcome: Draft SDGs (September)
• UN General Assembly (2014)
– Outcome: Secretary General’s Synthesis Report (December)
• Inter-Governmental Negotiations (2015)
– Outcome: Zero Draft Post-2015 Framework Document (June)
• Post-2015 Development Summit (2015)
– Outcome: Post-2015 Development Framework: Declaration, SDGs,
Means of Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability
(September)
3. • Information is fundamental for development – and libraries
support this
• Information promotes better decision-making, helps people
learn new skills
• Information helps people exercise their rights
• Information promotes accountability
Advocating for access to information can create policy space for
libraries to move into and become development partners
Why include access to information in
the post-2015 development framework?
4. Launch of the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development,
Lyon WLIC, August 2014
5. What does the Lyon Declaration ask for?
6. We call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access to
information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable
development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015 development
agenda by:
a) Acknowledging the public's right to access information and data, while
respecting the right to individual privacy.
b) Recognising the important role of local authorities, information
intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as a
means of implementation.
c) Adopting policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued
funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by
governments, and access by people.
d) Developing targets and indicators that enable measurement of the impact
of access to information and data and reporting on progress during each
year of the goals in a Development and Access to Information (DA2I)
report.
6. After Lyon
• Section Contributions
– http://www.ifla.org/node/7408
• UN DPI Conference (August 2014)
– http://www.ifla.org/node/8776
• Social media and communications
– @IFLA_ALP
– http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development
7. Open Working Group Co-Chairs: Ambassadors Csaba (left, Hungary)
and Kamau (right, Kenya)
14. The UN 2030 Agenda
• Preamble
• Declaration
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Means of Implementation and Global
Partnership
• Follow-up and Review
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org
15.
16. Sustainable Development Goals
• Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
• Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
• Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all
• Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
• Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
• Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent
work for all
• Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
• Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
• Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
• Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and
build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org
17. Selected Goals and Targets
• Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote
sustainable agriculture
– Target 2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food
producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers,
including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs,
knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm
employment
• Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
– 3.1 by 2030 reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
• Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning
opportunities for all.
– 4.6 by 2030 ensure that all youth and at least x% of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy
and numeracy
• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
– 5b. enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment
• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
– 11.4 strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
18. Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive
societies for sustainable development, provide
access to justice for all and build effective,
accountable and inclusive institutions at all
levels
Target 16.10:
“Ensure public access to information and protect
fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national
legislation and international agreements”
19. Impact of the Lyon Declaration
• 589 Signatories
• 72% library organisations, 28% outside of library sector
• Development NGOs, technology sector, media
– Europe: 211 -36%
– North America: 50 – 8.5%
– South America: 73 – 13%
– Africa: 48 – 8.5%
– Asia: 94 – 17%
– International: 90 – 16%
– Industry: 5 – 1%
• Lyon, Milan
20. What do we do next?
• Learn to speak the language of development
– http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development
– www.beyondaccess.net
• Familiarise yourself with the SDGs – where do you think library
services can contribute?
• Look at the priorities for development in your country, and
assess where to pitch libraries’ role
• Build cross-sector alliances with development organisations to
solve problems – think outside the library community
• Actively engage with policymakers to get libraries incorporated
into national development plans
Editor's Notes
Going to recap the journey
Break down what happened
Talk about the role of the Lyon Declaration in helping us achieve success
Talk about how we got progressively engaged
Talk about the HUGE number of different players in the development field
Mention the UN General Assembly 2013, and the realisation that no one was representing our point of view
Talk about how by the end of that General Assembly week we had some new friends, and a plan
Talk about how our sector knows the truth of this slide – run through how we see it in our services every day
Talk about this view is not widely known in the development community
Mention Beyond Access trying to change mindsets
Talk about how codified this first in the IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (2013), and then in the Lyon Declaration
What is a Declaration?
Talk about how we developed it, building on endorsed policy and positions from IFLA’s past and present
Talk about the context that it needed to be introduced into – ongoing negotiations where everyone wants something – and the target audience – ALL Member States, not just developing countries
Talk about how we had a rough idea of what broad goals and targets there were going to be and, sadly, there wasn’t going to be one on building 100 new libraries in every country
Talk about it therefore needed for it to be bigger than the library community – and NOT about libraries per se. About Access to Information, and then when people got interested in that, we could bring libraries in
Talk about how we launched it, at Lyon, with big names already on board
Talk about how the Declaration had to have a point, an ask
Walk through the ask, including the text before a) – d)
Re-iterate that this is aimed at Member States – and that all libraries live in a Member State, and can therefore influence them
Talk about sourcing contributions from the sections, and name sections who contributed – say it’s not too late
Talk about the Declaration’s first visit to the UN – more signatories
Talk about moving IFLA’s comms into place, and the development webpages
Open Working Group (March – July 2014) – the outcomes would be key to what we could hope to achieve with the Declaration
Explain make-up of OWG – a group of 70 nominated UN Member States who were charged with proposing a set of global goals for consideration by the UN by the end of 2014
Explain how at OWG meetings we would engage with delegates, handout flyers, put on side-events, cajole and persuade that A2I should be include
Talk about the controversy of A2I, how some member states didn’t want a focus on good governance, transparency, accountability
September – we got the draft proposal for the SDGs
17 Goals, 169 targets – remember there were only 8 MDGs
And here it was – 16.10. The first place we scrolled to
First battle was won – it was in the text
But could it stay there? Still a year of negotiations to go
So, in October, once we had something to work with, we went back to signatories and the IFLA network
Talk about the toolkit, what it had in it, what we wanted people to do etc.
Downloaded 1000 times
Outreach – developing partners in transparency sector – World Bank webinar on A2I in October
Talk about how we were now waiting for December, but trying to get library reps to take meetings
In December we got the Secretary General’s Synthesis report - what else in play? HLP, discussions on financing
“The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting the Planet” - 6 elements for delivering
What’s it say about A2I?
Explain what came next – the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) Process (Jan – August 2015)
IFLA team – Donna Scheeder, Loida Garcia-Febo and Gerald Leitner (ALP) all contributed
Lyon Declaration at the UN (Feb, April)
Joining the TAP Network, sitting on the Steering Committee
Talk about what this work looks like when you’re in the building
So overall, you could say we had a two handed strategy – engage in New York, get our members and Lyon Declaration signatories engaged in capitals
Revised Toolkit (February 2015)
National Development Plans (June 2015)
In capital work – getting meetings with Ministers, and policymakers. Talk about who took meetings, and what they found difficult
Endgame. It was becoming increasingly certain that the Goals and Targets produced by the Open Working Group would not be re-opened
Up for grabs: the Declaration, the Means of Implementation (the text on how we will do it) and the text on monitoring and review (or how we will measure success)
Talk about the meetings in this room
Talk about the Zero Draft, the revised zero draft
And then on the afternoon of August 4th…
This is the 2030 Agenda (29 pages)
Talk about what we were advocating for in the last week - the inclusion of universal literacy – thanks to Lyon Declaration signatories’ work we got it in!
Run quickly through the goals at a high level
Goals and Targets
17 Goals (w/MDG comparison)
169 Targets
Explain that there more than the MDGs because of the consultative way that the consultations progressed, and the ambition of the Member States
These were some of the ones we were keeping an eye on in the negotiations – we always knew libraries could play a role
Jewel in the crown
Talk about how all Goals and Targets are going to be implemented at national levels – we must seize the moment and get included in national development plans
Direct to the next session for more information
Talk through slide
Talk about how it brought new allies to our side
Talk about how it helped library representatives at national level start a conversation
Talk about how it gave visibility to our issues, and ultimately libraries, in development conversations wherever post-2015 was being discussed
Talk about how Lyon Declaration gave IFLA a mandate to take our issues to UN Member States – it gave us confidence
At the beginning we needed a piece of paper to wave in the air at the right person, at the right moment – but it turned out to be way more than that
Talk to slide – Summit at the end of the month
And I’ll leave it there – some of the 589 organisations who have signed the Declaration
As an aside, one area that the SDGs will not touch yet is the Final Frontier. There are some places that IFLA is not advocating yet, but we will get there. Sadly I couldn’t attend this meeting that was going on at the UN last month while I was there