The document discusses post-2015 priorities for Eastern Europe and Central Asia based on citizen consultations in several countries. Key priorities emerging include lack of jobs, especially for youth; mismatch between education and jobs; integrity of government; intolerance; migration challenges; poor healthcare; environmental degradation. Consultations engaged over 14,000 people so far, mostly young and women. Questions focused on problems, dreams, and who is most affected by issues. The process is raising citizen expectations for change.

1. Post 2015 Priorities: Eastern
Europe and Central Asia
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2. Post 2015: A priority for the Europe
and Central Asia UNDG team
March Target date May Target date
Tajikistan Montenegro
Armenia Ukraine
Kosovo* Belarus
Moldova Azerbaijan
Serbia
Turkmenistan
Albania
Kyrgyzstan
Turkey
Kazakhstan

3. How many people have engaged so far?
Country In Person Online
Moldova 357 5200
 There is a visible effort to
engage beyond capitals and
Kosovo 2600 5600
the usual suspects.
Turkey 2280 1656
 Majority young people
Kazakhstan 1700 300
 Almost always more women
Albania 350 3000 than men.
Serbia 401  Creative use of ongoing
Total as of 7287 14,501 projects: Moldova is engaging
Feb 4th
diaspora in Russia, Portugal
and Italy.

4. How are UNCTs framing their
questions?
• Mostly nationally or
even locally focused
• Biggest problems,
biggest dreams
• HRBAP revival in some
countries:
 Who is most affected?
 Who is responsible?
• Some countries asked
about metrics and A call for 2.0 data monitoring: “What is
timing of change the point in this day and age of finding
out how things were two years ago?”
- Kosovo consultations

5. • Lack of jobs, especially for young
What priorities are • Mismatch between school and
emerging across 6 available jobs, not modernized
countries for which schools “compared to TV”
we have interim • Integrity of government
reports ? processes
• Intolerance, lack of solidarity,
people want a fairer society
• Migration: both as an aspiration
and a challenge
• Poor quality health services
• Clean drinking water, air
pollution, unauthorized garbage
• Women still feel less safe, less
listened to and less important.
• Some signs of family breakdown

6. Some highlights
“People don’t go to the doctor because they do not have money and
there is corruption. Therefore the health of the population is
deteriorating.” – Moldova
“So many times women gather to be trained in gender equality, but what
about the men? What difference does it make if I know my rights if my
husband does not know my rights?”
- Minority woman, Kosovo
20 years ago this was a beautiful place. When I see teachers who teach
ecology I ask them how they can look their students in the eye when they
teach their subject. Everything in the area is destroyed, the lake has
dried. Environmental degradation did not happen by itself. It is a result of
people’s attitude towards nature.
- Kazakhstan

7. Concluding points
• Process: A new
communicating complex
human development issues?
• Process: 20,000 new
development experts?
• Content: the social exclusion
‘missing middle ‘
• Process + Content: Raised
expectations on what will
change