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Libraries, The Lyon Declaration, and the Road to 2030
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.
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- 1. Stuart Hamilton, IFLA DeputySecretary General Libraries, The Lyon Declaration and the Road to 2030
- 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 isfundamental 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 theLyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development, Lyon WLIC, August 2014
- 5. What does theLyon 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 • SectionContributions – 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 GroupCo-Chairs: Ambassadors Csaba (left, Hungary) and Kamau (right, Kenya)
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- 14. The UN 2030Agenda • Preamble • Declaration • Sustainable Development Goals • Means of Implementation and Global Partnership • Follow-up and Review https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org
- 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 andTargets • 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: Promotepeaceful 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 theLyon 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 wedo 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
- #2 Going to recap the journey Break down what happened Talk about the role of the Lyon Declaration in helping us achieve success
- #3 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
- #4 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
- #5 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
- #6 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
- #7 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
- #8 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
- #9 September – we got the draft proposal for the SDGs 17 Goals, 169 targets – remember there were only 8 MDGs
- #10 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
- #11 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
- #12 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
- #13 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
- #14 And then on the afternoon of August 4th…
- #15 This is the 2030 Agenda (29 pages)
- #16 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!
- #17 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
- #18 These were some of the ones we were keeping an eye on in the negotiations – we always knew libraries could play a role
- #19 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
- #20 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
- #21 Talk to slide – Summit at the end of the month
- #22 And I’ll leave it there – some of the 589 organisations who have signed the Declaration
- #23 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