The document discusses the United Nations Development Group's initiative to facilitate a global conversation on developing goals for a new global development framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals beyond 2015. Through online and public discussions, nearly 2 million people have provided input on priorities. The initiative aims to ensure discussions are inclusive and reach marginalized communities. A new phase will focus on how the framework can be best implemented through discussions on themes like localizing goals, building capacities, participatory monitoring, partnerships with government and private sectors, and linking culture to development. National dialogues on implementation will take place in over 50 countries through 2015.
Our G20 Australia 2014 Summit publication in partnership with Intrinsic Communication.
Foreword to the G20 Australia 2014 Summit, Outreach Dialogue a Chance to Build a Better World by Victor Philippenko, Chairman of the Executive Board, G20 Foundation
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Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (CSCSD) formerly known as Campaign2015+ International is a coalition of over 200 registered civil society and nongovernmental organizations committed to citizens’ empowerment, human rights protection, development and peace in Nigeria.
Our G20 Australia 2014 Summit publication in partnership with Intrinsic Communication.
Foreword to the G20 Australia 2014 Summit, Outreach Dialogue a Chance to Build a Better World by Victor Philippenko, Chairman of the Executive Board, G20 Foundation
Read about our view on G20 endeavors, next to Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia, Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General and many others.
Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (CSCSD) formerly known as Campaign2015+ International is a coalition of over 200 registered civil society and nongovernmental organizations committed to citizens’ empowerment, human rights protection, development and peace in Nigeria.
For decades, global development discussions predominantly revolved around the volume of aid given and received. But the 2002 Monterrey International Conference on Financing for Development broadened the focus of discussions to include the quality of the cooperation provided as a key determinant of progress. Both donors and recipients realized they needed to improve how aid was delivered to make it useful for beneficiaries. Oxfam has been actively involved in this debate, pushing for higher quality standards and aid that works for the people who need it most.1 In the years that followed, three High Level Fora on Aid Effectiveness were convened by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): in Rome (2003), in Paris (2005) and Accra (2008). Each forum marked a step forward. In Rome, donor and recipient countries were asked, for the first time, to focus their discussions exclusively on aid quality, with the result that they agreed to harmonize donor practices for improved performance.2 However, this approach left the essential contribution of recipient countries to aid effectiveness out of the equation and raised concerns that even harmonized approaches might undermine country ownership. The Paris forum acknowledged the need to include recipient governments in an ongoing dialogue on how to improve aid and shift the focus of the debate from effective donorship to effective partnership. Developing countries were invited to join the negotiating table on par with their cooperation providers.3 The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness4 committed signatories to respect and implement five basic principles: harmonization of donor policies and practices; alignment to national development strategies; mutual accountability; a focus on measuring and delivering results for people; and ownership of development cooperation. But, beyond making a list of good intentions, Paris also produced a clear scorecard to hold development partners accountable for what they were promising: a set of 12 indicators to measure progress in a number of crucial areas, such as the predictability of aid flows to developing country governments; the use of developing countries‟ financial and administrative systems; and the transfer of technical capacity to local staff. Each indicator included targets and a deadline to achieve them by 2010. Partners also agreed to monitor their own progress towards the governance commitments they made.
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Workshop on Alignment & implementation of National Action programmes with the UNCCD 10-year Strategy in the Arab Region
League of Arab States (18- 20 June 2014), Dubai - UAE
Communication Strategies and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) are inter-linked. This presentation presents a relationship between these factors.
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Why Public Service Delivery. Key principles in public service delivery for sustainable development. Discussion of principles in public service delivery for sustainable development
Fondation Anna Lindh - Creative entrepreneurship call for participantsJamaity
Appel à participation : La Fondation Anna Lindh organise un événement de réseautage "Entrepreneuriat Créatif, Citoyenneté Active: Opportunités pour la jeunesse de l’Euromed ". Lire la suite: http://bit.ly/1jwbm69
SDGs Implementation Review (SIR) Report: Community Radio Broadcasting for Empowering Rural People for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in rural Bangladesh
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/08.html
For decades, global development discussions predominantly revolved around the volume of aid given and received. But the 2002 Monterrey International Conference on Financing for Development broadened the focus of discussions to include the quality of the cooperation provided as a key determinant of progress. Both donors and recipients realized they needed to improve how aid was delivered to make it useful for beneficiaries. Oxfam has been actively involved in this debate, pushing for higher quality standards and aid that works for the people who need it most.1 In the years that followed, three High Level Fora on Aid Effectiveness were convened by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): in Rome (2003), in Paris (2005) and Accra (2008). Each forum marked a step forward. In Rome, donor and recipient countries were asked, for the first time, to focus their discussions exclusively on aid quality, with the result that they agreed to harmonize donor practices for improved performance.2 However, this approach left the essential contribution of recipient countries to aid effectiveness out of the equation and raised concerns that even harmonized approaches might undermine country ownership. The Paris forum acknowledged the need to include recipient governments in an ongoing dialogue on how to improve aid and shift the focus of the debate from effective donorship to effective partnership. Developing countries were invited to join the negotiating table on par with their cooperation providers.3 The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness4 committed signatories to respect and implement five basic principles: harmonization of donor policies and practices; alignment to national development strategies; mutual accountability; a focus on measuring and delivering results for people; and ownership of development cooperation. But, beyond making a list of good intentions, Paris also produced a clear scorecard to hold development partners accountable for what they were promising: a set of 12 indicators to measure progress in a number of crucial areas, such as the predictability of aid flows to developing country governments; the use of developing countries‟ financial and administrative systems; and the transfer of technical capacity to local staff. Each indicator included targets and a deadline to achieve them by 2010. Partners also agreed to monitor their own progress towards the governance commitments they made.
Day 2 Implementing the UNCCD : Involvement of civil society through a gende...elodieperrat
Workshop on Alignment & implementation of National Action programmes with the UNCCD 10-year Strategy in the Arab Region
League of Arab States (18- 20 June 2014), Dubai - UAE
Communication Strategies and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) are inter-linked. This presentation presents a relationship between these factors.
Seema Hafeez presentation on Innovating public service delivery for sustainab...SEEMA HAFEEZ
Why Public Service Delivery. Key principles in public service delivery for sustainable development. Discussion of principles in public service delivery for sustainable development
Fondation Anna Lindh - Creative entrepreneurship call for participantsJamaity
Appel à participation : La Fondation Anna Lindh organise un événement de réseautage "Entrepreneuriat Créatif, Citoyenneté Active: Opportunités pour la jeunesse de l’Euromed ". Lire la suite: http://bit.ly/1jwbm69
SDGs Implementation Review (SIR) Report: Community Radio Broadcasting for Empowering Rural People for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in rural Bangladesh
DESA News is an insider's look at the United Nations in the area of economic and social development policy. The newsletter is produced by the Communications and Information Management Service of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with DESA Divisions. DESA News is issued every month.
For more information:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/newsletter/desanews/2014/08.html
In the failure of the formal accountability channels, social accountability is slowly becoming an effective response to governance deficit. Understanding good governance is a prerequisite to understand social accountability. Social Accountability is an approach towards enforcing & building accountability that relies on civic engagement in which citizens participate directly or indirectly in demanding accountability from service providers and public officials.
Accountability is no longer between the state only and citizens. Non state, national and transnational actors are now, heavily involved in all stages of the production of public goods.
The influence of corporate interests in the provision of public goods and services, as well as the entry of several unregulated providers poses a big threat to accountability and inclusion.
The strategies below represent the practical ways in which CSOs have applied the notion of social accountability to the context and issues of concern to their members, constituents and beneficiaries.
Strategic Litigation
Participatory Budgeting
Mobilisation and Networking
Social Audit, Monitoring and Evaluation
Information Communication Technology
Participatory Planning and Decision-making
Consultations and Stakeholder Participation
Accountability Reporting/Investigative Journalism
Participatory Procurement and Financial Management
Social Accountability is a journey.
The work of social accountability is not a sprint but marathon.
This meeting of the High Level Panel is a critical one. Together, we will lay the foundations for an ambitious global development framework beyond 2015. The international community is looking to members of the UN Secretary-General’s panel to deliver recommendations on both the scope of a post-2015 framework, and on the means through which goals will be achieved. Without a global consensus on the means for implementation – including effective development co-operation – our ambitions for poverty eradication, shared prosperity and sustainability will remain confined to blueprints and plans. Over the last two days, we co-chaired the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation – the alliance forged in 2011 in Busan, Korea to drive international efforts for more effective resources, policies, and coordination for development. We are keen to reunite ministers and heads of organisations under the auspices of the Global Partnership later this year to reflect and manage success as well as take action to address failure – based on an assessment of how far we have come in advancing the principles agreed in Busan: ownership by developing countries; a focus on results; inclusive development partnerships, and transparency and accountability to each other. We took a number of important practical lessons from yesterday’s meeting and the original vision endorsed by over 160 countries and 45 organisations in Busan, and hope that this week’s discussions will allow us to explore them further. In particular, we believe that in a post-2015 framework the international community should: More strongly support domestic resource mobilisation.
First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development ...Dr Lendy Spires
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation and the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda 1. We, Ministers and leading representatives of developing and developed countries, multilateral, regional and bilateral development and financial institutions, parliaments, local and regional authorities, private sector entities, philanthropic foundations, trade unions and civil society organizations, met in Mexico City on 15-16 April 2014, in a spirit of full inclusion and solidarity, for the First High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), to build upon the outcome of Busan. 2. Global development is at a critical juncture. Despite progress on the MDGs, poverty and inequality, in their multiple dimensions and across all regions, remain the central challenges. Slow and uneven global economic growth, insecurity in supplies of food, water and energy, lack of quality education and decent work for all, and instances of conflict, fragility and vulnerability to economic shocks, natural disasters, and health pandemics are also pressing concerns in many areas of the world. Managing climate change and the global commons add further complexity to our global agenda. At the same time, the possibilities for human development are immense and we have at our disposal the means to end poverty at global scale in the course of one generation. But to achieve this, we must muster our political will for bold and sustained action for shared development, improved gender equality, and the promotion and protection of human rights. 3. As the United Nations works to design a universal agenda for inclusive and sustainable development post 2015, to be implemented decisively, the GPEDC will seek to advance efforts to bring about more effective development cooperation, with poverty eradication at its core, as part of the “how” of the implementation of this new global agenda. With this purpose, we pledge to work in synergy and cooperation with others, such as the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum. 4. Critically, the GPEDC is committed to implementing a paradigm shift from aid effectiveness to effective development cooperation, sustained by the contribution and catalyzing effect of ODA, as the main source of international development assistance, in order to better support the long-term and broad developmental impact of a strengthened mobilization of domestic resources and the convergence of efforts of all public and private development stakeholders at all levels. 5.
This is a presentation about an innovative project in India entitled "Development Pact".
Presentation by Anupama Jha, GDN Award finalist on Most Innovative Development Project.
GDN14th Annual Conference
Manila, Philippines
June 7-9, 2013
A33 Position Note: Post-2015 Development AgendaArticle33
Incorporating Transparency and Accountability Issues into the Post-2015 Development Agenda
This note is an excerpt of a series of discussions coordinated by Article 33 Indonesia together with Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia coalition
1. Delivering Together for Development
Dialogues on
the Implementation
of the Post-2015
Development Agenda
Dialogues on Implementation
of the Post-2015 Agenda:
http://www.worldwewant2015.org
for more
information
The World
We Want
Background
The initiative aims to ensure
that the discussions are open
and inclusive, providing a
space for people’s voices,
with a particular view to
reaching out to poor and
marginalized people.
Through this process, nearly
two million people have
engaged in discussions on
Since 2012, the United Nations
Development Group (UNDG)
has been spearheading
an unprecedented, multi-stakeholder
outreach to
facilitate a global conversation
on the future development
agenda that is to become
the successor framework to
the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) beyond 2015.
the global development framework. So far the discus-sions
have focused on what people see as necessary for
their future.
Participants in this conversation agree that the MDGs
cover fundamental development areas that are still crit-ically
important. They also emphasize the need to tackle
inequality within and among countries, to protect the envi-ronment
and to strengthen governance and accountability
to measure progress on development targets.
2. Why Dialogues
on Implementation?
During the consultations so far, participants were
keen not just to express their views on the content
of the agenda, but they were also interested in
how it will be implemented, including the roles
and responsibilities of different stakeholders.
People have raised issues that are important for
implementation, related to ownership, localization,
participation, capacities, partnerships, monitoring
and accountability systems. The dialogues on imple-mentation
are designed to give people a space to
express their opinions on those issues.
As it is increasingly clear that the what and the how
are connected, these dialogues will give particular
attention to issues necessary for implementa-tion
but which have not been fully explored in
inter-governmental negotiations yet. The dialogues
will build on the first phase of consultations and
continue to keep open the communication channel
from people in countries across the world to the
inter-governmental process underway to define
Sustainable Development Goals. It is also hoped
that the dialogues will kick-start partnerships and
implementation mechanisms to form the foun-dation
of the new development agenda, so that
come September 2015 people the world over are
mobilized to begin implementation.
Focus on 6 themes
The dialogues, which will run from April 2014 to April 2015, will be a
series of public meetings and on-line discussions where policy plan-ners,
civil society representatives, academics, community and private
sector leaders can discuss how to best deliver the next sustainable
development agenda that will build on the success of the MDGs.
Dialogues on Implementation will explore the following six themes:
1Localizing the Post-2015
Agenda: To encourage grassroots
support and community buy-in,
this consultation will create
opportunities to discuss the local
dimensions of the future global
development framework. This
dialogue will also explore the
increasingly important role of cities
in advancing progress on national
and global agendas.
2 Helping to Strengthen
Capacities and Build Effective
Institutions: This consultation
will build on the MDGs to
explore the necessary institu-tions,
leadership and capacities
required to manage the com-plexity
of inter-dependent social,
economic and environmental
issues as part of sustainable and
inclusive development.
3 Participatory Monitoring
for Accountability: This dialogue
will look at how participation and
empowerment can improve
accountability in the post-2015
agenda. It will showcase how
more accountable, transparent,
responsive governance is
being pursued at country and
local levels using participatory
research, participatory monitoring
and citizen generated real-time
monitoring activities.
4 Partnerships with Civil
Society: This dialogue will
support civil society to contrib-ute
to discussions related to the
means of implementation for the
post-2015 development agenda.
The goal will be to advance
partnerships with civil society
that result in positive gains for
society, are respectful of human
rights and sustainability, and
ensure and enhance transparency
and accountability.
5 Engaging with the Private
Sector: This consultation will
explore the following themes:
enhancing partnerships,
developing government policies
that drive corporate sustainability,
mobilizing private sustainability
finance, engagement with small
and medium-sized enterprises,
and enhancing transparency
and accountability.
6 Culture and Development:
This consultation will allow
diverse stakeholders to explore
how culture can contribute to
development in areas such as
poverty reduction, gender equal-ity,
social inclusion, education,
health,urbanization, popula-tion
dynamics, climate change
and reconciliation.
Localizing
the post-2015
agenda
Helping to Strengthen
Capacities and Build
Effective Institutions
Participatory
Monitoring for
Accountability
Partnerships
with
Civil Society
Engaging
with the
Private Sector
Culture
and
Development
Armenia
Botswana
Cameroon
El Salvador
Ecuador
Ghana
Jamaica
Malawi
Philippines
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Uruguay
Yemen
Costa Rica
Djibouti
Malaysia
Moldova
Nicaragua
Togo
Turkmenistan
Albania
Algeria
Bangladesh
Guatemala
Kosovo**
Montenegro
Peru
Thailand
Vietnam
Zambia
Azerbaijan
Cambodia
Indonesia
Jordan
Lesotho
St. Lucia
Tunisia
Mongolia
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Uruguay
Ecuador
Mali
Morocoo
Serbia
NATIONAL DIALOGUES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POST-2015 AGENDA *
* UN Country Teams were selected based on interest to receive seed funding for consultations. More countries may be added in the coming months. ** Under UN Security Council Resolution 1244