Post 2015 Agenda Mike Battcock Civil Society Department 1
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 2
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 3
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 Progress against MDGs Since 1990, child mortality dropped by 41 per cent; 14,000 fewer children are dying each day. 4
MDG 5 - Improve maternal health Progress 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. 5
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 More to be done 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. 6
MDG 5 - Improve maternal health More to be done 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.. 7
What DFID achieved By 2012-13, DFID had achieved the following enabled 30.3 million people, including at least 14.6 million women, to work their way out 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 8
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2010 Post 2015 agenda 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. 13
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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 16
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 17
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 18
Million Voices: The World We Want Global conversation 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 19
On 15 August 2013, A Life of Dignity for All 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. 20
Way forward 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) 21
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. 22
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. 23
Bond Beyond 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. 24
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. 25
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 26