The high-level meeting on the
post-2015 global agenda concluded today (March 27), with five key areas for
reform emerging.
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
president of Indonesia and co-chair of the
U.N. High-Level Panel on the
Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Photo by: Marco Castro / United
Nations
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The 27 members of the high-level panel
tasked by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to propose “an ambitious yet
achievable framework” for a post-2015 global agenda, met in Bali, Indonesia,
March 25-27 to draft their final agenda recommendations.
This brings to a conclusion a series
of consultations, meetings and engagements with various stakeholders to promote
the global ownership of the new agenda through an open, transparent and
inclusive process, said the panel in a document obtained by Devex.
The vision: a transformative,
people-centered and planet-sensitive development agenda that ends extreme
poverty in the context of sustainable development, while enabling sustained
prosperity for all.
The panel recognizes that this vision
will only be achievable through defining the means of implementing the new
agenda and by stimulating partnerships across all development processes.
It also advocates for coherent and
mutually-enforcing post-2015 intergovernmental processes and outcomes.
The five key areas highlighted by the
panel “on which progress is needed” to attain its post-2015 vision are outlined
below:
1. Reshaped and revitalized global
governance and partnerships.
The approach to addressing today’s challenges should be universally applicable,
while at the same time implementable at the national, subnational, community
and individual levels. This includes ensuring that the United Nations,
multilateral systems and all development actors support the post-2015 agenda
effectively, using the full array of technical exchange, trade, migration,
investment and other instruments to strengthen societies and protect human
rights.
2. Protection of the global
environment. The
agenda must be grounded in a commitment to address global environmental
challenges, strengthen resilience and improve disaster preparedness capacities.
3. Sustainable production and
consumption. The
future development framework should consider the challenge of the predicted
peak of human population to 9 billion to 10 billion in 2050 and the need to
manage the world’s production and consumption patterns in more sustainable and
equitable ways. There should also be changed behavior in this regard in all
countries, in order to make more efficient use of environmental assets and
resources.
4. Strengthened means of
implementation.
The agenda should clearly specify the means of implementation, including
financing for development. Adequate, stable and predictable financing, as well
as the efficient use of resources, is required to support development. This
will require honoring international, regional, and national financing
commitments, enhancing domestic resource mobilization, and multiple
complementary and innovative sources of finance — such as private investment,
corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, North-South, South-South and
triangular cooperation, public-private partnerships, debt swaps, guarantees and
market mechanisms.
5. Data availability and better
accountability in measuring progress. Substantial improvements in national and subnational
statistical systems, including local and subnational levels and the
availability, quality and timeliness of baseline data, disaggregated by sex,
age, region and other variables, will be needed. This will require substantial
investments in building capacity in advance of 2015. A regularly updated
registry of commitments is one idea to ensure accountability and monitor
delivery gaps. We must also take advantage of new technologies and access to
open data for all.
In the coming weeks, the panel will be
preparing the final report on post-2015 agenda recommendations, which it hopes
will “promote a single and coherent post-2015 development agenda.” This report
will be submitted to the U.N. secretary-general at the end of May.
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