EAG ISPE
ECONOMIC
ALLIANCE GROUP INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
POVERTY ELIMINATION (Global NGO)
ER&A NEHMAP Initiative
ER and Associates Limited New End Hunger, Malnutrition
and Poverty (Global Social Enterprise)
(International
Development Cooperation Consultants)
Special Address to UN Behavioural Insight Week 14
- 18 October 2018 (2)
“Rethinking Development
Cooperation; Rethinking Development Finance; Rethinking Global Economy;
Rethinking Evaluation; Rethinking Development, Diplomacy, Defence, Democracy, Data and Digitization;
Rethinking Communication, Rethinking Cooperatives and Rethinking Multi
Stakeholder Partnerships / Platforms, MSPs and Lobbying as Force for Good as Foundation
for Achieving increasing Convergence between 2030 Transformation Agenda – AAAA,
SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Vision Intention and Reality in each Community in each of
306/193 UN Member States for Delivery on SDG Pledge by Target Date”.
Introduction
The
UN Innovation Network, UNIN is organizing the First UN Behavioral Insights Week,
UNBIW in collaboration with sister UN Agencies on 14 – 18 October 2019. The
Event with Sessions in New York and around the World seeks to find answers to 3
Important Questions:-
1.
What are Behavioral Insights and HOW can
they HELP the UN?
2.
What Types of Platforms are amenable to
Applying Behavioral Insights?
3.
HOW can Behavioral Insights HELP Drive Change?
In Paper (1)
we highlighted the fact that all 193/306
UN Member States are Off Track achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge in barely 11
years remaining to end 2030 target date; that as at end 15 of 60 Quarters
of SDG Implementation, the overarching
Lessons Learnt is that No Lessons have been Learnt; that should our World
fail to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge, the ultimate consequences will be
catastrophic for our Fragile Planet and that the next 5 Quarters - October 2019
- December 2020 Determine whether or not all 193/306 UN Member States get back
On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge by 2030, that is in the next 10
years from 2021.
We submitted
that the Inaugural UN Behavioral Insight Week, UNBIW present a unique
opportunity and platform for all identified 7 Major Stakeholder Groups on UN
and Non UN sides (listed below) to have frank and truthful assessment of
ongoing Sub-national, National, Regional and Global Task to achieve SDGs Pledge
Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States and based on identified Behavior of
each Major Stakeholder Group in each specific
Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global
location context, identify Behavior that each Major Stakeholder Group in
each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context need to adopt, if
SDGs Pledge Delivery is to be achieved in all 193/306 UN Member States by end
2030 target date.
In
this Paper (2) we are urging UNBIW: Organizers, Presenters and Participants
especially the World Leaders - Heads of North and South Governments and Heads
of UNO Entities to genuinely recognize that if the much that remain to be done
in the Great Sub-national, National, Regional and Global Task to get all
193/306 UN Member States back On Track to achieve Delivery on SDGs Pledge in
barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, UNBIW Outcome Document need
to be Vision and Words with Action that is adequate to effectively tackle SDGs
Pledge Delivery in barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 Implementation and Evaluation
Challenge as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context.
Scaling Up Business Impact on the SDGs
The Think
20, T20, the Research and Policy Advise Network for the G20 in 2019 convening
under Japan’s G20 Presidency in a Policy Brief on Scaling Up Business Impact on
the SDGs1 focus on Transnational Enterprises contribution towards
achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030. This is Good. However, the contribution
of Large and Transnational Enterprises, LTEs to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery
by 2030 is far lower than the contribution of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises, MSMEs and Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises, SSEEs
including Cooperatives. In most, if not all Countries – North and South in our World today, MSMEs and
SSEEs are the Engine of Growth of their National Economies. MSMEs and SSEEs
need to be effectively empowered if they are to contribute meaningfully towards
SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in all 193/306 UN Member States. This underlines UN
and Non UN Behavioral Insight issues that need to be urgently addressed.
We therefore comment of Key aspects of the T20 Paper as follows:-
The Challenge
1. SDGs are Universal and Applicable to
All North and South Countries but the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO and All
North and South Countries are still in MDGs Mode rather than SDGs Mode. This underlines
urgent need for required Paradigm Shifts.
2. Business is being increasingly
regarded as Key Player in Driving Sustainable Inclusive Development, yet UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO and All North and South Countries are allergic to
Business making Legitimate Profit in the Design and Delivery of SDGs
Innovations that HELP achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member
States in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date. This need to
be remedied.
3. Filling Gap between Good Intentions
and Real Action by Business is Beyond Business Innovation alone on Business
Major Stakeholder side and Must Include Innovation on other Major Stakeholders
sides including UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO and 183/306 UN Member States
Governments – All Arms of All Tiers. This needs to be Filled.
4. Conflict between the
current economic system that values short-term profit maximization and short
term shareholder returns and the SDG focus on new economic system that values
long term profit and long term societal purpose. This needs to be resolved
5. Limited understanding
among Corporates, Citizens, Governments, Universities, UN System: UNO, WBG,
IMF, WTO and other stakeholders of how their interactions impact Sustainable
Development. Because Business is embedded in Society – Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context; the connection
between Business – LTEs, MSMEs and SSEEs including Cooperatives and all
remaining Stakeholders in the specific Society, should be addressed as a
two-way relationship. Business can affect and influence all remaining Stakeholders
– Individually and Jointly to do more to advance the SDGs. At the same time,
all remaining Stakeholders – Individually and Jointly can influence the way Businesses
– LTEs, MSMEs and SSEEs including Cooperatives operate and contribute to
sustainable development and in ways that HELP achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in
All 193/306 UN Member States in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030
target date. The two-way relationship need to be established, nurtured and
sustained at levels required to achieve SDGs Pledge delivery by 2030 in all
193/306 UN Member States.
6. Capacity – Individual,
Institution and Society constraints in the South Countries affect their ability
to take advantage of opportunities emerging from Global Value Chain (GVC)
participation and to avoid the risk of inappropriate supply chain management by
FDI companies. North Countries are grappling with similar issues. Just as
Smaller and Weaker North Countries have more to grapple with in this regard,
Smaller and Weaker South Countries have even more to grapple with. The 2 SDGs Concepts
– Work Together to Benefit Together and Leave No One Behind are intended to
HELP all North and South Countries grapple effectively with this Challenge and
in ways that HELP all 193/306 UN Member States to achieve Delivery on SDGs
Pledge in barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date. The required
levels of Capacity need to be built and on time.
7. Develop and periodically update Charter of Stakeholder
Behavior in each of these 7 Major Stakeholder Groups, using Behavioral Insights
supportive of delivery on SDGs Pledge in barely 11 years remaining to end 2030
target date. The 7 Major Stakeholder Groups are:-
a)
UNO Entities and other UN Systems: WBG, IMF, WTO
Entities - UN Behavior
b) 193/306 UN Member States Governments: All Arms of All
Tiers – Government Behavior
c)
Business: LTEs, MSMEs
and SSEEs including Cooperatives -
Corporate Behavior
d) Universities: Academic Staff, Non Academic Staff,
Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Students -
Campus Behavior
e) Public: Children, Youth, Women, Men, Elders – Citizens
Behavior
f) Media: Radio, TV, Print, Online – Media Behavior
g) Other Stakeholders – other Stakeholders Behavior
Business
- LTEs, MSMEs and SSEEs including Cooperatives is embedded in Society (Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location
context), the connection between Business
– LTEs, MSMEs and SSEEs including Cooperatives and its various Stakeholders
(remaining 6 identified Major Stakeholder Groups should be addressed as a
Two-Way Relationship:-
1. Business can affect and influence stakeholders in the
remaining 6 Major Stakeholder Groups to do more to advance the SDGs. At the
same time,
2. The 6 Major Stakeholders Individually and Jointly,
especially when Led by Government can influence the way Businesses operate and
contribute to Sustainable Development in the Society where the Business Operate
– each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent,
Continent and Planet/Global location context.
The Solutions
The Paper sets out Solutions to identified Challenges
within 4 Proposals. These Solutions underline urgent need for:-
1. Embedding
the SDGs into Core LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives Business Strategy
and Operations by: Converting SDG Awareness Into
Concrete LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs
including Cooperatives Business Actions; Linking LTEs,
MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives Corporate Reporting to the SDGs, by using Common
Frameworks and Standards; Promoting Joint LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs
including Cooperatives Business and remaining Stakeholders Action
for the Common Good, Utilizing Major International Events As Showcases;
2. Reshaping
the Economic System around the Common Purpose of Sustainable Development, that
is achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in barely 11 years remaining to end 2030
target date: Developing a Sustainable Capital Market in
all 193/306 UN Member States; Promoting Sustainable Procurement In the Public
Sector in all North and South Countries;
3. Creating a
“sustainable ecosystem” for shaping beneficial environment for all Stakeholders
– Business and all remaining Stakeholders: Promoting the understanding
and the notion of a “sustainable ecosystem” among all Stakeholders – Business
and all remaining Stakeholders; Promoting Sustainable Production and
Sustainable Consumption; Raising Consumers Awareness Of
Sustainable Development; Building Transparency, Accountability And
Participation Frameworks;
4. Upgrading
the LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives - Enterprise And Policy/Regulatory
Capabilities of both North and South Countries to maximize the potential
benefits of their participation in GVCs: Promoting “Quality FDI” to both North and
South Countries, which gives due attention to the Sustainable Management of
entire National and Global Value Chains (including People And Companies In The
Host North and South Countries);
Recommendations
The SDGs need
Business - LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives, and Business
- LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives, needs the SDGs,
too. The T20 believe that political leadership has a critical role to play in
driving our world toward a thriving economy, society, and environment.
The T20 urge
the leaders of G20 countries to call for the following actions to scale up
business impact on SDG achievement:
- Urging
Business - LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs
including Cooperatives, to embed the SDGs into LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives, Core Business Strategy
and Operations;
- Taking
supportive measures to reshape the current economic system around common
goals and to create a beneficial ecosystem for all identified 7 Stakeholder
Groups; and
- Supporting
the industrial and social upgrading of both North and South Countries so
that all 193/306 UN Member States can benefit from Inclusive and
Sustainable GVC Participation and in ways that HELP achieve Delivery o
SDGs Pledge in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
Behavioral Insights for SDGs Pledge
Delivery by 2030
The T20
Paper and our comments underline Behavioral Insights for SDGs Pledge Delivery
in all 193/306 UN Member States and in barely 11 years remaining and demand All
UNO Entities and All 193/306 UN Member States Leaders jointly recognize that:-
1. In all the identified 7 Major Stakeholder Groups Current
SDG Thinking is HINDERING SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 Friendly Policies Climate
Reform as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location
context.
2. In all the identified 7 Major Stakeholder Groups Current
SDG Research Interventions and Practice Interventions Priorities and Directions
Need to meaningfully support National and International Development Cooperation
Radical/Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change
as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country,
Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context, if all
193/306 UN Member States are to effectively get back On Track to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
3. Each of the identified 7 Major Stakeholder Groups need
a Single Entity in the Stakeholder Group saddled with Responsibility for Global
Central Coordination of its Major Stakeholder Group Innovation as applicable or
appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context, if all 193/306 UN
Member States are to effectively get back On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs
Pledge in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
4. All the identified 7 Major Stakeholder Groups and the Single Entity saddled with
Responsibility for Global Central Coordination of its respective Major Stakeholder
Group Innovation as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location
context, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to effectively get back On Track
to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030
target date, need a Single Global Central Coordinating External Consultant
providing adequate level of Technical Advice and Reform Consulting Service,
they require to answer SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 How Questions and related
How Questions.
5. The
Next 5 Quarters – October 2019 – December 2020, is Final Opportunity to
Reposition UN Innovation and Non UN Innovation as One that is adequate, accessible,
available and affordable to support all the
identified 7 Major Stakeholder Groups saddled with Responsibility for Central Coordination
of its respective Major Stakeholder Group Innovation as applicable or
appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context, and in ways that
ensure all 193/306 UN Member States effectively get back On Track to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge in the barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
6. Should
National Leaders, Regional Leaders and Global Leaders in all the Identified 7
Major Stakeholder Groups Refuse UN Innovation and Non UN Innovation as One Ordered
Change for SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States in the barely
11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, that make Disordered Change
Inevitable, with ultimate catastrophic consequences for our Fragile Planet.
7. UN Behavioral Insights Week 2019 need to meaningfully
address (1) – (6) above and its Outcome Document
need to set out Practical and Purposeful National and Global Integrated
Innovative Sustainable Solutions to UN Innovation and Non UN Innovation as One for
SDGs Pledge Delivery in All 193/306 UN Member States in barely 11 years
remaining to end 2030 target date that is effectively DRIVEN by Rethinkings: Rethinking Development
Cooperation; Rethinking Development Finance; Rethinking Global Economy;
Rethinking Evaluation; Rethinking Development, Diplomacy, Defence, Democracy, Data and
Digitization; Rethinking Communication, Rethinking Cooperatives and Rethinking
Multi Stakeholder Partnerships / Platforms, MSPs and Lobbying as Force for Good
as Foundation for Achieving increasing Convergence between 2030 Transformation
Agenda – AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Vision Intention and Reality as applicable
or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent,
Continent and Planet/Global location context;
UN Behavioral Insight Week 2019 and SDG
Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States
The Acid Test of Credibility of UN Behavioral
Insight Week 2019 is HOW it delivers in all 193/306 UN Member States as well as
in each specific Community, Sub-Country,
Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context:-
- Better Domestic and International Cultures and Values;
- Better Domestic and International Financing for
Development – Grants/Aid; Loans and Equity;
- Better Domestic and International Fight against Corruption
– Grand Corruption and Petty Corruption; Givers and Takers on both North
and South Countries sides;
- Better Domestic and International Trade for Business - LTEs, MSMEs, SSEEs including Cooperatives.
If UN Behavioral Insight
Week 2019 is to Pass this Act Test Credibility:-
- Its Outcome Document need to Catalyze Design
and Delivery of 10 Year National and International Cooperation Radical/Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change Frameworks and its Systems, Structures,
Policies, Procedures, Cultures, Values, Rules and Regulations
Change Frameworks as applicable
or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context and at Minimum
Certain levels of Inclusion, Integration and Coordination
required to ensure all 193/306 UN Member States achieve Delivery on SDGs
Pledge in barely 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date;
- At each
Annual UN Behavioral Insight Week from 2020 onwards, Progress in the Past
Year of Implementation of the Double 10 Year Frameworks would be Reviewed in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context, as basis for
Fine-tuning the Inclusion, Integration and Coordination of the Next Year
of Implementation of the Double 10 Year Frameworks.
- At each
Annual UN Behavioral Insight Week from 2020 onwards, Celebrate High Flyers in each specific Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location
context, in all of the 7 Major Stakeholder Groups; Benchmark their Successes
for continuing Improvement and HELP others in their Major Stakeholder
Group as well as Stakeholders in other Major Stakeholder Groups for whom
the Benchmarked Success is relevant to replicate the Success.
- At each Annual UN Behavioral Insight Week from 2020 onwards, Expose Laggards in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context, in all of the 7 Major Stakeholder Groups; Benchmark their Failures for effective correction and HELP others in their Major Stakeholder Group as well as Stakeholders in other Major Stakeholder Groups for whom the Benchmarked Failure is relevant to avoid or prevent Mistakes or Errors.
In Sum,
We have
raised serious issues of serious business demanding serious attention of World
Leaders, Regional Leaders and National Leaders on UNO and remaining UN System:
WBG, IMF, WTO Entities sides; 193/306 UN Member States Governments: All Arms of
All Tiers sides and remaining 5 Major Stakeholder Groups sides in this Paper
(2) and earlier Paper (1)2
There are bright
prospects of success should UNIN, DCF, other UNO Entities and
remaining UN System: WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities and 193/306 UN Member States
Governments: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary Entities meaningfully address
points made in the two Papers and in
ways that promote and protect the Common Interest and Common Future of Citizens
in all 193/306 UN Member States.
It
is our hope that enough UNO Entities and North/South UN Member States required
to make positive difference would pick
up the gauntlet, will not allow
bright prospects of success to be squandered and will not look on helpless when UNO Entities, UN Member States and EAG
Partnership can indeed help avert looming catastrophe of World of 2030 that
Fail to achieve Delivery on SDGs Pledge.
2
https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/10/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and.html
Contact:
Director General
International Society for Poverty
Elimination / Economic Alliance Group
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Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk 7 October 2019.
