Global Push To Achieve SDGs Vision and Words with Action Agenda 74

  EAG       ISPE 

                           ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP                         INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION             

              (Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions Provider)         (Global Social Development Innovation Organization)          

    ER&A        NEHMAP Initiative

       ER and Associates Limited                         New End Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty Initiative                 

(International Development Cooperation Consultants)                                                (Global Social Economy and Social Enterprise Organization)

ISPE EAG Comment on Cooperatives at 100 (2)

GFFA 2020 Outcome: Achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community, Country, Continent location context, in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date - Call for Development Cooperation Rapid/Fast and Radical/Fundamental Change in all 193/306 UN Member States Governments – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary in all Tiers as well as in all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities – Headquarters, Regional Offices, Sub-regional Offices, Country Offices and Sub-Country Offices and their National and International Partners sides – Beyond Slogan.

Introduction

At the end of  16 of 60 Quarters of SDG Implementation on 31 December 2019, all 193/306 UN Member States remain Off Track achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by end 2030.

The overarching outcome of DCF 2018 was urgent need for National and International Development Cooperation Radical/Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get DONE, the much that remain to be DONE, in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, is to be DONE and on time. Yet Call to Action essentially remains mere Talk or Slogan.

The USA NASA and UNFCCC in 2018 respectively warned that should our World fail to take appropriate Climate Change Action, in next 12 years to 2030, the ultimate consequences of such failure, will be catastrophic for our Fragile Planet. Yet there is no Framework for All Inclusive, All Embracing Action that is Adequately Ambitious, in all 193/306 UN Member States, to avoid this looming ultimate catastrophic consequences.

The UN Behavioral Insights Week, UNBIW, 14 – 18 October 2019, a Global Summit, indeed underlined the fact that Innovation is Master Key, if the much that remain to be DONE, to get all 193/306 UN Member States effectively get back On Track, to achieve Delivery on SDGs Pledge in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, is to be DONE and on time.

If the Great Mismatch and Huge Gap between Solutions needed to effectively get all 193/306 UN Member States back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery, in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date and Solutions being provided in past 4 years of SDGs Implementation ending December 2019, is to become Great Match and Filled Gap, there is a need for all Leaders in the 7 identified Major Stakeholder Groups to Change Course and without delay.

Should ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions as One Authorities support Pre Summit Days, Summit Days and Post Summit Days Activities and Events; ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions would be contributing their quota towards turning the Great Mismatch to Great Match and effectively filling the Huge Gap.

In Paper (1) we noted that the 50^th Anniversary of Cooperatives Development at ILO was celebrated on 23 March 1970 and that the ILO COOP 50^th Anniversary was reported as marking the Golden Age of ILO Technical Cooperation in the Cooperative Field.

We set out our Thoughts on Priorities and Direction for achieving 150^th Anniversary or Sequicentinnal Anniversary of Cooperatives Development as ILO celebrating Cooperatives Contribution to achieving Past Global Goals on target dates – 2030 and 2045, as well as Future Global Goals – 2060 and Beyond. We submitted that the required ILO COOP Transformation to ensure that these Celebrations are Reality not Dream on Target dates, the 100^th Anniversary or Centenary Anniversary on 23 March 2020, the Bi-Golden Age of ILO, should Mark Turning Point in Cooperatives Fit for 21^st Century.

This Paper 2 set out our further Thoughts on Priorities and Direction ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions as One Authorities need to consider supporting, if the Cooperatives Fit for 21^st Century HUGE Potential to help achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery, in less than 11years remaining to end 2030 target date, as well as present and future National and Global Goals, in all 193/306 UN Member States by target date, is not to end up mere slogan, academic exercise and/or interesting Professional Debate, thus strengthening 193/306 UN Member States capacity to get back On Track, to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, noting that failure to get DONE the much that remains to be DONE, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to achieve SDGs Pledge delivery by 2030, will have ultimate catastrophic consequences for our fragile Planet.

WCSDG Report on A Fair Globalization 2004

The Independent ILO World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization, WCSDG. released a very important Report, in 2004. ILO prepared a Summary that is essentially Brief Reviews of Policy Issues set out in the important Report.

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---integration/documents/publication/wcms_079151.pdf

WCSDG Report on A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All 2008 – Brief Reviews of Policy Issues.

It will be recalled that the Report was released in 4 of 15 years of MDG Implementation. Had ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions as One Authorities and their National and International Partners Worked Together to Benefit Together and in ways that Leave No One Behind, MDGs 8 Goals Vision Ambitions would have been achieved by 2015.

It is interesting that, today 4 of 15 years of SDG Implementation, the same mistakes – flaws and failures that hindered our World from achieving MDGs by 2015 (even though the MDGs largely affected South Countries) are re- occurring decimals. If not urgently remedied, these mistakes would also hinder our World from achieving SDGs by 2030. This time the ultimate consequences of failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 would be catastrophic for our fragile Planet.

The SDGs affects all North and South Countries. If National Leaders and World Leaders do not know WHY our World Failed to achieve MDGs 8 Global Goals by end 2015 target date, they will not know HOW to Configure our World to achieve the far more Comprehensive SDGs 17 Goals and in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date. It is pertinent to note that our World does not have 11 years to achieve SDGs. Our World has till end June 2020 for ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions and their National and International Partners to Change Course Now, if our World is to avoid looming ultimate catastrophic consequences of failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030.

National, Regional and Global Implementation of the Report

https://www.ilo.org/fairglobalization/follow/lang--en/index.htm

The points made on the Follow Up Activities and Events Page:-

“A variety of voices are pressing the case for change in the current process of globalization. The wide-ranging recommendations in the Report are a response to that demand. But there is no guarantee of consistent action without systematic follow-up to the recommendations made in the Report. It is essential to engage the commitment and sustained involvement of both State and non-State actors. In all cases, there is a central role for the multilateral system of the United Nations in animating and supporting the follow-up process as a whole.

The nature of globalization requires us, as an international community, to look beyond inter-governmental processes and nation States, to involve new actors and forces that can help find solutions. We need the energy, creativity and reach of the many networks of non-State actors that are already active, involving both business and civil society. We need to adapt international institutions to the realities of the new era. This means forming coalitions for change, often with partners well beyond the precincts of officialdom.

At the international level, the Report envisages follow-up action to be undertaken in two phases. The first phase would aim to publicize and build widespread awareness of and support for the proposals and objectives. The second phase would initiate action to change the current process of globalization in line with the policy recommendations in the Report.

As part of the first phase of action, all actors within the global community are encouraged to use this Report as a basis for discussion and analysis; to consider its policy proposals; to take up recommendations; and to develop plans for advocacy and action. In its work, the Commission has attempted to move from confrontation to dialogue. The Report provides a platform where consensus can be built to take the necessary corrective action”.

Comment

There is Huge Divergence between Promises made above and Realities on the ground at National, Regional and Global levels.

This underlines urgent need for ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions and their National and International Partners to jointly and meaningfully address fundamental issues of Globalization leaving behind Vulnerable Individuals and Communities in all 193/306 UN Member States in Arithmetic Progression which is Bad and Digitization leaving behind Vulnerable Individuals and Communities in all 193/306 UN Member States in Geometric Progression which is Worse.

ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization 2008

The ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, 10 June 2008 is the Third Major Statement of Principles and Policies adopted by the International Labour Conference since the ILO’s Constitution of 1919.

https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/declaration%20on%20social%20justice%20for%20a%20Fair%20Globalization.pdf

ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization 2008

  

Please find the Declaration Preface, with slight update based upon current realities:  

The ILO is a Tripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations and Workers Organizations.

The Declaration came at a crucial political moment (2008 – Global Financial Crisis), reflecting the wide consensus on the need for a strong social dimension to globalization in achieving improved and fair outcomes for all. It constitutes a compass for the promotion of a fair globalization based on Decent Work, as well as a practical tool to accelerate progress in the implementation of the Decent Work Agenda at the country level. It also reflects a productive outlook by highlighting the importance of sustainable enterprises in creating greater employment and income opportunities for all.

In the work towards getting the Declaration approved in 2008, the ILO Decent Work Agenda received widespread international backing at the highest political, regional and global levels, culminating with the 2005 United Nations World Summit. On that occasion, Heads of State and Government stated: “We strongly support fair globalization and resolve to make the goals of full and productive employment and decent work for all, including for women and young people, a central objective of our relevant national and international policies as well as our national development strategies.” This statement also built on the commitments of the World Summit for Social Development of 1995.

The Declaration expresses the universality of the Decent Work Agenda: all Members of the Organization must pursue policies based on the strategic objectives – employment, social protection, social dialogue, and rights at work. At the same time, it stresses a holistic and integrated approach by recognizing that these objectives are “inseparable, interrelated and mutually supportive”, ensuring the role of international labour standards as a useful means of achieving all of them.

The Declaration calls upon the ILO to assist its Members in their efforts towards its implementation, according to national needs and circumstances. To that end, it presents a challenge to the International Labour Conference, the Governing Body and the International Labour Office, signaling that “the Organization should review and adapt its institutional practices to enhance governance and capacity building in order to make the best use of its human and financial resources and of the unique advantage of its tripartite structure and standards system”.

Therefore, the Organization and its Members must mobilize all available means of action, both nationally and internationally, to promote the objectives of the Declaration and implement its commitments in the most effective and efficient way.

The Declaration provides leaders and decision-makers with a balanced approach that connects with people and productive solutions at home, while also offering a common platform for governance at the international level. It contributes to policy coherence for sustainable development in national policies, among international organizations and in development cooperation, bringing together social, economic and environmental objectives.

In this regard, it highlights that international and regional organizations with mandates in closely related fields can play an important role in the implementation of the integrated approach required and invites them to promote decent work. It states that as trade and financial market policy both affect employment, it is the ILO’s role to evaluate those employment effects to achieve its aim of placing employment at the heart of economic policies.

The Declaration also calls for developing new partnerships with non-state entities and economic actors, such as multinational enterprises and trade unions operating at the global sectoral level, in order to enhance the effectiveness of ILO operational programmes and activities.

Comment

At the end of 11 years of Implementing the Declaration; ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions need to undertake joint Evaluation. If they do not know WHY there were flaws and failures in the Implementation and Evaluation of the Declaration in past 11 years they will not know HOW to Implement and Evaluate the Declaration and in ways that help all 193/306 UN Member States get DONE, the much that remain to be DONE, in less than 11 years, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by end 2030 target date.

If the Huge Potential of Cooperatives Fit for 21^st Century to help achieve National Goals and Global Goals including SDGs by 2030, is to be actualized as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context there is urgent need for:-

1. ILO to move from a Tripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations and Workers Organizations to Quadripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations, Workers Organizations and Cooperatives Organizations.
2. Innovation that Work for Poor to be One of the Master Keys –

https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/10/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and.html   Special Addresses to UN Behavior Insights Week 2019 Paper 1

https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/10/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and_7.html  Special Addresses to UN Behavior Insights Week 2019 Paper 2 including Scaling Up Business Impact on the SDGs

3. (1) and (2) need to be underlined by All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious One Worldwide Approach to Ending World Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty; Achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date DRIVING Research, Data, Planning; Implementation; Monitoring, Evaluation; Learning, Results; Transparency, Accountability and Participation Frameworks for Design and Delivery of National, Regional and Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions to National, Regional and Global Complex problems -

https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/03/3pcm-benefits-focused-one-worldwide.html 3PCM One Worldwide Approach to National and International Development Cooperation

The Story of ILOs Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No 193), 2015 Report

This Important ILO Report 2015 is essentially “A review of the process of making ILO Recommendation No. 193, its implementation and its impact”.

At the end of 4 years of Implementing the Report; ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions need to undertake joint Evaluation. If they do not know WHY there were flaws and failures in the Implementation and Evaluation of the Report in past 4 years, they will not know HOW to Implement and Evaluate the Report and in ways that effectively help all 193/306 UN Member States get DONE, the much that remain to be DONE, in less than 11 years, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track, to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery, by end 2030 target date.

Extracts from the Report (italics ours)

1. Recommendation No. 193 is an international instrument that aims to guide ILO member States in the design and implementation of favourable cooperative development policies and legislation. It sets out a series of measures that, taken together, can enable cooperatives to contribute to the economic and social wellbeing of their members and of society at large.
2. It also underlines the need to create more awareness and understanding of the cooperative form of enterprise, so that people are able to choose which business model best suits their needs, and calls for a concerted effort to improve the documentation of the contributions made by cooperatives.
3. Adequate cooperative policies and legislation are only one of the many promotional measures suggested by the Recommendation.
4. Success of cooperative enterprises requires that the ground is well laid through a coherent design and concerted implementation of various measures.
5. Attempts in the 1920s to turn the ILO into a quadripartite structure, by including cooperative organizations, failed. 100 years later, the future of ILO greatly depends of a quadripartite structure.
6. The Cooperative Service was created within the ILO. Its role was to “give careful attention to the study of different aspects of co-operation which are connected with the improvements of the economic and social conditions of the workers. It was to act as an international centre for cooperative research, documentation, information and advice as well as to liaise with cooperative organizations.
7. The International Committee on Inter-Cooperative Relations purpose was twofold: (a) to promote the development of moral and economic relations between the consumers’ and the agricultural cooperative organizations, and (b) to act as a liaison body between the cooperative movement as a whole and the ILO. The Committee was disbanded in 1938 but need to be speedily re-established.
8. Recommendation (No 70) 1944 stressed the need for adequate legislation covering all forms of cooperatives. It underlined the need for assistance and development of cooperative societies, including cooperative organizations of workers for the promotion of health, housing and education, to be accepted as part of the economic programme of competent authorities in dependent territories.
9. Cooperation also figured frequently on the agenda or in the discussions of other organs of the ILO and indeed organs of other UNO entities. Cooperation in ILO and other UNO Entities must underline value of cooperative action in other resolutions on economic requirements for social progress and conditions of life and work of primary producers. This DEMANDS going back to Original Cooperation Vision of Dr. Fauquet, the first Chief of ILO Cooperatives Branch.
10. The law and practice report 2000 proposed that Recommendation No. 127 be revised to provide an appropriate framework for the promotion of cooperatives in the 21st century. This remains a challenge 20 years after. This underlines urgent need to meaningfully address fundamental issues of:-        

a)  Governmental policies should create enabling environments to enable the growth of cooperatives taking into consideration the special character of the co-operative model of enterprise, its goals and contributions to the economic and social development of local communities and countries;

b)    Governments should in collaboration with cooperative organizations identify and remove obstacles that persist and do not allow cooperatives to compete on a real equal footing with other forms of enterprise.

11. The future of Recommendation No 193 is important as, despite the fact that it has already had an influence in over 100 countries, it has not yet been fully implemented. There continues to be an under-recognition of the contribution of cooperatives to economic and social development and therefore too little understanding about this model of enterprise.
12. In this situation, Recommendation No. 193 has to be further disseminated and capacity building efforts have to continue to ensure there is wider compliance with the Recommendation. Priority must be given to the requests coming from the ILO member States that have not yet used the Recommendation in revising their cooperative policies and legislation.

Comment

We commend ILO for this enlightening story of past 13 years of Recommendation No 193.

4 years after the Story Report, that is 17 years of Implementation of Recommendation No 193, the Story is still essentially the same.

If DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership do not know: WHY 193/306 UN Member States are still in MDG Mode rather than SDG Mode in over 16 of 60 Quarters of SDG Implementation and WHY over 4 years of Implementing: The Story of ILOs Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No 193), 2015 Report; over 11 years of Implementing ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization 2008 and over 15 years of Implementing ILO World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization Report 2004; All 193/306 UN Member States are yet to optimize Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises contribution to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date; they will not know HOW to get all 193/306 UN Member States back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date. Should our World fail to answer this How Question, our World will miss the June 2020 DEADLINE to Change Course.

Should this DEADLINE the Missed, our World will simply be on autopilot to Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030, that is, the ultimate catastrophic consequences of Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 become inevitable. This is avoidable, should relevant authorities on Powerful North and South Countries as well as Major UN Entities – ILO, FAO, UNDESA, Change Course Now, Amazing Transformation will occur before our very eyes.

To achieve this Amazing Transformation, there is urgent need to for New ILO that is Quadripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations, Workers Organizations and Cooperatives Organizations as well as FAO, UNDESA, other UNO Entities as Renewed Organizations; other UN System: WBG, IMF, WTO Entities as Renewed Organizations; 193/306 UN Member States Governments as Renewed Government Entities, to urgently address the following points and in Common Interest, Common Future and Common Destiny of All Humanity:-

1.   Engaging the commitment and sustained involvement of both State and Non-State Actors as well as the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO.

2.   Looking beyond Inter-governmental Processes and Nation States, to involve New Actors and Forces that can help find National, Regional and Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions.

3.   Need to harness Energy Creativity and Reach of the many Networks, Partnerships and Platforms of Non-State Actors that are already active, involving: Business, Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprise, Civil Society, University and Higher Education Institution.

4.  Need to adapt International Institutions to the Realities of the New Era. This means forming Coalitions for Change, often with Partners well beyond the Precincts of Officialdom.

5.   Need for Multi-Stakeholder Platforms of State and Non State Actors, as well as the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO where consensus can be built to take the Necessary Corrective Action based on Correct Diagnosis, Correct Prescription, Correct Surgery and Correct Recovery Management.

6. Central Role for the Multilateral System of the United Nations in Animating and Supporting the Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Follow-up Process as a whole based on Indivisibility (Interrelated, Interdependent, Interconnected and Interlinked) of the 17 Goals of the SDGs.

7. Need for each UN entity to review and adapt its institutional practices to enhance governance and capacity building in order to make the best use of its human and financial resources as well as any unique advantage of its structure and standards system.

This DEMANDS operationalizing the practice the 2 Concepts of the SDGs  - Work Together to Benefit Together and Leave No One Behind; answering SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date HOW Questions within New SDGs Pledge Delivery Worldwide Model; taking Technical Advice and Reform Consulting  Service Support from Firm that has adequate levels of Hard Competencies – Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies - Character, Courage, Cultural, Communication, Attitude, Behavior, Discipline and Mindset, to help address Practical Action issues at National, Regional and Global levels.

Conclusion

In view of the above, it is in DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership, as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership, enlightened self interest to let Radical /Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change in Decent Work, Food, Nutrition and Agriculture; Conflict, Insecurity and Inequality; Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability and all remaining Dimensions of SDGs start immediately.  Otherwise, the ultimate catastrophic consequences of All 193/306 UN Member States FAILURE to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, is inevitable.

UK/EU Brexit along current direction and priorities only makes these ultimate catastrophic consequences more inevitable in All 193/306 UN Member States. This underlines urgent need for Alternative Brexit that address Original EU Project and UK in EU Challenges Linked to Decent Work and achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 Challenges in all 193/306 UN Member States.

It is our hope that opportunity for bright prospects of success would not be lost. To avoid this answer to HOW questions within Pilot Program and Scale Up Program need to start without delay. 

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Global Push To Achieve SDGs Vision and Words with Action Agenda 73

  EAG       ISPE 

                         ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP                         INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION             

              (Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions Provider)         (Global Social Development Innovation Organization)          

    ER&A        NEHMAP Initiative

       ER and Associates Limited                         New End Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty Initiative                 

(International Development Cooperation Consultants)                                                (Global Social Economy and Social Enterprise Organization)

ISPE EAG Comment on Cooperatives at 100 (1)

GFFA 2020 Outcome: Achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community, Country, Continent location context, in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date - Call for Development Cooperation Rapid/Fast and Radical/Fundamental Change in all 193/306 UN Member States Governments – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary in all Tiers as well as in all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities – Headquarters, Regional Offices, Sub-regional Offices, Country Offices and Sub-Country Offices and their National and International Partners sides – Beyond Slogan.

Introduction

The 50^th Anniversary of Cooperatives Development at ILO was celebrated on 23 March 1970. The ILO COOP 50^th Anniversary was reported as marking the Golden Age of ILO Technical Cooperation in the Cooperative Field. The 100^th Anniversary or Centenary Anniversary on 23 March 2020 should mark the Bi-Golden Age of ILO.

It is recalled that 2017 marked the 70^th Anniversary or Platinum Anniversary of ILO and FAO Cooperation. By 2047 when the 100^th Anniversary of ILO and FAO Cooperation in marked, it should be reported that ILO COOP being the Apex UN Agency with statutory responsibility for Cooperatives and wider Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises Development in All North and South Countries, ensured that 2020 indeed Marked Turning Point in the work towards achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States by 2030 and this effectively positioned all 193/306 UN Member States to keep achieving Global Goals by target date moving forward from 2030.

The implication is that by 150^th Anniversary or Sequicentinnal Anniversary, the 2030 deadline to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery (None of the 17 Goals of the SDGs will be considered met if it is not achieved by All Peoples in All Countries) would have been met, the next 15 years Global Goals would have been met, the second 15 years Global Goals would have been met and our World will be on Track achieving the third Global Goals after SDGs 2015 World Transformation Agenda Vision Ambition.

It is pertinent to note that All 193/306 UN Member States are Off Track achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030; that All 193/306 UN Member States Governments and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Entities Leadership now know that should Our World Fail to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030, the ultimate consequences for our fragile Planet would be catastrophic, yet these World Leaders continue to pursue National and International Development Cooperation Radical/Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change – the Overarching outcome of DCF 2018, as mere Slogan. This is not only very Sad, it is indeed Very Dangerous to World Sustainable Development.

  

DCF 2020 will hold 14 – 15 May 2020. The Big Questions are: What Progress has UNDESA made in the Implementation of above DCF 2018 Overarching Outcome? Why has UNDESA ignored good ideas and pertinent suggestions for Implementation of DCF 2018 Outcome that Work for Word’s Poor?

Can all 193/306 UN Member States get DONE the much that remain to be DONE to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date without Cooperatives and wider Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises Development in All North and South Countries Operating at Minimum Certain Levels of Effectiveness and Efficiency?

This Paper aims to contribute to finding answers to above and related questions.

DCF 2020

There is urgent need for 193/306 UN Member States Governments – All Arms of All Tiers and UN System: UNO,WBG, IMF, WTO Entities Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country Offices to genuinely appreciate that our World does not have 11 years remaining to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery but 90/180 Days less 43 Days ending March 2020/June 2020 (from date of this Paper 3 February 2020).

All fundamental issues raised by EAG before, during and after DCF 2018 remain relevant today as when raised and even more so.

https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and_57.html

Had DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Leadership as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership Changed Course in May 2018, will All 193/306 UN Member States remain Off Track achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery with just about 3 months to DCF 2020?

If DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership do not know why All 193/306 UN Member States are Off Track achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date; they will not know HOW to get DONE the much that remain to be DONE if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.

Repositioning UNDESA

The UN General Assembly has saddled UNDESA with responsibility for supporting UN Member States to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030. UNDESA assume wrongly that only South Countries, especially the Poorest Countries need help achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030. EAG Study Finding is All North and South Countries need help achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030.

UNDESA need Help before UNDESA could be in a position to Effectively Help all North and South Countries. The starting point is UNDESA Reform at levels such as this:-

https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and.html

EAG Research Work is Dynamic, in addition to the 10 Divisions in New UNDESA that Work for World Poor, suggested in above Paper, there is a need for 2 additional UNDESA Divisions:-

1. Taking the Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises Development Support responsibility away from DSID and creating Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises Division, CSSED as New UNDESA Division.
2. Streamlining Omnibus Capacity Building Support intended to be Systems Reform and Service Reform Support responsibility away from EAPD and CDPMO and creating Support for Reforming Institutions Division, SRID as New UNDESA Division.

Repositioning FAO

FAO is the Apex UN Agency with responsibility for Food, Nutrition and Agriculture. We are genuinely concerned that FAO seem to be more interested in lamenting Global Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Challenges rather than delivering on its Statutory Responsibility be demonstrating and being seen to demonstrate Global Leadership in Design and Delivery of National, Regional and Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions to these Challenges.

https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2020/01/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and.html

It will be recalled that Cooperatives issues are covered by a Cooperation Agreement signed by FAO and ILO in 1947. If Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises Dimension of SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, a New Global Support for Cooperatives Development Agreement need to be signed by FAO, ILO and UNDESA without delay.

Repositioning ILO

The idea of 2 SDGs Concepts of Work Together to Benefit Together and Leave No One Behind are underlined by World Leaders appreciating that Globalization had operated largely as Force for Evil in both North and South Countries as Globalization left Vulnerable Individuals and Communities behind and that Digitization operating largely as Force for Evil would leave even more Vulnerable Individuals and Communities behind in both North and South Countries.

If Globalization and Digitization is each Not Force for Good essentially ensuring that Vulnerable Individuals and Communities in all North and South Countries are Not Left Behind, it will be Mission Impossible for all 193/306 UN Member States getting DONE the much that remain to be DONE, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.

If all 193/306 UN Member States are to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, there must be better promotion and protection of Agricultural Cooperatives; Mining Cooperatives; Manufacturing Cooperatives; Consumer Cooperatives; Infrastructure Services Cooperatives – Electricity, Housing, Telecom etc; Basic Service Cooperatives – Water, Education etc.

“For many co-operators all over the world, the ILO is considered a strong supporter of their ideals and activities. I strongly believe that this should continue under the new and changing conditions of work”.

“To achieve this, emphasis should be given in particularly to the possibilities of assisting vulnerable groups of people in organizing themselves into cooperatives and similar social and solidarity economy organisations. I believe one should not be dogmatic about the legal form of cooperatives but also promote other forms of collaboration and cooperation. Even such forms need to develop structures which would give them a legal status enabling them to take a fuller part in the social and solidarity economy”.

Jurgen von Muralt

Former Diretor ILO Enterprises (Italics ours)

   

To operationalize these required types of Cooperatives in Practice above comment, by Former Director ILO Enterprises, made in ILO COOP 100 Interview published in ILO COOP eNews January 2020 present Food for Thought to DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership and their National, Regional and Global Partners, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.

Conclusion

If DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership do not know: WHY 193/306 UN Member States are still in MDG Mode rather than SDG Mode and WHY over 4 years of SDGs Implementation All 193/306 UN Member States are yet to optimize Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises contribution to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date; they will not know HOW to get all 193/306 UN Member States back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, our World will miss the June 2020 DEADLINE to Change Course.

Should this DEADLINE the Missed, our World will simply be on autopilot to Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030, that is, the ultimate catastrophic consequences of Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 become inevitable. This is avoidable, should relevant authorities on Powerful North and South Countries as well as Major UN Entities – ILO, FAO, UNDESA, Amazing Transformation will occur before our very eyes.

The Ball is now in the Court of National Leaders and World Leaders – Will they Play or Will they Keep Looking On as the World accelerate on MADning (Mutually Assured Destruction) Road to DOOM or will they DO the NEEDFUL and HELP all 193/306 UN Member States to speedily return to 2014 Cross Road and start accelerating on MAPing (Mutually Assured Prosperity) Road to BOOM?

It is our hope that opportunity for bright prospects of success would not be lost. To avoid this answer to HOW questions within Pilot Program and Scale Up Program need to start without delay.  

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Appendix – This EAG Paper has 18 Pages. This is extract of 4 Pages.

NEHMAP Cooperatives Generic Model

The International Society for Poverty Elimination (ISPE), a Member of Economic Alliance Group (EAG) between 2014 and 2017 constructively engaged relevant Government and Non Government Stakeholders in select States in Nigeria on design and delivery of State Sustainable Agriculture Revolution / Friendly Policies Climate Reform / Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform / Support for Reforming Institutions SSAR-FPCR-SEGIR-SFRI, to Drive, New: State Cooperatives Movement, State Agricultural Productivity, State Agricultural Quality, State Citizens Empowerment and State Citizens Employment - Policies, Programs and Projects Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One. 

2.   The Permanent Secretary Ekiti State Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives; Director Cooperatives; Deputy Director Cooperatives; representatives of the Ekiti State Bureau of Productivity and Empowerment, BPE and the Consultant - Director General ISPE/EAG, held a meeting on Wednesday 25 October 2017, to clarify the role of the Ministry, especially its Cooperatives Department in the Implementation of the Ekiti State Sustainable Agriculture Revolution Friendly Policies Climate Reform Concept Note earlier impressively presented to select Ekiti State Senior Officials, not less than Assistant Director, on 25 July 2017, by ISPE/EAG. The outcome of this meeting was reported to Ekiti State Government, by BPE, via 4 August 2017 Memo, jointly prepared by all Participants after due consultation with relevant Senior Officials in their respective MDAs. We were informed that the Former Governor requested for meeting with BPE, the Focal MDA and the Consultant – ISPE/EAG, to shed more light on the Memo. This meeting was not scheduled before the end of the last Administration.

3.   The 25 October 2017 meeting agreed: that existing Cooperatives in Ekiti State are not working the way they are supposed to work especially the Agriculture Cooperatives; that there is strong need for New Agriculture Cooperatives Movement in Ekiti State, such as the suggested NEHMAP Cooperatives Primary Society, Investor Society, Secondary Union and Central Society including (1) Cooperatives: Agriculture (All Aspects of Production, Harvesting, Processing, Packaging, Storage, Trading/Marketing etc) (2) Bank;  Cooperatives Agricultural (All Aspects of Production, Harvesting, Processing, Packaging, Storage, Trading/Marketing etc) (3) Research Services Institute;  Cooperatives (All Aspects of NNEHMAP Primary Society; Investor Society; Secondary Union; Central Society, Cooperative Agriculture Bank, Cooperative Agriculture Research Services) Agriculture Productivity, Quality and Empowerment Capacity Building Institute (4) Research Services Institute; Agriculture (All Aspects of Production, Harvesting, Processing, Packaging, Storage, Trading/Marketing etc) Productivity, Quality and Empowerment Capacity Building Institute (5) Cooperatives Inspectorate and Compliance; Physical Inspection of all NEHMAP Primary Societies, Secondary Unions and other Central Society Entities to compliance with all Policies and Procedures (6) Cooperatives Self Regulatory Service; Setting Standards for all NEHMAP Primary Societies, Secondary Unions and other Central Society Entities and ensuring compliance with all Standards (7) Cooperatives Shares Exchange Manage the Sale and Transfer of all NEHMAP Primary Societies, Secondary Unions and other Central Society Entities Shares and also Administer NEHMAP Cooperatives Securities Brokers and Dealers; Shares Registrars; Fund Managers and Trustees and (8) Cooperatives Development Inclusive Education and Inclusive Communication for Governing Council, Members, Staff and Workers in the NEHMAP Cooperatives Movement DRIVEN BY Professional and Career based Training and Capacity Building as One, with well organized structure and systems that Government needs to consider proving favorable legal environment for such New Cooperatives Movement to emerge and thrive as part of Life of Citizens in each Community, in each LGA in the State as well as in Nigeria and other Countries – North and South. 

At the meeting of 25 October 2017, the Director Cooperatives highlighted need for ISPE/EAG to submit a NEHMAP Cooperatives Paper to guide Government in making relevant amendment to the existing Ekiti State Cooperatives Law. ISPE/EAG agreed to prepare the requested Paper.

This Paper in response to the request underlines need for New Legislative Framework that meaningfully equip Ekiti State Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives through NEHMAP Cooperatives to better address huge and complex Legal, Financial, Administration, Management, Political, Economic, Social, Ecological, Security, Justice, Culture, Religion, Production, Processing, Packaging, Trading, Productivity, Marketing, Modernization, Mechanization, Technology, Competitiveness, Standards, Operations, Regulation, Data, Digitization Hard Competencies: Learning and Skills; Soft Competencies: Character, Courage, Discipline and Mindset problems challenging Agriculture (full range) and Agriculture Cooperatives (all tiers) Internal and External Publics in each of 132 Communities, 16 LGs, 4 Divisions and Statewide specific location context.

NEHMAP Cooperatives are essentially Basic Services Cooperatives: Agriculture, Food, Nutrition, Education, Health, Housing, Recreation, Entertainment, Water, Sanitation, Environment, Justice, Peace, Security, Prosperity, Communication, Development, Evaluation and Basic Infrastructure Cooperatives: Telecomm; Technology: Digitization, Information, Energy, Bio, Management, Communication, Computer, Internet, Engineering, Science; Innovation, Research and Development; Energy, Electricity, Transportation: Water, Road, Rail, Air; Finance; Banking; Insurance as One.

That is NEHMAP Cooperatives is Basic Services Cooperatives and Basic Infrastructure Cooperatives as One within Agriculture: Crops, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Aquaculture: Pre Harvest, Harvest and Post Harvest – Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context and in ways that:-

1.      Make Globalization Work for Nigeria, Africa, UK, Europe, US and World Poor

2.      Make Governance Work for Nigeria, Africa, UK, Europe, US and World Poor

3.      Make Brexit Work for Nigeria, Africa, UK, Europe, US and World Poor

4.      Make 4^th Industrial Revolution Work for Nigeria, Africa, UK, Europe, US and World Poor

5.      Make 4^th Agriculture Revolution Work for Nigeria, Africa, UK, Europe, US and World Poor

6.      Help All North and South Countries achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge (None of the 17 Goals of the SDGs will be considered met if it is not achieved by All Peoples in All Countries) by end 2030 target date, that is in the barely 11 ½ years remaining to end 2030.

The 8 in 1 NEHMAP Cooperatives Central Society will have responsibility for:-

1.      Co-ordination of Inter-governmental and Inter-ministerial Co-operative activities;

2.      Formulation of broad State Economic Policy For Co-operative Development and  Financing, and the Integration of Co-operative Policies into State Development Plans;

3.    Supervision of NEHMAP Co-operative Primary societies, Secondary Unions and Central Society Entities and the Implementation and Evaluation of Development Policies relating to NEHMAP Co-operative Projects/Initiatives in the State;

4.    Disbursement of State, Federal and Foreign assistance to the NEHMAP Co-operative Movement;

5.    Liaison with State and Federal Economic Institutions and Representation of NEHMAP       Co-operative interests at Inter-governmental and Inter-ministerial meetings;

6.  Relations on NEHMAP Co-operative matters with Central Labor Organizations and similar bodies especially in matters relating to jointly sponsored welfare schemes;

7.    Co-ordination of: Research on Cooperatives, Cooperatives Policy and Legislation, Statistics on Cooperatives, State Institutional Framework Development for Cooperatives and National Institutional Framework Development for Cooperatives; into NEHMAP                Co-operative Primary societies, Secondary Unions and Central Society Entities problems;   

8.    Co-ordination of Independent Advisory Services to NEHMAP Co-operative Primary societies, Secondary Unions and Central Society Entities for Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions to real and complex problems on the ground they face;      

9.     Compilation of information on all matters relating to NEHMAP Co-operative Primary societies, Secondary Unions and Central Society Entities Development;

10.  Co-ordination of Publicity on NEHMAP Co-operative Primary societies, Secondary Unions and Central Society Entities Matters and Preparation of reports on NEHMAP Co-operative Primary societies, Secondary Unions and Central Society Entities development in the State;     

11.  Inter-Nigeria, inter-African and other International Co-operative matters, including relations with International Co-operative Organizations And Specialized Agencies of the United Nations Organization;

12. Co-operative Training: Co-operative Development, Co-operative Management,  Co-operative Governance, Co-operative Education, Co-operative Entrepreneurship, Co-operative and Gender Equality, Co-operative and Elimination of Child Labor, Co-operative and Elimination of Forced Labor, Co-operative and Collective Bargaining, Co-operative and Occupational Safety and Health, Co-operative at the State level and relating with appropriate  State, other States, National and Foreign Educational Institutions;

13. Organization of State, National and International Conferences and Seminars On Co-operative Matters including visits by representatives of other States, National and Foreign Co-operative Societies and Bodies; and

14. The Community Advisory Council, (LG) Local Advisory Council, Division Advisory Council, State Advisory Council, (SW) Regional Advisory Council and National Advisory Council  for NEHMAP Co-operative Development. The selection of Experts to serve on the Council will recognize that the State Functional Apex of Co-operative Societies is a reference to an Organization representing the interests of NEHMAP co-operatives in a particular functional sector; and the State Overall Apex of Co-operative Societies is a reference to an Organization representing the interest of NEHMAP Co-operative societies irrespective of their sphere of operation.

A warning that called for a shift from “GRANT and EXPENDITURE MODEL” to “BUSINESS and INVESTMENT MODEL” Agriculture Cooperatives was given by ISPE/EAG at both the 25 July 2017 and 25 October 2017 meetings. 

That is, both Agriculture: Crops, Forestry, Livestock, Fisheries and Aquaculture: Pre Harvest, Harvest and Post Harvest and Agricultural  Cooperatives: Primary Society, Investor Society, Secondary Union and Central Society practices in the New Dispensation need to be Business-Investment like. In each of 132  Communities, in each of 16 LGs, in each of 4 Divisions and Statewide in Ekiti State, Nigeria Citizens’ – Ekitis and Non Ekitis - Youth, Women, Men and Elders genuinely interested in any aspect of “Agriculture as Business” and “Spirit of Enterprise as Antidote to Poverty”, as well as in contributing their quota towards “Ending Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty” in all  132  Communities, in each of 16 LGs, in each of 4 Divisions and Statewide in Ekiti State, would be meaningfully involved in the State Sustainable Agriculture Revolution / Friendly Policies Climate Reform / Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform / Support for Reforming Institutions SSAR-FPCR-SEGIR–SRIP within JKF New Ekiti Vision: Reclaiming our Land and Restoring our Values, Beyond Slogan/that Work for Ekiti Poor and its 4 Point Agenda that is essentially Ekiti Rescue Mission, and must not see the support either cash or materials provided as sharing of National/State Cake but assets invested that would generate worthwhile returns, first to themselves, then society and ultimately Government. The same applies to other States in Nigeria, as well as to other South and North Countries, as appropriate to each specific Country context. Should Ekiti State be the first to implement this NEHMAP Cooperatives Generic Model, Ekiti State National and International Influence would be significantly boosted.

In NEHMAP Generic Cooperatives Model that would be adapted to suit the unique and specific needs of Ekiti State, other States in Nigeria and in other South and North Countries:-

(i)            NEHMAP Cooperatives shall accommodate all categories of Professionals Practitioners, Academicians, Theoreticians and Researchers within modernized and mechanized agriculture – crops, forestry, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture: pre harvest, harvest and post harvest practices, as appropriate to specific community in Ekiti State, other States in Nigeria as well as in other South and North Countries.

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Mail:  nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk  or info@nehmapglobbal.org            July 2019