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 HOW to Fight and WIN War
on CONVID 19 in this 2020s’ (6)
SBCC 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 UN
Member States Governments – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary in all Tiers as
well as in all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO 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 ECOSOC High Level Virtual Meeting on Global Response to COVID
19 Crisis and achieving SDGs by 2030, held on 23 April 2020, convened and chaired
by ECOSOC President Mona Juul, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
reminded World Leaders that COVID 19 Crisis is wrecking increasing havoc
globally at unprecedented scale and that finding National, Regional and Global Integrated
Innovative Sustainable Solutions to COVID 19 Crisis demand unprecedented Global
Response.
We have identified Gaps in entire UN Membership Entities individual and
joint response to COVID 19 pandemic at domestic and global levels in all 193 UN
Member States. We have suggested urgent need for Whole of WHO, Whole of UNDESA,
Whole of UNO and Whole of UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Support to all 193 UN
Member States: Domestic and Global Governance; Public Goods and Solidarity –
Political, Science and Financial as One and at minimum certain levels, if the UN
System is to effectively help all 193 UN Member States Fight and Win War on
COVID 19 linked to getting DONE the much that remain to be DONE if all 193 UN
Member States are to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in the
less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date and we have warned that
should the entire UN System Membership continue with Business as Usual, the
Ultimate Consequence to 193 UN Member States – Governments and Citizens would be Catastrophic and this
underline Urgent need for entire UN System Membership to Change Course Now
deploy its Might and Power to Support EAG Submission Implementation.
In
Paper (1), we set out EAG Thoughts on HOW to Fight and Win CONVID 19 in the
2020s by Building Bridge between Lessons Learning and Lessons Forgetting, that
is actually Learning Lessons from Past Global Public Health Emergencies to Find
Sustainable Solutions to CONVID 19.
In
Paper (2), we are elaborated on these New Ideas, as CONVID 19 Devastation keep
getting worse and it is in Urgent Global Interest that World Leaders Change Course
without Delay.
In
Paper (3), we underlining the role of Communication for Change, Development and
Environment Fit for the 21st Century in Fighting
and Winning War on CONVID 19 in US, Europe and rest of the World Linked to
getting DONE the much that remain to be DONE, if all 193 UN Member States are
to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years
remaining to end 2030 target date.
In Paper (4), we underlined urgent need for National, Regional and Global Central
Coordination of COVID 19 Response that Work linked to achieving SDGs Pledge
Delivery by 2030, if our World is to avoid looming Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences
of Failure to Fight and win War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge
Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World.
In
Paper (5), we underlined urgent need for All Arms of All Tiers of Governments
in US, Europe and rest of the World; U System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Headquarters,
Regional Offices and Country Offices and their National and International
Partners are to Work Together to Succeed Together in Fighting and Winning War
on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than
11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
In this Paper (6), we seek to draw attention of World Leaders to the
urgent need to meaningfully address fundamental issues of Rethinking
Sustainable Solutions and Rethinking Institutional Architecture, , if All Arms
of All Tiers of Governments in US, Europe and rest of the World; UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country Offices and their
National and International Partners are to Jointly tackle Fighting and Winning
War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than
11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, Implementation and Evaluation Challenge.
Understanding Unprecedented
Global Response Mean Unprecedented Global Response
The
above Global Call on World Leaders to Design and Deliver Unprecedented Global
Response to tackle Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving
SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target
date need to go
beyond Slogan, if our World is to avoid the looming ultimate catastrophic consequences
of failure to Win War on COVID 19 and failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery
by 2030.
If
this Global Call is not to be mere Slogan, there is urgent need for Leaders and
Followers in all major Stakeholder Groups involved in Fighting and Wining War
on COVID 19 linked to getting done the much
that remain to be done, if all 193 UN Member States are to achieve SDGs Pledge
Delivery in the less than ii years remaining to end 2030 target date, to have Common
Understanding and Common Agreement on WHAT Unprecedented Global Response Mean;
WHAT the Duties and Responsibilities of each Major Stakeholder Group Member is,
in the Design and Delivery of the Unprecedented Global Response Dimensions
within its Statutory Responsibility is and WHAT the Rights of each Major
Stakeholder Group is within the Unprecedented Global Response.
These
Major Stakeholder Groups – 193 UN Member States Governments – All Arms of All
Tiers; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Members – Headquarters, Regional Offices
and Country Offices; Regional and Sub-Regional Political Groupings of Countries
- Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country Offices; Business – Micro, Small, Medium, Large and
Transnational Enterprises/Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations; Consultants
- Micro, Small, Medium, Large and Transnational; Universities/Higher Education Institutions
– Top 10, Top 100, Top 1,000, others; and other Major Groups of Stakeholders as
applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Global/Planet location context MUST find a way to
Work Together to Succeed Together and in ways that Leave No One Behind as they
Jointly Design and Deliver the Unprecedented Global Response.
This
DEMAND, the Major Stakeholder Groups Individually and Jointly demonstrating and
been seen to demonstrate adequate levels of:-
1. Willingness to Try New Ideas, New
Thinking and New Ways of DOING Things;
2. Willingness to Try New
Partnerships, New Networks and New Cooperation;
3. Readiness to accept past failure
and to Build Bridge between Lessons Learning and Lessons Forgetting;
4. Readiness as Individuals,
Institutions or Governments to Change Attitude and Behavior at Scale –
National, Regional and Global.
This
in turn DEMAND, the Major Stakeholder Groups Individually and Jointly
demonstrating and been seen to demonstrate adequate levels of:-
1. Political Will and Public Will
2. Reforming Institutions, Services
and Systems;
3. Building
Hard Competencies –
Learning and Skills and Soft
Competencies - Character,
Courage, Cultural, Communication,
Attitude, Behavior, Discipline and Mindset required to achieve increasing
convergence between National and Global Goals Vision Intention and Reality;
4.
ackling Implementation and Evaluation Challenge
for Results Fighting
and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than
11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
Understanding Pandemic
Risk
The WBG World Development Report, WDR
2014 on Risk Management background paper on Pandemic Risk
https://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/HDN/Health/WDR14_bp_Pandemic_Risk_Jonas.pdf
set out many good
recommendations for Results Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving
SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
The
paper looked at pandemic risk, what it means for development, and how
management of this risk could be improved, both in countries and
internationally.
The
paper noted that pandemic risks are substantial, as a single severe flu pandemic
could cost $3 trillion; that it is hard to imagine a more severe threat to
ending absolute poverty or to boosting shared prosperity in developing
countries; that OECD, among others, see (in 2014 – 6 years ago) a severe
pandemic as a top global catastrophic risk, one that is higher than terrorism
risk and that such pandemic would bring shared misery, economic decline, and
societal disruptions on a global scale, with the poor and those in fragile
states hit the hardest. (2020 reality is poor in all 193 UN Member States are
hardest hit).
The paper
noted that reduction of pandemic risk is a public service that only
governments, through their coordinated actions, can provide; that Delivery of
this service can benefit from systematic application of ‘science of delivery,’
notably by using One Health approaches for early effective control of
contagion.
The
paper noted that all countries can build and operate systems that meet
international standards; that the annual spending required to reach that goal
is not only modest but also ten times less than the expected annual cost of
inaction (as being experienced in 2020); that Advocacy and communications for
prevention and preparedness are key public sector responsibilities at global,
country, and community levels.
The
paper noted that the main beneficiaries of pandemic risk reduction will be our
children (in 2020 our children are losing vital education) and future
generations because their lifetime odds of experiencing a pandemic are now high
and growing; they face worse odds than present-day adults, including the
political and business leaders who need to lead if this risk is to be reduced.
The
paper noted that preparedness for pandemics is low everywhere, but especially
in developing countries, with potentially high-cost impacts on health,
economies, and society and that Whole-of-society planning for responses is a
low-cost activity that will mitigate these impacts.
National
and World Leaders had 6 years to prepare haven been warned in the Paper, yet
did not do so. The Warning was No Good as COVID 19 Crisis is now a reality. The Challenge now is not
only to overcome COVID 19 Crisis in all 193 UN Member States but to also press
forward this time to heed the Warning and be Better Prepared for future pandemic
as they arise or as they are prevented from arising.
Understanding Public Goods
The World Bank Global Public Goods Report,
2007
is
a comprehensive description of Global Public Goods in its broadest sense. The narrow
definition of Global Public Goods by UN Entities and 193 UN Member States
Governments in their ongoing Response to COVID 19 is not helpful, in the great task of getting Results
Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving
SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
The Report noted
that Global Public Goods, GPGs concern all countries, rich and poor, and they
can no longer be separated from national interests and that the spread of
communicable diseases and the impact of climate change clearly illustrate the
urgency of concerted global action.
The Report noted
that Economists describe GPGs as sharing two qualities: their benefits are non-excludable
(once available, everybody can enjoy them) and non-rivalrous (consumption by
one person does not reduce the availability to other individuals across
nations).
The Report
adopted a more pragmatic and operational interpretations: GPGs are those goods
whose supply depends critically on international collective action, even though
they may not be fully global (they may be regional) and have some excludability
(as with some critical components of global knowledge whose use is restricted
by patents) or rivalry (as with the exhaustion of high-seas fishery resources
or biodiversity).
National
and World Leaders had 13 years to reach agreement on GPGs Design and Delivery. COVID 19 Crisis underlines urgent
need for World Leaders to speedily reach this agreement. The Challenge now is
not only to Design and Deliver GPGs within unprecedented Global Response to COVID
19 Crisis in all 193 UN Member States but to also press forward this time to Design
and Deliver GPGs for achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years
remaining to end 2030 target date.
5 Global Events
The Design and Delivery of Unprecedented
Global Response to tackle Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving
SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target
date Demand Configuring or World to
evolve New World Order.
5 Global Events shed
light on way forward in the evolutions of this New World Order. They are:-
- John
Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programs, JHU-CCP Springboard
Platform Webinar on COVID 19, 7 April 2020.
- UNDESA
Department of SDGs, DSDG Webinar on COVID 19, 9 April 2020.
- WBG/IMF
Spring Meetings 2020, 17 – 19 April 2020. Its Virtual Meeting this year
thanks to COVID 19.
- ECOSOC High Level Virtual
Meeting on Global Response to COVID 19 Crisis and achieving SDGs by
2030,, 23 April 2020.
- UNDESA
et al Virtual Dialogue on
SDG17 and Public-Private Partnerships: COVID-19 Response & Recovery in
the Framework of the 2030 Agenda
Events 1, 2, 3 and 4
have been held. Event 5 will soon be held. There is need for Event 5 to
actually Learn Lessons from outcome Events 1, 2, 3 and 4.
New UN Partnership
Strategy
UNDESA
promised to release New UN Partnership Strategy by July 2018 and is yet to do
this. There is urgent need for a re-written New UN Partnership Strategy for
Results in the Design
and Delivery of
Unprecedented Global Response to tackle Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked
to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to
end 2030 target date, to
be released.
Central Coordination
of Unprecedented Global Response
In
view of realities on the ground, it is now clear that Central Coordination of
Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to getting DONE the much that
remain to be DONE if US, Europe and rest of the World are to achieve SDGs
Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date
DEMAND:-
1. A Single Community Based/ One
Planet/One World Public Health/Health ad Well being Approach Interrelated,
Interlinked, Interdependent, Interconnected and Interdependent with One World
Agenda; One World Communication; One World Education; One World Development
Finance; One World Science, One World Technology, One World Innovation, One
World Food and Nutrition, One World Agriculture, One World Security, One World
Evaluation; One World Reform and One World Public Sector etc as One Approach
that is essentially Whole of World Approach, Whole of Government Approach,
Whole of Society Approach, Whole of Bank Approach, Whole of UN System Approach
etc using
2. Correct Diagnosis, Correct
Prescription, Correct Surgery and Correct Recovery Management Frameworks within
3. Single: Research, Planning,
Data/Statistics; Implementation; Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, Results;
Ownership, Alignment, Harmony; Transparency, Accountability, Participation;
Leadership and Measuring Success as One Framework as applicable or appropriate
in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and
Global/Planet location context.
The
Institutional Architecture that effectively support above Approaches and
Frameworks from Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and
Global level is missing and this explain why the Information, Research,
Knowledge, Innovation and Ambition Gaps responsible for increasing divergence
between National and Global Sustainable Development Goals Intention and Reality
was not filed in the past, is not being filled now and with Business as Usual
and remaining Old Paradigms will not be filled in the future, with Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences for our Fragile Planet. That is
the Bad News.
The
Good News is that Know How exist and is available to National and World Leaders
to Build this required Institutional Architecture that effectively support
above Approaches and Frameworks from Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent,
Continent and Global level and in ways that effectively fill the Information,
Research, Knowledge, Innovation and Ambition Gaps for assuring increasing convergence between National and Global Sustainable
Development Goals Intention and Reality now and in the future with Business
Unusual and remaining New Paradigms thus ensuring US, Europe and rest of the
World Work Together to Succeed Together Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19
linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 and in ways that Promote and
Protect Greater America, Greater Europe and Greater World.
Conclusion
In
the Design and Delivery of Unprecedented Global Response to tackle Fighting and
Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less
than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, it is clear that solutions that
need to be provided should be All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious as
well as Available, Affordable, Accessible and Adequate as applicable or appropriate in each
specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and
Global/Planet location context. This underlines the Urgent Need to Rethink
Sustainable Solutions and Rebuild Institutional Architecture.
We urge
Presidents/Heads of Government in any Powerful North or South Country genuinely
interested to take all necessary measures to Fight and Win War on CONVID 19
Linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 to take up the Challenge of Hosting the suggested 3 Day High Level Political
Forum, HLPF on Fighting and Winning War on CONVID 19 Linked to achieving SDGs
Pledge Delivery by 2030, to please contact us on email below to discuss
action next Steps in their Country and Global Interest.
There are bright
prospects of success should World Leaders ensure that the HLPF to find Integrated Innovative
Sustainable Solutions hold as suggested. However, there are Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences should
it be Business as Usual and the HLPF not
be convened and on Time.
It is our hope that opportunity for bright prospects of success
would not be lost.
Contact:
Director General
Economic Alliance Group
M: +234-8162469805
Website: www.nehmapglobal.org
Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk info@nehmapglobal.org April
2020.
