ISPE EAG
INTERATIONAL
SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION ECONOMIC
ALLIANCE GROUP
Achieving AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Vision and Words with
Action Agenda by 2030 in 193 Member States – Part 4
His Excellency Mr. Andrej Logar, Chairperson of
the 70th General Assembly Second Committee and Permanent Representative of
Slovenia to the United Nations, is convening informal
consultations with NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC on the agenda and work of the
Second Committee on 22 October 2015, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Conference
Room 2, at the United Nations Headquarters. A summary of the proceedings
will then be made available to Member States in advance of the draft GA
resolutions to be tabled later this month to be negotiated in November &
December.
The NGO consultations will follow a consultation
among Member States scheduled for Friday, 9 October, 3 - 6 pm, where they
discussed how the methods of work of the
GA Second Committee may be harmonized with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda,
together with the agendas of ECOSOC and GA Third Committee, to eliminate
overlaps and duplication. Based upon the results of the Member States
consultation on 9 October, a discussion paper by DESA will be prepared in
preparation for the consultation with ECOSOC NGOs on 22 October.
This innovative step in the Second
Committee represents a unique opportunity for civil society to share its
distinctive perspective and concrete inputs to Member States’ deliberations on
the Committee’s agenda and work in order
to better respond to the challenges of implementing the Agenda 2030 for
Sustainable Development.
This nomination process seeks candidates
as speakers to address either of the following questions:
1. How can the Second Committee ensure that
its work is in line with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development?
2. How should the agenda of the Second
Committee look like in the coming years?
A Call has also been made to interested persons to provide
brief and concrete written contributions, which will be posted on CSONet. We
prepared Part 1 in response to the Call and in time for consideration at the 9
October meeting and we started by expanding the Questions:
Expanded Questions
addressed in Part 1
1.
How can the Methods
of Work of the GA Second Committee be effectively Aligned and Harmonized with
the objectives of AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, together with the Agendas
of ECOSOC and all remaining GA Committees – 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 to eliminate overlap
and duplication?
2.
How should the Agendas
of ECOSOC and GA Committees 1 – 6 look like in the coming years 2016 – 2030?
We prepared Part 2 for consideration at the Wednesday meeting
of 14 October 2015, based on additional information available to us. We are
following up with Part 3 and Part 4 for consideration at the Wednesday meeting
of 21 October 2015. The Four Papers can help enrich the work of GA Second
Committee and other Village to Global Stakeholders towards achieving increasing
convergence between revised AAAA, revised SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Vision
Intention and Reality in each Community in each Local Government in each of the
193 Member States that is Interlinked, Interconnected and Interdependent with
work towards achieving increasing convergence between Agenda 21, UNSDS 2015 Outcome
Document, Synthesis Report, Data Revolution Report, World Development Report of
the World Bank Group - WDR 2004 (Public Sector Management, PSM), WDR 2008
(Agriculture), WBG New PSM (2011), WDR 2014 (Risk Management), WDR 2015
(Attitudinal and Behavioural Change), FAO Conference on Hunger and Poverty
Program of Action 1995 etc Vision Intention and Reality in each Community in
each Local Government in each of the 193 Member States.
Outcome 9 October
2015 Meeting
Opening the meeting on 9 October
2015, in New York, US, Andrej Logar (Slovenia), Second Committee Chair, stated High
Priority Aims and Objectives of Key Task of GA Second Committee on Continuously
Improving its Working Methods and Rationalization of its Agenda:-
1.
Revitalization of the work of the GA
which calls for proposals for biennialization, triennializaton, clustering and
elimination of items on the Agenda of the GA.
2.
Revitalization of the work of the GA Second
Committee which calls for proposals on the rationalisation of the General
Debate and Introduction of Agenda Item Debates.
3.
Contribute to the fulfilment of GA
mandates, particularly that contained in resolution 68/1, which provided that
the ECOSOC and the GA especially its Second and Third Committees, should
consider and take steps towards the rationalization of their Agendas by
eliminating duplication and overlap, and promoting complimentarity in the
consideration and negotiation of similar or related issues.
4.
Address the provisions of resolution
69/321, as the main outcome of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization
of the work of the GA where each Main Committee is requested to discuss its
working methods at the beginning and end of every session.
5.
Ensure that the future work of the GA
Second Committee is fully aligned with the Integrated Vision of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development and the AAAA
Key Questions that need to be
answered in Design and Delivery of above Key Task:-
1.
As currently constituted, can the
Agenda of this Committee effectively support the promotion and integration of
the three dimensions of sustainable development?
2.
Could sustainable development become
an overarching framework for the Agenda of the Committee? What are the options
for rearranging the Agenda as a whole to reflect this approach?
3.
What implications, if any, would this
approach have for the outcomes and resolutions adopted by the Committee?
4.
Do the items in our Agenda adequately
cover the main aspects of the 2030 Agenda?
5.
What are the gaps to be filled,
bearing in mind also the work and Agenda of the Third Committee? How should the
Second Committee fulfil its main mandates vis-a-vis other main Bodies and
Platforms, such as the Third Committee, ECOSOC and HLPF?
Given the guidelines set by the GA
Second Committee Chair, the two questions the Second Committee set for itself,
deletes many aspects of the five questions set by Mr Logar. The expanded
questions we have set out above address more issues but still leave out some
aspects of the five questions. This underlines urgent need for the 21 October
Meeting to revert to the Original Objectives and Five Questions.
Outcome UNSDS 2015
In addition to points made in Part 3, it is pertinent
to note that many World Leaders made commitments. However, it is one thing to
make commitments. It is a very different thing to implement the commitments
with effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the
commitments.
If World Leaders are to shift from Rhetoric to
Reality; shift from Talking and Thinking to Action and Accomplishment in the
work towards achieving increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21, Synthesis Report, Data Revolution Report, FAO Conference
on Hunger and Poverty Action Plan etc Vision Intention and Reality, the above
Five Questions need to be answered in ways that achieve above Objectives. Can
this be done without answer to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21,
Synthesis Report, Data Revolution Report, FAO Conference on Hunger and Poverty
Action Plan etc How questions? Can answer to these How questions be found
without World Leaders, UN Family Organization, 193 Member States and Partners
Jointly addressing all fundamental issues raised in this Paper 4 and earlier
three Papers?
Intellectual
Space
Now that the commitments have been made, at both the
collective global level, and the individual national level, the critical
question is: will these commitments lead to full implementation of the 2030
Agenda with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation and in
ways that really make a difference for people, planet, prosperity, partnerships
and peace, in the “five Ps” of the Agenda? Will they make a difference in the
lives of elders, men, women, youth and children who suffer, struggle and live
and strive to overcome great poverty?
The translation of commitments into practice, and
their ability to make a real difference on the ground, will depend on various
factors, especially political will, ownership, harmony, alignment, accountability, transparency,
transformation, leadership, learning, citizen and stakeholders participation,
results, financing, capacity, data availability and quality.
In the view of Abhijit Banerjee, the keynote speaker for this
year's session of the UN General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and
Financial), translating the Agenda into impact depends not only on financial
resources but also on the “intellectual space” and capacity of countries and
institutions to innovate, which includes creating simple but low-cost
initiatives that increase the impact of pre-existing programmes and projects.
If the plethora of ideas presented by government leaders for the three-day
Summit in New York last month is an indication, the Agenda may get off to a
good start.
Innovation is a resource that cannot stand alone but
need to be complemented by other resources – influence, science, technology,
arts, funding, manpower, spiritual, land and water. Harnessing these 10
Resources, demand 12 Integrated Solutions – Political and Cultural; Economic
and Financial; Social and Environmental; Peace and Security; Religious and
Moral; Technical and Communication as applicable to specific context Village to
Global.
Wednesday Meetings
The Wednesday meetings Platform was established to answer above Five
questions and in ways that met above Objectives. However, the Platform has
reduced the questions to two. At its inaugural meeting on 7 October, the
minutes show General Report, General Discussion and Assignment Allocation. The
minutes of the second meeting on 14 October show General Report and General
Discussion.
Our view is that the second meeting on 14 October ought to have taken a
Progress Report on Assignment Allocation before taking General Report, General
Discussion and Assignment Allocation. We do hope that this omission would be
corrected in the minutes of the third meeting on 21 October and subsequent
Wednesday Platform meetings.
It is pertinent to note that Ad-Hoc Working
Group on the Revitalization of the work of the GA was first established in
2005. It is clear that correct answer to above 5 questions will include
evaluation of the work of this Ad Hoc Working Group is the past 11 years to
identify areas of successes and how they could be improved upon as well as
areas of flaws and failures and how they could be corrected. Can the Wednesday
Platform address this point without addressing all points made in the Four
Papers we have submitted?
Mr. Huffines has been given specific assignment to come up with
recommendation for Implementation Framework for Agenda 21 and UNSDS 2015
Outcome. Can Mr Huffines deliver on this Huge Responsibility without addressing
all points we consistently raise?
Learning Organization, Learning Society and Business
Unusual
World Hunger and Poverty is a Scar on the
Conscience of: World Leaders – State Actors and Non State Actors; 193 Member
States Government and Parliament; UN Family Organization; Universities and
Tertiary Institutions; Banks; Private Sector; National and International Media
Executives etc. Once Sub-national, National and International Stakeholders make
Ordered CHANGE with Reward Benefits IMPOSSIBLE, they knowingly or unknowingly
make Disordered Change with Catastrophe Consequences INEVITABLE.
If Stakeholders in world Economy continue
pursuing current priorities and keep facing current Direction, the probability
is HIGH that current World Political, Economic, Terrorism, Migration, Hunger,
Poverty, Climate Change etc problems will worsen, with ultimate catastrophic
consequences for all Citizens in both Rich and Poor Countries.
To avoid this, Leaning Organization should be the
norm in UN Family Organization including WBG and IMF; Learning Society should
be the norm in 193 Member States and Business Unusual should be the norm on
World Leaders, UN Family Organization, 193 Member States and Partners sub-national,
national, sub-regional, regional and global sides.
MPCOP-PE&ES
The UK Government experience creating
Evaluation Cadre in DFID is similar to the Nigeria Government experience
creating Procurement Cadre in its Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The
weakness in UK Universities with respect to New Disciplines such as Public
Policy and Public Administration is worse in many Developed and Developing
Countries Universities. Also these New Disciplines do not have structured
Professional Bodies and Statutory Regulatory Institutions as exist in
Disciplines such as Medicine, Accountancy etc. If National and International
Development Cooperation Goals and Targets are to be met and on time, there is a
need to establish Cadres in Public Service and Civil Service in Developed
Countries and Developing Countries as well as in International Institutions;
establish Professional Bodies supporting Professionals from Neighborhood to
Global levels and establish Statutory Regulatory Institutions guiding the
activities of Professionals from Neighborhood to Global levels. To help is this
regard ISPE / EAG is promoting the establishment of Multidisciplinary
Professionals Community of Practice on Poverty Elimination and Environmental
Sustainability, MPCOP-PE&ES for Grassroots Professionals and Technical
Professionals in the following Disciplines:-
1.
Knowledge and Communication
2.
Analytics
3.
Entrepreneurship
4.
Citizenship
5.
Cooperation
6.
Public Policy
7.
Public Administration
8.
Development
9.
Diplomacy
10. Defense
and Security
11. Democracy
and Elections
12. Service
Delivery
13. Geodesign
14. Risk
Management
15. Agriculture
Sociology
16. Agriculture
Extension
17. Agriculture
Chemistry
18. Agriculture
Biology
19. Agriculture
Engineering
20. Food
Technology
21. Value
Chain Development
22. Development
Communication – COMBI / CABS (Communication for Development Impact / Changing
Attitude and Behavior at Scale)
23. Research
Utilization
24. Development
Impact
25. Conflict
Resolution
26. Anti
Corruption
27. Procurement
28. Monitoring
and Evaluation
29. Human
Rights - PESCR (Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and Religious)
30. Data
Management
There is a need to create 30
Professional Cadres, 30 Professional Bodies, 30 Statutory Regulatory
Institutions and 30 University Departments in each of these Disciplines in all
Developed Countries, Developing Countries and International Institutions. There
is a need to develop curriculum for the 30 Disciplines in all Universities that
would better equip Professionals in each Discipline would face in real World
situations on the ground today.
There is a need to further to update
curriculum for all remaining Disciplines in all Universities that would better
equip Professionals in these Disciplines to face real World situations on the
ground today.
About ISPE / EAG
Lanre and colleagues have for over twenty years
made great sacrifices, demonstrated uncommon zeal and exceptional patriotism in
continuing constructive engagement of relevant sub-national, national and
international stakeholders, to jointly focus on comprehensive systemic
solutions to our real and complex national political, economic, social,
security, cultural and religious problems on the ground.
In this period
we have been working spiritedly towards helping to make Nigeria, Africa, UK,
Europe, US and World Hunger and Poverty history and in record time. In this
period also, our Lanre Rotimi (Nigerian) and Dr. Hellmut Eggers (German) have
created 3PCM, Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management Approach to Benefits
focused National and International Development Cooperation – the most advance
such Approach in our World today. 3PCM has been tried and tested, the Biggest
Test so far in NIPOST 2000 – 2001.
3PCM uses
Living Strategy or Communication Strategy and so it is Dynamic and continuing
to improve daily. Glorious Heights reached by NIPOST at the time has NEVER been
equalled even when NIPOST later received Technical Support from Netherlands /
Dutch Postal Administration. We have built considerable expertise, experience
and exposure in Nigeria, UK and EC that bring Whole of Nigeria, Africa, UK,
Europe, US and World Thinking to bear in finding practical solutions to all
identified complex systemic problems in Nigeria, Africa, UK, Europe, US and
World, fully implementing the solutions and effectively monitoring and
evaluating this implementation in ways that achieve increasing convergence
between National and Global Development Cooperation Goals and Targets Intention
and Reality and on scheduled dates.
International Society for Poverty Elimination,
ISPE, Volunteer Organization, is a Member of Economic Alliance Group, EAG. EAG
has the following additional Members:-
1.
AR & Associates Limited, Strategy and
Development Cooperation Consulting Firm – Research, Planning, Statistics,
Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment, Learning, Results,
Advocacy.
2.
EAG - CLEAR, Centre for Learning in Evaluation
and Results, Evaluation Organization
3.
EAG - CDPM, Centre for Development Policy
Management, Research Organization
4.
EAG – FTS / FFS, Farmers Training School / Farmer
Field School, Food and Agriculture Organization
5.
EAG – ETS / EFS, Enterprise Training School /
Enterprise Field School, Entrepreneurship Development Organization
6.
EAG – PSA / PSE – Public Service Academy / Public
Service Exchange, Public Administration Organization
EAG is neutral
in promoting and protecting Sub-national, National and International
Development Cooperation. EAG work towards supporting Developed Countries
Governments; Developing Countries Governments; International Institutions /
International Foundations / Donors; Organized Communities – Neighbourhood to
Global; Media – National and International to JOINTLY Build National and Global
Collective ACTION for achieving Increasing Convergence between National and
Global Development Cooperation Goals and Targets Intention and Reality and on
schedule dates.
The core
business of the Group is the provision of Services for Strategic Management of
Complex National or International or both National and International
Development Change Processes under Blended Volunteer Services and Commercial
Services Arrangement.
AR has been in
business since 1993 but registered in Nigeria in 1995. ISPE has been in
business operating as Economic Alliance International (EAI) since 2002 but
registered in Nigeria in 2007. EAG – CLEAR; EAG – CDPM; EAG – FTS; EAG – ETS;
EAG – PSA are for now domiciled in AR.
EAG has in the
past 20 years spent over US$2 Million (N300 Million) to Develop the 3PCM
Approach as well as its National and Global Development Cooperation Practical
Solutions under Blended Volunteer Services and Commercial Services Arrangement
within which we provided the Nigeria Federal Government alone Consultancy
Services worth over UK Pounds 10 Million (N2.5 Billion) Free of Charge. This is
Evidence that we do not have purely Commercial Interest but are Motivated by
Service to Humanity as the Best Work of Life, hence two of our Slogans – Let Us
Work Together to Benefit Together and …Building a Brighter Future as we
Configure our World.
Conclusion
In this Paper and three earlier Papers we
have raised serious issues of serious business that deserve the serious
attention of World Leaders, 193 Member States, UN Family Organization and
Partners from Village to Global levels. Each day delay in addressing these
fundamental issues is one day too long.
The ultimate consequences of failure to
achieve 2030 Agenda Targets in each of the 193 Member States could be
catastrophic. This is avoidable should World Leaders take positive Action on
ideas and suggestions set out in Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, Paper 4 and
supporting documents – available upon request.
We are willing to offer a more detailed
information / clarification as directed by GA Second Committee and or other
relevant UN Authority.
Contact:
Director General
International
Society for Poverty Elimination / Economic Alliance Group
5, Moses Orimolade
Avenue,
Ijapo Estate,
Akure, Ondo State,
Nigeria.
M: +234-8162469805
Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk 20 October 2015.
