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 6
His Excellency Mr. Andrej Logar, Chairperson of
the 70th General Assembly Second Committee and Permanent Representative of Slovenia
to the United Nations, convened the first informal
consultations with NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC on the agenda and work of the
Second Committee on 22 October 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters. A
summary of the proceedings will 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.
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.
The consultations included six speakers,
selected 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 was 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 preparatory to this consultation 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 prepared
Part 3 and Part 4 for consideration at the Wednesday meeting of 21 October 2015.
In Part 4 we underlined the need for all 5 questions raised by His Excellency,
Mr Logjar at the 9 October 2015 meeting to be fully addressed at the 22 October
2015 Consultation. That is:-
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?
It will be recalled
that we stated in Part 4 “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”.
We prepared Part 5 for consideration at the Wednesday 28
October 2015 meeting. This Part 6 is prepared for consideration at the 2 – 3 November
2015 ECOSOC Retreat 2 as well as the Wednesday 4 November 2015 meeting.
Our hope is that the these Papers, particularly Part 5 and
Part 6 - adopted as Discussion Papers, could help enrich the work of ECOSOC
Retreat 2, 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 23 October
2015 Consultation
The UN General Assembly's Second Committee (Economic
and Financial) held a dialogue in New York with the Executive Secretaries of
the five UN Regional Commissions to discuss their role in implementing the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development. UN Member States and the Commission
representatives discussed regional challenges and HOW they can be addressed through regional efforts to implement the
2030 Agenda.
Comment
It will be recalled that UNDESA
described the 22 October 2015 Consultation as an “innovative step” and had
prepared a “Discussion Paper” ahead of the Consultation based on the Second
Committee’s 9 October meeting preparatory to the Consultation. Did UNDESA
prepare a “Discussion Paper” ahead of the 23 October 2015 Consultation based on
the 9 October and 22 October 2015 meetings outcome? If yes, How “All Inclusive,
All Embracing and Ambitious” was the “Discussion Paper” prepared by UNDESA for
the 23 October 2015 Consultation? If no, why was this, the case?
Why was it the case that suggestion
to revert to the “Original Objectives and 5 questions” was avoided or evaded in
both 22 October and 23 October 2015 Consultations? Have many issues that should
have been addressed at the two Consultations not been left untouched and remain
reoccurring decimals? Are both 22 October and 23 October 2015 Consultations
respective Outcome not essentially answer to What and Why questions? Have How
questions – the reason for each of the Consultations not been left unanswered?
Should answer to AAAA and SDG How questions still be an issue now that World
Leaders endorsed SDG on 25 September 2015? Is seeking answer to How questions
not at least One year behind and should meaningful effort not be made by all
concerned stakeholders to cover lost ground and in record time?
If World Leaders do not know why
Synthesis Report December 2014 and Data Revolution Report November 2014 How
questions have not been answered to date, they will not know how to answer
AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions.
If World Leaders, UNDESA, EOSG, UNGA,
ECOSOC, HLPF, 193 Member States are serious about adopting Business Unusual,
should the ECOSOC Dialogue on Longer Term Positioning of the UN Development
System Retreat 2 scheduled for 2 – 3 November 2015 not be a Starting Point for
Demonstrating and being seen to Demonstrate the good ideas and pertinent
suggestions set out in this Paper and earlier Papers 1 – 5?
If the Wednesday Group meeting of 28
October 2015 did not make recommendations for enriching the ECOSOC Retreat 2
based on Part 5 as Discussion Paper, is this Wednesday Group not resisting
Change when it should be Championing Change?
Alicia Bárcena, Executive
Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC), spoke about excess of supply and lack of demand at the global
level, saying emerging economies are unable to absorb that supply. Challenges
faced by the LAC region, she said, include: low productivity; gaps in
infrastructure; asymmetries in access to technology; the reduced price of all
raw materials; and stable but still-fragile democracies. She stressed the need
for: diversifying production; creating more jobs; multilateral cooperation on
tax matters; a global agreement supportive of developing countries; and
South-South and triangular cooperation, especially since the LAC region has
many middle-income countries (MICs) that now lack access to concessional
funding.
Comment
What is the supply that cannot be matched by demand? Our
Study finding is that Governments on both Developed and Developing Countries
sides and International Institutions need to Create Demand for Planning
(Research, Planning, Data); Implementation (Policy, Program, Project
Interventions 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One); Evaluation (Monitoring, Evaluation,
Assessment); Accountability (Transparency, Accountability, Citizens and
Stakeholders Participation); Learning (Learning and Results) as basis for
Creating Supply for Planning (Research, Planning, Data); Implementation
(Policy, Program, Project Interventions 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One);
Evaluation (Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment); Accountability (Transparency,
Accountability, Citizens and Stakeholders Participation); Learning (Learning
and Results) if the Global Goals are to be achieved in each of the 193 Member
States and by the 2030 Target date.
Can all fundamental issues raised by Ms Barcena be
effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has Ms Barcena’s
contribution addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted
Consultation focus upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5
questions set by Mr Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be
wished away or expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found
without World Leaders effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6
and earlier Parts 1 – 5?
Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary
of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), said the UNECE's achievements have made it a
go-to-source for improving global public goods and services, with more than 100
countries beyond the UNECE region benefiting from its work, including through
adhering to road conventions and road safety standards. He noted that UNECE is
working on implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with
Goal 14 on oceans being the only SDG it does not directly address, but said
UNECE addresses these issues through its work on trans-boundary water
management.
Comment
We congratulate UNECE for successes achieved. However,
it will be Denial, Deception or Delusion for UNECE to claim that US, Canada,
UK, France, Germany, Russia and other European Countries for whom it has
primary responsibility does not need the SDG in their respective Countries. Has
UNECE any good reason for ignoring SDG 14 when Countries in its Region are
surrounded by two Oceans – Pacific and Atlantic? Can Europe Migration, Finance,
Terrorism, Security and other Crises be effectively tackled without full
implementation with effective monitoring and evaluation of all 17 SDGs in each
UNECE Country?
Can all fundamental issues raised by Mr. Bach be
effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has Mr. Bach’s contribution
addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted Consultation focus
upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5 questions set by Mr
Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be wished away or
expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found without World Leaders
effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6 and earlier Parts 1 – 5?
Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of
the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), said ESCAP is focused on the SDGs that
are trans-boundary in nature and require a regional approach. Its focus for the
Goals includes: policy coordination; strengthening national statistical
systems; regional integration; reporting on regional SDG performance; and
promoting the balance and integration of the three pillars of sustainable
development. She also highlighted ESCAP's work on connectivity planning to
support the Goals through infrastructure development, job creation, and energy
expansion. On follow-up and review, Akhtar said that only 25-50% of the
proposed SDG indicators can be produced in countries in the region, even by
those with the most developed statistical systems, Republic of Korea and Japan.
She said the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will provide
inputs to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), and
announced that the third APFSD will launch the road map for SDG implementation
in Asia-Pacific, and that ESCAP will produce an annual Asia-Pacific report on
SDG progress.
Comment
Is there any of the SDG that is not trans-boundary in
nature and require integrated sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional
and global approach? Can Policy Coordination be effectively addressed without
simultaneously addressing Policy Coherence, Policy Collaboration and Policy
Cooperation: from Village to Global levels? If only 25-50% of the proposed SDG
Indicators can be produced by Countries in the Region, even by those with the
most developed statistical systems – South Korea and Japan, does this not
underline the magnitude and complexity of Data Revolution Challenge the Region
needs to grapple with and overcome if the Global Goals are to be achieved in
the Region by the 2030 Target Date? Is there any Region that does not face Data
Revolution Challenge?
Can all fundamental issues raised by Ms Akhtar be
effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has Ms Akhtar’s contribution
addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted Consultation focus
upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5 questions set by Mr
Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be wished away or
expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found without World Leaders
effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6 and earlier Parts 1 – 5?
Abdallah Al Dardari, Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), said regional conflicts have a powerful impact on
development, making baselines recede dramatically, due to instability,
aggression, occupation, and forced migration. He stressed that narrow national
development projects cannot respond to the current challenges, which require
regional integration and youth involvement. Al Dardari noted that the Arab
region's vision for 2030 is an integrated region where all individuals lead
dignified lives in diverse and flourishing societies, and that ESCWA has
developed a long-term vision for achieving the SDGs. It aims to serve as the
voice of the region by creating regional platforms for deliberation and
consensus-building that feed into global fora, as well as a think tank for the
region, undertaking innovative research and supporting quality data collection
and analysis for evidence-based policy making.
Comment
Given level of Conflicts, Terrorism and other Crises
in the Region, can mere intention achieve the Region’s Vision for 2030 – an Integrated
Region where all individuals lead dignified lives in diverse and flourishing
societies? Glad to know ESCWA has developed a long term vision for achieving
the SDG in each Country in the Region. Can ESCWA share HOW it will fully
implement with effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of each
Action Agenda Item in each of the 17 SDGs and in a way that achieve the Region’s
Vision as well as the Global Goals Vision by the 2030 Target date?
Can all fundamental issues raised by Mr. Al Dardari be
effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has Mr. Al Dardari’s
contribution addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted
Consultation focus upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5 questions
set by Mr Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be wished away
or expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found without World
Leaders effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6 and earlier
Parts 1 – 5?
Ingrid Cyimana, UN Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA), discussed
StatCom-Africa, which she said provides a platform to facilitate the national
harmonization and comparability of statistics and increase inclusion of all
data communities. She said UNECA is supporting the capacity strengthening of
national statistical systems to produce reliable statistics and the regional
SDGs follow-up and review architecture. She said the regional accountability
framework should encourage citizen participation, be inclusive, build on
existing frameworks and provide strong ownership.
Comment
Given level of Conflicts, Terrorism, Hunger, Poverty
and other Crises in the Region, why is it the case that the focus of this
Region’s contribution is essentially Statistics? Should UNECA not be more
serious in demonstrating HOW it will
fully implement with effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation
of all 17 SDG in each of the 54 Member Countries and in a way that achieve the
Region’s Vision as well as the Global Goals Vision by the 2030 Target date in
each Community in each Local Government in each of the 54 Countries?
Can all fundamental issues raised by Ms Cyimana be
effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has Ms Cyimana’s
contribution addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted
Consultation focus upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5 questions
set by Mr Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be wished away
or expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found without World
Leaders effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6 and earlier
Parts 1 – 5?
In the discussion that followed, the
Russian Federation
addressed the follow-up and review for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, saying that the SDGs are highly interrelated and splitting them
into clusters by number (Goals 1-4, Goals 5-9) would not yield an accurate
overview. He proposed sectoral reviews instead, to allow addressing all the
SDGs every year. He opposed any "pressure" on States to implement
certain targets as the reviews are voluntary.
Comment
Can all fundamental issues raised by Russia be
effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has Russia’s contribution
addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted Consultation focus
upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5 questions set by Mr
Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be wished away or
expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found without World Leaders
effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6 and earlier Parts 1 – 5?
It is pertinent to note that Russia’s contribution coincide
with our submission that the SDGs are highly interconnected, interdependent and
interlinked thus splitting them into clusters will not yield accurate overview.
Also it is not helpful to address Planning and Implementation Challenges
without simultaneously addressing Monitoring and Evaluation Challenges and vice
versa.
It is a puzzle that Russia haven expressed above view
goes further to express contrary view that “Follow Up and Review / Monitoring
and Evaluation of the SDG should be Voluntary. If the SDGs are highly
interconnected, interdependent and interlinked at sub-national, national,
sub-regional, regional and global levels then what one Country does and or fails
to do that could have adverse impact on other Countries need to be avoided
through Global Collective Action for Political and Cultural; Economic and
Financial; Social and Environmental; Peace and Security; Religious and Moral
Order. This underlines need for Mechanism to “Pressure” any of the 193 Member
States that is lagging behind minimum certain levels in each of the 10 New
Orders at specific timelines between 2016 and 2030 to take required remedial
action and come up to speed as soon as possible.
Other Member States expressed strong support for the work of
the Regional Commissions and noted their important role in the follow-up and
review architecture, and in capacity building at the regional level.
Comment
Can all fundamental issues raised by other Member
States be effectively addressed without clear answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21
Outcome Document, Agenda 21 etc How questions? In what way has other Member
States’ contribution addressed either the 2 How questions that UNDESA insisted
Consultation focusing upon or the much larger focus on Original Objective and 5
questions set by Mr Logar? Can these fundamental issues raised by Mr Logar be
wished away or expected to happen on its own? Can these answers be found
without World Leaders effectively addressing all points raised in this Part 6
and earlier Parts 1 – 5?
Outcome
IEAG-SDG Thailand Meeting 26 – 28 October 2015
In an open letter to Co Chairs IAEG – SDG Indicators,
CSOs highlighted important issues of Human Rights in all its Ramifications;
Measuring Every Part of the Agenda; Collecting Disaggregated Data; Data for
Governments and other Duty Bearers Accountability; Easy to Measure, Costly to
Measure, Number of Indicators should not be Indicator Choice Criteria;
Indicator Choice Criteria should support Indivisibility and Interdependence of
all 17 SDG; Universality to enable comparison of progress within and between
Countries, Regions and Globally; Focus on People in ways that effectively
deliver meaningful Changes in the lives of ordinary People in each Community in
each Local Government in each of the 193 Member States.
However, Report on proceedings at the IEAG-SDG
Conference in Thailand suggested that these fundamental issues that ought to
have been settled remain contentious. We are concerned that discussion on Goal
16 Indicators was left to the last day and badly stage managed in ways that
hurt Global Interest. Had the 22 October and 23 October 2015 meetings endorsed
the position in the CSOs’ open letter, would the IEAG-SDG Conference be seeking
to reverse issues that had been settled? Will the ECOSOC Retreat 2 correct this
error?
It is pertinent to note that outcome of IEAG – SDG Conference
Thailand underline urgent need to unbundle Goal 16 to New Goal 16 with specific
focus on Governance and 4 New Goals on Conflict, Corruption, Religion and Data.
Acid Test of Credibility
The implication of holding UNSDS 2015 after adoption of
SDG on 25 September 2015, is that what World Leaders have adopted is SDG that
is Vision and Words without Action and what UNSDS 2015 seek to achieve is ways
and means of converting current AAAA and SDG into new AAAA and SDG that is
Vision and Words with Action.
The outcome of UNSDS 2015, is that in failing to answer
SDG How questions, the SDG remain Vision and Words without Action. If the
conversion of the SDG to Vision and Words with Action is not achieved without
delay, it will be an uphill task for World Leaders to deliver on their promise
to achieve SDG by 2030. Failure to deliver on this promise, the ultimate consequences
for stakeholders in our fragile Planet could be catastrophic.
The acid test of credibility of SDG is how it delivers:-
1.
Better Domestic and International Trade in each of 193 Member
States.
2.
Better Financing – Equity, Loan and Grant for all particularly
the Poor
3.
Better War on Corruption and Terrorism and
4.
Better Environmental Sustainability.
New Thinking, New Ideas, New Ways
of Doing Things etc
The only way World Leaders can deliver on their promise
during the adoption of SDG is to improve Cohesion, Coordination, Collaboration,
Cooperation, Solidarity and Accountability in the design and delivery of mutual
support mechanism that help each of the 193 Member States to pass this acid
test of credibility of the SDGs.
To achieve this, the 193 Member States jointly and
severally must demonstrate and be seen to demonstrate:-
1.
Willingness to accept new ideas, new thinking, new ways of doing
things
2.
Willingness to establish new coordination, new collaboration,
new cooperation, new solidarity, new accountability and new partnership
3.
Readiness to accept past flaws, past failures, past drawbacks,
past shortcomings and past hindrances
4.
Readiness to build bridge between lessons learning and lessons
forgetting, create learning organization and create learning society
5.
Readiness to create Demand for Planning – Research, Planning,
Data as basis for creating Supply for Planning – Research, Planning, Data
6.
Readiness to create Demand for Implementation as basis for
creating supply for Implementation
7.
Readiness to create Demand for Evaluation – Monitoring,
Evaluation, Assessment as basis for creating Supply for Evaluation –
Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment
8.
Readiness to create Demand for Accountability – Transparency,
Accountability, Citizen / Stakeholder Participation as basis for creating
Supply for Accountability – Transparency, Accountability, Citizen / Stakeholder
Participation
9.
Readiness to create Demand for Learning – Learning and Result as
basis for creating Supply for Learning – Learning and Result
10. Readiness to accept One Nationwide
/ Region wide / Worldwide 3PCM – Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management
Approach and Methodology to Sustainable Benefits focused National and
International Development Cooperation Policy, Program, Project Intervention,
3PI and 3PI Training as One in each Action Agenda Item in each of the 17 SDGs
applicable to specific context – Village to Global in each of the 193 Member
States
AAAA and SDG Village to Global Capacity
Building
The above fundamental issues of Willingness and
Readiness need to be complemented by fundamental issues of Ability – Capacity
Building; Ability – Resources and Invitation – Mandate within National and
Global Platform. Resources include:
Influence, Science, Technology, Innovation, Fund, Manpower, Spiritual, Land and
Water. There are
more than enough Resources to achieve all 17 SDGs in each of the 193 Member
States if World Leaders can get Capacity Building Right in each of the 193
Member States.
Capacity Building should be on three levels:-
1.
Individual – Hard Competences: Learning and
Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset
2.
Institution / Government – Processes, Procedures, Systems,
Operations that empower Individuals to operationalize in practice Competences
they acquire through formal and informal education and training to help achieve
increasing convergence between Institution / Government Vision, Mission and
Mandate Intention and Reality.
3.
Society – Political and Cultural; Economic and Financial;
Social and Environmental; Peace and Security; Religious and Moral Space that
empower Individuals and Institutions to Thrive in the work towards achieving Institution
/ Government Vision, Mission, Mandate Intention and Reality with or without
chaos.
STRENGTHEN
NATIONAL LEVEL CAPACITY ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 2030 SD AGENDA.
We are Greatly Concerned that UNDESA has mandated an Organization -
Gestos with Strength IN HIV AIDS Advocacy to help Train NGOs' in 9 Pilot
Countries Strengthen National level Capacity on Implementation of 2030 SD
Agenda. The Big Questions are How have these 9 Pilot Countries been selected?
If it will take months to carry out the training in just 9 Countries how many
years will it take to scale up the Training to remaining 184 Countries? Can
such unduly prolonged time frame help achieve SDG in each Community in each
Local Government in each of 193 Member States by the 2030 Target date? Is
Competency in HIV AIDS Competency equivalent to Competency in all remaining
areas of Heath Dimension of SDGs' as well as Competency in all remaining
Dimensions of all 17 SDG?
If these Competences are LACKING in the Preferred Consultant, what type
of Strengthening National Level Capacity on Implementation as well as
Evaluation of each Action Agenda Item in each of the 17 SDG is being DELIVERED
by the Preferred Consultant? Is it not CLEAR that the Preferred Consultant can
only Perform in its area of proven Competence - HIV AIDS Advocacy and will
CERTAINLY Fail in all other Dimensions of Advocacy in all remaining Action
Agenda Items in all 17 SDG? Is good HIV AIDS Advocacy the same thing as Good
HIV AIDS Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PI and 3PI Training as One
Designed and Delivered to Reduce and Ultimately Eradicate HIV AIDS? Again if
this is not the case, has UNDESA or whichever UN Agency is responsible for Commissioning
Preferred Consultant selected the most Competent Consultant that has
demonstrable track record of delivering Value for Money and Fitness for Purpose
within the entire Scope of the Assignment?
Should above observations not be discussed at the Wednesday 28 October
2015 meeting, 2 – 3 November 2015 ECOSOC Retreat 2 and appropriate Remedial
Recommendations made to concerned UN Agencies and Authorities? Is it helpful
for concerned UN Agencies and Authorities to be searching for AAAA, SDG, COP21,
Agenda 21 etc Sustainable Solutions that have already been presented to them
and to be Ignoring Professionals with Competences and Demonstrable Track Record
to Deliver on specific assignments while selecting Preferred Consultants who
clearly do not have the Competences - Hard Competences Learning and Skills and
Soft Competences - Character, Courage and Mindset to Deliver on the Scope of
the Assignment they have been saddled with?
Working Together To Benefit Together
To help ensure World Leaders deliver on promise to
achieve SDGs’ by 2030, we suggest relevant UN and Non UN authorities undertake
critical review of this and earlier Papers, Policy Briefings and Articles.
Should its assessment confirm that indeed the Papers, Policy Briefings and articles
have many good ideas and pertinent suggestions, which adopted by UNGA, HLPF,
ECOSOC, UN Security Council, 193 Member States Governments and Partners –
Village to Global can help achieve increasing convergence between AAAA and SDG
Vision and Words with Action Intention and Reality in each Community in each
Local Government in each of 193 Member States, we suggest these UN and Non UN
authorities consider taking the following specific action steps:-
1.
Endorse the Papers, Policy Briefings and Articles and request UNDESA
or UNNGLS to circulate the endorsed Papers, Policy Briefings and articles to
all World Leaders, 193 Member States and other AAAA and SDG Stakeholders.
2.
Underline need for Integrated Sustainable Solutions – Political
Solutions, Cultural Solutions, Economic Solutions, Financial Solutions, Social
Solutions, Environment Solutions, Peace Solutions, Security Solutions, Religious
Solutions and Moral Solutions; to Design and Delivery of each Action Agenda
Item in AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document etc applicable to specific Village to
Global location context.
3.
Urge all World Leaders, 193 member States and other AAAA, SDG,
COP21 Outcome Document etc Stakeholders to recognize that Political Solutions
is Master Key to unlocking remaining 9 Integrated Sustainable Solutions.
4.
Urge UNGA, HLPF, ECOSOC, UN Security Council to each pass resolution calling on each of the
193 Member States to adopt recommendations in the Papers, Policy Briefings and Articles
and go further to establish immediately National Integrated Economic Reform
Program, NIEReP for the implementation and evaluation of domesticated AAAA, SDG
and COP21 Outcome Document etc Vision and Words with Action, aligned with
National Development Plan through National Reform Bureau working with Reform
Implementation Unit in each Ministry, Department and Agency in each of the 193
Member States, whose activities are coordinated by Steering Committee on Reform
and National Council on Reform within complimentary Sub-national, National,
Sub-regional, Regional and Global Master Multi Stakeholder Partnership
Platforms.
If SDG, AAAA, COP21 Outcome Document etc
Vision Ambitions are to be achieved and on schedule date, Village to Global
Stakeholders need to Work Together to Benefit Together.
MOVING FORWARD
Do World Leaders, UNDESA, EOSG, UNGA, ECOSOC, HLPF and
Partners recognize that correct answer to all AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document,
Agenda 21, FAO Conference on Hunger and Poverty Action Plan etc How questions
lie in the DOING? That without immediately:-
1.
Appointing
Reform Adviser and Global Coordinating Consultant on AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome
Document, etc Policy Coherence, Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation for
Sustainable Development, P4CSD to UNGA, ECOSOC and HLPF and Partners
2.
Selecting
One Worldwide Approach
3.
Establishing
Mater Multi Stakeholder Platform, MSP and MSPs for each Action Agenda item
Village to Global, VtG
4.
Establishing
Multidisciplinary Professionals Community of Practice on Poverty Elimination
and Environmental Sustainability as VtG Platform for all relevant existing and
new Disciplines
5.
Addressing
issues of Trust, Silos, Honesty, Thinking, Solidarity, Attitude, Behavior,
Communication etc VtG
6.
Connecting
each Community in each Local Government in each of the 193 Member States to UN
Headquarters New York
7.
Establishing
VtG Mechanism for Correct Diagnosis, Prescription, Surgery and Recovery
Management
8.
Establishing
VtG Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One
9.
Establishing
VtG Mechanism for Ownership, Harmony, Alignment, Accountability, Transparency, Transformation,
Leadership, Learning, Results and Participation (Citizens and Stakeholders),
OH2A2T2LRP
10. Establishing VtG Mechanism for Policy
Coherence, Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation for Sustainable
Development, P4CSD
11. Establishing VtG Mechanism for Master
Collaborative Research Support Program, CRSP for each Action Agenda Item
It will be uphill task achieving increasing
convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21, FAO Conference
on Hunger and Poverty etc Vision Intention and Reality. If these Visions are
not achieved by 2030 Target date, the ultimate consequences for our Fragile
Planet could be catastrophic.
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 five 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.
Our view is that the Wednesday Group
meetings has been established to articulate Sustainable Solutions
Recommendations for adoption / adaptation be relevant UN Entities /
Authorities, other UN Family Organization Entities / Authorities, 193 Member
States Entities / Authorities and their Village to Global Partners. If this
view is correct why does it appear that the Wednesday Group itself is Anti
Change – seeking SDG Implementation and Evaluation Model it is interested in
rather that SDG Implementation and Evaluation Model that is in Global Interest?
If this view is wrong, can the Wednesday Group make public effort it is making
to ensure that all good ideas and pertinent suggestions harvested from Global
Consultations are implemented with effective monitoring and evaluation of this
implementation by concerned Duty Bearers within and outside the UN Family
Organization?
Either way, it is our hope that ECOSOC
Retreat 2 will give this and related Papers due consideration and take
appropriate decisions moving AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21, FAO
Conference on Hunger and Poverty Action Plan, select WDRs and other Action
Agenda forward in the Common Interest and Common Humanity of all Citizens in
each of the 193 Member States, especially the over 4 Billion Poor including
elders, men, women, youth and children in US, UK, France, Germany, Russia,
other developed Countries, China, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, other
Developing Countries.
It is a puzzle that World Leaders, EOSG, UNDESA,
UNGA, ECOSOC, HLPF and partners appear to be sincere in the search for sound
and sustainable solutions to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21, FAO
Conference on Hunger and Poverty Action Plan etc How questions but consistently
reject the most Comprehensive – All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious
answer to these How questions, available anywhere in our World today. Can World
Leaders, EOSG, UNDESA, UNGA, ECOSOC, HLPF and Partners recognize correct answer
to these How questions when presented to them?
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, Paper 5, Paper 6
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 29 October 2015.
