Monday, February 22, 2016

Global Push To Achieve SDGs Vision and Words with Action Agenda 16

ISPE EAG

INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP

Focused Points for ING Meeting Organizers and Participants Consideration and Appropriate ACTION – Part 2

Summary

We at NEHAP / ISPE / EAG commend all on UN Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS sides working towards Design and Delivery of Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome and Agenda 21; Aligned and Harmonized with National Development Plans, NDPs that can achieve Vision Ambitions by 2030. Giant Strides have been made but much more remains to be done. The starting point is recognition by Governments, Stakeholders and UN Family Organization that What questions have been over-answered and that How questions need to be more Professionally tackled and in ways that bring Whole of World Thinking to Bear towards the Sustainable Solutions to Whole of World problems. To achieve this IGN Meetings need to better address the following Focused Points set out in this 2 Part Supporting Papers Series. In Part 2:-

1. Capacity 2030

Design and Delivery of Revolution 2030 and Solidarity 2030 that will be successful on sustainable basis greatly depends of finding correct answers to How questions, fully implement these answers and effectively monitor and evaluate this implementation greatly depends on Design and Delivery of Capacity 2030 to address Individual Capacity issues of Demand and Supply of Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies: Character, Courage and Mindset; Institution Capacity Issues and Society Capacity Issues from Village to Global levels.

2. Solidarity 2030

Design and Delivery of Revolution 2030, Solidarity 2030 and Capacity 2030 that will be successful on sustainable basis greatly depends on Design and Delivery of Solidarity 2030; Village to Global Solidarity Mechanism that help bridge Gap between Political Leadership we need and Political Leadership we have from Village to Global levels.

Introduction

This Part 2 complements points made in Part 1 in this IGN Meetings Supporting Papers Series. If practical answers are to be found to How questions and in ways that help achieve all Goals and Targets in revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, ECOSOC Retreat Outcome, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc aligned and harmonized with National Development Plans, NDPs’ in each UN Member State, Policy Makers and Decision Makers on UN Member States, UN System and MGoS sides need to take ownership of ideas and suggestions harvested from Global Consultations and RUN with them in the Common Interest and Common Future of all Humanity, particularly the over 2 Billion Poor in both Developed and Developed Countries that they are serving.

GSDP Report 2016 – Institutionalizing One Worldwide Approach

We observe that in ongoing preparation of GSDP Report 2016, there is only One How question in Chapter 1 and No How question in remaining Chapters 2 - 5. that all remaining questions in Chapters 1 - 5 are What questions with the exception of a single Which question in Chapter 5.

Our observation is that more than enough has been said on What questions, that NEHAP / ISPE / EAG is the ONLY Institution in our World today not only setting out clear answers to How questions but also has the most Advanced One Worldwide Approach that meet minimum standard to DELIVER on the One Worldwide Approach Recommendation of SG Synthesis Report released 4 December 2014 and that for as long as clear, sound and practical answers are not found to How questions the GSDR Report 2016 will like its predecessors contribute little of nothing towards to sustainable solutions to real and complex National and International Development Cooperation problems on the ground in each of the 193 UN Member States.

GSDP Report 2016 could make more significant contribution towards supporting UN Member States, UN System and MGoS Policy Makers, Decision Makers and their Village to Global Partners to achieve increasing convergence between Global Goals Vision Intention and Reality in each Community in each UN Member State, if the Report help Institutionalize One Worldwide Approach Recommendation of SG Synthesis Report 2014.

HLPF Retreat 23 – 24 February 2016 Consultation

We urge the Organizers and Participants in the 23 – 24 February Retreat preparatory to the UN April Retreat and all other IGN Meetings Organizers and Participants, Organizing and Participating in IGN Meetings between now and the UN April Retreat to please recognize that there can be No Development without Peace; No Peace without Justice and No Justice without Corruption Free Society.

In view of the above, we urge the six GA Committees, UNGA, UN Security Council, UNCEB, OPGA, EOSG, ECOSOC, HLPF, UNDESA, FfD Office, UNESCO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNEP, UNFPA, FAO, WHO to rework their respective Agenda to ensure each UN Entity record better deliver on the How within its Vision, Mission and Mandate. This will certainly encourage UN Member States and MGoS Entities to do the same.

Please find extracts of Book on How to Lobby by Felxi Dodds and Michael Struss

Selected Quotes

Quote 1

"Business as usual, government as usual, and perhaps even protest as usual are not giving us the progress needed to achieve sustainable development. Lets see if we can't work together to find better paths forward."

Paul Hohnen

Former Strategic Director for Greenpeace

Comment

It will be recalled that this is Business Unusual Approach that is Integral Part of One Worldwide Approach is Major Recommendation of SG Synthesis Report December 2014. Had this and remaining Recommendations in this important SG Report been fully implemented in 2015, would AAAA July 2015, SDG September 2015 and COP21 Outcome Document December 2015 not have been Vision and Words with ACTION?

Quote 2

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!"

Joel Arthur Barker

President of Infinity Limited

Comment

There should be no more delay converting AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 that is Vision and Words without Action into revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs that is Vision and Words with Action.

Hard Law and Soft Law

..... perhaps it would be useful to understand that the difference in general is between soft law (e.g. Declarations and Plans of Action) and hard law (e.g. Conventions). Hard law means that a government can potentially be held accountable for the [in]action while soft law is aspirational.

Comment

The current free wheel approach to Global Goals is unhelpful. There should be clear distinction between Hard Laws and Soft Laws and there should be clear mechanism for promulgation and enforcement of these Laws and in ways that effectively cover all Action Agenda Items in revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized to NDPs in each of the 193 (over 300) UN Member States.

One Nationwide / Worldwide Approach

Answers to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, Data Revolution, Synthesis Report where questions (including what and why questions) and How questions at Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels need to be found through:-

1. Orientation Workshops

2. Management Surveys

3. Financial Surveys

4. Engineering Surveys

5. Desk Analysis of Reports – Conference and Study

for Headquarters Management and each Strategic Business Unit in each UN Member State, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS Entity, processed into Community, Country, Regional and Global Master Plans with ACTION setting out Priorities, Direction, Sequence and Pace of Action Agenda Items in revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, ECOSOC Retreat Outcome, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs’ required to achieve National and Global Goals and Targets in all its ramifications as specific to each Constituency at Local, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels:-

1. Planning Side – Research, Planning and Data

2. Implementation Side – Implementation

3. Evaluation Side – Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment

4. Learning Side – Learning and Results

5. Accountability Side – Transparency, Accountability and Citizen and Stakeholder Participation.

within One Nationwide / Worldwide Approach to Sustainable National and International Development Cooperation.

Front End / Back End

Where the above Workshops and Surveys present Front End of Reforms, the following Initiatives will be the Back End and where these Initiatives present Front End the Workshops and Surveys will be Back End:-

1. One Nationwide / Worldwide Approach with Local Context

2. Consultative Research Management

3. Development Research Management

4. Correct Diagnosis, Prescription, Surgery and Recovery Management

5. Policy, Program, Project Intervention and Policy, Program, Project Intervention Training as One

6. Re-establish existing Institutions / Ventures

7. Establish new Institutions / Ventures

8. Communication for UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat Outcome, HLPF Retreat Outcome, SDG, AAAA, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, Synthesis Report etc Management

9. Country Led Evaluation System Management

10. Standards Management

11. Sanctions Management

12. Celebration Management

Clear Statements

1. NEHAP/ ISPE / EAG have no power or intention to force any individual, institution or government to accept its international development cooperation solutions.

2. No one individual, institution or government anywhere in our world today has all the answers to all of UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat Outcome, HLPF Retreat Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, etc How questions

3. Correct answer to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat 2 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, HLPF Retreat Outcome, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc How questions cannot be found in Desk Work - conferences, consultations and research driven by talking and thinking.

4. Correct answer to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat 2 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc How questions can only be found in Desk Work - conferences, consultations and research and Field Work – theory, practice and partnership driven by action and accomplishment that is inclusive and effectively connect each community in each of 193 Member States to UN Headquarters New York.

5. Current AAAA, SDG, COP21 processes each has flaws and failures arising from technical errors and mistaken priorities from village to global levels that need to be immediately corrected.

6. Current Attitude and Behaviour of most Village to Global Stakeholders on both State Actors and Non State Actors fall below minimum certain levels required to find correct answer to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat 2 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc How questions, full implement these answers with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation in ways that achieve Global Goals by 2030 target date.

7. Current effort at answering UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat 2 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc How questions is at least one year behind. Renewed effort is required if lost ground is to be covered and if each community in each of 193 Member States is to accelerate on path to achieving Global Goals by 2030 Target date.

8. Each day Decision Makers in each UN Family Organization Entity, 193 Member States and concerned Non State Actors sides delay or deny adopting or adapting existing sound answers to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat 2 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc How questions is one day too long. Allowed to continue, the ultimate consequences for our fragile planet could be catastrophic.

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, AAAA, Agenda 21, COP21 etc is how each 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 (over 300) 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 (over 300) Member States

Revised AAAA and SDG etc 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.

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 (over 300) 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, HLPF Retreat Outcome etc applicable to specific Village to Global location context.

3. Urge all World Leaders, 193 (over 300) 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 (over 300) 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 (over 300) 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, HLPF Retreat 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, ECOSOC Retreat Outcome, HLPF Retreat 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, HLPF Retreat Outcome Document etc Policy Coherence, Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation for Sustainable Development, P4CSD to UNGA, ECOSOC, UN Security Council 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, Behaviour, Communication etc VtG

6. Connecting each Community in each Local Government in each of the 193 (over 300) 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 UNSDS 2015 Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat 2 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, HLPF Retreat 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.

International Society for Poverty Elimination, ISPE, Volunteer Organization, is a Member of Economic Alliance Group, EAG. Some other EAG Members include:-

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 25 years spent over US$3 Million (N1.2 Billion) 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 (N6 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 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 World has enough Resources to meet the needs of its over 7 Billion People. Our World does not have enough Resources to meet the GREED of over 7 Billion People. However, these Resources remain unlocked potential if there is no new thinking, new ideas and new ways of doing things and if Policy Makers and Decision Makers on UN Member States, UN Family Organization and MGoS sides do not individually and collectively accept Village to Global Solidarity is essentially for finding sustainable solutions to real and complex World problems on the ground from Village to Global levels.

We strongly urge concerned authorities in the UN System, 193 (over 300) Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS sides to individually and jointly recognize that without facing new direction and adopting new priorities; without adopting Business Unusual doing new things in new ways, the expected new Results will remain Mirage.

We urge World Leaders, UN Family Organization Executives and MGoS Executives to consider stopping ongoing searching for Sustainable Solutions exist.

Reference

1. How To Lobby by Felix Dodds and Michael Struss 2003

2. Select ISPE/EAG Working Papers

Contact:

Director General

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5, Moses Orimolade Avenue,

Ijapo Estate, Akure, Ondo State,

Nigeria.

M: +234-8162469805

Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk 21 February 2016.

Global Push To Achieve SDGs Vision and Words with Action Agenda 15

ISPE EAG

INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP

Focused Points for ING Meeting Organizers and Participants Consideration and Appropriate ACTION: Part 1

Summary

We at NEHAP / ISPE / EAG commend all on UN Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS sides working towards Design and Delivery of Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome and Agenda 21 Aligned and Harmonized with National Development Plans, NDPs that can achieve Vision Ambitions by 2030. Giant Strides have been made but much more remains to be done. The starting point is recognition by Governments, Stakeholders and UN Family Organization that What questions have been over-answered and that How questions need to be more Professionally tackled and in ways that bring Whole of World Thinking to Bear towards the Sustainable Solutions to Whole of World problems. To achieve this IGN Meetings need to better address the following Focused Points set out in this 2 Part Supporting Papers Series. In Part 1:-

1. Revolution 2030

Design and Delivery of Global Goals and National Goals – revised AAAA, SDG, COP 21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs’ that will be successful on sustainable basis greatly depends on Design and Delivery of Revolution 2030, a set of Interlinked, Interconnected and Interdependent Primary Revolutions: Water, Agriculture, Enterprise, Government, Applied Research, Attitudinal and Behavioral Change, Data, Digital and other Primary Revolution as Health, Education, Nutrition, Justice, Anti Corruption, Security, Peace and other Secondary Revolution Driving all Global Goals Aligned and Harmonized to NDPs in each UN Member State.

2. MSP 2030

Design and Delivery of Revolution 2030 that will be successful on sustainable basis greatly depends on Design and Delivery of a Master Multi Stakeholder Platform, MSP for all Global Goals Aligned and Harmonized to NDPs in each UN Member State and MSPs’ for each Action Agenda Item within revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, HLPF Retreat Outcome, ECOSOC Retreat Outcome etc Aligned and Harmonized with NDPs’ in each UN Member State.

Introduction

This is a 2 Part Supporting Paper Series that we recommend are read together.

In ISPE / EAG Working Paper on Achieving AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Vision and Words with Action Agenda by 2030 in 193 (over 300) UN Member States Parts (1) – (8), we articulated AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 How questions and suggested ways and means of finding sustainable solutions to these questions, fully implementing these solutions with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation in each Community in each Local Government in each of the 193 (over 300) UN Member States. The UN circulated Part 2 of the Working Paper on this Link:

http://www.un.org/en/ga/second/70/input2_ispe_eag.pdf

We urge Managers and Decision Makers on UN Member States especially Powerful Developed and Developing Countries; UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS especially Powerful CSOs’/NGOs in Developed and Developing Countries sides in UN Headquarters New York, as well as at Local, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels, to individually and jointly recognize urgent need to shift focus away from talking and thinking as well as on problems and blame and shift focus towards action and accomplishment as well as on solutions and opportunities. The reality is that these authorities though intend positive change and business unusual as basis for achieving AAAA, SDG COP21, Agenda 21 Vision ambitions aligned and harmonized to National Development Plans, NDPs’ by 2030 Target date in each of the 193 Member States but practice is yet to deliver positive change as it is still essentially business as usual in the AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned to NDPs’ processes.

Paradigm Shifts

The above paradigm shifts underlined urgent need for Policy Makers and Decision Makers on UN Member States, especially Powerful Developed and Developing Countries; UN System including WBG and IMF and CSOs'/NGOs' especially Powerful Developed and Developing Countries Institutions sides to JOINTLY address all fundamental issues we consistently raise and without further delay.

The reality is One Day Delay may the One Day too Long, given Worsening World Problems of Terrorism, Migration, Hunger, Poverty, Environment, Corruption, Unemployment, Underemployment, Unemployability on the ground in various Communities in both Developed and Developing Countries. It is true that some Giant Strides have been made but much more remains to be done if Sustainable Solutions at levels adequate to achieve increasing convergence between Global Goals Vision Intention and Reality are to be Designed and Delivered in each Community in each Local Government in each of the 193 (over 300) UN Member States.

Urgent Need to Face New Direction and Adopt New Priorities: IGN Meetings Response?

We at NEHAP/ISPE/EAG believe that the UN Family Organization including WBG and IMF is supposed to be the Apex Global Platform for Global Collective Action for Political & Cultural Stability, Economic & Financial Stability, Social & Environment Stability, Peace & Security Stability, Religious & Moral Stability and that achieving this greatly depends on achieving increasing convergence between revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document and Agenda 21 that is each Vision and Words with Action; Aligned and Harmonized with NDPs’ of each of 193 (over 300) UN Member States that includes Interlinked, Interdependent and Interconnected Political Vision, Economic Vision, Environment Vision, Enterprise Vision, Education Vision and Solidarity Vision from Village to Global levels. This is clearly not the case at the moment. All root problems responsible need to be correctly identified and solved as soon as possible if each UN Family Organization Entity is to be an Institution fit for the 21^st Century.

UN Retreat April 2016 – Moving from Saying to Doing

The UN Retreat April 2016 presents a fresh opportunity to consider implication of continued over-answer to What questions while avoiding or evading answer to How questions, even in events specifically organized to find correct answer to How questions.

We are concerned that Resolutions / Proposals like the Parent Resolutions / Proposals – SG Synthesis Report December 2014, SG Data Revolution Report November 2014, AAAA July 2015 and SDG September 2015, SG Follow Up and Review Report January 2016 etc are Vision and Words without Action; they answer What and Why questions but evade answer to How, Who does What, Who Pays for What, Sanctions and Enforcement questions.

There is urgent need to take fundamental issues of revised AAAA, SDG, Agenda 21, COP21 Outcome etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs’ Implementation as well as Monitoring & Evaluation from Village to Global levels more seriously.

It is pertinent to note that answer to What question is about SAYING and this is easy and answer to How question is about DOING and this is ESPECIALLY Difficult because it requires KNOW HOW and it is either you have it or you don't.

Facing Unshakeable Facts and Realities on Ground in World As Is?

The Migration Component of the ongoing Europe Crisis underline urgent need for State Actors and Non State Actors in UN Headquarters New York as Agents; their Principals in their World Headquarters and Home National Governments in 193 (over 300) Member States and UN Family Organization, including WBG, IEG-WBG and IMF Executives at Global and Regional levels to face unshakeable facts and realities on the ground in World as is and not as any stakeholder, no matter how powerful wish it to be.

It is not helpful for European Countries to be building border fences and repatriating refugees. It is helpful for them to correctly identify all root problems through correct diagnosis and come up with correct prescription, surgery and recovery management. For example - What is the contribution of agriculture subsidy where a cow gets US$ 2 per day but over 2 Billion poor people live on less that US$ 2 per day? What is the contribution of subsidies that contribute to overfishing and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing? What is the contribution of accommodating illicit financial flows in Europe Banking System?

Europe is grappling with about 1 million migrants and is unable to cope. What happens if unwillingness and or inability to effectively address these root problems result in 10 million or 100 million migrants? What are the implications for such magnitude of Migration for Europe Security – National and Regional? Can these root problems be effectively and efficiently addressed without village to global stakeholders adopting / adapting points we make in our submissions?

If UN Executives do not know why AAAA, SDG, Agenda 21, Data Revolution Report, Synthesis Report is each Vision and Words without Action; they will not know how to make AAAA, SDG, Agenda 21, Data Revolution Report, Synthesis Report Vision and Words with Action.

ISPE / EAG suggestion that Synthesis Report How questions be answered before Final Synthesis Report in Official 6 UN languages are released, even if release is delayed by two weeks to 15 January 2015, was ignored. These are facts that need to be faced so that their root problem could be professionally tackled and in Global Interest.

Over 1 year after releasing Synthesis Report, its Recommendations – particularly One Worldwide Approach, Business Unusual etc have not been implemented by UN Headquarters or 193 (over 300) Member States. The result is that fundamental issues settled in the Synthesis Report remained contentious in FfD / AAAA and SDG processes leading to World Leaders endorsing AAAA in July 2015, SDG in September 2015 and COP21 Outcome Document in December 2015 that is each Vision and Words without Action and answers to How questions are still being sought after endorsement of AAAA and SDG.

As long as points made in our submissions are not effectively addressed by Decision Makers – Governments of 193 Member Countries and Executives of UN Family Organization Entities, finding correct answers to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs’ How questions and in ways that help achieve Global Goals by the 2030 Target date in each Community in each of 193 (over 300) UN Member States could be a mirage.

The Report of the ongoing Global Consultations to find answer to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs’ How questions is expected to be released by UN Secretary General in December 2015 and to be discussed by ECOSOC in March 2016. If the point that answer to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc How questions is best found in DOING, then One day delay in adopting existing sustainable solutions is One day too long.

It is pertinent to note that in finding correct answer to UNSDS 2015 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs How questions New York and Non New York based State Actors, Non State Actors and UN Executives appear to focus on Sustainable Development Model they are interested in, rather than Sustainable Development Model that is in Global interest. This is a major problem that reinforced disconnect between each Community in each of the 193 (over 300) Member States and UN Headquarters New York.

However, these New York based State Actors, Non State Actors and UN Executives are Agents. The Principals are on State Actors side – 3 Arms: Executive, Legislature and Judiciary of 2 – 4 Tiers of Government in 193 Member States; Non State Actors side – Family, Banks and other Financial Institutions, NGOs’ / CBOs’, Traditional Institutions, Religious Institutions, Academic Institutions, Media Institutions, Formal Private Sector, Informal Private Sector, Trade Groups / Trade Unions and the Agents need to Jointly focus on Sustainable Development Model that is in Global Interest.

To achieve this the Gap between Political Leadership we have in each location – Village to Global and the Political Leadership we need to correctly answer UNSDS 2015 Outcome, AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 etc How questions, fully implement these answers with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation need to be filled without delay.

Please find extracts of Book on How to Lobby by Felxi Dodds and Michael Struss

Selected Quotes

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Paul Hohnen

Former Strategic Director for Greenpeace

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Quote 2

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!"

Joel Arthur Barker

President of Infinity Limited

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Hard Law and Soft Law

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Understanding the Nature of Effective Lobby in National and International Development Cooperation

The UN events mentioned above had tens of thousands of stakeholders in attendance. Governments at times worried about the number attending, thinking that all of them would be lobbying! The reality is that the number of individuals actively lobbying at a global meeting is relatively small, something we hope this book will change. There are several reasons for this. People attending are actually there for a number of motives other than lobbying. These include sharing experiences, organizing partnerships or just learning how the intergovernmental process operates. These can all be very valid and important activities for their organisations, provided that this is why they were sent.

Participation in a UN event is not a substitute for working at local, national or regional levels on any issue. Rather, it is a very useful complement to the work done at other levels. It provides information on what your government is saying at the international level, and provides an important global forum for communicating concerns of constituencies at home.

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There is much to be gained should stakeholders on UN Member States, UN System and MGoS sides get the Continuous Training and Retraining each require to demonstrate Good Lobby Practice in their day to day work.

CSD Mandate

…… the CSD Mandate set up by the General Assembly identified the importance of stakeholders. The CSD's Mandate (Resolution 1993/207) is:

1. To monitor progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and activities related to the integration of environmental and developmental goals by governments, NGOs, and other UN bodies.

2. To monitor progress towards the target of 0.7% GNP from developed countries for Overseas Development Aid.

3. To review the adequacy of financing and the transfer of technologies as outlined in Agenda 21.

4. To receive and analyse relevant information from competent NGOs in the context of Agenda 21 implementation.

5. To enhance dialogue with NGOs, the independent sector, and other entities outside the UN system, within the UN framework.

6. To provide recommendations to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

As can be seen three of the above six (those indicated by italics) relate to responsibilities of stakeholders as well as governments.

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We are informed that CSD was closed down in 2012 and replaced by HLPF.

What is the CSD Mandate Scorecard, 23 years after: On Scale 1 – 4; 1 Excellent, 2 Good 3 Poor 4 Woeful? It is clear, that Stakeholders (MGoS on both Developed and Developing Countries sides) and Governments (on both Developed and Developing Countries sides) each Score 3 – Poor implementing CSD Mandate in past 23 years.

It is also clear that no one Individual, Institution or Government has all the answers to all of the World’s real and complex problems on the ground and that it would be much easier achieving Global Goals Vision Ambitions in each Community in each of 193 (over 300) UN Member States if Stakeholders and Governments CSD (HLPF) Scorecard by 2030 is at least Score 2 – Good. This will demand Business Unusual Approach that is Integral part of One Worldwide Approach.

This will also demand that all whose good ideas and pertinent suggestions are included in any IGN Meeting Report; SG Report; Global Vision Report must be meaningfully involved in the implementation as well as the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the accepted ideas and suggestions.

Improving Dialogues Development Impact and Development Effectiveness

The idea of these dialogues was adopted and promoted by Stakeholder Forum, who had been active in Habitat II, at the UN General Assembly in October 1996. The General Assembly was discussing the framework for the 19^th General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), which would take place in 1997 to review implementation of the UNCED outcomes. The idea presented to the General Assembly was that each Major Group (stakeholder group) would be asked to report at the Second Preparatory Committee (PrepCom 2) what they had achieved in implementing Agenda 21. The General Assembly agreed to this in November 1996 and asked each of the stakeholders to prepare for half-day dialogue sessions.

Again, one of the problems was that these were held while the negotiations were happening and governments sent low level representation, if any at all. Nevertheless the idea of holding stakeholder dialogues at future CSD meetings was agreed and was written into the CSD’s next five-year work programme. Another advancement at UNGASS was the recognition given to the nine stakeholder groups, who for the first time ever were each given a slot to address the Heads of State section of the meeting.

In 1998 the topic for the dialogues was agreed as "industry". The then Director of the UN Division on Sustainable Development, Joke Waller Hunter, brought together the International Chamber of Commerce and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the CSD NGO Steering Committee. Under her leadership a new formula was agreed. This included the breakthrough that the negotiations would not take place parallel to the dialogues but would occupy the first two days of the CSD. The first dialogue had only three stakeholder groups participating, i.e. industry, trade unions and NGOs. Each stakeholder group was to consult and produce a starting paper on the sub themes of:

a. Responsible Entrepreneurship

b. Corporate Management Tools

c. Technology Cooperation and Assessment

d. Industry and Freshwater

These papers were distributed as UN background papers before the CSD Intersessional in March that year, so that Governments would have time to reflect on them as they discussed each issue for the first time. One of the more important by-products of this approach is that it caused ‘peer group’ review within each of the stakeholder groups. Most of the stakeholders worked on a four level preparation:

1) Two people, usually one from a developed country and one from a developing country, would do an initial draft.

2) The stakeholder group coordinator – usually a staff person with the stakeholder coordination body – would liase with those interested in reviewing the paper. These reviewers would have a gender and regional balance.

3) The paper would be circulated to those members of the stakeholder group with interest in that particular issue. A time limit would be set for feedback to be submitted.

4) The original authors would revise the paper and, time permitting, it would go out for a further round of consultation.

Another important outcome was that comments that could previously only be made to governments in the corridors could now be made in a ‘creative’ forum, where reasons for and against were given and challenged, all as a part of the official process. Some governments enjoyed this role reversal and the opportunity of being able to put stakeholder groups under the microscope about their position. However, some governments were unhappy with the idea that they had to listen to stakeholder groups and saw this as an encroachment on governmental negotiating space.

The eventual success of the dialogues was in part due to the successive CSD Chairs, starting with the then Philippine Minister of the Environment, Cielito Habito. He challenged the stakeholder groups on their positions and led the sessions to become a very vibrant exchange between and among stakeholder groups and governments. This led to the birth of the first really dynamic model for stakeholder engagement in an ongoing UN process.

The outcome from the 1998 dialogues was the setting up of a multistakeholder review of voluntary initiatives. Sadly, the follow-up did not deliver the quality that had been expected from the suggestion. There were many reasons for this, but the critical one was that there were no funds committed to facilitate a review other than a workshop in Canada. For the review to be successful reasonable financial support was needed for the three stakeholder groups participating, as well as for the initiative’s Secretariat.

The third year of the dialogues addressed Tourism and to ensure better focus the NGO CSD Steering Committee suggested that the supporting papers should not exceed four pages and should adopt the following structure:

a. Problems

b. Solutions

c. Institutional responsibilities

d. Possible partnerships

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It is clear that the overarching Lessons Learnt in Design and Delivery of Dialogues over the years is that No Lessons have been Learnt. The authors have identified some of the Best Dialogue Ideas that Worked in the past. There is strong need to adopt and adapt these ideas that Worked in the Past and in ways that suit current realities.

The suggested CSD (HLPF) Supporting Papers Structure could be reinforced by a Correct Diagnosis, Prescription, Surgery and Recovery Management, DPSRM Mechanism within One Worldwide Approach to National and International Development Cooperation.

Improving Multi Stakeholder Platforms, MSPs’ Meetings Outcome

Multi Stakeholder Platform, MSP meeting needs to identify levels of agreement and disagreement; focus dialogue on building compromise for improving alignment and harmony within areas of disagreement; issue outcome as letter to governments to enable MSP outcomes to be drawn into negotiations.

The active involvement of the 1999 Chair Simon Upton, then New Zealand Minister for the Environment, during the preparatory process played a critical role in another successful dialogue. Through his office a meeting was convened in London, under the chairing of David Taylor of the New Zealand government, where representatives of all the stakeholder groups were brought together at the end of March to identify their level of agreement and disagreement. This helped to focus the dialogues and increase the areas of agreement.

The other significant breakthrough that Simon Upton achieved was issuing the outcomes from the dialogues as a letter to governments at the beginning of the second week, which enabled their outcomes to be drawn into the negotiations. It is unfortunate that this approach has not been taken in the following years, as dialogue outcomes have not been easily brought into the negotiations.

The outcomes of the CSD dialogue sessions have been important in setting up ongoing multistakeholder work. It has also helped build trust between stakeholder groups. In all, an enormous leap in stakeholder group involvement in the United Nations. Instead of the work and expertise of the stakeholder groups being part of a sideshow, or being confined to the corridors, they were now finally seeing their work incorporated into the preparations for the negotiations – helping government's make better informed decisions.

The idea of dialogues has started to appear in other UN processes, such as the Forum on Forests, Financing for Development, and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council, as well as in meetings of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). One of the problems is that different UN bodies are using the term ‘dialogue’ to mean different things. Therefore stakeholders coming into a space are very confused about what is expected of them. During 2001 Stakeholder Forum made significant attempts to try and create some norms and standards, by looking at twenty or so dialogue processes around the globe and producing a guide on how best to approach stakeholder engagement

Governments and Stakeholders need to recognize that AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome and Agenda 21 as is remain mere Vision and Words without Action. To achieve Ambitions of these Global Visions and on Target 2030 date, there is urgent need for revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome that is each Vision and Words with ACTION with Sound Communication Strategy or Living Strategy for full implementation of each Action Agenda Item in each Vision Document; and effective Monitoring and Evaluation of this Implementation in each UN Member State Entity; UN System including WBG and IMF Entity and MGoS Entity at Local, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels.

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To achieve increasing convergence between revised AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Agenda 21 etc aligned and harmonized with NDPs’ Vision Intention and Reality in each UN Member State Entity, UN System Entity and MGoS Entity, there is urgent need to Design and Deliver Master MSP for the entire Global Goals and MSPs for each Action Agenda Item in each of the Global Goals and National Goals.

MOVING FORWARD

Do World Leaders, UNDESA, EOSG, UNGA, ECOSOC, HLPF and Partners recognize that correct answer to all AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, HLPF Retreat Outcome Document, Agenda 21, FAO Conference on Hunger and Poverty Action Plan etc How questions lie in the DOING? That without immediately:-