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 306/193 Member States – Part 13
Commentary on 21 April 2016 HLTD Outcome, 18 March 2016 SG Report on
Supporting Implementation of SDG and AAAA and co-Facilitators Elements Paper on
Review of SG Report on Follow Up and Review, MSP for 2030 Agenda, 19 April 2016
Elements Paper on Follow Up and Review: A New Landscape for Stakeholder
Engagement in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF?
Summary
The FfD 2016 Outcome
and HLTD 2016 Outcome, like Outcome of past similar UN Events highlighted
re-occurring decimal of over answering What questions and avoiding or evading
answers to How questions.
The UNDP and UNESA e-Discussion 2016 is the only UN Event
that has grappled with challenge of finding clear and correct answers to How
questions. It is our hope that the expected First Draft SG Report on
e-Discussion 2016 will be synthesis of good ideas and pertinent suggestions
including clear and correct answers to MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21 and
Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans
of 306/193 UN Member States How questions; that further global consultation
will improve the Draft SG Report and come up with Final SG Report on
e-Discussion 2016 in 6 UN Official languages that is Vision and Words with
Action having sufficient potency to help achieve Global Goals by 2030 target
date.
It is our further hope that the 28 April 2016 Global
Consultation on Follow Up and Review Elements Paper and the 27 – 29 April 2016
UN CEB meeting will actually learn lessons from FfD 2016 Outcome and HLTD 2016
Outcome and each come up with clear and correct answers to How questions; that
each of these two UN Events and subsequent UN Events will consider points made
in this Paper and take appropriate Action Steps to avoid mistakes made in FfD
2016, HLTD 2016 and past UN Events on 2030 Agenda.
We have made proposal for 4 additional Element Items to the
Elements Paper. Should this proposal be accepted, it would ensure that the
Revised SG Report on Follow Up and Review and its complementary SG Reports are
indeed Vision and Words with Action whose full implementation and effective
monitoring and evaluation of the implementation, will accelerate Amazing
Transformation in our World today. Rejected, the probability is high that World
problems could get worse, with ultimate catastrophic consequences for Citizens
in both Developed and Developing Countries, especially the over 2 billion poor
that UN System UNO, WBG and IMF and MGoS claim to serve.
We urge Policy Makers and Decision Makers on UN Member
States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF, MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member
CSOs/NGOs to recognize that without effective and efficient War on Corruption,
attempting to achieve 2030 Agenda Vision ambition is mirage. World anger on
#Panamapapers need to be harnessed and focused on National and Global
Collective Action to help Win War on Corruption Worldwide.
We further urge Policy Makers and Decision Makers on UN
Member States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF, MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS
Member CSOs/NGOs to recognize that 2030 Agenda needs carefully calibrated
balance of Voluntary and Legal Commitments as well as enforcement mechanisms
should any Partner fail to deliver on any Voluntary or Legal Commitment.
HLTD 2016
World Leaders at the High Level Thematic Debate, HLTD held on 21 April
2016 called for tangible climate action, the eradication of
poverty and bolstered development financing. During
the day-long debate, heads of State and Government, ministers, and
representatives of international organizations and civil society focused on
kick-starting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Addressing the synergy between the Paris Climate Change Conference and the 2030
Agenda, leaders discussed national responses and concrete steps forward, many
of which hinged on partnerships between a wide array of stakeholders.
Some speakers took up the issue of water shortage, one of the impacts of
climate change. János Áder, President of Hungary, said that, in a matter
of time, fresh water supplies would be depleted. If the international
community failed to address water pollution and eliminate the degradation of
arable lands, implementing the Sustainable Development Goals would be
impossible.
KOLINDA GRABAR-KITAROVIĆ, President of Croatia,
noted that maintaining international peace and security was possible through
addressing the root causes of conflicts and instability using sound and
sustainable development policies. “To implement the 2030 Agenda, we need
a strong and effective United Nations,” she said, underscoring the need to
establish clear guidelines, increase effectiveness, break the “silo” mentality
and ensure strong monitoring. Equally determined political leadership was
imperative for the international community to address new global
challenges. While expressing support for engaging in purposeful
partnerships, she underlined the need for commitment and cooperation at all
levels and from all segments of society.
ANDREJ KISKA, President of Slovakia,
stressed that the 2030 Agenda was “a vision for all of us whether small or big,
whether rich or poor”, due to the interconnectedness of the globe.
However, because of varied national conditions, each State must focus on
mitigating its weaknesses and using its strengths for the benefit of others.
MIKE EMAN, Prime Minister of Aruba, Netherlands,
said the 2030 Agenda was not an institutional programme, but a task list for
humanity to make Earth a better place for future generations. Emphasizing
their strong focus on inclusiveness, he said the Goals, for small islands like
Aruba, were a matter of immediate survival. Inequality called for strong
policies and institutions to ensure that the poorest and more marginalized
could reap the most benefits from the Goals, he said, stressing the need to
empower women and girls, create sustainable and decent jobs, and promote trade
and investment in post-conflict and fragile States. Climate action — and
inaction — would greatly affect progress on other Goals, he said, adding that a
growing number of water disasters represented “a sign on the wall”.
LI BAODONG, Vice Foreign Minister and Group of 20 Sherpa of China, said that True development
would not be achieved until the world’s economics grew in a coordinated manner,
with win-win progress for industry and prosperity for people of all walks of
life,
Development
and the climate agenda were mutually reinforcing and one could not be achieved
without the other, said Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United
Nations, speaking on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Describing
the 2030 Agenda as a blueprint to build a future enshrining the responsibility
to focus on the world’s most vulnerable, he noted that it required the adoption
of a new, inclusive plan as “nobody in today’s world can grow in isolation”.
In
order to achieve meaningful results on the ground, financing the implementation
of the Sustainable Development Goals was critical, he continued, emphasizing
that Governments were in the “driver’s seat” to ensure the disbursement of
funds. The United Nations, for its part, must take a tailored path to
implementing the 2030 Agenda, he underlined.
With
the historic signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on climate change taking
place on 22 April, subsequent action would create pathways out of current
crises and begin the transformation that the world desperately needed, said
Mogens Lykketoft (Denmark), President of the General Assembly. In order
to make change happen, States must pay closer attention to increasing domestic
resources, scaling up existing partnerships and inspiring new ones, meeting
official development assistance (ODA) commitments, and advancing data
collection.
During
the day-long debate, heads of State and Government, ministers, and
representatives of international organizations and civil society focused on
kick-starting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Addressing the synergy between the Paris Climate Change Conference and the 2030
Agenda, leaders discussed national responses and concrete steps forward, many
of which hinged on partnerships between a wide array of stakeholders.
Comments
The HLTD Outcome is evidence that there
was no advantage holding this UN Event Back to Back with the FfD Forum. It will
be recalled that three important How questions asked at the FfD Forum were
avoided or evaded:-
1. How the global partnership for
sustainable development could support the implementation of an integrated and
holistic agenda;
2. How to reach the most vulnerable and
marginalized; and
3. How the international community could move from
rhetoric to action.
The wide disappointment expressed in
HLTD outcome document, is evidence that these important How questions were once
again avoided or evaded while What questions were over answered at the UN Event.
In seeking to achieve AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with
National Development Plan Vision Ambition without first finding clear and
correct answers to all identified MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193
UN Member States How questions, the Cart has been put before the Horse.
Mr Oh’s concluding remarks at FfD Forum
is cold comfort. We cannot leave undone what we ought to do and do what we
ought not to do and yet keep hoping to achieve the “win-win solutions” that
promote and protect Common Interest and Common future of Community to Global
Stakeholders. As long as Policy Makers and Decision Makers continue with
Business as Usual, Silos rather than Synergy, avoiding/evading How questions
etc, it will be uphill task achieving AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 Vision
ambitions.
It will be observed that there is too
much duplication and replication in UN Events and future UN Events do not build
on outcome of successes and failures; strengths and weaknesses of past UN
Events and this continually result in the same mistakes being re-occurring
decimals. As long as What questions continue to be over answered in UN Events
while How questions continue to be avoided or evaded, it will be uphill task
seeking to achieve AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Vision Ambitions in each
Community in each of 306/193 UN Member States.
18 April 2016 SG
Report on Implementation of SDG and AAAA
The report
raises many interesting points. We wish to comment on some:
Summary - The
report provides an description of how Member States are responding to the two
Agendas and the impact that the responses will have on the United Nations
system.
Comment
The report intended
to address How but again in reality has addressed What. The confusion between
What and How needs to be cleared. There is a need to distinguish between What
answers to What questions and How answers to How question. Providing What
answers to How questions is a major reason why Gaps in AAAA, SDG, COP21 and
Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with National Development Plans are especially
difficult to fill.
Paragraph 1 - The
report is prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 70/247, in which
the Assembly requested that the Secretary-General provide a comprehensive
proposal addressing the effective and efficient delivery of mandates in support
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development by
the Secretariat, within the broader United Nations system, including the
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development, the regional commissions and the United Nations
Development Account.
Comment
There is need for common agreement on definition
of UN System to include all entities in UNO, WBG and IMF. It is not helpful to
select some entities in UNO or entities in UNO and WBG while excluding all
remaining entities. Also it is not helpful to confuse entities in UNO Delivery
as One, DaO; with all entities in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF DaO. If AAAA,
SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 Vision Ambitions are to be achieved by 2030 Target
date then the correct definition of UN System should be all entities in UNO,
WBG and IMF.
There is need to recognize that AAAA addresses
the Finance Dimension of all 17 SDGs. The two Agendas cannot stand alone but
need to be complimented by three more Agendas – An Agenda Integrating COP21 and
Agenda 21 to address the Environment Dimension of all 17 SDGs; An Agenda to
address the Economic Dimension of the SDGs, An Agenda to address the Humanitarian Dimension of the SDGs, An Agenda to address the Justice Dimension of the SDGs, An Agenda to address the Corruption Dimension of the SDGs and An Agenda to address the Reform
Dimension of the SDGs. In the work towards implementing all 8 Agendas “as One”
to achieve Mr Oh’s “win-win solutions”, National Leaders and World Leaders need
to recognize that it is fail in one dimension fail in all dimensions.
There is also need to appreciate that each of
the 8 Agendas has Advocacy and Lobbying, Development Communication and
Development Research; Planning and Implementation; Monitoring and Evaluation;
Data and Digitization and Performance Management and Measures of Success
Dimensions. Again it is fail in one dimension fail in all six dimensions.
Paragraph 5 -
The 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda were shaped by States Members
of the United Nations and agreed by their Governments in 2015. The 2030 Agenda
is universal, integrated and indivisible. The full implementation of the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda is critical for the realization of the Sustainable
Development Goals and targets.
Comment
It is clear from outcome of FfD Forum 2016 that
National Leaders and Global Leaders – Policy Makers and Decision Makers on
306/193 UN Member States; UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF, MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs
and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs sides are yet to demonstrate this realization. To
do this they have to address fundamental issues of Denial, Deception and
Delusion.
Paragraph 6 -
The 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda are interdependent. Achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals requires ambitious, comprehensive,
holistic and transformative actions that follow up on the commitments reached
in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2002 and in Doha in 2008 and strengthen the means of
implementation and financing for the development follow up process. Both
Agendas serve as the basis for actions to be undertaken within communities and
countries, under the leadership of national Governments and with the engagement
of a broad range of stakeholders.
Comment
This underlines urgent need to find clear and
correct answers to all How questions as well as recognition that the two
Agendas cannot be successfully implemented on sustainable basis without
successfully implementing the additional three Agendas identified above.
Paragraph 8 -
Countries will review progress through national processes that involve multiple
stakeholders. They will be able to share national experiences, describe
progress, outline challenges and identify emerging issues at the annual
high-level political forum on sustainable development and the Economic and
Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up. The forums provide
Member States with an opportunity to demonstrate political leadership and to
oversee a constellation of follow-up and review processes, facilitating
guidance and recommendations for follow-up. They will not only serve to
encourage the coordination of sustainable development policies, thus helping to
ensure that the 2030 Agenda remains relevant and ambitious but will also foster
coherence within the United Nations system. The two forums will interface with
the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and other relevant organs
and forums, in accordance with their mandates. There will be effective linkages
with the followup and review arrangements of all relevant United Nations
conferences and processes, including on least developed countries, small island
developing States and landlocked developed countries.
Comment
It will be uphill task to meaningfully involve
multiple stakeholders without finding clear and correct answers to MSP and
Lobbying How questions and related How questions. Records show that many
registered MSPs, on SDKP do not qualify as MSPs and at least one MSP that is
sufficiently “All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious” to help achieve AAAA,
SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with National Development Plans in
UN Member States has “current status” ranging from “rejected” in October 2015
to “under review” February 2016 to “technical suspension” March 2016 to date.
This is not helpful.
Paragraph 11 -
The two Agendas provide strategic direction to the United Nations system, and
the entities within it are reprioritizing their activities and reallocating
resources in order to support Member States effectively. The new emphases on
universality, integration and indivisibility are already having an impact on
operational procedures and activities, and on the capabilities and expertise
that will be needed. Member States are examining options within the context of
the ongoing dialogue in the Economic and Social Council on the longer-term
positioning of the United Nations development system and of the quadrennial
comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the
United Nations system (see Council resolution 2014/14).
Comment
The UN Member States need help from UN System –
UNO, WBG and IMF. But the UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF themselves need help, if
they are to provide the type of help UN Member States desire. This underline
urgent need for Reforming the UN Systems to be fit for the 21st
Century through Re-establishing existing Entities and Establishing New
Entities. The UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF cannot give what they do not have.
Paragraph 13
-The United Nations system and the Secretariat support Member States as they
establish coherent whole-of-government policies and strategies, as well as
whole-ofsociety approaches to implementation. The objective is effective,
efficient, transparent and inclusive implementation at the local and national
levels, as well as among groups of countries at the subregional and regional
levels
Comment
Establishing coherent “Whole of Government”,
“Whole of Society” Approaches are elements of “One Worldwide Approach” which
includes “Whole of Bank”, “Whole of Institution”, “Integrated”, “Systemic”,
“Common” etc Approaches. Paragraph 20 identifies need for Data Revolution.
However Data Revolution within “One Worldwide Approach” “Individually or
Jointly” cannot stand alone but need to be Designed and Delivered within
Interlinked, Interconnected and Interdependent Primary Revolutions -
Agricultural Revolution, Enterprise Revolution, Government Revolution, Applied
Research Revolution, Attitudinal and Behavioral Change Revolution, Data
Revolution, Digital Revolution etc and Secondary Revolutions – Education
Revolution, Health Revolution, Water Revolution, Land Revolution, Tax
Administration Revolution, Justice Administration Revolution, Anti Corruption
Revolution etc. This underline need to involve creators ideas harvested from
Global Consultations and adopted by UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Entities.
FfD 2016 Outcome and HLTD 2016 Outcome, each
address What questions related to above Policy, Program, Project Interventions,
3PIs but did not address the more important How questions relating to above
3PIs and 3PIs Training as One.
General Comments
on the SG Report on Implementation of SDG and AAAA
The FfD Forum 2016 Outcome and HLTD 2016 Outcome
underlines Gaps in the SG Report on Implementation of SDG and AAAA that need to
be urgently filled. The fundamental issues involved cannot be wished away. The
necessary arrangements cannot be left to happen on its own or by divine
intervention but needs to be discussed, negotiated and established and on time.
It clear that these Gaps cannot be effectively filled without clear and correct
answers to AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community
and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States How questions.
Pilot Program
The design and delivery of policy, program,
project interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One in each Action Agenda Item
in each of the AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with
Community and Country Development Plans in UN Member States demand high levels
of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship focused on deploying new
thinking towards doing new things in new ways. This calls for Pilot Program
wherein Multiple Stakeholders work jointly on these policy, program, project
interventions, learn from successes and failures before nationwide roll out in
specific Member State.
MSP for 2030 Agenda
The FfD Forum Outcome,
HLTD Outcome and SG Report on Implementing SDG and AAAA underline the central
role of MSP. Regretfully many of the MSPs being registered by SDKP are not the
type of MSPs that could make significant contribution towards achieving 2030
Agenda Vision ambitions by scheduled date. In finding clear and correct answers
to MSP How questions, there is urgent need to actually learn lessons from why
MSPs’ had more flaws and failures than successes in the first 50 years of
International Development Cooperation 1960 – 2009 and why these mistakes remain
re-occurring decimals 7 years into the second 50 years of International
Development Cooperation 2010 – 2059.
MSP for 2030
Agenda that will be successful on sustainable basis need to focus on Action on
three fronts:-
1. Stakeholder Participation, Transparent and
Accountable Action – All concerned
Stakeholders National and Sub-national Governments: Executive, Parliament,
Judiciary; Civil Society, Philanthropies, Multilateral Organizations,
Businesses and many others including the Communities that are Target
Beneficiaries of True Development Initiatives need to be meaningfully involved
in an inclusive manner that is transparent. Each Stakeholder must be
accountable to themselves and other Stakeholders for their action(s) or
inaction(s) and in the later case accepting potential sanctions for lack of
compliance with commitments. This call for Building Trust and Mutual Respect
and in ways that ensure all partners are effectively represented in governance
mechanisms and that all voices are heard.
2. Cooperative, Collaborative, Cohesive,
Coordinated, Effective and Efficient Action – With the increasing diversity of partners involved in sub-national,
national, sub-regional, regional and global development cooperation, it is more
important than ever to avoid duplication and repetition of effort and
fragmentation – problems which FfD Forum Outcome and HLTD Outcome, once more,
underline as re-occurring decimals. Achieving 2030 Agenda Vision Ambition by
target date call for Effective and Efficient Action through focusing
Partnerships on specific Disciplines – Evaluation, Procurement, Institutional /
Policy Reform etc, Services – Water, Education, Police etc , Sectors – Power,
Telecomms, Finance etc and Issues – Governance, Leadership, Anti Corruption etc
this does not mean that more and bigger Partnerships are the best solutions. MSPs
need to be streamlined, all relevant Stakeholders need to be encouraged to
participate actively in finding sustainable solutions in pilot programs and
taking sustainable solutions to scale at National level and committed
Leadership from each Stakeholder Group in the MSP is required to give MSPs the
momentum they need to tackle complex sub-national, national, sub-regional,
regional and global development cooperation challenges on the ground within the
specific location - Community to Global, in which the MSP operate, stay on
course and mobilize the mandate, manpower, money, material, machine and other
resources required to get the job done.
3. Expertise, Exposure and Experience based Action - The reform of sub-national, national,
sub-regional, regional and global development cooperation to meet today’s
sustainable development challenges in each Community in each Member State call
for changes in attitude, behavior, culture and mindset. Dialogue and learning
from experience and exposure are essential to produce desired change. MSP for
2030 Agenda must emphasize the importance of learning from experience and
exposure; building bridge between lessons learning and lessons forgetting;
knowledge sharing, capacity building – individual, institution and society,
patronage, standards, regulation and networking; enhancing the quality of
development cooperation at levels appropriate for specific MSP as way of
improving its impact, effectiveness and relevance; peer reviews that focus on
how development cooperation is framed, managed and delivered; development
cooperation – monitoring, reporting and
evaluation cycles that are used to support continuing adaptation etc.
The Development
Cooperation Report 2015 proposes 10 success factors for MSPs that would have
capacity to mobilize National and Global Collective Action for achieving SDG:-
1.
Secure High Level
Leadership
2.
Ensure
Partnerships are Country Led and Context Specific
3.
Avoid duplication
of effort and fragmentation
4.
Make governance
inclusive and transparent
5.
Apply the right
type of partnership model for the challenge
6.
Agree on principles,
targets, implementation plans and enforcement mechanisms
7.
Clarify roles and
responsibilities
8.
Maintain a clear
focus on results
9.
Measure and
monitor progress towards goals and targets
10.
Mobilize the
required financial resources and use them effectively
It is clear that
promoters and members of MSPs need practical help and technical support if
their MSP is to pass the 10 success factors. This once more underlines urgent
need for relevant authorities to find clear and correct answers to MSP,
Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and
Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States How questions and in ways
that effectively address fundamental issues of OH3A2T2LRSP -
Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Accountability, Attitude, Transparency,
Transformation, Leadership, Learning, Results, Stakeholder Participation as applicable to specific context (2030 Agenda
in whole or part) of Thematic Interest to the MSP and specific Location –
Community to Global where the MSP operate. These arrangements cannot be left to
occur on their own but need to be negotiated, discussed and established and on
time.
co-Facilitators Elements Paper on Review of SG Report on Follow Up and
Review
The Elements Paper contains many interesting
points but sadly remain Vision and Words without Action. All points made with
regard to the FfD Forum 2016, HLTD 2016 and SG Report on Implementation of SDG
and AAA apply to this Elements Paper. There is a need for the co-Facilitators
to address these fundamental issues and without delay.
There is a need to use correct nomenclature –
Follow Up and Review is Monitoring and Evaluation Dimension of each of the 8 Agendas identified above (comment on paragraph 1 SG Report on Implementation of
SDG and AAAA). The Monitoring and Evaluation Dimension of each of the 8 Agendas
need to be complemented with the Advocacy and Lobbying, Development
Communication and Development Research; Planning and Implementation, Data and
Digitization and Performance Management and Measures of Success Dimensions of
each of the 8 Agendas. It is fail in one fail in all of the six Dimensions.
There is also need to optimize productivity of
physical participation in New York and virtual participation in Communities in
any of the 306/193 UN Member States, in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Events in
New York and/or Washington. For example Representatives of MGoS who wish to
speak at the 28 April Global Consultation in New York that will be discussing
the Elements Paper have been given 2 minutes each. Are these Representatives
speaking for themselves or for their MGoS? If they are speaking for themselves,
what is the Role of the 9 MGs and 3 or 4 other Stakeholders Officially
recognized by the UNO? If they are speaking for their MGoS is 1 week enough for
each MGoS to conduct Global Consultation that is Transparent and fairly
represent the Views and Perspectives of their Members? Can the content of 2
minutes speech cover all issues any MGoS can and should raise in response to
this Element Paper?
We suggest that
the 28 April 2016 meeting have facility for Stakeholders outside New York to be
effective Virtual Participants through making provision for Webinar or Google
Hangout Interactive Live Video facilities. Live TV coverage does not allow for
interaction with the Co-Facilitators, Presenters and Participants in the
Consultation Venue. We suggest further inclusion of 4 Elements in the Elements
Paper as follows:
After the “Framing the Resolution” Element – Add one Element:-
Answering How
questions – The resolution should recall that in past and ongoing UN Events
What questions have been over answered while How questions have been avoided or
evaded. The resolution should request the Secretary General to ensure that all
future SGs’ Reports set out clear and correct answers to How questions. The
resolution should invite ECOSOC, Member States and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and
Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs to consider in their contributions at future UN
Events setting out clear and correct answers to How questions.
After the “SG Report” Element – Add one Element:-
Integrated SG Reports – The resolution could reaffirm that “Follow Up
and Review” is essentially “Monitoring and Evaluation” and reiterate that
Member States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF, ECOSOC, HLPF, MGoS Member
CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs are encouraged to use common
nomenclature of Monitoring and Evaluation in place of Follow Up and Review.
The resolution
should underscore the need for SG Report on Follow Up and Review and SG Report
on Implementation of SDG and AAAA to be complemented by three additional SG
Reports – SG Report on Advocacy and Lobbying; SG Report on Development
Communication and Development Research; SG Report on Data and Digitization and
SG Report on Performance Management and Measures of Success and that all five
SG Reports need to be fully implemented with monitoring and evaluation of this
implementation as One.
After the “Coherence” Element – Add two Elements:-
1. Big Challenge – The Resolution should underscore the need for Sustainable Development
Science that effectively links Truth, Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom that
has 12 components – Advocacy Science, Lobbying Science, Development
Communication Science, Development Research Science, Planning Science,
Implementation Science, Monitoring Science, Evaluation Science, Data Science,
Digitization Science, Performance Management Science and Measures of Success
Science. The resolution could reiterate that combining the Evidence - work of
Scientists and researchers with Experience – work of Practitioners and
Professionals could be a powerful way of leveraging national and global
collective knowledge, understanding and wisdom towards achieving 2030 Agenda
Vision Ambitions in each Community in each Member States and by scheduled date.
2. Changing the World – The resolution should underscore the need for
Multiple Stakeholders in each 2030 Agenda Action Agenda Item to “Learn by
Doing” in pilot program focused on Sustainable Development Implementation
Outcomes including acceptability,
adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, fidelity or how well the policy,
program or project intervention was implemented according to a plan,
implementation cost, coverage, and sustainability of the intervention. The
resolution could reiterate that running the pilot program gave the Multiple
Stakeholders a ‘safe’ space to adapt, learn, and modify elements of the policy,
program or project before it was launched at the national level in specific
Member State and that by the end of the pilot study, the Multiple Stakeholder
Participants could have given ‘an innovation to the world’ and in the process
had learned about what works, for whom, and how it works in their specific
context. In addition, they could have saved the provider(s) of funding for the
policy, program, project intervention from making some expensive mistakes when
the policy, program, project intervention was rolled out nationally in the
Member State.
War on Corruption
So much activity is ongoing in the fight against corruption, but the
more activities we have the more corruption is getting worse. Are we losing the
fight against corruption? Not necessarily, and certainly not for lack of effort
or effectiveness. However, we notice cases where the more successful an
anti-corruption body is, the more likely it is to fail. At first blush, that
correlation seems illogical; but successes encourage counterattacks by powerful
and well-funded individuals or groups. In addition, the media hold
anti-corruption agencies to standards of success that often are impossible to
achieve. Success in a series of small cases will be met by accusations that
“you let the big fish get away.” Civil society organizations always seem
dissatisfied and always want you to do more, even if one could argue that this
is what those organizations are supposed to do!
The Big Question is: If we do not know why corruption is fighting us, we
will not know how to fight corruption. And, if we do not know why a successful
anti-corruption body attract death, we will not know how to nurture and grow
anti-corruption body at sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and
global levels that will be successful on sustainable basis. This Big Question
cannot be answered without answers to all SG Synthesis Report, SG Report on
Implementing SDG and AAAA, SG Report on Follow Up and Review, Data Revolution
Report etc How questions.
Implementing AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 calls for Community,
Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global Stakeholders Joint Approach
to Fighting and Winning a War on Poverty, Hunger, Disease and Environmental
Degradation (PHDE). This requires Winning Twelve Battles Against Arrogance,
Ignorance, Indifference, Incompetence, Indiscipline, Injustice, Intolerance,
Insincerity, Inequality, Interference, Impunity and Corruption (A10IC). In this War we must
recognize the denominators – Poverty of Ideas, Integrity, Trust, Competence and
Spirit.
We would like to see more emphasis on the importance of peace for
achieving sustainable development and that peace as a desirable outcome in
itself is strongly - and rightly - affirmed. including Peace as one of five Ps
of the SDG is strongly welcomed. This requires a crucial focus on the causes
of violence, insecurity and injustice - both in the narrative as well as in
the Goals and Targets. It also requires
evolving Corruption Free Society at
sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global levels. The vision
for development financing fails to constructively engage with the peace
agenda. The AAAA and SDG should acknowledge the risk of doing harm and
effectively support peace-building as well as the risk of fighting corruption
effectively and efficiently on successful and sustainable basis from Community
to Global levels.
World Anger on #Panamapapers needs to be focused on reinvigorating the
War on Corruption from Community to Global levels. If so much could come from
just One Legal Firm, so much more would come from all Legal Firms and
Consultancies that need to be professionally investigated and in ways that
ensure all offenders, no matter how powerful and in whichever country –
developed or developing face appropriate sanctions and without delay. It is
clear that without decisively addressing the Corruption issue any attempt to
achieve 2030 Agenda Vision ambition is mirage.
Central Role for
MGoS
The 9 MGs and 3 or 4
other Stakeholders being the Citizens Component of the troika – 306/193 Member
States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMG and MGoS need to be more proactive and
ensure that all 3 How questions highlighted from FfD Outcome are answered by UN
Member States and UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and without further delay.
The NGO MG is the
biggest of all the MGs, yet it is not making much impact and it is not
contributing as much as it could to removing the Disconnect between Community
and NY in each of the 306/193 UN Member States. Each of the MGs needs to be
reorganized and restructured into four broad divisions – Advocacy and Lobbying,
Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research and Science.
Each MG Member must operate within specific context (2030 Agenda part or whole)
and specific location
(Community to Global) and Registration at ECOSOC, DPI etc must be
subject to annual renewal based on performance, including contribution to minimum
certain number of Consultations appropriate to the specific Registration
category.
We perceive NGO MG
has well over 500 Members out of over 4,000 ECOSOC Registered NGOs across the
World – the actual number could be more. It is not helpful that NGO MG rarely
engage in Global Consultation and when it does like the recent Global
Consultation on HLPF Position Paper, less than 30 Members endorsed the Document
and even less participated actively in drafting the Document. The probability
is that more or less the same level of contribution to MG Global Consultation
is recorded in remaining Eight MGs. If Policy Makers and Decision Makers on
Member States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF sides do not know why over 90% of
Members in 9 MGs and 3 or 4 other Stakeholder Groups do not participate in
Global Consultations, they will not know how to remove the disconnect between
Community and NY in each UN Member State. Allowed to continue, MGoS will
continue to underperform in delivery on their Central Role responsibilities in
the work towards achieving 2030 Agenda Vision ambitions.
We are concerned
that NGO MG that should be in the forefront in Advocacy for clear and correct
answer to MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized
with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States has in
editing out paragraph on Clear and Correct answer to How questions in the HLPF
2016 Position Paper demonstrated it is avoiding or evading being part of answer
to How questions.
We are informed that our general comment will be shared that
CSO FfD Group. We have requested for a Listserv of select CSO FfD Group
Members, NGO MG OP, ISPE/EAG representative to discuss this matter, come up
with MGoS HLPF Position Paper endorsed by Members of all 9 MGs and 3 or 4 other
Stakeholders, within 4 weeks extension period. It is pertinent to note that as
long as How questions remain unanswered, it would be uphill task seeking to
achieve AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Vision Ambitions.
Leaving No One
Behind
If the 2030 Agenda
is to be achieved, the implication is that No One will be left behind when the
Global Goals are reached by 2030 target date. The outlook in this 2nd
quarter of 2016 Year of Implementation is that given the level of disconnect,
discontent and disappointment, the probability is high that many would be left
behind by 2030 target date, if National Leaders and World Leaders – Policy
makers and Decision Makers on 306/193 UN Member States, UN System – UNO, WBG
and IMF, MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs do not urgently
face new direction and adopt new priorities.
Way Forward
Member States and UN
System – UNO, WBG and IMF and MGoS are urged to consider taking the following
Action Steps without delay:-
1. Select One
Worldwide Approach – most All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious Approach
with clear Principles, Instruments corresponding to each Principle, Practices
and Database.
2. Appoint newly
established United
Nations Reform Group to United Nations System including WBG and IMF (body of UN
CEB) as Global Internal Coordinating Consultant to UN System including WBG and
IMF, 306/193 UN Member States, MGoS Member CSOs’/NGOs’ and Non MGoS Member
CSOs’/NGOs’ on both Developed and Developing Countries sides involved in the
Design and Delivery of Policy, Program, Project Intervention, 3PI or 3PI
Training as One in each of the Action Agenda Items in National Goals aligned
and harmonized with Global Goals.
3. Select Global
External Coordinating Consultant to UN System including WBG and IMF, 306/193 UN Member States, MGoS
Member CSOs’/NGOs’ and Non MGoS Member CSOs’/NGOs’ on both Developed and
Developing Countries sides involved in the Design and Delivery of Policy,
Program, Project Intervention, 3PI or 3PI Training as One in each of the Action
Agenda Items in National Goals aligned and harmonized with Global Goals. Selected Institution should have demonstrated
most acceptable levels of Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft
Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset to be able to Deliver on its responsibilities.
4. Support
establishment of MSP for 2030 Agenda focused on Discipline for Village to
Global Internal and External Consultants
5. Support
establishment of MSP for 2030 Agenda focused on Services, Sectors and Issues
within entire AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21.
6.
Take
complementary Action Steps to (1) – (5).
Conclusion
The HLTD 21 April 2016 held Back to Back with the FfD Forum
2016. It is sad HLTD 2016 continued with Business as Usual to produce Outcome
that was Vision and Words without Action and that avoided or evaded answer to
How questions.
It is doubtful if any of the MSPs registered on SDKP can move
forward in each of the above 3 Actions. Yet the only MSP specifically focused
on Discipline has its registration application on “technical suspension”.
With 2 relevant UN Events in April 2016 – Global Consultation
on Follow Up and Review Elements Paper 28 April 2016 and UN CEB 27 – 29 April
2016, it is our hope that relevant authorities would recognize the urgent need
to grapple effectively with the challenges of finding clear and correct answers
to MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with
Community and Country Development Plans and Country Assistance Programs of
Member States.
It is bad that fundamental issues that ought to have been
settled by end 1st quarter 2015 Year of Decision are still
outstanding in 2nd quarter 2016 Year of Implementation. Should
National and Global Leaders – Policy Makers and Decision Makers on 306/193 UN
Member States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF, MGoS Member CSOs’/NGOs’ and Non
MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs sides fail to adopt new priorities and face new
direction, there is high probability the situation will remain the same by end
4th quarter 2016 Year of Implementation. Allowed to occur the ultimate
consequences could be catastrophic for Citizens on both Developed and
Developing Countries, especially the over 2 Billion Poor the
UN System – UNO,
WBG and IMF claim to serve.
We are willing to offer a more detailed
information / clarification on any of the points made in this Paper.
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 25 April 2016.
