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 14
Commentary (1) on 6 May 2016 co-Facilitators Draft Resolution on Review
of SG Report on Follow Up and Review: A New Landscape for Stakeholder
Engagement in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF?
We commend the effort of the co-Facilitators towards
having a draft resolution on the follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development at the Global level ready for adoption by end May 2016.
We observe that Outcome of Consultation on Elements Paper on
Follow Up and Review included regular consultation with co-facilitators of
other processes, ensure coherent approach across the system etc that coincide
with points we consistently advocate.
We observe the continuing improvement in language and text.
This is good. However, we are concerned that the document remain Vision and
Words without Action and will remain so for as long as How questions are
avoided or evaded. It is not helpful to produce an impotent document that
ensures past mistakes are re-occurring decimals.
We are in this paper making comment for improving the draft
resolution. Commentary (1) addresses Gaps that need to be filled. We are
working on Commentary (2) that will suggest edits and comments for improving
the draft resolution.
Answer Monitoring
and Evaluation How Questions
We are pleased that 2030 Agenda:
Scope and Implications Strand has joined National Implementation Strand of the
UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 to adopt key points in NEHAP/ISPE/EAG
submissions to UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 that are crucial if Global
Goals - AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 are to be Vision and Words with Action
and if implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation of the
implementation of all Agenda Items from Community to Global levels is to
achieve increasing convergence between Vision Intention and Reality in each Community
in each UN Member State by 2030 target date.
It is our hope that the Integrated Report
of the 3 Strands will produce a First Draft SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 that
would be released soon. We do look forward to making contributions that could
help improve the Draft SG Report on e-Discussion 2016.
We observe that the attendance of Heads of
UNO, WBG and IMF at UN CEB April 2016 is evidence that our type of advocacy is
being increasingly taken seriously by relevant UN Authorities. We urge relevant
UN Authorities to speedily make UN CEB April 2016 Outcome Document available to
the public.
It is
pertinent to note that AAAA is essentially the Finance Dimension of all 17 SDGs
and not just about Goal 17 alone; that the Finance Dimension of all 17 SDGs need
to be complemented with Economic, Environment, Justice, Humanitarian,
Corruption, Political, Social, Security and Reform Dimension of all 17 SDGs.
These 10 Dimensions of all 17 SDGs each has Development Communication and Development
Research, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and
Digitization, Performance Management and Measures of Success Components that are interconnected, interdependent and interlinked and that
addressing all root problems from Community to Global levels individually and
collectively underline urgent need for UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN
Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs
and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs on Developed and Developing Countries sides to
find clear and correct answers to MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans How
questions.
It is our hope that contributions that
could help improve UN CEB April 2016 Outcome Document will also help improve
the Draft SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 thus making Final Copy SG Report on
e-Discussion 2016 the first UN Document to set out clear and correct answers to
Economic, Environment, Justice, Humanitarian,
Corruption, Political, Social, Security, Finance and Reform Dimension of all 17
SDGs and their
respective Development Communication and Development Research, Planning and
Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and Digitization, Performance
Management and Measures of Success Components and related Global Goals and
National Goals How questions.
UN CEB April 2016 and UNDP and UNDESA
e-Discussion 2016 suggest that the idea of finding clear and correct answer to
How questions is gaining increasing currency and more authorities on UN System -
UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States and MGoS sides are recognizing urgent need
to answer How questions - although language and text in some of these UN
Documents is yet to be clear in stating specifically that How questions need to
be answered. We note that this 2030 Agenda: Scope and Implications Summary used
clear language in calling on Stakeholders to address urgent need to answer How
questions.
We urge relevant authorities to recognize
that without meaningfully involving the idea creator and as soon as possible,
in the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of
ideas harvested from each UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF Entity Global
Consultations avoidable error would be make and this could be very costly.
For example, it is not helpful to keep the
UN CEB April 2016 Outcome Document outside public view. It is only when the
document is in public domain that Institutions like ours could make comments on
improving its provisions and in ways that help achieve better implementation of
these provisions and it is not helpful to implement UNDP and UNDESA
e-Discussion 2016 Outcome Document / SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 without
meaningfully involving idea creators whose submissions have been synthesized
into the Report.
It is clear that finding correct answer to
How questions demands minimum certain levels of Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft
Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset on Community to Global Stakeholders
– 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary; UN System – UNO,
WBG and IMF and MGos Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs sides and
that these Community to Global Stakeholders need to work in improving
Cooperation, Collaboration, Cohesion and Coordination within Master MSP and MSP
Platforms on which Community to Global Internal Consultants and External
Consultants provide the required levels of technical support and advise to UN
System - UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and
Judiciary; MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs on Developed and
Developing Countries sides.
We further urge the relevant authorities
need to recognize that correct answer to How questions can only be
found in the Doing and this would involve the type of capacity building
we have described in 3PCM Model. It is our hope that these authorities will
stop looking for solutions that exist and will not allow bright prospects of
success to be squandered.
The Draft Resolution can only be potent –
Vision and Words with Action, if clear and correct language and text set out
specific provisions effectively and efficiently addressing all points made in
this and other sections of this Paper.
Review of SG Report
on Follow Up and Review
The co-Facilitators are making Giant Strides in the work
towards delivering draft resolution ready for adoption by end May 2016. However
to deliver potent draft resolution that is Vision and Words with Action they
need to move away from Business as Usual and move towards Business Unusual –
not only in effectively addressing How questions issues raised in earlier
section of this Paper but related issues such as:-
UN System, UN Member
States and MGoS Engagement Mechanism
We urge the co-Facilitators to recognize that MGoS (CSOs/NGOs)
Engagement Mechanism is in Decay from Community to Global levels; that UN
System - UNO, WBG and IMF Engagement Mechanism as well as UN Member States -
Executive, Parliament and Judiciary Engagement Mechanism are also in Decay;
that overhaul of MGoS Engagement Mechanism, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF
Engagement Mechanism and UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary
Engagement Mechanism is necessary condition for achieving increasing
convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with
Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 Countries Vision Intention
and Reality.
We urge the co-Facilitators to recognize that many Networks at
Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional and Regional levels working on
any aspect of Global Goals aligned and harmonized with Community and National
Development Plans need to get effectively involved in Strengthening the UN
System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and
Judiciary and MGoS and Non MGoS Engagement Mechanism. The reality is that many
Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional and Regional and Global
Networks are yet to establish Engagement Mechanism that effectively link each
Community in each Country in each Region to UN Headquarters.
The Acid Test of Credibility of the draft resolution is How it answers
Community to Global UN System, UN Member States and MGoS Engagement Mechanism
How questions within specific Community to Global Context of Global Goals -
AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21.
ECOSOC
Accreditation
We refer to the Notice from DESA NGO
Branch calling on those who may not yet have ECOSOC accreditation to submit
their Registration Application by 1 June 2016.
6 Benefits have been listed for NGOs with
ECOSOC accreditation. Records show over 4,000 NGOs have ECOSOC registration and
that there are 9 MGs and 3 or 4 other Stakeholders, yet in Global Consultations
of many UN Entities, less than 20 NGOs actually participate in Drafting Outcome
Document and less than 50 endorse the Final Outcome Document. The fact that
just a tiny fraction of accredited CSOs/NGOs deliver in this area is a Big
Challenge. This and related problems underline the Decay in MGoS Engagement
Mechanism from Community to Global levels that is exacerbated by Decay in UN
System - UNO, WBG and IMF Engagement Mechanism and Decay in Member States -
Executive, Parliament and Judiciary Engagement Mechanism.
It is pertinent to note that
NEHAP/ISPE/EAG is yet to have ECOSOC accreditation but has contributed as much
as any other CSO/NGO in the Final Push to achieve MDG by 2015 and Transition
from MDG to SDG; that NEHAP/ISPE/EAG is the Only Institution in our World today
Advocating for clear and correct answer to AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 How
questions and that there is difference between AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation Model MGoS, UN System and UN
Member States are interested in and AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation Model that is in Interest of
MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States - Executive,
Parliament, Judiciary working Jointly towards achieving increasing convergence
between AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 Vision Intention and Reality by 2030
target date in each Community in each Country - 306/193 UN Member States.
It is sad that in the implementation and
monitoring and evaluation of UNEP Vision, National Leaders and World Leaders on
UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and
Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGO did not learn lessons from flaws and failures in
implementation and monitoring and evaluation of Agenda 21 Vision that created
the MG Concept 24 years ago and that in the implementation and monitoring and
evaluation of AAAA, SDG and COP21 these National and World Leaders, once again
did not learn lessons from flaws and failures in implementation and monitoring
and evaluation of Agenda 21 Vision and UNEP Vision. The Result is that errors
made in Agenda 21 and UNEP Visions are reoccurring decimals in AAAA, SDG and COP21
Visions.
These National and World Leaders need to
recognize that without going back to the Original Agenda 21 Vision and Original
UNEP Vision, fully implementing these Original Visions with effective
monitoring and evaluation of this implementation, it will be uphill task
seeking the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the implementation
of AAAA, SDG and COP21 in ways that achieve increasing convergence between
AAAA, SDG and COP21 Vision Intention and Reality on 306/193 UN Member States, UN
System - UNO, WBG and IMF and MGoS sides using the MGoS Concept.
There is evidence to support the fact that
MGs do not know what their Duties, Responsibilities and Rights can and should
be in the work towards achieving Global Goals using Original MGoS Concept; that
there is no Central Coordination of MGoS Engagement for Result in the UN System
- UNO, WBG and IMF, that UNNGLS that should play this MGoS Central Coordination
Role in the UN System has been undermined, that Multiple NGO Branches in the UN
System is unhelpful - UN Entities in UNO Component of UN System have many NGO
Branches, the WBG has less number of NGO Branches than UNO and the IMF is
allergic to Constructively Engaging NGOs/CSOs (MGoS), and that MGoS
participation in work towards achieving Global Goals is currently less than
required for Total Success on Sustainable Basis in all 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and
Agenda 21.
It is pertinent to note that the Backbone
of Community to Global Integrated, Interlinked, Interdependent and
Interconnected MGoS Engagement Mechanism, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF
Engagement Mechanism and 306/193 UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and
Judiciary Engagement Mechanism is Master MSP and MSPs that effectively and
efficiently address all fundamental issues within Economic, Environment,
Finance, Justice, Humanitarian, Corruption, Political, Social, Security and
Reform Dimensions of all 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 as applicable
within specific Community to Global Context and Location.
At the moment some 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21
and Agenda 21 Action Agenda Items are over covered, some are under-covered and
some are not covered at all by MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member
CSOs/NGOs at Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and
Global levels. This should not be the case if the Global Goals are to be
achieved by 2030 target date.
Let us consider a situation in which 100
CSOs/NGOs are working in one to all processes/components of Action Agenda Items
in each of the 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 within Policy, Program,
Project Intervention, 3PI and 3PI Training as One, that is, 1,700 CSOs/NGOs
with 20% being Global CSOs/NGOs working in all Regions, Sub-regions, Countries
and Communities in all 306/193 UN Member States; 40% being Regional CSOs/NGOs
working in all Sub-regions, Countries and Communities in their Region and 40%
being National CSOs/NGOs working in all Communities in their Country - will NY
not be effectively connected to each Community and in ways that give Stronger
Voice to the People and ensure that No One is Left Behind? Will these
Structured, Organized, Oriented and Disciplined 1,700 CSOs/NGOs in this new
scenario not do better than the over 4,000 CSOs/NGOs in current unstructured,
non-orientated, unorganized and undisciplined scenario?
Is it not the Duty of OP in each of the
MGs to take up any issue any CSO/NGO is having with any UN Entity with
appropriate Duty Bearer or Policy Maker or Decision Maker in that UN Entity? Is
it not the Duty of UNNGLS to effectively compliment the effort of the OP in
this regard? Is such Mechanism in place now? Should there not be categories of
ECOSOC Registration that relate to each ECOSOC accredited CSO/NGO (MGoS) level
of Operation - Part or All Global Goals and Size of Coverage Area - Community
to Global? Should there not be a Mechanism for Monitoring and Evaluation of
each ECOSOC accredited CSO/NGO (MGoS) Performance as basis for annual renewal
of ECOSOC Registration? Can CSOs/NGOs (MGoS) contribute meaningfully towards
achieving AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and
Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States if the Engagement
Mechanism on MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States are not
urgently overhauled? Can MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member
States do this on their own without Professional Support and Technical Advice
from Institution that has built the Hard Competences: Learning and Skills
and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset to effectively support
Community to Global Stakeholders in this regard?
The point we are making is that there is
no point in continuing ECOSOC registration without first overhauling the
CSO/NGO (MGoS) Engagement Mechanism and simultaneously overhauling
related Engagement Mechanism on UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF side as well as
related Engagement Mechanism on UN Member States - Executive, Parliament,
Judiciary side on one hand and establishing effective and efficient Community
to Global Master MSP and MSPs covering all Action Agenda Items in all 17 SDGs,
AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country
Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States on the other hand.
In view of the above there is urgent need
for clear and correct answer to Community to Global UN System, UN Member States
and MGoS Engagement Mechanism How questions. Can this be done without answering
all How questions we have consistently raised? Now that the idea of finding
clear and correct answer to How questions is gaining currency in UN Entities,
can these answers be fully implemented with effective monitoring and evaluation
of this implementation without meaningfully involving idea creators whose
suggestions are included in Community to Global Consultation on MGoS, UN System
- UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary
sides?
2015
Agreements - AAAA, SDG and COP21 – Acid Test of Credibility
The Acid Test of Credibility of each of
the 3 Global Agreements in 2015 – AAAA, SDG and COP21 is How it delivers:-
1.
Better
National and Global Collective Action for Village to Global Sustainable
Development
2.
Better
UNO, WBG and IMF – UN System Delivering as One, DaO Driving Village to Global
Sustainable Development
3.
Better
Trade, Aid, Debts and Taxes in each of 306/193 UN Member States
4.
Better
War on Poverty, Hunger, Disease and Environmental Degradation, PHDE and War on
Terrorism, Insurgency, Slavery and Corruption, TISC in each of 306/193 UN
Member States.
It is pertinent to note that for each Entity on 306/193 UN Member States – Executive,
Legislature and Judiciary; UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and Citizens – MGoS
Member CSOs/NGOs; Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs; Traditional and Religious
Institutions; Education and Training Institutions; Media Institutions; Business
Enterprises, Social and Solidarity Enterprises sides to Pass this Acid Test of
Credibility, clear and correct answers to How questions must be found and on
time. The Draft Resolution need to contribute and be seen to contribute
meaningfully towards strengthening UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN
Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and Citizens – MGOs Member
CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs to Pass this Acid Test of Credibility.
Strengthening Cooperation, Collaboration, Coherence
and Coordination
Policy Makers and
Decision Makers on 306/193 UN Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF
and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs in Developed and
Developing Countries sides need to jointly adopt Inclusive P4CSD: Policy Cooperation, Collaboration,
Coherence and Coordination for Sustainable Development.
The additional Challenges are those of Education, Capacity
Building, Pro Poor Institutional Reform, Pro Poor Economic Growth and related
matters all structured within:-
a) Inclusive EAT4SD: Education and Training for
Sustainable Development – 5 Linkages: EAT4SD Theoretical and Practical
Instruction; EAT4SD and Industry; EAT4SD at Different Levels – Primary,
Secondary, Tertiary, Vocational, Professional; EAT4SD at different Types of
Institutions – Government, Private, NGO, Parochial, other’ EAT4SD and Extension
– Government, Private, Pluralistic.
b) Inclusive CAB4SD: Capacity Building for Sustainable
Development – 3 Levels: Individual –
Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage
and Mindset; Institution – Pro Poor
Institution Reform Processes and Pro Poor Economic Growth Processes that
Support Individuals practicing their Hard and Soft Competences in their Day to
Day work and in ways that help achieve Corporate Goals and Vision and Society – Political & Cultural,
Economic & Financial, Social & Environmental, Religious & Moral,
Peace & Security Space for Institutions to Thrive on Chaos.
c)
3PI and 3PI Multidisciplinary Training,
Research and Consultancy as One: Policy, Program, Project Intervention, 3PI and 3PI Training as
One in each Action Agenda Item in AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 Aligned
and Harmonized to National development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States, UN
System including WBG and IMF and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs in Developed and
Developing Countries sides.
d)
Integrated Master Plans: Village to Global
e)
Internal and External Consultants
Support System: Village to
Global
f) Correct Diagnosis, Prescription,
Surgery and Recovery Management System: Village to Global
g)
One Worldwide Approach to (a) – (f)
and earlier part of (1).
Sustainable Development Intelligence and Sustainable
Development Science
At EAG our Vision is a World without Hunger
and Poverty. We have developed the most advance One Worldwide Approach –
Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management, 3PCM to National and International
Development Cooperation that is sufficiently “All Inclusive, All Embracing and
Ambitious” to help Community to Global Stakeholders on UN System – UNO, WBG and
IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and Major
Groups and other Stakeholders, MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs on Developed and
Developing Countries sides work in better Cooperation, Collaboration, Cohesion
and Coordination towards achieving increasing convergence between Global Goals
– AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and
Country Development Plans.
The 3PCM Approach include Sustainable
Development Intelligence – the bridge between understanding the threat of
collapse and decay and opportunities of creation and strengthening; Sustainable
Development Science – Integrated Development Communication and Development
Research, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and
Digitization, Performance Management and Measures of Success Sciences deployed
in ways that meaningfully support physical scientists/researchers, natural
scientists/researchers and social scientists/researchers to work better with
themselves and Community to Global Stakeholders identified above to identify
root problems on the ground in the work towards design and delivery of
community, sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global system fit
for the 21st century; find practical and sustainable solutions to
these problems, fully implement these solutions with effective monitoring and
evaluation of these solutions.
Extracts from 2030 Agenda Scope and Implication Strand
of UNDP/ UNDESA e-Discussion
In the first phase of the implementation
of the Agenda 2030, to make sure that the agenda takes root at a local level,
each country’s government and its leaders should consider the following:
·
develop a clear strategy on how the SDGs will be implemented;
·
ensure that the process will be inclusive and participatory;
·
conduct future spending reviews to ensure a coherent cross-department
SDGs delivery;
·
appoint a Government Minister for day-to-day responsibility of the SDGs;
and
·
allow and support progress to be independently reviewed by academia,
business and civil society.
The UN development system could provide
coordinated and integrated support for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda
through:
1.
Promoting immediate selection of One Worldwide Approach, Whole of the UN
System including WBG and IMF Approach;
2.
Promoting an immediate shift from silos to synergy and fragmentation to
Multi Stakeholder Partnership;
3.
Promoting Innovative Use of Science and Technology;
4.
Promoting Innovative Use of Monitoring and Evaluation results;
5.
Promoting Innovative Use of Finance for Development results;
6.
Promoting Change and Modernization in the UN System including WBG and
IMF to become Fit for the 21st Century and to become more cost effective
and deliver better;
7.
Promoting Attitudinal, Behavioral and Cultural Change within the UN System
including WBG and IMF;
8.
Immediately addressing the current lack of clarity with regard to
an overall point of integration to synthesize and oversee the implementation
effort in its entirety; and
9.
Immediately addressing all How To(s) and Know How(s) within (1) – (8).
The draft Resolution needs to clearly
address and be seen to address points made in this section and other sections
of this Paper.
Conclusion
The draft resolution has many good and
well intended provisions. But god intention is not enough. Accommodation has
been provided for CSOs/NGOs, but do CSOs/NGOs have the Hard Competences:
Learning and Skill and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset to
deliver on their Duties and Responsibilities in the new dispensation? If all
aspect of Monitoring and Evaluation is left entirely to Voluntary Initiatives
of UN Member States, can Global Goals Vision Ambitions become reality by 2030
Target date? Can clear and correct answers to these and related questions be
found on UN System, UN Member States and MGoS sides without fully addressing
all points raised in this and earlier Papers?
Valuable time has been wasted. The SG
Report on e-Discussion 2016 shed light on way forward in the Common Interest
and Common Future of Citizens in 306/193 UN Member States. It is up to National
Leaders, World Leaders, UNO Executives, WBG Executives, IMF Executives, MGoS
Executives, Non MGoS Executives and other Stakeholders Executives to give
necessary endorsement to the SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 and press forward
to effectively support full implementation as well as effective monitoring and
evaluation of the implementation of all Recommendations set out in SG Report on
e-Discussion 2016.
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 11 April 2016.
