ISPE EAG
INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP
Implementation and Evaluation of EGM on Strategies to
Eradicate Poverty May 2017 Report – Central Role for 8 June 2017 UK Election
Voters
2 June
2017
Table
of Contents
Page
1.
Introduction 3
2.
Integrated Vision 5
3.
Implementing the Two Reports Recommendations and Conclusions 8
4.
Ending Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty 8
5.
Global Pilot Program 10
6.
Evaluation 10
7.
New UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Vision – Paradigm Shifts 10
8. Multi Stakeholder Platform / Partnership, MSP 11
9.
Rethinking War on Hunger, War on Malnutrition and War
on Poverty 12
10.
Human Centered Design 14
11.
World Future 15
12.
The Argument 16
13.
Good Reforms – Political Will and Public
Will 16
14.
Conclusion 17
15.
Appendix 19
Acronyms
3PIs
– Policy, Program, Project Interventions
3PCM
– Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management
9
Blocks of Stakeholders – UN Member States – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary;
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Entities;
Commonwealth System Entities; CSOs/NGOs; Farmer and Processor Organizations;
Private Sector: Micro, Small, Medium, Large, Multinational; Academics and
Researchers; Internal Consultants and External Consultants; Journalists: Print,
TV, Radio, Online
AAAA
– Addis Ababa Action Agenda
COP21
– Climate Change Agreement 2015
CPS
– Country Partnership Strategy
EAG
– Economic Alliance Group
EAC
– Environmental Audit Committee of UK Parliament
EGM
– Expert Group Meeting
EPEHEM
– End Poverty, End Hunger and End Malnutrition
IDEAS
– International Development Evaluation Association
ISPE
– International Society for Poverty Elimination
IMF
– International Monetary Fund
MSP
– Multi Stakeholder Platform / Partnership
NAP
– National Adaptation Plan
NEHMAP
– New End Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty
NSA
– Non State Actors
SDG
– Sustainable Development Goals
UNO
- United Nations Organization
UNS
- United Nations System
WBG
– World Bank Group
WDR
– World Development Report by World Bank
Introduction
We applaud Organizers and
Participants at the Experts Group Meeting, EGM on Strategies to Achieve
Sustainable Development for All, UN Headquarters, 8 – 11 May 2017 on the
release of its Report.
The Report underlines urgent need for
Internal Publics and External Publics in the UN System: UNO, WBG and IMF to
jointly find correct answers to Structural and Policy Changes real and complex
correct diagnosis, correct prescription, correct surgery and correct recovery
management How questions in each specific Community, Sub-national, National,
Sub-regional, Regional and Global location context in each of the 306/193 UN
Member States.
We applaud the UK Parliament
Environmental Audit Committee, EAC on the release of its Report on Sustainable
Development Goals in the UK.
The Report underlines urgent need for
the UK Government and UK Parliament to jointly with their Partners - other
State Actors (Government Agencies and Entities) and Non State Actors (Civil
Society, Business and General Public) and International Institutions (UN System:
UNO, WBG and IMF Entities and Commonwealth System Entities within and beyond
the UK on Rethinking UK National Development Vision interlinked, interconnected
and interdependent with Rethinking UK International Development Vision.
The Two Reports recognizes rightly
that whereas MDG (Millennium Development Goals) affect only South Countries,
the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) affect all 306/193 UN Member States,
that is all North and South Countries in our World today.
It is pertinent to note that the UK,
other North Countries, Nigeria and other South Countries all face Food
Security, Nutrition Challenges and Sustainable Development issues and that the
SDG is an All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious Agenda for effectively
addressing all these issues within Mutual Collaboration between each North and
South Country and their Internal and External Publics.
It is pertinent to note further that
the Two Reports each answer what questions while avoiding or evading answers to
How questions.
ISPE/EAG study finding is that:-
1. The 14 points set out in the UK
Parliament EAC Report Conclusions and Recommendations cannot be fully
implemented with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation and
in ways that achieve increasing convergence between New UK National Development
Vision and New UK International Development Vision and SDG Vision Intention and
Reality in each Community in the UK and each Community in each UK Partner North
Country and South Country in our World today and in ways that strengthen and
reinforce Connection between each Community in UK and other North Countries and
South Countries in our World today and UNO Headquarters New York; UN Agencies
Headquarters in New York, Geneva and Rome; WBG Headquarters Washington and IMF
Headquarters Washington.
2. The Key Messages and Recommendations (unnumbered
but set out in Pages 4 - 13) in EGM on Strategies to Eradicate Poverty May 2017
Report cannot be fully implemented with effective monitoring and evaluation of
this implementation and in ways that achieve increasing convergence between New
National Development Vision, New International Development Vision, SDG Vision,
AAAA Vision, COP21 Vision, Agenda 21 Vision Intention and Reality in each
Community of 306/193 UN Member States and in ways that strengthen and reinforce
Connection between each Community in each North Country and South Country in
our World today and UNO Headquarters New York; UN Agencies Headquarters in New
York, Geneva and Rome; WBG Headquarters Washington and IMF Headquarters
Washington.
2/3 of the World Poor have their livelihoods
in Agriculture. There is no North Country or South Country in our World today
that can meaningfully address its Food Security, Nutrition Challenges and
Sustainable Development issues without the specific UN Member State Government
and specific UN Member State Parliament effectively supporting End Hunger,
Malnutrition and Poverty Initiatives in UK, Europe, Nigeria, Africa, US and
rest of the World.
The EGM on Strategies to Eradicate
Poverty May 2017 Report rightly identifies the Central Role of Food,
Agriculture and Nutrition Dimension of all the 17 Goals of the SDG in the work
towards finding sustainable solutions to real and complex Political, Cultural,
Economic, Financial, Social, Environment, Peace, Security, Religious, Moral,
Legal, Technical problems on the ground challenging each Community in each of
306/193 UN Member States.
Today UK Poverty is such that for
many Children, Youth, Women, Men and Elders on both White Citizens and BME
Citizens sides is at Victoria Era levels. Today US Poverty is such that for
many Children, Youth, Women, Men and Elders White and Non White Citizens is at
Jim Crow levels despite over 50 years of US War on Poverty. The Two Reports
underline urgent need for National and International Stakeholders in each of
306/193 UN Member States to face New Direction and Adopt New Priorities, if
sustainable solutions are to be found to ensure World Poverty is eradicated by
2030 Target date of the SDG
The SDG overarching Goals are Ending
Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty and Achieving Environmental Sustainability. However
about a month to end of 2nd quarter in 2017 Year 2 of
Implementation, fundamental issues that ought to have been settled by end 1st
quarter 2015 Year of Decision are still outstanding. This is not helpful.
Mary Creagh, MP Chair of
Environmental Audit Committee made comments when the Report was being released
that underlined need for UK Government and UK Parliament and their Domestic and
Foreign Partners to ensure that Brexit is Force for Good and not Force for Evil
and all Ideas and Issues highlighted in the Report are made 8 June 2017
election issues. UK Government Agencies including Electoral Commission; UK
Parliament (now that Parliament is dissolved, responsibility reside in Top
Parliamentary Civil Servants); UK Businesses – Micro, Small, Medium, Large and
Multinationals; UK Citizens, especially White and BME Community Leaders need to
ensure that in the few days remaining to the 8 June 2017 Elections, issues
highlighted in the Two Reports are made election issues. Whichever Party emerge
Victorious need Working Majority if the Political Will and Public Will
necessary to Mobilize National and Global Collective Action required to Drive
Needed Change within Structural and Policy Change for Sustainable Solutions to
real and complex UK New National Development Vision and UK New International
Development Vision problems on the ground from Community to Global levels are
to be found.
This Paper sets out ideas and
suggestions that could help:-
1. The Next Environmental Audit
Committee, Next UK Parliament and Next UK Government authorities come to early
decision on Partnership Strategy with their respective Constituencies or
Internal and External Publics within the UK and beyond that simultaneously
better promote the Common Interest and Common Future of over 7 Billion Citizens
in both North and South Countries in general and the Common Interest and Common
Future of over 2 Billion Poor Children, Youth, Women, Men and Elders in
particular that FAO; UNO and UN System: UNO, WBG and IMF serve.
2. The Serving Parliament and Serving
Government in other North Countries and South Countries authorities come to
early decision on Partnership Strategy with their respective Constituencies or
Internal and External Publics within and beyond the specific North or South
Country that simultaneously better promote the Common Interest and Common
Future of over 7 Billion Citizens in both North and South Countries in general
and the Common Interest and Common Future of over 2 Billion Poor Children,
Youth, Women, Men and Elders in particular that FAO; UNO and UN System: UNO,
WBG and IMF serve.
Integrated
Vision
The Two Reports, each identifies many
real and complex problems on the ground. The Big issue is How can these complex
problems be correctly diagnosed with correct prescription, correct surgery and
correct recovery management?
DFID has responsibility for Design
and Delivery on UK International Development Vision. DFID’s work is done
largely in partnership with South Country Governments, is Demand Driven and responds
to National Plans and Priorities of Partner Countries. Structural and Policy
Changes are Driven only by the UK Government and UK Parliament.
Non State Actors, NSAs cannot be
involved in Structural Decision Making Processes and/or Change of any kind related
to DFID given that NSAs are Observers according to Internal Procedures. Yet
DFID records show that many NSAs had demonstrated capacity to help DFID to more
effectively address its Structural and Policy Change issues and in ways that
strengthen DFID to be Institution fit for the 21st Century.
FAO has very Robust Partnership
Strategy with its various Constituencies including Private Sector and Civil
Society that the UK Government and UK Parliament consider adopting for
Reinforcing their respective Partnership Strategies with their various
Constituencies.
FAO being a UN Specialized Agency,
its Internal Structure and Processes’ Change and Development are only driven by
UN Member States, especially Powerful North Countries such as UK, France,
Germany, Russia and US and South Countries such as Nigeria, South Africa,
Brazil, China and India. FAO Internal Structure and Policy Change and
Development are only driven by Member States. NSAs cannot be involved in
Structural Decision Making Processes and/or Change of any kind related to FAO
given that NSAs are Observers according to Internal Procedures. Yet FAO records
show that many NSAs had demonstrated capacity to help FAO to more effectively
address its Structural and Policy Change issues and in ways that strengthen FAO
to be Institution fit for the 21st Century.
The overall import of the Two Reports
is that there is urgent need for Structural and Policy Change Initiatives in
the UK Government and UK Parliament that is Linked to Structural and Policy
Change Initiatives in the Government and Parliament on other North Countries
and South Countries aimed at helping all Communities in all North and South
Countries to achieve all SDGs’ by 2030 Target date and this calls for
Integrated Vision – 2030 Transformation Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
aligned and harmonized with Community Development Plans and Country Development
Plans in each of 306/193 Member States.
The EOSOC Forum on Finance for
Development May 2017 called for a Universal Approach to Poverty that includes a
Holistic Bottom Up Approach that responds and commits to effectively tackling
social concerns including social protection and risk management systems; gender
equality; women’s and girl’s empowerment; productivity concerns and corporate
social responsibility; financial inclusion and inequality; measuring success
and performance management. This Call underlines the Principle of Integration
at the Core of the 2030 Transformation Agenda Driving the SDG as an Integrated
Vision.
The EGM on Strategies to Eradicate
Poverty May Report noted that:-
1. Sustainable approaches to addressing inequality require not only
technically sound approaches, but also need to be part of and constitute social
contracts.
2. An enhanced role of the United Nations is needed for ensuring greater
international cooperation in particular for capacity building of less developed
countries and for combating illicit transfer of funds and stemming harmful tax
completion.
3. Investing in agricultural and non-agricultural activities in rural areas
promotes food security and improved nutrition and also boosts income of rural
poor households, increase consumption and aggregate demand in local areas.
Transforming rural areas as a source of productive employment will also
contribute to curbing rural-urban migration.
4. Poverty, in and of itself, is a multifaceted challenge that needs a
multiplicity of solutions to combat it. Innovative and inclusive finance, is
not a “silver bullet” to get people out of poverty, 9 but by creating
employment, additional income and savings buffers, it can play a role in
reducing poverty and the impact thereof, as well as boosting wellbeing.
5. Integrating adaptation strategies to climate change into development
plans and poverty eradication strategies, including social protection will
address vulnerability and build resilience. Countries need to conduct
vulnerability assessment to identify the needs of poor, socially marginalized
and vulnerable people, integrate uncertainty into resilience planning, and
scale adaptation options that benefit many people. Vulnerability can be reduced
and resilience can be built by, and collaborate with multiple partners at
various scales.
6. A right combination of cross-sectoral policies and programmes towards
eliminating hunger and malnutrition needs to be identified. Development of
innovative resource mobilization from a broad set of public and private sector
actors and financial instruments is essential.
7. Policies, including government interventions are required to protect the
rural poor who are disproportionately affected by market failures. Countries
should foster inclusive structural transformation and growth that enables rural
communities to participate in and benefit from economic activity. Rural
cooperatives and institutions should also contribute to poverty eradication.
8. Countries need to maximize the impact of macroeconomic, employment and
social policies on poverty by ensuring policy coherence and more coordination
across sectors and identifying incentives for ministries for better policy coordination
and coherence in line with Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Coordination at the local, regional and national levels and among all
stakeholders would require strong implementation capacity.
Our Study finding is that the Universal Approach that Works will be both
Bottom Up and Top Down and will be All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious
Approach Robust enough to effectively support Design and Delivery – Research
side (Research, Planning, Data/Statistics); Implementation Side – Implementation;
Evaluation Side – (Monitoring, Evaluation) and Success Side (Learning, Results,
Measuring Success)of 2030 Transformation Agenda – AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
aligned and harmonized with Community Development Plans and Country Development
Plans in each of 306/193 UN Member States.
As long as such Universal Approach that is a Common and Systemic
Approach (Not One Cap fit All) is not agreed to by all Community to Global
Stakeholders and effectively deployed from Community to Global levels,
achieving Integrated Vision of the 2030 Transformation Agenda in each Community in each of 306/193 UN
Member States could be Mirage.
Implementing the Two
Reports Recommendations and Conclusions
The past two successful world movements – against
slavery and apartheid did not succeed until the UK Parliament became more
meaningfully involved. The work towards achieving the SDG by 2030 target date
cannot succeed without the UK Parliament recognizing that sustainable solutions
to real and complex SDG problems on the ground at Community, Sub-national,
National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels need to be driven by World
Movement Against Poverty that is far more challenging than the combined
challenge world movement against slavery and apartheid.
The World Bank World Development Report, WDR 2017 on
Governance underlines need for Changing Rules and Procedures if there is to be
increasing convergence between SDG Vision Intention and Reality by 2030 target
date. This could start from New Rules and Procedures that allow for meaningful
involvement of NSAs in Structural and Policy Change Initiatives on North and
South Countries as well as UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF and Commonwealth System
Entities Structural and Policy Changes promoting and protecting Needed Change
that help achieve increasing convergence between SDG Vision Intention and
Reality in each Community in each UN Member State.
The full Implementation with effective Monitoring and
Evaluation of the EAC Report April 2017 Conclusions and Recommendations and EGM
on Strategies to Eradicate Poverty Report May 2017 Key Messages and
Recommendations would contribute significantly towards achieving 2030
Transformation Agenda Targets by 2030 Target date and in ways that help find
sustainable solutions to many of the real and complex National and Global
problems on the ground in each of 306/193 UN Member States.
Ending Hunger, Malnutrition and
Poverty
In a world with almost 868 million people chronically
undernourished in 2013, no single organization or sector can solve the problem
of hunger on its own. FAO therefore places high importance on working together
in partnership4 with all relevant governmental, non-governmental and private
sector stakeholders at local, national, regional and international levels. By
joining forces, FAO and its partners can more effectively contribute to
eradicating chronic hunger and poverty and improving access to food by the poor
and vulnerable.
The FAO Strategy for Partnerships with the Private
Sector has been developed within the context of the FAO Organization-wide
Strategy on partnerships. The latter covers the broad range of partnerships in
general terms and calls for elaboration of specific strategies related to key
categories of partnership, including the private sector.
Agricultural
development and production are core private enterprise activities. The private
sector can thus potentially widely contribute to lifting large numbers of
people in developing countries out of poverty and hunger through responsible
and productive investment, innovation, enhanced efficiency and employment
creation. One of the roles of governments is to create enabling environments for
the private sector to optimize their role in rural development. FAO is well
positioned to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between the public and the
private sector. There is a need for FAO
to better serve as Facilitator of Public Private Policy Dialogue in National
and Global Interest. The Proposed Partnership for Implementation and Evaluation
of the Report Recommendations and Conclusions can strengthen FAO contribution
in this regard.
FAO Mutual Collaboration will start at the grassroots
level in a bottom-up approach that builds on well-established local
relationships. For Best Results, this FAO
approach needs to be complemented with the new FAO EPEHEM (End Poverty, End
Hunger, End Malnutrition) Comprehensive Approach and these need to be
demonstrated and be seen to be demonstrated from Community to Global levels
through One Worldwide Approach to Food, Agriculture and Nutrition that is
Integral Part of Ending Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty that is not a
one-cap-fit-all but One Worldwide Common and Systemic Approach used by FAO
Internal Publics and external Publics at all Community to Global levels. The
only such One Worldwide Approach available anywhere in our World today is 3PCM
– Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management Benefits focused Approach to
National and International Development Cooperation.
3PCM is built upon
Systems Analysis, Systems Theory and Systems Practice as One. NEHMAP (New End
Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty) Initiative demonstrates practicability of the
implementation or operationalization in practice of 3PCM.
As long as
Community to Global Stakeholders in Food, Agriculture, Nutrition /
Malnutrition, Hunger, Poverty Dimension of 2030 Transformation Agenda: AAAA,
SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community Development Plans
and Country Development Plans deploy different Approaches (some of which may be
divergent) to Research: Research, Planning, Statistics/Data; Implementation;
Evaluation: Monitoring, Evaluation; Success: Learning, Results, Success, it
will be uphill task achieving 2030 Transformation Agenda by target date in many
UN Member States, especially in Africa that has traditionally been left behind
in past Global Agriculture Revolutions from the very first to the MDG, which unchecked
could also result in Africa been left behind by SDG 2030 Target date.
With a One
Worldwide Approach to: Research; Implementation; Evaluation and Success sides of
2030 Transformation Agenda, as One; acceptable to all Community to Global
Stakeholders on 9 Blocks: Member States – Governments and Parliaments; UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF Entities; Commonwealth System Entities; CSOs/NGOs;
Private Sector: Micro, Small, Medium, Large, Multinational Enterprises; Farmer
and Processor Organizations; Academics and Researchers; Internal Consultants
and External Consultants; Journalists: Print, TV, Radio, Online - the
probability is high that many real and complex problems on the ground that seem
to be HUGE Mountains will suddenly become Mole Hills.
The selected One
Worldwide Approach does not have to be 3PCM. Stakeholders are free to create an
alternative, provided it is as robust as 3PCM, that Is, the alternative
Approach is a sufficiently “All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious”
Approach, capable of effectively Driving work towards achieving Ambitions of
the “All Inclusive, All Embracing, Ambitious” SDG which affects all North and
South Countries. Please note that AAAA is in reality the Finance Dimension of
SDG; COP21 is in reality the Climate Change Dimension of SDG; Agenda 21 is in
reality the Environment Dimension of SDG and EPEHEM is in reality the Food,
Agriculture, Nutrition/Malnutrition; Hunger and Poverty Dimension of SDG.
Global
Pilot Program
We suggested Pilot Program in 5 Regions and
12 Countries: North Countries - US, UK, Germany, France, Russia and Italy and
South Countries – Nigeria, South Africa, Kuwait, Brazil, China and India. Relevant
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Entities including FAO; Commonwealth System Entities. Central
Coordination meetings for the 6 South Countries will hold at ISPE/EAG Re-opened
Abuja Office and the 6 North Countries in FAO Hq Office Rome.
The Heads of Government in each the 12
Countries will be personally invited by FAO DG to participate in the Global
Pilot Program through submitting Expression of Interest, EOI by certain
deadline date. Countries whose EOIs are received by deadline date and meet
selection criteria will be invited to participate in the Global Pilot Program.
Should some Countries fail: to submit EOI by deadline date or to meet selection
criteria, other Countries in the Sub-region / Region will be invited to submit
EOI until all 12 Countries are selected.
Evaluation
In design and delivery of 2030 Transformation Agenda
Dimensions including Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Wellbeing,
Lifestyle, Hunger, Poverty Dimension, there are challenges with Implementation
and even greater Challenges with Evaluation. ISPE/EAG is discussing an IDEAS
HELF (International Development Evaluation Association, High Level Experts
Forum) to address the 2030 Transformation Agenda Evaluation Challenge with
IDEAS Board. The probability that IDEAS Board will accept to work with ISPE/EAG
in the establishment of the suggested HLEF is 50:50.
New UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF
Vision – Paradigm Shifts
It is clear that in the work towards transforming UN System: UNO, WBG,
IMF into Institutions Fit for the 21st Century, the UN System needs
to be Reformed within a New UN System Vision. In the work towards achieving
increasing convergence between New UN System: UNO, WBG and IMF Vision, Mission
and Mandate that effectively reinforce UN System - UNO, WBG, IMF Delivery as
One, as the UN System work better towards achieving 2030 Agenda - AAAA, SDG,
COP21, Agenda 21 Visions by 2030 Target date, there is a need for UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF Internal and External Publics to have genuine recognition that;
our world today needs paradigm shift from Talking and Thinking to Action and
Accomplishments for Results. That is at the community level, at the
sub-national level, at the country level, at the sub-regional level, at the
regional level, and at the global level, we all need to make these things
happen:
a)
jointly making paradigm shifts
from working in silos to working intersectorially in synergy;
b)
from multiple approaches to common approaches that continuously improve
convergence, alignment and harmony;
c)
from business as usual to business unusual;
d)
from parrotting change to practicing change;
e)
from academic research aimed at advancing frontiers of knowledge to
development research aimed at significant improvement in critical contemporary
measures of service, speed, costs, quality and where necessary revenue;
f)
from talking and thinking to Action and Accomplishment.
A platform such as the FAO Multi
Stakeholder Platform / Partnership, MSP described in this Proposed Partnership
and similar Platforms in UNDESA, other UNO Entities, other UN System: WBG and
IMF Entities; Commonwealth System Entities are Global Public Good that helps
all parties on North and South Governments and Parliaments and Partners sides engage
in dialogue and agree on way-forward actions.
Multi Stakeholder Platform /
Partnership, MSP
We propose a Global Partnership for Ending Hunger,
Malnutrition and Poverty that is a 4 in 1 MSP – Research, Implementation,
Evaluation and Success from Community to Global levels in each of 306/193 UN
Member States that effectively link each Community in each of 306/193 UN Member
States to UNO Headquarters New York; UNO Agencies Headquarters: New York,
Geneva and Rome; WBG Headquarters Washington and IMF Headquarters Washington.
No such MSP exists in our World today. Yet such MSP is required to address
information, knowledge and research gaps as well as close the identified
disconnections.
There is urgent need to establish
such 4 in 1 MSP to effectively remove Disconnect between each Community in each
of 306/193 UN Member States and FAO Headquarters; other UNO Entities
Headquarters Rome; other UNO Entities Headquarters Geneva; other UNO Entities
Headquarters New York; UNO Headquarters New York, WBG Headquarters Washington
and IMF Headquarters Washington and to ensure that Representatives of 9 Blocks
jointly:-
·
Frame Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Dimension of Global Goals AAAA,
SDG, COP21 aligned and harmonized with Community Development Plans and Country
Development Plans in each of 306/193 UN Member States and in ways that motivate
constructive stakeholder engagement in each specific location context Community,
Sun-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global;
·
Identify and assess key stakeholders on Food, Agriculture and Nutrition
Dimension of Global Goals AAAA, SDG, COP21 aligned and harmonized with
Community Development Plans and Country Development Plans in each of 306/193 UN
Member States issues, and build understanding how to leverage areas of
potential agreement and address possible conflicts;
·
Deploy fact finding and analysis to resolve disputed facts and
projections, clarify interactions among political, cultural, economic,
financial, environmental, social, moral, religious, peace, security, legal and
technical drivers, and model the possible political, cultural, economic,
financial, environmental, social, moral, religious, peace, security, legal and
technical impacts of proposed policies and actions;
·
Deploy Interest-based negotiation and mediation to resolve conflicting
interests;
·
Dialogue on trust and relationship building strategies adequate to
effectively and efficiently address underlying conflicts in values, identities
and historical legacies.
·
Understand National and International sustainable development as ongoing
process of negotiation, consensus building and partnership building among Community
to Global stakeholders in each of 306/193 UN Member States with diverse political,
cultural, economic, financial, religious, moral, environmental and social
interests and values;
·
Utilize opportunities for continuing learning and peer exchange on
stakeholder engagement and consensus building for national and international sustainable
development, as part of a community of practice supported by North and South
Countries Governments and Parliaments, FAO, other UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF
Entities; Commonwealth System Entities and ISPE/EAG.
Rethinking War on Hunger, War on
Malnutrition and War on Poverty
The War on Hunger, War on
Malnutrition and War on Poverty need to be Fought and Won together.
The approach to poverty in American politics generally—and in
public child welfare specifically—has always been influenced by the widespread
understanding of poverty as primarily a moral and personal failing, rather than
a structural issue. Child and family poverty, and the policy levers pulled in
response to it, have also been marked by significant racial inequality. It is
pertinent to note that in America today, poverty in many places is at Jim Crow
days level. Also in the UK today, poverty in many places is at Victoria Era
levels.
Throughout its history and up to the present day, the United
States (to a greater extent than other developed countries) places strict means
testing on its safety net, requiring that families demonstrate great need prior
to receiving assistance. We must understand strict means testing as a policy
strategy, then, within this politically and morally charged historical context.
The ferocious backlash
against many War on Poverty Programs, over 50 years old in America and
Worldwide—demonstrate how this segregation of programs for the very needy
creates negative stereotypes and connotations. Programs designed (or perceived
to be designed) exclusively for poor or marginalized populations tend to be
politically vulnerable and viewed with scorn, and tend to convey this scorn and
stigma to recipients through their resources, administrative structures, and
requirements.
The above realities
underline urgent need to Rethink War on Hunger, War on Malnutrition and War on
Poverty in both North and South Countries.
National Leaders and World Leaders on the 9 Blocks sides need to
recognize that Implementing and Evaluating Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Dimension of
Global Goal – AAAA, SDG, COP21 aligned and harmonized with Community
Development Plans and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States
calls for Joint Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional,
Regional and Global Stakeholders Approach to Fighting and Winning War on
Poverty, Hunger, Malnutrition, Disease and Environmental Degradation (PHMDE).
This requires Winning Twelve Battles Against Arrogance, Ignorance,
Indifference, Incompetence, Indiscipline, Injustice, Intolerance, Insincerity,
Inequality, Interference, Impunity and Corruption (A10IC) in each of the PHMDE
Wars. In
each of the PHMDE Wars National Leaders and World Leaders in each of the 9
Blocks 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 community, sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional
and global levels. The vision for development financing fails to
constructively engage with the peace agenda. The EPEHEM, NEHMAP, AAAA, SDG,
COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development
Plans in 306/193 Member States 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 in each of the 306/193 UN Member States.
Similarly, the role of third parties in data production in each Action
Agenda Item in each of the NRMAP- Ag, NRMAP, EPEHEM, NEHMAP, AAAA, SDG, COP21,
Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans
in 306/193 Member States as well as monitoring and evaluation / follow up and
review of Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PIs and 3PI Training as One
needs to be more strongly affirmed. This calls for revision all existing UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF Study Reports, Conferences and Meetings Outcome Documents
and UNGA Resolutions / Declarations.
Human Centered
Design
Today the design of things that involve human interaction, such as
programs, product delivery, and services, is more art than science. Here is how
it typically works: We use our creativity to brainstorm a few big ideas,
experts decide which one they like, and then investors bet on the winner, often
with billions of dollars at stake.
This way of design thinking should be replaced by a superior method that
can enable us to innovate with more success and less risk. Specifically, we can
use scientific insights to generate new ideas and then systematically test and
iterate on them to arrive at one that works.
Advances in two academic fields afford this
opportunity. The first is behavioral science, which gives us empirical insights
into how people interact with their environment and each other under different
conditions. Behavioral science encompasses decades of research from various
fields, including psychology, marketing, neuroscience, and, most recently,
behavioral economics. For example, studies reveal that shorter deadlines lead
to greater responsiveness than longer ones, that
too much choice leads people to choose nothing, and many more observations, often
counterintuitive, about how people react to specific elements of their context.
The second academic field is impact evaluation.
Economists have used randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other experimental
methods to measure the impact of programs and policies. Such impact evaluations
are becoming more and more common in the social sector and in government. These methods allow
us to test whether an innovation actually achieves
the outcomes that the designer sought.
Taking a scientific approach also solves another
common problem: Sometimes we do not even realize that there is something in
need of rigorous, thoughtful design. When we look carefully, the success of
most of what we design for people depends as much, if not more, on the human
interaction as on the physical product. For example, the first iPhone offered
essentially the same functions (phone, calendar, address book, etc.) as a
BlackBerry, but it totally changed the experience of using those functions.
In the social and public sectors, programs and
services are made up largely of human interactions. And yet anything involving
human interaction can be designed more scientifically, and more successfully,
when behavioral science and impact evaluation are applied. For instance, a
vaccine is a technological product, but how and when parents get their children
vaccinated, and how they are reminded to do so, is as much a part of the
innovation as the vaccine itself. Poorly designed interactions make products
less successful and can also underlie serious social problems.
By putting behavioral science and impact evaluation
together— a methodology called behavioral design—Service Providers to 9 Blocks
can design more like engineers than like artists.
These Service Providers can use behavioral science to
develop ideas that are much more likely to work and be meaningfully supported
by the 9 Blocks than those relying entirely on intuition. And Competent
Evaluators can rigorously test those ideas to determine which ones truly work.
Following the model of engineering and scientific progress, Service Providers
and Service Users can jointly build on prior success to make enormous advances
that, under previous approaches, would not be possible.
These points underline need for Attitudinal and
Behavioral Change Revolution as a Primary Revolution that is Integral Part of
other Primary Revolutions: Green / Agriculture Revolution, Enterprise
Revolution, Government Revolution, Applied Research Revolution, Data
Revolution, Digitization Revolution and Secondary Revolutions: Education
Revolution; Health Revolution; Justice Revolution etc designed and delivered
within NRMAP-Ag, NRMAP, EPEHEM, NEHMAP, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and
harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 Member
States
World Future
The answers to FAO EPEHEN, FAO 5 Strategic Objectives as One, Report
Recommendations and Conclusions and Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda
21 How questions are in the DOING and so it is not helpful to avoid or evade
answer the How questions or to provide answer to What questions as answer to
How questions. For Good Development Results, the UK Government and UK
Parliament; the FAO Governing Council and FAO Management need to be clear on
the answer to DOING How questions. To achieve these all Research and Knowledge
Gaps need to be filled so that the existing UK National Development Vision, UK
International Development Vision, FAO EPEHEN, FAO 5 Strategic Objectives that is
each Vision and Words could be converted into Policy, Program, Project
Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs as One for each Action Agenda Item in the Global
Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 that is each Vision and Words with
Action and these Tested in the Global Pilot Program to identify what works in a
Community / Country and How it could be improved and what does not work and how
it could be corrected before Scale Up across all Communities in the Country and
in ways that maintain strong links between Communities in each Country and
concerned Commonwealth System, UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Headquarters in New
York, Rome, Geneva.
It is pertinent to note that our
World is currently accelerating on MADning (Mutually Assured Destruction) Road
to DOOM and there is urgent need to change to MAPing (Mutually Assured
Prosperity) Road to Boom. The Future of our World greatly depends on shifting
from the MADning Road to the MAPing Road and on time. FAO Governing Council and
FAO Management could help ensure our World makes this shift and as soon as
possible through design and delivery of Report Recommendations and conclusions,
UK National Development Vision, UK International Development Vision, FAO EPEHEM
supported by ISPE/EAG NEHMAP that help achieve Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21
Vision ambitions in each Community in each of the 306/193 UN Member States.
The Government, Parliament and
Citizens in each of 306/193 UN Member States need to be actively involved
within National and Global Collective Action Platforms designed to help our
World Change to from MADning Road to DOOM to MAPing Road to BOOM. The 8 June
2017 UK Elections is opportunity for UK Government, UK Parliament, UK Business
and UK Citizens to help our World make this important Change and on time. This
underlines need for UK Government and UK Parliament to address serious issues
of serious business set out in this Paper and the complementary Blog Article
below, even in the few days remaining to the 8 June 2017 elections:-
The Argument
In view of the above points and supporting evidence documents provided,
our Argument is that after almost 60 years of International Development
Cooperation:-
1.
Incidences of divergence between
Intention and Reality remain re-occurring decimals at levels too high for
Sustainable Solutions to be found to root cause / primary cause problems on the
ground in over 60% of Implementations and over 60% of Evaluations.
2.
There is no bridge built between
lessons learning and lessons forgetting and so mistakes of history continue to
be made in each of the 9 Blocks.
3.
As long as Community,
Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global Stakeholders in the 9
Blocks do not quickly face new direction and adopt new priorities, the
probability is high that our fragile planet could collapse in the life time of
present Generation.
4.
The Proposed Partnership provided
practical, purposeful and sustainable solutions to real and complex problems on
the ground in our world as is and not as any stakeholder, no matter how
powerful wish it to be, within (1) – (3) and deserve the full and effective
support of UK Government, UK Parliament, FAO Governing Council and FAO
Management.
Good Reforms –
Political Will and Public Will
The is need to create Political Momentum for greater
commitment, collaboration, cooperation, cohesion, coordination, 5Cs from
Community to Global levels in each of 306/193 UN Member States, if Stakeholders
in the 9 Blocks are to jointly find clear and correct answers to 2030
Transformation Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with
Community Development Plans and Country Development Plans HOW questions,
especially DOING of HOW and in ways that effectively deliver Correct Diagnosis,
Correct Prescription, Correct Surgery and Correct Recovery Management to all
identified real and complex root cause or primary cause problems on the ground
in each specific location context – Community to Global.
In view of the above, there is need to build trust and
confidence among Community to Global Stakeholders in each of the 9 Blocks
within effective MSPs that promote and protect increasing 5 Cs’ at each level
Community to Global in each of the 306/193 UN Member States and in ways that
complement implementation and evaluation of existing and future Study Reports
e.g. Evaluation Reports; Conference and Meetings Outcome Documents e.g. HLM2
NOD and this needs to be driven by Political Will on the part of Politicians
and Top Civil Servants and Public Servants and Public Will and this needs to be
driven by the full range of Stakeholders in the Civil Society Space – Citizens,
Opinion Leaders, Traditional Rulers, Religious Leaders, Professional
Association, Trade Groups, Labor Unions etc and in ways that Organize,
Orientate and Discipline People to be the MOVING FORCE Driving Transformation
of Society from Community to Global levels .
Conclusion
In his new book, Destined for War, the eminent
Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains why Thucydides’s Trap is the best lens
for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century. Through
uncanny historical parallels and war scenarios, he shows how close we are to
the unthinkable. Yet, stressing that war is not inevitable, Allison also
reveals how clashing powers have kept the peace in the past — and what painful
steps the United States and China must take to avoid disaster today.
Graham Allison
notes that the long peace the world has enjoyed since World War II is history’s
exception, not the rule. A great surge of diplomatic courage and strategic
imagination is therefore the best gift we can impart to those who have
fallen—and to those who will stand in years to come. As military leaders are
fond of reminding us, “the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
He also noted that JFK’s central lesson from the 1962 crisis still offers wise
counsel for Trump: “Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear
powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of
either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”
Graham Allision’s perspectives underline the urgent need for serious
issues of serious business demanding the serious attention of 306/193 UN Member
States Governments and Parliaments; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Entities
Leadership; Non State Actors Leadership raised in this Paper to be jointly
addressed by concerned National and Global Leaders.
The UK Government, UK Parliament, UK Businesses – Micro, Small, Medium,
Large and Multinational Enterprises; and UK Citizens cannot afford ultimate
consequences of Denial, Deception, Delusion should UK Government and UK
Parliament squander opportunity to ensure that whoever emerge Winner of 8 June
2017 election will be empowered to design and deliver required structural and
policy changes within and beyond the UK. To avoid this, the necessary issues
need to be made 8 June 2017 UK Election issues.
Records show that DFID, other UK Government Agencies, UK Parliament, FAO
World Headquarters each has much Information and Knowledge; as well as Know How
on Capacity Building; Strategic Management; Development Communication; Multi
Stakeholder Partnerships; Development Advocacy; Influence for Good that can
help Communities in both North and South Countries achieve more in the work
towards achieving increasing convergence between 2030 Transformation Agenda
Vision Intention and Reality, if greater percentage of these Resources are made
available to Local Communities in each of 306/193 UN Member States.
Therefore, the achievement of UK National Development Vision and UK
International Development Vision linked to Food, Agriculture and Nutrition
Dimension of Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 Vision Intention and Reality by
2030 demands changing attitude and behavior at scale on FAO, UK Government and
UK Parliament Internal Publics and External Publics sides.
In the work towards achieving increasing convergence between UK National
Development Vision, UK International Development Vision; Food, Agriculture and
Nutrition Dimension of Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 aligned and harmonized
with Community Development Plans and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN
Member States, there are Bright Prospects of Success in Design and Delivery of
Sustainable Solutions to real and complex Development, Diplomacy, Defense,
Data, Digitization and Democracy problems on the ground from Community to
Global levels, should UK Government, UK Parliament; other UN Member States
Governments and Parliaments; FAO Governing Council and FAO Management and other
UN System: UNO; WBG, IMF Entities Management accept to establish the Proposed
Partnership.
The UK National and Global Media – Newspaper, TV, Radio, Online both
Public and Private Owned have Duty to UK, Europe and World Citizens to give
Visibility to points made in the Article and in enlightened UK Self Interest.
It is pertinent to note that UK Electoral Commission; the Electoral Commissions
of other UN Member States; UK Parliament; the Parliaments of other UN Member
States; UK Governments and the Governments of other UN Member States have Central
Role to Play in the work towards Design and Delivery of the Structural and
Policy Changes set out in this Paper.
It is our hope that points made in this Paper will resonate positively
with FAO Governing Council and FAO Management; other UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF
Entities Governing Council and Management; UK Government and UK Parliament;
other UN Member States Governments and Parliaments and all relevant approvals
received to kick start necessary arrangements and negotiations being discussed
and established on time.
Contact:
Lanre Rotimi
Director General,
International Society for Poverty
Elimination / Economic Alliance Group,
Akure – Nigeria, West Africa.
Appendix
On
Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 15:49, "ClarosOviedo, Manuel (OPCP)"
wrote:
Dear
Mr Rotimi,
Thank
you for your messages.
I
wish to express our appreciation for your interest in FAO’s work and
activities, but nonetheless, I would like to point out that as a United Nations
specialized agency, the Organization’s internal structure and processes’ change
and development are only driven by member states.
Please
note that FAO’s interventions at regional, sub-regional and country levels
promote an integrated programme approach to food security and nutrition
challenges and sustainable development, which are decided on by governments
through Regional Initiatives and Country Programme Frameworks (CPF).
Your
comments and issues’ about possible FAO structural and policy changes are much
appreciated. Although, kindly note that as a Non State Actor (NSA), your
organization cannot be involved in structural decision making processes and/or
change of any kind related to FAO, given that NSAs are observers according to
internal procedures.
As
per FAO’s Strategy for Partnerships with the Private Sector, FAO recognizes two
main categories of contributions from the private sector:
• Mutual
collaboration: Partnerships involve active collaboration of the
private sector with FAO in support of its work and in line with government
priorities. Such collaboration could concern any of the areas of engagement:
Development and technical programmes; Policy dialogue; Advocacy and
communication; Norms and standard setting; Knowledge management and
dissemination and Mobilization of resources. These may draw on mutual know-how,
expertise and other support.
• Sponsorships:
Partnerships involve financial contributions from the private sector in support
of FAO’s programmes through identified areas of engagement. Private sector
contributions can be targeted towards specific projects and programmes.
Considering
the information above, we regret to inform you that FAO will not be able to
move forward in partnership with your Organization.
I
therefore wish to take this opportunity to express best wishes and the greatest
success on your projects.
Kind
regards,
Manuel.
E. Claros Oviedo
Partnerships,
Advocacy and Capacity Development Division (OPC)
División de Asociaciones, Promoción Institucional y
Desarrollo de las Capacidades
FAO HQ – Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153
Rome,
Italy
