ISPE EAG
INTERATIONAL
SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION ECONOMIC
ALLIANCE GROUP
Comment on UNDPAM WPSR Report April 2018
Introduction
The UN Public
Administration and Development Department, UNDPAM World Public Sector
Report, WPSR, “The Report”, intended for release in December 2017 was released April
2018. In June 2017 UNDPAM
issued a Call for contributions from scientists and
researchers in the form of policy briefs – concise, factual, and open
access –that highlight issues, research findings, trends and solutions. The
Call stated that:-
1.
TThe Report will focus on the role of public
institutions and public administration for an integrated implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
2.
Briefs that meet the
requirements of the Call will be posted on the
website of the 2017 (now 2018) World Public Sector Report, WPSR.
3.
nBriefs content will inform relevant chapters
of the Report and that the
aim of the policy briefs is to summarize or highlight salient findings or
arguments.
4.
BBriefs should address an issue, finding, or
research topic with a bearing on HOW
public institutions and public administration at the national and local levels,
in a broad sense, can address the challenges of integration posed by the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs.
The selected Briefs have answered What
Questions and not How Questions.
The Report has
answered 3 What Questions. However, what is most needed at this time is WPSR
that answer How Questions in (4) above and related SDG How Questions. Our Organization submitted Brief that
meaningfully addressed Sustainable
Solutions to How Questions in (4) above (see Annex below). We perceive that
this Submission contributed to 4 months delay in releasing WPSR 2018. The
Report contents includes many of the
good ideas and pertinent suggestions
set out in our unselected Brief but rejected
the most important ideas and suggestions on Ways and Means of finding correct
answers to Public Sector Management / Public Sector Reform How Questions. This
is a puzzle that UNDPAM need to resolve and as soon as possible, if the Report is not to be Motion without Movement
and Vision and Words without Action.
As long as the
Report is not speedily transformed into
Vision and Words with Action and Motion with Movement Document, its potency would be significantly eroded and its Utility
by 193/306 UN member States Governments – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary
Entities; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities as well as their
National and International Partners would be minimal. It would be a Big Shame if the Acts of Omission or Commission responsible for the Report avoiding
or evading answer to How Questions are not IMMEDIATELY Addressed by UNDPAM Authorities.
Approach to Achieving SDG in all 193/306 UN Member States
The approach to achieving the Millennium
Development Goal, MDGs on halving the number of people living on less than USD
1 a day by 2015 had some shortcomings.
Also the MDGs do not directly address
inequality problems.
It is pertinent
to note that Where poverty has been reduced successfully and sustainably,
governments used policy interventions
to facilitate [employment-centered] structural transformations of their
economies. They invested substantially in infrastructure; channelled credit to
specific productive activities; and pursued well managed industrial and
agricultural policies, as well as social policies that improved the skill levels
and welfare of the population and that Contemporary poverty reduction
strategies have increasingly focused on ‘targeting the poor’. Such approaches often fail to consider key
institutional, policy and political dimensions that may be both causes of
poverty and inequality, and obstacles to their reduction",
The Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs adopted by World Leaders in September 2015 was intended to address MDGs shortcomings. However, in 2nd Quarter 2018, Year 3 of Implementation, it is clear that MDGs shortcomings and failed approaches are being repeated. With 12 ¾ Years to go to end 2030 target date for delivery on SDGs and SDGs Pledge, it is clear that without vigorous response to remove the shortcomings driven by new approaches for achieving SDGs in all 193/306 UN Member States that Work, Delivery on SDG Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States by end 2030 target date will be Mirage. Allowed to occur, the Ultimate Consequences for our Fragile Planet would be Disastrous for Citizens in all 193/306 UN Member States. It is sad that UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities and 193/306 UN Member States Entities: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary Entities are still in MDG Mode as at 2nd Quarter 2018 Year of Implementation rather than SDG Mode.
One Worldwide Approach
We note that there are different approaches, visions, models and tools available
to each country to achieve Right to Development Vision; Public Sector Reform/
Management Vision as well as 2030 Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 Visions,
in accordance with its national circumstances and priorities as well as its own
development context. However, if there is to be continuously improving
collaboration, cooperation, cohesion and coordination in the design and
delivery of Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as
One, a need arises for United Community to Global Visions whose implementation
and evaluation is built upon One Worldwide Approach that is a Common and
Systemic Approach for improving Ownership, Alignment, Harmony etc that has
clear Principles, Instruments / Tools corresponding to each Principle,
Practices and Database.
3PCM is an
Advance One Worldwide Approach that is sufficiently all inclusive, all
embracing and ambitious to meet the implementation as well as evaluation
demands of an all inclusive, all embracing and ambitious SDGs, that is
essentially the over-arching 2030 Global Agenda and which in reality includes NRMAP-Ag,
NRMAP, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21.
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/neglected-universal-force-peace-and-stability-love#comment-6229 WB Blog
Article on LOVE.
Brexit and SDG in Ireland
Brexit is
disaster waiting to happen, should Ireland, UK and EU Authorities keep looking
on till March 2019 as Fantasy Meet Reality. The root cause or primary cause
Brexit problems are best addressed within SDG in: Ireland, UK and each of 26 EU
Countries and EU as Institution. The Big Question is How does WPSR 2018 help
these North Countries grapple effectively with these complex problems? For Ireland,
these are the pertinent issues:-
1. If Ireland is to
meaningfully collaborate and coordinate with remaining192/305 UN Member States;
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and their National and International
Partners in the Joint Delivery on SDG and SDG Pledge by end 2030 target date
(about 12 ¾ years to go), Ireland needs to better appreciate and recognize that
achieving the SDGs is
not an exercise in achieving a collection of individual targets, but rather an
exercise in collaboration and joint efforts within government, to a level that
has not been seen before and accept realization of the SDGs requires the
coordination, cohesion, cooperation, collaboration and commitment of actions of
different levels of government at levels unprecedented in World history and
this DEMAND Paradigm Shifts in reality not rhetoric.
2. If Ireland is to meaningfully
collaborate and coordinate with remaining 192/305 UN Member States; UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and their National and International Partners in the
Joint Delivery on SDG and SDG Pledge by end 2030 target date (about 12 ¾ years
to go), Oreland need to genuinely omit towards supporting all relevant
Stakeholder Groups Members at each specific Community, Sub-national, National,
Sub-regional, Regional and Global location context to Implement and Evaluate
Policy Coordination,
Cohesion, Cooperation, Collaboration and Commitment DRIVEN Simultaneously by 3 Types of Integration:-
a)
Horizontal Integration: National – All Arms in All Tiers of
Government in each of 193/306 UN Member States. That is 2 – 4 levels depending
on number of Tiers of Government in the specific UN Member State.
b) Vertical
Integration:
i)
National - All Arms in All Tiers of
Government in each of 193/306 UN Member States. That is 2 – 4 levels depending
on number of Tiers of Government in the specific UN Member State.
ii)
International - All Arms in All Tiers of
Government in each of 193/306 UN Member States in each Sub-region, Region and
Worldwide. That is 3 – 4 levels depending on number of International Political
Groupings of Countries the specific UN Member State belong to.
iii)
Integration: National and
International - All
Arms in All Tiers of Government in each of 193/306 UN Member States, in each
Sub-region, in each Region and Worldwide. That is 5 – 8 levels depending on
number of Tiers of Government in the specific UN Member State and the number of
International Political Groupings of Countries the specific UN Member State
belong to.
c)
Engagement: Full Inclusion of All relevant
Stakeholder Groups in Horizontal Integration and Vertical Integration (3bi) –
(3biii). That is all relevant Stakeholder Blocks in each Horizontal Integration
level and each Vertical Integration level, JOINTLY Driving Structures, Systems,
Policies, Procedures, Communication, Cooperatives, Cultures and Rules Changes
required to move each specific Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional
and Regional location context from where it is Now (2nd Quarter
2018) in each relevant SDGs Goals and Targets (A) to where it needs to be if
SDG Pledge is to be delivered by end 2030 in the specific location context (B)
as well as FIGURING out HOW to move from (A) to (B).
3.
SDG
What Questions have been over answered over the years to date while SDG How Questions have been avoided or
evaded. Yet without answering SDG How Questions seeking to Deliver on SDG and
SDG Pledge by end 2030 target date in all 193/306 UN Member States would be
Mirage.
4. We are not asking Ireland to go
beyond Implementation and Evaluation of SDG in Ireland and Brexit in Ireland to
be Directly involved in Implementation of answer to SDG How Questions in each
Community, Sub-national and National level in each of 193/306 UN Member States
as well as at Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels. We are asking Ireland to recognize urgent need
to:-
a)
Find
answer to SDG and SDG Pledge How
Questions is MASTER KEY to ensuring that in the 12 ¾ years remaining all
193/306 UN Member States Deliver on SDG Pledge by end 2030 target date.
b)
Meaningfully Support Individuals and
Institutions
DEMONSTRATING genuine commitment to effectively Supporting 193/306 UN member
States Governments: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary at all levels; UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country Offices
Entities and their National and International Partners to find answer to SDG
and SDG Pledge How Questions, Implement and Evaluate these answers in ways that
ensure all 193/306 UN member States deliver on SDG Pledge by end 2030 target
date.
c)
Appreciate that Time is of the
Essence if the Much
that Need to be Done, is to be Done in the 12 ¾ years remaining and DEMONSTRATE
this through genuine commitment to start answering SDG and SDG Pledge How
Questions Now that is as from April 2018.
While Brexit
is the Overarching Sustainable Development Issues in Ireland and EU, Fulani
Herdsmen Menace is the overarching Sustainable Development Issue in Nigeria. To
meaningfully address real and complex SDGs problems on the ground in all North
and South Countries, above points
need to be addressed in each North or South Country specific and unique context.
Please
find link to recent Papers on our Blog, urging all concerned Authorities to
appreciate that Global PUSH to Deliver on SDG and SDG Pledge by end 2030 NEEDs
to Start NOW and not wait till 2025 or 2027.
http://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com.ng/2018/04/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and_12.html Reforming WBG and WBG-IEG as One
http://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com.ng/2018/04/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and.html Reforming ECOSOC
Reforming the UN System –
UNO, WBG, IMF to be Fit for the 21st Century
The UN System – UNO, WBG, IMF Entities have Central
Role to Play if Right to Development Vision that is Integral Part of Public Sector
Reform / Management Vision; AAAA Vision, SDG Vision, COP21 Vision and Agenda 21
Vision, is to be designed and delivered from Community to Global levels.
Records show that several UN Declarations in 2015, 2016 and 2017 have
underlined this fact. Some have specific provisions calling on UNDESA to
Re-engineer itself so as to be better placed to support UN member States many
of whom have requested UNDESA support to help them meet SDG targets inclusive
of AAAA, COP21 targets by 2030 target date.
The reality is that without appropriate help from
External and Internal Consultants with minimum certain levels of Hard Competencies: Learning and Skills and
Soft Competences: Character, Courage, Discipline and Mindset, UNDESA cannot
deliver on this responsibility and without UNDESA delivery on this
responsibility Office of Special Rapporteur on Right to Development cannot
achieve Right to Development Vision and UNDPAM cannot achieve Public Sector Reform
/ Management Vision. Also UNDESA Re-engineering that is not integral part of
other UN System – UNO, WBG, IMF Entities, including OS2RD and UNDPAM
Re-engineering is not likely to achieve much in the work towards achieving the
2030 Global Agenda by target date.
We suggest Re-engineering 9 UNO Entities – OS2RD –
Right to Development; UNDP – Poverty and Governance; UNICEF – Children and
Family Welfare; WHO – Health, Lifestyle and Wellbeing; UNEP – Climate Change
and Environmental Protection; FAO – Food, Agriculture and Nutrition; ILO –
Entrepreneurship and Employment; WTO (ITO) – Commerce and Trade and UNODC –
Crime and Corruption and 9 UNO New York Headquarters Entities – UNSC, OPGA,
EOSG, UNCEB, ECOSOC, GA Committees, UNDESA, UNDPI, UNDPAM; WBG Liaison Office; IMF Liaison Office, that
is Integral Part of UN System Delivery as One, DaO Driving Transformation to
make each UN System – UNO, WBG, IMF Entity, an International Institution Fit
for the 21st Century.
SDG that Work Partnership Strategy – Master Key for Delivery on SDG
Pledge
The United Nations is working to make itself
fit-for-purpose for the 2030 Agenda. However, given the magnitude of what remains
to be done in 12 ¾ Years remaining; there is urgent need for all UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities Authorities as well as UN Member States
Governments: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary Authorities and their National
and International Partners to face New Direction and Adopt New Priorities.
Achieving the SDGs in each of 193/306 UN Member
States is not an exercise in achieving a collection of individual targets, but
rather an exercise in collaboration and joint efforts within government, to a
level that has not been seen before.
Achieving the SDGs in each of 193/306 UN Member
States underlines need for all concerned National and International Stakeholder Blocks to
genuinely appreciate that Monitoring and Evaluation should be seen not as an
exercise in reporting, but as an active management tool that helps adjust the
strategy along the way. A challenge that must be overcome and speedily too, is
that Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks tend to target specific policy
interventions (e.g., a single policy or the program in a particular sector),
whereas it is important to assess overall progress towards interrelated, interconnected,
interlinked and interdependent goals and targets in each specific Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional or Global , CSnNSrRG,
location context.
To achieve the SDGs, Member States need not
only increased financing, but also fit-for-purpose national and international
institutions that facilitate economic stability and sustainable development.
Ultimately, to fully mainstream SDG investing,
new products – finance, non finance, evaluation, non evaluation need to be
developed. The private sector and financial sector excels at innovation when
demand is there. If Government creates Demand, the Private Sector including the
Financial Sector will create supply. This will ultimately rub off on the public
sector and international institutions.
Overall, the realization of the SDGs with
Delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States be end 2030 target date
(12 ¾ Years to go) requires the coordination, cooperation, cohesion, collaboration
and commitment of actions of different levels of government. This demands the
establishment of New Partnerships and New Multi Stakeholder Partnerships /
Platforms that Work.
SDG that Work Partnership Strategy – Kick Start Mutual Collaboration
Events and Activities
The SDG that Work
Partnership Agreement is expected to be a Legal Agreement that would take some
time to negotiate and agree. However, this Partnership Agreement needs to start
immediately with Institutions that demonstrate required levels of Hard and Soft
Competencies and kick started by Mutual Collaboration Events and Activities
within:-
- Involving Actors – Stakeholder Blocks from North and South
Countries and UN Systems: UNO, WBG, IMF through Design and Delivery of
Multi Stakeholder Platforms / Partnerships, MSP for Social Justice and
Economic Growth; MSP for Sustainable Development Solutions etc
- Reinvigorating Right to Development,
Right to Participation and related UNGA and HRC Declarations in each specific CSnNSrRG level in all 193/306
UN Member States through Design and Delivery of appropriate Implementation
and Evaluation Frameworks.
- Improving National Development Cooperation
and International Development Cooperation in each specific CSnNSrRG level in all 193/306 UN Member States
through Design and Delivery of appropriate Implementation and Evaluation
Frameworks.
- Firmly putting Right to Development,
Right to Participation and related UNGA and HRC Declarations in the Front Burner in both National Public
Arena and International Public Arena within Inclusive Citizens Engagement
and Inclusive Institutions in all 193/306 UN Member States through Design
and Delivery of appropriate Implementation and Evaluation Frameworks.
- Design and Delivery of Right to
Development, Right to Participation and related UNGA and HRC Declarations Community of Practise Implementation and
Evaluation Frameworks.
- Design and Delivery of Mechanisms for Securing the Full Cooperation of UN Member States: Executive, Parliament, Judiciary at all tiers – both North and South Countries; UN System: UNO WBG IMF Entities at Headquarters Regional Offices, Country Offices and Sub-national Offices; SOs/NGOs; Academics and Researchers; Business: Micro, Small, Medium, Large, Multinational Enterprises; Consultants, Media – National and International.
The above and other
Mutual Collaboration Activities and Events would be Designed and Delivered in
such a way as to ensure that all obstacles and barriers to improving systems,
structures, policies, procedures, solidarity, cooperatives, communication,
rules and cultures changes required to achieve increasing convergence between
Right to Development Vision and 2030 Agenda Vision Intention and Reality at each
specific CSnNSrRG level in all 193/306 UN Member States are effectively
removed.
Conclusion
If the work towards delivery on SDG Pledge in all
193/306 UN Member States by end 2030 target date is not FLUKE, NOW is Time for
Global PUSH effectively strengthening High Flier North and South Countries to achieve
SDG by 2025 and Lagging North and South Countries to achieve SDG from 2026 to end
2nd Quarter 2030. This is the only way to ensure that in the 12 ¾ Years
remaining All Peoples in all North and South Countries achieve all 17 Goals of
the SDGs by end 2030 target date.
Should National Leaders and World Leaders in 193/306
UN Member States wait till 2025 or 2028 to start Global Push to achieved SDG by
end 2030 and in ways that deliver on SDG Pledge, it would be too late. This fact
is known now, unaddressed, the reality is delivery on SDG Pledge is dead at
birth. Should this be the case by end 2030, the ultimate consequences would be catastrophic
for citizens in both North and South Countries.
There are Bright Prospects of Success, should Office
of Special Rapporteur on Right to Development, UNDPAM, FAO, UNDP UNDESA, EOSG,
OPGA, UNEB, UNSC, UNGA Committees, ECOSOC, UNGA as well as UN Member States –
especially Powerful North and South Countries be Individually and Collectively genuinely
committed to contributing its quota towards achieving Right to Development Vision
and 2030 Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21 Agenda 21 Vision Intention and Reality across
our World.
Contact:
Director General
International Society for Poverty Elimination /
Economic Alliance Group
M: +234-8162469805
Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk 16
April 2018.
Annex : Submission for Publiation in WPSR 2018 (2017)
Public Sector Management, PSM Dimension of 2030
Transformation Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 - Tacking Community to
Global Implementation and Evaluation Challenge?
Introduction
The WPSR 20151
was on Responsive and Accountable Public Governance and coincided with UN
Member States endorsement of the SDG in September 2015 with firm commitment to
“Leave No One Behind”. WPSR 2015 like earlier WPSRs’ presented good analysis
and good lessons learned but did not go further to present good recommendations
and conclusions setting out Actionable Agenda Items that each UN Member State:
Governments, Parliaments, Judiciary could adopt or adapt to help them grapple
effectively with real and complex challenges of Public Sector Management, PSM
Dimension of 2030 Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 on the ground in their
respective Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional or Global
CSnNSrRG location Context.
WPSR 2015 and
earlier WPSRs’, like other existing similar UNO Reports, including UNDP Human
Development Report, HDR; FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report, SFAR; and
WBG World Development Report, WDB etc as well as UN Secretary General’s Reports
including UNSG SDG Progress Reports, are Vision and Words without Action, as
each Report answer only What questions while avoiding or evading answer to How
questions.
National and
Global Leaders on UN Member States: Governments, Parliaments, Judiciary and UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF sides need to individually and jointly recognize that
without converting these Reports into Vision and Words with Action wherein each
Reworked Report and each New Report correctly answer How questions, it will be
uphill task achieving 2030 Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and
harmonized with Community Development Plans and Country Development Plans
Vision Ambitions, in each of UN Member State by target date.
This Paper is our
Organization’s contribution towards ways and means of effectively tackling this
challenge.
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1.
UNDESA – DPADM 2015
Answering HOW questions is a DOING Matter
To achieve
increasing convergence between SDG Vision Intention and Reality by 2030 target
date, each UN Member State: Governments, Parliaments and Judiciary, as well as
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF and Partners at each specific CSbNSrRG level need to
overcome many challenges. These
include:-
1.
Removing disconnect between UNO Headquarters New York; WBG and IMF
Headquarters Washington and Communities in each UN Member State.
2.
Converting the 2030 Transformation Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21
and its “Leave No One Behind” Concept into Single Policy, Program, Project
Intervention “3PI and 3PI Training as One” Initiative such as Governance, Corruption
and Accountability; Food Agriculture and Nutrition; Land, Water and Cooperatives;
GCrA-FAN-LWCp Dimension of 2030 Transformation Agenda with Capacity Building;
Knowledge and Research; Networking and Partnerships, CbKrNp and Citizens
Engagement; Public Sector Management; Learning, Evaluation and Results CePmLr
as Denominators in each specific CSnNSrRG location context. This “Single
Agenda” Intervention will be Designed and Delivered within Migration; Conflict
Resolution; Security; Health; Welfare – Individual, Family, Society; Economy –
Individual, Institution, Country (North or South); Education; Entrepreneurship; Empowerment; Employment and
Engagement to be effectively addressed in each UN Member State and in ways that
deliver Pro Poor: Economic Growth, Wealth Creation and Institutional Reforms:
Systems, Structures, Processes, Policies, Rules and Cultures Changes at each
specific CSbNSrRG level.
3.
Capacity Building: Individual: Hard Competences – Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset; Institution: Systems – Operations, Administration, Governance,
Marketing, Funding, Technology, Evaluation, Accountability, Regulation,
Standards, Accounting, Service Delivery, Legal and Reform and Society: Spaces – Political, Cultural, Economic, Financial, Peace,
Security, Religious, Moral, Cooperatives, Communication, Social, Environmental,
Legal and Technical
4.
Developing competent, diverse and ethical public servants and civil
servants not just in the core civil
service on government side, but also in the civil service on parliaments and
judiciary sides as well as the public service, military service – army, navy,
air force, military intelligence and para military service - police, foreign
intelligence, domestic intelligence, customs, immigration, prisons, fire,
highway patrol, narcotics etc) and
inclusive, participatory and accountable institutions.
5.
Addressing all fundamental issues of Correct Diagnosis, Correct
Prescription, Correct Surgery and Correct Recovery Management within
appropriately designed and delivered Pilot Programs and Scale Up Programs in
each specific CSnNSrRG location context.
6.
Addressing acts of omission or commission responsible for 2030
Transformation Agenda What questions being answered and How questions being
avoided or evaded. It is pertinent to note that the National and International Development Community had in the Pre MDG era, MDG era
and up to 3rd quarter 2017 Year 2 of Implementation of SDG, focused
a great deal of attention on learning2 what policies and
interventions are needed to generate better outcomes, it has paid much less
attention to learning why those approaches succeed so well in some
contexts but fail to generate positive results in others and has paid even less
attention to learning HOW New Approaches that could succeed well in each
specific CSnNSrRG location context could be Designed and Delivered. Also all UN System Entities are still in
MDG Mode.
7.
Addressing PSM 7 Pillars (Page 6) dimension of (1) – (6) on both North
and South countries sides.
8.
Addressing Building levels of Political Will and Public Will required to tackle issues in (1) – (7) effectively
and efficiently, in each
specific CSnNSrRG location context.
9.
Recognizing that Correct
answers to issues in (1) – (8) is A DOING/Know How Matter not A Talking/Rhetoric
Matter.
Rethinking WPSR Series and
other UN System Reports
WPSR
2017 was titled “Migration, Health and Countries in Post Conflict Situations”.
It will be recalled that WPSR 2010 was titled “Reconstructing Public
Administration After Conflict: Challenges, Practices and Lessons Learned”. WPSR
2017 title suggests an Evaluation of WPSR 2010. WPSR 2017 is coming 2 years
after WPSR 2015 (title Page 1) and 7 years after WPSR 2010, yet PSM issues WPSR
2010 and WPSR 2015 sought to address are still outstanding in 2017. Records
show that modalities for tackling PSM Challenges in the SDG era that ought to
have been agreed by UN Member States by end 1st quarter 2015 Year of
Decision (if WPSRs’ Lessons Learnt were actually Learnt) are still outstanding
by 3rd quarter 2017 Year 2 of Implementation and all UN System: UNO,
WBG, IMF Entities are still in MDG Mode in 3rd quarter 2017 Year 2
of Implementation. This once more underlines urgent need for Rethinking WSPRs and
other UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Reports to meaningfully address above points (1)
– (9).
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2.
WBG WDR 2017 on Governance and the Law
UNSG Report on Repositioning the UN Development
System to deliver on the 2030 Agenda – Ensuring Better Future for All3
In
compliance with Paragraph 19 of QCPR 2016, the UN Secretary General on 30 June
2017 released the above Report.
This
UNSG Report essentially calls for above Rethinkings 4 and provide
stronger evidence supporting validity of many of our Organization’s Study
Findings including: the disconnect between Communities in North and South
Countries and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Entities Headquarters; many UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF Entities –Policy, Program, Project Interventions are discussed
and implemented at Headquarters and Regional Offices, discussed without
implementation at Country Offices and not discussed and not implemented at
Sub-national Offices and Beneficiary Community levels and UN System Entities
themselves need help before they can help UN Member States etc.
The
Report identifies Accountability 5 as a Major Issue. However, as
long as concerned National Leaders and Global Leaders on UN Member States:
Governments, Parliaments, Judiciary; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF; CSOs/NGOs; Academic Institutions/ Traditional
Institutions/ Religious Organizations; Private Sector: Micro, Small, Medium,
Large, Multinational Enterprises; Media: Radio, TV, Print, Online sides
supported by Internal Consultants and External Consultants with minimum certain
levels of Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies:
Character, Courage and Mindset do not know why Paris Declaration, PD (2005) and
Bussan Declaration (2011) had flaws and failures; they will not know how to
design and deliver 2030 Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Accountability
Framework that will succeed on sustainable basis in all 306/193 UN Member
States; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF Entities and Partners sides.
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3.
UNSG 2017, Report on Repositioning the UNDS to
Deliver on 2030 Agenda
4.
ISPE/EAG April 2017 – Rethinkings
5.
Rebecca M Affolder, June 2017, An Accountable
UNDS for the 21st Century
This
UNSG Report, like all other existing UNSG Reports and other UN System: UNO,
WBG, IMF Reports, including UN Development System, UNDS Conferences and
Meetings Outcome Documents, has Big Information, Research and Knowledge Gaps
that need to be correctly identified and correctly filled in each specific
Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional Location context to
produce revised Report that is Vision and Words with Action through clear and
correct answers to How questions as well as ways of implementing through Pilot
Programs with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation and
the Scale Up of
Successful Pilot Programs in each specific CSnNSrRG location context.
The relevant processes for design
and delivery of required Systems, Structures, Processes, Policies, Rules and Cultures Changes
within UNDS Internal and External Publics are described in greater details in
ISPE/EAG Policy Briefs on Rethinkings and Food Brexit (links provided) and
other ISPE/EAG Policy Briefs/Papers (copies on ISPE/EAG Blog).
Facing New
Direction and Adopting New Priorities
It is clear that SDG / 2030 Agenda: AAAA,
SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 need to be converted into a Single
Set of Cohesive Strategies, Policies, Programs and Projects and Food,
Agriculture and Nutrition Dimension of SDG / 2030 Agenda: AAAA, SDG,
COP21, Agenda 21 offers the most practical alternative for achieving such
conversion. This underlines need for National and Global Stakeholders in each specific CSnNSrRG location context to face New Direction and Adopt
New Priorities underlined by New PSM Strategies that Work.
Brexit6 and Climate Change7 will make
already bad World Hunger, Malnutrition, Poverty, Migration, Security etc
problems worse, if Brexit is Force for Evil and Climate Change Challenges
remain un-tackled. Brexit as Force for Evil that is: Hard Brexit, Soft
Brexit or No Deal portend chaos and disaster not only for UK and EU but also
for remaining European countries and countries in all other Regions /
continents in our World today. This underlines urgent need for Alternative
Brexit proposed in Food Brexit Paper driven by New PSM to be embraced by
relevant CSnNSrRG Stakeholders
on both North and South Countries
sides.
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6.
ISPE/EAG Food Brexit etc
7.
FAO 2017 Strategy on Climate Change
Post Conflict and Peace PSM8
7 Pillars for Both North and South Countries
1.
Rebuilding Trust in Government Institutions: A Key
Challenge in Post Conflict and Peace Reconstruction. Note that all Countries
have been in Conflict at one time or the other and so Post Conflict is used in
a broader sense and affect all North and South Countries.
2.
Post Conflict and Peace Reconstruction: A Complex Task
requiring Effective Leadership.
3.
Effective Leadership: A Key Challenge in Building
Institutions.
4.
Building Institutions: A Complex Task requiring Good
Governance, Value Reorientation, Changing Attitude and Behavior at Scale and
Effective Civil Service and Public Service.
5.
Effective Civil Service and Public Service: A Key
Challenge Integral to the Political, Cultural, Economic, Financial, Social,
Environmental, Peace, Security, Religious, Moral, Cooperatives, Communication,
Governance, Accountability and Judicial life of every Country – North or South
in our World today.
6.
Citizens Engagement in Post Conflict and Peace
Reconstruction: An Essential Ingredient in Sustainable National and
International Cooperation.
7.
Citizens Centric Service Delivery in Post Conflict and
Peace Situations. The reason d’être of Public Administration in every Country –
North or South in our World today.
Conclusion
Good
Governance requires clear Goals and robust performance measures which are
transparent and more importantly outcome based. For points made in this Paper
to be operationalized in practice in each North and South Country, clear
answers must be found to How questions and NOW.
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8.
WPSR 2010
Contact:
Lanre Rotimi,
Director General
International
Society for Poverty Elimination /
Economic Alliance
Group
Principal Consultant,
AR & Associates Limited and
Director,
NEHMAP (New End Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty)
M: +234-8162469805 25 August 2017
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