EAG ISPE
ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP INTERATIONAL SOCIETY
FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION (Global NGO)
(Global Integrated Sustainable Solutions Provider)
ER&A NEHMAP Initiative
ER and Associates
Limited New End Hunger,
Malnutrition and Poverty (Global Social Enterprise)
(International
Development Cooperation Consultants)
Sustainable Solutions to 193/306 UN Member
States SDG Pledge Delivery by 2030: HPLF July 2018 Outcome - Matters Arising (3)?
EAG Thoughts on Priorities and Direction in
the Implementation and Evaluation of Food, Nutrition, Agriculture and Security
Vision Dimension Linked to Public Sector Management, Public Finance Management,
Procurement and Governance Dimension of
Transformation Agenda – AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 for Delivery on
SDG Pledge - No Goal will be considered met if it is not met by all Peoples in
all Countries by 2030 Target date.
Introduction
World Leaders agreed in September 2015 the UN
led Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, aimed at delivering Sustainable
Solutions to real and complex World Political, Economic, Social, Security,
Peace, Cultural, Religious and Environmental problems on the ground in each
specific Community, Country or Continent location context by 2030. There is a
Pledge in the SDGs which states that No Goal will be considered met if it is
not achieved by all Peoples in all Countries.
SDGs Implementation started January 2016. At 2
2/3 years of Implementation there are many UN and UN Member States both North
Countries and South Countries Reports that find that all 193/306 UN Member
States are Off Track achieving SDGs and delivering on SDGs Pledge by end 2030,
just 12 1/3 years remaining.
“We have only 12 more years until 2030 to
fully realize this transformative agenda, but these Goals are absolutely within
our reach. It will require policy makers’ unwavering attention, a laser-sharp
focus on implementation of these Goals, and a true sense of urgency,” said UN
DESA’s Under Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin at the July 2018 High Level
Political Forum, HPLF on Sustainable Development.
Under Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin’s comment
underlines the fact that even in those North and South Countries where there
has been Progress on some of the Goals in the past 2 2/3 years, these Countries
are lagging on some of the Goals and back Tracking in some other Goals. The
situation is worse in North and South Countries that are lagging in many of the
Goals and back Tracking in some other Goals.
Yet the implication of the SDG Pledge is that
if all Communities in all 193/306 UN Member States meet all the 17 Goals by end
2030 but just One Community in One North or South Country fail to meet just One
of the 17 Goals by end 2030 All North and South Countries in our World today
have Collectively Failed to meet the SDGs.
In Paper (1) we urged National
Leaders and World Leaders to appreciate that as long as they do not know why
the unfinished business of MDGs is yet to be completed as at 11 of 60 Quarters
of Implementation of SDGs, they will not know HOW to Reform National and
International Development Cooperation Systems in ways that strengthen all
193/306 UN Member States to get back On Track and achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge.
In Paper (2) we expressed concern that
DCF May 2018 and HPLF July 2018 ignored our suggestions for finding answer to
SDGs/SDGs Pledge How Questions as Master Key for getting all 193/306 UN Member
States back on Track towards achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030
target date.
We articulated more details of interrelated,
interdependent, interconnected and interlinked relationship between the answer
to SDGs/SDGs Pledge How Questions and related How Questions and achieving
increasing convergence between SDGs/SDGs Pledge Vision Intention and Reality in
all 193/306 UN Member States by end 2030 target date and urge the National
Leaders and World Leaders in all 193/306 UN Member States; UN System: UNO, WBG,
IMF, WTO (ITO) and their Partners to recognize and appreciate need to Work
Together to Benefit Together Concept of the SDGs as well as its Leave No One
Behind Concept are demonstrated and been seen to be demonstrated in practice
through aligning and harmonizing the work towards answering the these How
questions with realities on the ground in each specific Community,
Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global location context.
In this Paper, we would be
elaborating more on the SDGs Concepts of Work Together Benefit Together and
Leave No One Behind as Operative and Directive Principles of National / State
Policy in all Countries, if the Task that must be done to achieve delivery on
SDGs/SDGs Pledge in remaining 12 1/3 years is to be Done in all 193/306 UN
Member States.
As long as this National and
Global Task is not done in all Communities, Countries and Continents in our
World today, achieving delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge in all North and South
Countries in our World today will be a Mirage and the Ultimate Consequences of
allowing this to be the Case by end 2030 will be Catastrophic for all Citizens
in all North and South Countries in our World today.
UNDP Discussion Paper on “Leave No
One Behind” Implementation Framework
UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner at the July 2018 HPLF presented a UNDP
Discussion Paper that looks at what “Leave No One Behind” Concept of the SDGs
in All North and South Countries means in practice.
This UNDP Paper asserts that
to understand in each North or South Country who is being left behind and why,
and to shape effective responses, five key factors should be assessed:
Discrimination, Geography, Governance, Socio-Economic Status, Shocks and Fragility; based upon the outcome of this
assessment, for each North or South Country to deliver on their commitment to
realize the Agenda 2030 – Implement and Evaluate SDG in the North or South
Country and in ways that achieve delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge by end 2030
target date – just 12 1/3 years remaining, the UNDP Paper suggests that the
specific North or South Country take an integrated approach, drawing on
mutually reinforcing “levers” to Examine, Empower and Enact Change.
This UNDP Paper is welcome but
it is about 3 years late. The issues raised ought to have been discussed before
World Leaders approved the SDGs in September 2015 and by now should have been
implemented in past 2 2/3 years of Implementation of SDGs. That this is not the
case in reality present evidence that the UNDP Paper is another beautiful
Vision and Words without Action as well as Motion without Movement UNDP Paper.
This UNDP Paper answered Who,
Why and What Questions – SAYING Matter that is Easy but avoided or evaded
answering How Questions – DOING Matter that is Especially Difficult.
This UNDP Paper underlines urgent need for UNDP to Rethink its Internal
and External Publics Rights, Duties and Responsibilities, if UNDP is to deliver
on its Central Role responsibility and in ways that inspire other UNO Entities
in particular and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities in general need
to Collaborate better with other International Community Entities in all
193/306 UN Member States as well as all National and Sub-national Entities; all
Universities and Tertiary Institutions; all Businesses – Micro, Small, Medium,
Large and Transnational including Cooperatives and other Social Economy and
Social Enterprises; all Banks and other Financial Institutions; all Communities
and other Stakeholders Entities “To come up with ways and means of effectively
and efficiently converting SDGs and other Global Goals Vision aligned and
harmonized with National Development Plan; Sub-national Development Plans
including all Communities Development Plans: Policy, Program and Project
Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One. This will help in the design and
delivery of the type of National and International Development Cooperation Model
that achieve SDGs Pledge delivery by end 2030 target date in each specific
Community, Country or Continent location context, thus meeting the real needs
of over 4 Billion Poor in all North and South Countries in our World today.
SDGs:
Universal and Integrated Agenda
The UNDP Paper Calls for Change from
“Development-as-usual”/”Business-as-usual” Approach to
“Development-unusual”/”Business-unusual” Approach. Yet UNDP is Unwilling to
Demonstrate and be seen to Demonstrate “Walking Its Talk”. If UNDP is Serious,
the Change UNDP Called for in the Paper should Start from UNDP Internal Publics
Led by UNDP Administrator and Executive Management at Headquarters, Regional
Offices and Country Offices before spreading to 170 Countries where UNDP/UNO
has Offices Worldwide and ultimately all 193/306 UN Member States.
Integrated
Dimensions of the SDGs
The SDGs is an All Embracing, All Inclusive and
Ambitious Agenda without an All Embracing, All Inclusive and Ambitious
Implementation and Evaluation Agenda. This explains why at almost 3 years of
Implementation, all 193/306 UN Member States are Off Track achieving delivery
on SDGs Pledge by 2030. As long as all 193/306 UN Member States Entities and
all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities continue facing the same
direction and adopting the same priorities, it is clear that SDGs Pledge cannot
be delivered in all 193/306 UN Member States in the next 100 years.
The UNDP Paper underlines the fact that should 193/306
UN Member States; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and their National and
International Partners adopt Multiple Paradigm Shifts described in our Papers,
the foundation for achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member
States could be rebuilt in about 4 months remaining to end 2018, such that in
the 12 years remaining to end 2030 Target date, that is from 2019 Year 4 of
Implementation, Mechanism could be put in place to ensure that all 193/306 UN
Member States get back On Track toward achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge by end
2030. To achieve this, layers and layers of complex issues these to be
effectively tackled. These include the following Dimensions of the SDGs/SDGs
Pledge:-
1. The Inclusive Education – Education for
Sustainable Development; Education for Sustainable Citizenship, Education for
Sustainable Consumption and Education for Sustainable Production
2. Inclusive Entrepreneurship – Public
Organization (State Actors), Commercial Organization, Social Organization, Volunteer
Organization (Non State Actors)
3.
Corruption – Petty and Grand
4.
Mismanagement – Abuse, Misuse, Disuse
5.
Waste – Financial, Industrial, Agricultural –
Pre Harvest, Harvest, Post Harvest
6.
Spiritual (Bad) – Sorcery, Witchcraft,
Occultism, Cultism, Secret Society, Black Magic
7.
Spiritual (Good) – Meaning, Purpose,
Sacrifice, Faith, Hope, Love
8. Development, Diplomacy, Defense, Democracy,
Elections, Data, Digitization, Dignity, Justice
9.
Political, Cultural, Economic, Financial,
Social, Environmental (Climate Change), Peace, Security, Moral, Ethics, Civics,
Citizenship, Communication, Legal, Government, Governance, Productivity,
Quality, Empowerment, Service Delivery
10. Ownership, Alignment, Harmony, Leverage,
Synergy, Transparency, Transformation, Accountability, Participation,
Monitoring, Evaluation, Lessons Learning, Measuring Success, Results
11. Trade,
Aid, Debts, Agriculture, Industry, Manufacturing, Mining, Migration, Science,
Medicine, Arts, Humanities, Entertainment, Sports, Recreation, Music, Theatre,
Information, Awareness, Sensitization
12. Attitude,
Behavior, Mindset, Character, Courage, Discipline, Skills, Anthropology,
Psychology, Philosophy, Reform, Re-engineering, Re-design, Re-organization
Urgent
SDGs/SDGs Pledge Implementation and Evaluation Action Needed Now
To meaningfully address above
layers and layers of complex issues as applicable in each specific community,
country, continent, global location context, there is a need to strengthen
systemic implementation, monitoring and evaluation of continued compliance
between projected targets and actual achievement. This is one area where all
national and international stakeholders will have to speedily come up with a
more systematic approach.
Discussing
the role of ICTs in making the rural sector more attractive for young people,
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at FAO, AUC, Government of Rwanda
Conference on ICT Innovations to Attract Youth to Agriculture, August 2018
noted the need to “think beyond farm jobs,” and explore employment opportunities
across entire agri-food value chains. Citing one example, he pointed to the
rising demand for high-value products in urban areas, which also offers
multiple employment opportunities in processing, distribution, marketing and
retailing of food products. Da Silva observed that this will require addressing
a number of serious and interrelated constraints, including: the lack of formal
employment options for young people, limited access to relevant education and
technical training; limited access to finance, information and markets; and low
involvement in decision-making processes. The Big Question is the issues raised
not primary responsibility of FAO and related UNO Entities – UNDP, UNESCO,
UNIDO, UNICEF, ILO, WHO, UNDESA etc?
These UNO
Entities need Help if they are to meaningfully Use their Power as Convener,
Catalyst, Collaborator, Cultivator to serve as Mobilizer and Facilitator in
each specific Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and
Global location context and in ways that effectively address fundamental issues
of Education, Information, Public Awareness, Public Sensitization, Evaluation
and Training, if they are to deliver the type of help all 193/306 North and
South Countries need from them to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030
target date. This demand:-
- Special National and
International Stakeholders Joint Work Program that meaningfully addresses
all fundamental issues relevant to achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in
each specific North or South Country location context in the limited 12
1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
- Stimulating National and
International Stakeholders Discussion as well as Directing it. Domestic
Action – Local, Sub-national and National needs to be effectively
complimented by International Action – Sub-regional, Regional and Global.
- Producing 2030 ‘Transformation Agenda’, SDGs as
Global Vision,
applicable to all 193/306 UN Member States, of ‘Sustainability’ or
‘Sustainable Development’, including consideration of its inter-related
components such as lifelong education, lifelong entrepreneurship,
population, hunger, malnutrition, poverty, inequality, gender,
unsustainable production,
environmental degradation, climate change, democracy, human rights,
conflict prevention and peace building and ‘True Development’, noting 17
Goals of SDGs Indivisibility: interrelated, interconnected, interdependent
and interlinked - Action Oriented Papers, as
well as Implementation and Evaluation of
17 Goals of SDGs Blueprints for Action, as applicable to each
specific Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and
Global location context.
- Meaningfully involving
Original Ideas Creators as well as Specialists and Generalists in all
branches of Education, Science, Culture, Communication, Evaluation and
other relevant Disciplines in the Implementation and Evaluation of Action
Agenda Items in the Blueprints for Action with Joint Work Program
appropriate to each specific Community, Sub-national, National,
Sub-regional, Regional and Global location context.
- Meaningfully involving all
relevant National and International Multiple Partners and Broad Community
of Stakeholders in the Noble Enterprise of achieving delivery on SDGs
Pledge in the specific North or South Country in the limited 12 1/3 years
remaining to end 2030 target date.
- Establishing Research,
Knowledge and Information Management System including Registry of MSPs
that Work and Innovative Practices and Sustainable Solutions that Work at
Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global
location context.
- Promoting
Lifelong Education – Education for Sustainable Development, Education for
Sustainable Citizenship and Education for Sustainable Consumption, as the
force of the future – which cannot be other than a sustainable future –
and strengthening National and International commitment to maximizing
genuine efforts and multiplying effective partnerships for the true
development and sincere deployment of this force in the cause of conflict
prevention peace building and human
betterment in all 193/306 UN Member States as partial option for
operationalizing in practice the Leave No One Behind and Work Together
Benefit Together Concepts of the SDGs to deliver on SDGs Pledge in all
North and South Countries Worldwide.
In sum, the puzzle of sustainable development cannot be solved by
concentrating on the pieces. It has to be seen as a whole – in both its
scientific, technological, political, economic, financial, environmental,
security, cultural, religious, peace and social dimensions – not as a series of
isolated issues and problems. In the final analysis, sustainable development is
humanity’s response to an emerging global challenge and crisis.
Attitudinal and Behavioral Change –
Business, Governments, UN System and Partners
When
particular social behaviors allow the loose movement of talent, ideas, and
capital within a specific community, sub-national, national, sub-regional,
regional or global location context the human networks – multi stakeholder
partnerships / platforms can then generate extraordinary patterns of
self-organization.
As
groups unite and intervene in their future, leaders must remember that
communities, countries and continents do not exist in isolation. As ecosystems,
all communities, all countries and all continents are interrelated,
interconnected, interdependent and interlinked in some fashion on a larger
stage of evolution and survival. In a regime of healthy competitiveness, the
prosperity of a specific community, country or continent will boost the
prosperity of other communities, countries or continents. This common and
shared prosperity is rising tide lifting all boats and in ways that put all
North and South Countries on Track to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge by end
2030 target date.
The
business community in specific community, country, continent location context
need to appreciate that as the ultimate consumer of workforce at specific
community, country, continent location context they need to become more
constructively engaged in advancing education for sustainable development,
education for sustainable citizenship, education for sustainable consumption
and education for sustainable production. They need to see education as key
component of national and international development: political, economic, social,
environmental.
Business
leaders are more than just employers and taxpayers. While these roles are
important, they only address part of the value a business enterprise adds to a
regional innovation ecosystem:-
1. As global operators, businesses are well
placed to see impending changes from outside the local area.
2.
As merchants, businesses bring in messages of
a service economy and regional economy, plus the connections to other
economies. As talent makers, businesses are driven to invest in the development
of new skills that help enhance the local workforce.
3. As capitalists, businesses value stories of
growth and prosperity, so that they can encourage other stakeholders around
them to consider bigger dreams and broader impacts.
4. As issue advocates, businesses provide a
constant thread across local government elections and turnover. Business
leaders know how to get things done. Business leaders want results, and they
want them now. There’s no waiting for the next election cycle.
5. And as good neighbors, businesses donate and
fund activities that improve or revitalize local conditions, from traffic
patterns to community spaces.
By
knowing the mix of and interplay between these roles, business leaders can
consider the numerous ways that they can nurture and nudge an innovation
ecosystem forward in tandem with other community leaders.
Business
leaders and Political Leaders Jointly need to:-
1. Serve as catalysts, conveners, cultivators and
collaborators promoting and protecting innovative and creative ideas and sustainable
solutions that work rather than seek to push their own ideas and interests on
preferred solutions to real and complex problems on the ground in specific
community, country, continent location context that had not worked in the past,
is not working now and will not work in the future.
2. Recognized the benefits of uniting a
community, country or continent around a common concern and fostering
collaboration, cohesion, cooperation and coordination in each specific
community, country or continent location context.
3.
Breeders. In other words, good Business and
Political leaders are able to spark more ideas in the communities, countries
and continents they touch, they are able to foster optimal conditions for more
creation and growth, and they are able to help hatch new possibilities that
generate future productivity, better empowerment and new life within a broader
ecosystem.
This
underlines the importance of the right Business and Political leadership to
help a community, country or continent:-
1.
“break into a generous, collaborative,
cooperative, cohesive, coordinated mode of action”, necessary to do the much
that remains to be done in the 12 1/3 years left to end 2030 target date for
achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States.
2.
Adopt a joint strategy with common programming
framework for achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States
in 12 1/3 years left to end 2030 target date as appropriate to each specific
community, country, continent location context that includes a strong
communications component, and start by building trust among key players in all
relevant national and international stakeholder groups in the multi
stakeholders partnerships / platforms.
3.
Appreciate that Leaders of the MSPs must have
strong interest in the continuing success of other Stakeholders – National and
International as practical option for inspiring and maintaining Trust, through
seeking Mutual Benefit.
4. Build and share existing resources, as well as
know how to create new possibilities for delivering real benefit of newly
cooperative, cohesive, coordinated and collaborative efforts driven by a mutual
spirit of hope that reinforce the Peoples’ feeling that things really can be
better and see new solutions that didn’t exist before as practical option for
substantially getting a community, country or continent to a better place,
through achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge be end 2030.
5. Balance external infrastructures (such as
Roads and Internet access) with internal infrastructures (such as public
spaces), which enable faster flows of ideas between people in an area –
community, country. In short, factors of quality need to balance the factors of
quantity in any innovation community, country or continent ecosystem that is
connected for achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date.
6. Appreciate that Business Innovation is Key to
achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States and this
Business Innovation resides in communities, countries and continents.
7. Appreciate that everyone who lives and works
in a community, country or continent shares responsibility for its success as
ecosystem seeking to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date.
8. Appreciate
that ethical values are the principal factor in social cohesion and, at the
same time, the most effective agent of change and transformation; that
achieving sustainability/delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member
States will depend ultimately on changes in behavior and lifestyles in each
specific community, country or continent location context, changes which will
need to be motivated by a shift in values and rooted in the cultural and moral
precepts upon which behavior is predicated and that without change of this
kind, even the most enlightened legislation, the cleanest technology, the most
sophisticated research will not succeed in steering society towards the
long-term goal of sustainability.
9. Appreciate that Education in the broadest sense –
Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Sustainable Citizenship,
Education for Sustainable Consumption and Education for Sustainable Production
will by necessity play a pivotal role in bringing about the deep change
required, in both tangible and intangible ways for achieving delivery on SDGs
Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States in the 12 1/3 years remaining to end
2030 target date.
10.
Appreciate the Big Question is:
How long can we wait to adopt a new ethic for the future, an ethic which will
drive us to rectify our current path and to anticipate our future needs,
regardless of how broad or how deep the required changes need to be? That is
Integral Part of answer to PSM, MSPs, SDGs/SDGs Pledge etc How Questions in
each specific community, country or continent location context?
Rethinking for Delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge by
end 2030 Target Date
We cannot
continue to see poverty as a simplistic financial indicator, measured in a
household income gap between rich and poor. These big indicators are
useful tools to track where we are, but they seldom give us the nuanced
understanding we need to understand the dimensions of social change. It is
becoming imperative that we shift our debate to a more nuanced understanding of
inequality and the poverty it causes, so that we can start taking the small
steps that are needed to strengthen the foundations of our society, building an
inclusive society. All of these need to be on the table. These are what need to be
discussed and we have yet to have a serious meeting on these issues. That’s the
problem.
Also we cannot
continue to deploy Multiple Approaches many of which are divergent yet seek to
achieve delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States by end
2030 Target date, a Global Task demanding deploying One Worldwide / Universal Approach
– A Common and Systemic Approach that is Not a One Cap Fit All but a Generic Approach
Capable of being Adjusted to meet the Unique and Needs of Specific Community,
Sub-national, Country, Sub-regional, Regional /Continental and Global location
context in specific Goal – part or whole or Group of Goals 2 – 17 – part or
whole. Such One Worldwide / Universal Approach will be based on Common
Agreement on Principles, Instrument corresponding to each Principle, Practices
and Database.
This type of One
Worldwide /Universal Approach will be the Framework within which Rethinking
Development Finance; Rethinking Cooperatives, Social Economy and Social
Enterprise, Rethinking Global Economy; Rethinking Evaluation; Rethinking Development, Diplomacy, Defence, Democracy, Data and
Digitization; Rethinking Sustainability, Rethinking Communication and
Rethinking Multi Stakeholder Partnerships / Platforms, MSPs, Rethinking
Government, Rethinking Governance, Rethinking Attitude and Behaviour,
Rethinking Globalization and Rethinking Lobbying as Force for Good as
Foundation for Achieving increasing Convergence between 2030 Transformation
Agenda – AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Vision Intention ad Reality in each
Community in each of 193/306 UN
Member States by Target Date.
EAG 3 PCM Approach
The
EAG 3PCM Approach is the most advance such One Worldwide / Universal Approach
available to 193/306 UN Member States; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and
their National and International Partners in our World today.
3PCM Approach includes systems reform approach
as well as development anthropological approach to supporting all 193/306 UN
Member States to achieve delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge in 12 1/3 years remaining
begins with the assumption that effective national and international
development cooperation communication strategies must be grounded in and
cognizant of people’s in each specific community in each specific country’s
cultural and material lives, their needs and responsibilities, their attitudes
and commitments, their beliefs about hunger, poverty, nutrition, health,
conflicts and inequalities causation as well as
illness and disease causation and the priorities and constraints that
are the basis for their practices.
3PCM Short Version
Understanding the political, economic, social,
religious and cultural processes that guides decision-making about hunger,
poverty, nutrition, health, conflicts, inequalities, illness and disease and the roles and
expectations that go with it can be useful for identifying, promoting and
protecting sustainable solutions to achieving delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge How
Questions unique to each specific community / country location context in a timely, culturally appropriate,
effective manner, thus ensuring SDGs Pledge is delivered in all 193/306 UN
Member States in 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target date. This requires
investigation of local development systems and effectively linking these into
national and international development systems and in ways that meaningfully
deliver new local, national and international development cooperation systems
fit for the 21 st Century.
In the New System, Cultural systems of belief
help people to tackle hunger, poverty, nutrition, health, conflicts,
inequalities, illness and disease, and
Development cooperation systems provide explanations for how and why people get
hunger, poverty, nutrition, health, conflicts, inequalities, illness and disease challenges as well as guidance for what to do when
confronted with challenges.
In the New dispensation, all Development
Cooperation Systems can or will be characterized by at least six elements:
1. Explanations
of the root cause or primary cause of hunger, poverty, nutrition, health,
conflicts, inequalities, illness and
disease in the specific community / country / continent location context;
2. Mechanisms
for the correct diagnosis of root cause or primary cause of hunger, poverty,
nutrition, health, conflicts, inequalities,
illness and disease in the specific community / country / continent
location context ;
3. Correct Prescription
of appropriate remedy actions or therapy on the basis of the Correct Diagnosis
and
4.
Correct Surgery
and Correct Recovery Management to ensure remedy actions on the basis of the
Correct Prescription achieve sustainable success that are reinforced and
maintained and in ways that ensure all 193/306 UN Member States achieve
delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge in 12 ½ years remaining to end 2030 target date.
5. Communication
for Development Change Mobilizing appropriate levels of Political Will, Public Will,
Public Awareness, Public Sensitization necessary to meaningfully address (1) –
(4) in the specific community / country / continent location context;
6. Changing
Attitude and Behavior at Scale and Communication for Behavioral Impact to meaningfully
address (1) – (5) in specific community / country / continent location context.
Intensive
diplomatic action and massive political will required to achieve delivery on
SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States by end 2030: What needs to be done
now, because it wasn’t done before [adopting the SDGs], is the basic diplomatic
work that looks at all the issues that are involved here, puts them all on the
table and begins a diplomatic process between the national and international
stakeholders in each specific community, sub-national, national, sub-regional,
regional and global location context.
Building State/National capacity
requires a focus on three crucial dimensions:-
1. The crafting of political coalitions needed to
set and carry out policies, programs and projects;
2. Mobilizing resources with which to implement
and evaluate national and international development cooperation objectives; and
3. Allocating resources to productive;
empowerment; and child and family welfare-enhancing sectors and enforcing rules
governing their use.
SDGs Complementary Relationships
Effectiveness
of one institution or policy in a particular sphere may lead to, or require,
complementary institutions or policies in others. Pursuit of one set of
policies in one domain and the neglect of others may undermine the full
realization of the benefits of the chosen set of policies.
Achieving
institutional complementarity requires – but should not be reduced to – policy
coherence. Institutional complementarities or policy regimes are a product of
competing values on rights, differences in the weights accorded to markets and
non-market institutions in coordinating activities, and differences in power
structures that have evolved historically. The exploitation of synergies among
different sectors and subsectors is important in overcoming poverty and
inequality. However, such synergistic relationships are not automatic. They
require conscious design of both economic and social policies, backed by
sufficiently powerful coalitions to see them through.
SDGs
Financing
Ultimately, to fully mainstream SDG investing,
new products need to be developed. The financial sector excels at innovation
when demand is there. If Government creates Demand, the Private Sector
including the Financial Sector will create supply.
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.
Finding a successful SDG Financing Model means:-
1. Deploying Whole of Governments – All Arms of
All Tiers Budget, including Public Organizations Budget
2. Deploying Whole of Domestic and International
Aid Budget, including Volunteer Organizations
3. Attracting 20% of the US$300 Trillion Funds
available annually to the Private Sector, including Commercial Organizations,
Social Organizations
4. Not just changing how businesses (Public
Organizations, Commercial Organizations, Social Organizations, Volunteer
Organizations) operate to better support Sustainability and SDGs in Community,
Country, Continent location context, but also strengthening established and new
businesses that are Social Economy and Social Enterprise Organizations, like
co-operatives, which are more likely in the longer-term to meet human needs; it
also means changing how people behave.
We all need to start promoting and protecting
lifelong Education and lifelong Entrepreneurship for unleashing Innovation and
Creativity appropriate to Empowering each specific Community, Sub-national, Country,
Sub-regional, Regional / Continent and Global location context to achieve
delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date. This underlines urgent
need to identify, promote and protect Original Ideas Creators whose Innovative
and Creative Sustainable Solutions to each specific Goal – part or whole or
Group of Goals 2 – 17 part or whole real and complex root cause or primary
cause problems on the ground.
To achieve this, we all need to stop behaving
as investors looking to maximize gain; if
we want a better world, we need to place our funds where they are more likely
to build a better world. They won’t do that if we invest them in equity
shares.
Capital
instruments need to be in tune with the attitudes and motivations
of the day. So the goal is to provide a credible proposition for a co-operative
future which people can recognize, understand and believe in, and then provide the right mechanism through
which they can use their funds to secure that future. This means a financial proposition which provides a
return, but without destroying co-operative identity; and which enables people
to access their funds when they need
them. It also means exploring wider options for access to capital outside traditional membership, but without compromising on member control.
This is the context in which appropriate
financial instruments, through which people can fund co-operatives, are essential.
This is territory already much
explored by companies, but similar time and energy has not been applied in the co-operative sphere. All necessary measures
must be taken to ensure Cooperatives and other Social Economy and Social
Enterprise Organization optimize their potentials to make optimum contribution
towards raising the Trillions of Dollars required to finance the SDGs in specific
Community, Country, Continent location context.
The UNDP Paper underlines the fact that Leave
No One Behind and Work Together Benefit Together Concepts of the SDGs are
already being practiced and SDGs/SDGs Pledge are already being Funded; that is
193/306 UN Member States and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) are not
starting from Zero in the Concepts and Finding. However if all 193/306 UN
Member States are to get back On Track to achieving delivery on SDGs/SDGs
Pledge in 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 Target date, then Innovation and
Creativity needs to be taken to Greater Heights and On Time.
Indivisible
SDG – collaboration, cohesion, coordination, cooperation, commitment
The
UNDP Paper places responsibility on Local Governments. Yet Local Governments
are categorized as Major Group and not Government. We need to recognize that
some Local Governments are bigger than many UN Member States in Population and
or Geographical size. Local Governments face mandate, capacity,
local/sub-national/national coordination, corruption, clientelism, financial
management etc issues that need to be addressed. These issues are not exclusive
to Local Governments but also challenge Sub-national and National Governments;
Political Groupings of Governments at Sub-regional, Regional/Continental and
Global levels as well as the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) at
Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country and Sub Country Offices levels.
The Integrated
Sustainable Solutions Framework for meaningfully addressing these issues as One
set out in this EAG Paper and related EAG Papers are Best Operationalized in
Practice within:-
1. Sound Analysis /
Examination including Orientation Workshops; Desk Analysis of existing Study
Reports, Conferences and Meetings Outcome Documents; and Technical Surveys –
Management, Financial, Engineering.
2. Pilot Program and
Scale Up Program to Implement (1) Reports Conclusions and Recommendations
appropriate to each specific Community, Sub-national, Country, Sub-regional,
Regional /Continental, Global location context.
3. Building Bridge
between Lessons Learning and Lessons Forgetting as basis for ensuring that (2)
Implementation and Evaluation put all 193/306 UN Member States currently Off
Track back On Track and remain On Track towards achieving delivery on SDGs/SDGs
Pledge in 12 1/3 years remaining.
The demand all
Arms of all Tiers of Government in all 193/306 UN Member States Entities; all
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities Headquarters, Regional Offices and
Country Offices and Sub Country Offices; Regional/ Sub-regional Political
Groupings of Countries Entities Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country Offices
and their National and International Partners including all relevant Non State Actors,
Non Governmental Organizations and Private Sector Organizations and Foundations
/ Philanthropies operating at minimum certain levels of collaboration,
cohesion, cooperation, coordination and commitment on 3 levels:-
1.
Domestic – All
Arms of all Tiers of Government
2.
International –
Political Groupings of Countries
3.
Domestic and
International – all National and International Stakeholders – State Actors, Non
State Actors with responsibility for One Goal part or whole or Group of Goals 2
– 17 part or whole as applicable in each specific Community, Sub-national,
Country, Sub-regional, Regional /Continental, Global location context.
SDG Communication
Communication
is central to this notion. It is a process that promotes dialogue among all the
people involved in national and international development cooperation, at the
centre of which are affected communities and people at risk. This process can
ultimately help strengthen relationships, build trust and enhance transparency
among all those working towards delivering on SDG Pledge to achieve end hunger,
malnutrition and poverty in all communities in all 193/306 UN member States.
SDG Technical Interventions
Technical
interventions must be understood and applied in their behavioural, cultural,
religious, economic, political and social context. It is these settings that
determine the success of implementation and evaluation 3PIs and 3PIs Training
as One. While many factors contribute to behavioural outcomes for the
implementation and evaluation interventions, the outcomes cannot be achieved
without structured, strategically planned communication interventions to
support specific results. Behavioural and social interventions, combines a
number of different interventions for each of the 17 Goals of the SDGs and is
not limited to communication.
Asking appropriate HOW
questions for Sustainable Solutions towards achieving delivery on SDG Pledge in
all 193/306 UN Member States in the 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target
date include asking: How do we break the barriers to accelerate the pace of
political development, economic development, social development and
environmental sustainability - In all 193/306 UN Member States with competitive
advantage to benefit from WIN WIN National and International Development
Cooperation Initiatives driven by Working Together to Benefit Together?
Underlining these answers are very complex SDG Technical Interventions. As long
as National and World Leaders continue to avoid or evade meaningfully
addressing real and complex SDGs Technical Interventions issues on the ground
inn each specific Community, Country, Continent location context, it will be
uphill task achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all North and South Countries
in the 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
SDGs Indexes
National
and Global GDP, Governance, Corruption, Poverty and related Indexes being used
today are inadequate Measures, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back
On Track towards achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in 12 1/3 years remaining to
end 2030 target date.
There
urgent need to develop new Economy, Productivity, Governance, Corruption,
Poverty etc Indexes that better guide Communities and Countries to Progress
from where they are now to where they need to be if they are to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge in the 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
National
and Global Indexes that are based essentially on academic research aimed at
advancement of knowledge are not helpful as they are in reality abstract
Indexes that make no meaning in the lives of over 4 Billion Poor and contribute
little or nothing to help or motivate Communities or Countries to fill
knowledge, information, research, communication gaps as they work towards
achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
There
is urgent need for New National and Global Indexes that are essentially based
on development research aimed at significant improvements in service, speed,
quality, costs and where necessary revenues and profit. These are helpful
indexes that make meaning in the lives of over 4 Billion Poor and much to help
or motivate Communities or Countries to fill knowledge, information, research,
communication gaps as they work towards achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in 12
1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
In this Paper South Africa has complained about Indexes. Issues raised deserve serious attentions.
SDGs and Fourth Industrial Revolution and Fourth Agricultural Revolution
It's quite
possible that the fourth industrial revolution isn't the fourth industrial
revolution. It could be a post-industrial revolution. It could be that we're
going to get a lot better at developing technologies that do things that human
beings used to do, and a lot of human beings are not going to have a lot of
productive jobs available to them. And then we don't have a lost generation, we
have a failed political, social, economic, peace, security, religious and
environmental model that needs to change.
Right now
National and World Leaders are not even really recognizing that we have this
type of change problem in all 193/306 UN Member States. The SDGs present a
global framework for making Fourth Industrial Revolution and Fourth
Agricultural Revolution work for over 7 Billion People in our World today. All
Communities, Countries and Continent that do not effectively Key into the
Fourth Industrial Revolution and Fourth Agricultural Revolution to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date, will be left further behind.
This underlines the importance of
meaningful implementation and evaluation of the SDGs, considering that the
framework is already in its third year and needs a more ambitious and urgent
action plan.
Tackling SDGs/SDGs Pledge Challenge - HPLF
2018 Outcome: Matters Arising (3)?
In addition to issues raised in HPLF 2018 Outcome: Matters Arising (1)
and (2)? We wish to highlight the following additional issues:-
1.
193/306 UN Member States; UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and their National and International Partners
are still in MDGs Mode rather than SDGs Mode; without shifting from MDG Mode to
SDG Mode alongside relevant paradigm shifts achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge
in 12 1/3 years remaining will be Mirage.
2. If 193/306 UN Member States are to
deliver on SDGs/SDGs Pledge in 12 1/3 years remaining, 5 SDGs/SDGs Pledge Challenge
– Education, Enterprise, Employment, Food and Health needs to be Professionally
Tackled and without delay.
3.
Overcoming the 5 Challenges as One
by end 2030 in all 193/306 UN Member States greatly depends on making 4th
Agricultural Revolution and 4the Industrial Revolution Work for the over 4
Billion Poor Worldwide.
4.
Top 10, Top 100 and Top 1,000
Universities in the World Global Goals Project Catalyzing all Universities and
Tertiary Institutions in all 193/306 UN Member States Global Goals Project is a
requirement for getting Great Task of achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all
193/306 UN Member States DONE in 12 1/3 years remaining to end 2030 target
date. No UN Member State can rise above its University and Tertiary Institution
capability in the work towards achieving delivery of SDGs Pledge.
5.
Build Internal and External
Consultants Support Facility appropriate to specific Community,
Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional or Global, CSnNSrRG location
context SDGs Pledge delivery by 2030 needs. Individual
and Institution Consultants must have minimum certain levels of Hard
Competencies: Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies: Character, Courage,
Cultural, Discipline and Mindset to be able to effectively support all relevant
National and International Stakeholders in specific CSnNSrRG location
context to acquire minimum certain levels of Hard and Soft Competencies they need to deliver on their Duty Bearer
Responsibilities.
6. Our World cannot afford to let
Nigeria Collapse – a high probability given realities on the ground as Nigeria
race to 2019 Elections. In the Work to make World Hunger, Malnutrition and
Poverty History; Africa is holding the World back and Nigeria is holding Africa
back. Nigeria, Africa and World have the resources to achieve Nigeria, Africa
and World without Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty by 2030. The implication is
that Nigeria is the MASTER KEY to achieving delivery on SDG Pledge in all
193/306 UN Member States by end 2030 target date through all domestic and
international stakeholders joint approach to work together to benefit together
in meaningfully addressing Fulani Herdsmen Menace; UK/EU Brexit; US/China Trade
War and US/EU Trade War.
7. National and Global Visions in
Nigeria should Drive New Cooperatives Revolution that is interrelated,
interconnected, interdependent and interlinked with: Primary Revolutions - New
Agriculture Revolution; New Industrial Revolution; New Enterprise/Lifelong
Entrepreneurship Revolution; New Government Revolution; New Applied Research
Revolution; New Attitudinal and Behavioral Change Revolution; New Data
Revolution; New Digitization Revolution and Secondary Revolutions – Lifelong Education
Revolution; Health – Human, Animal, Plant Revolution; New Water Revolution; New
Sanitation Revolution; New Housing Revolution; New Sports Revolution; New Music
and Entertainment Revolution; New Anti Corruption Revolution; New Security and
Peace Revolution; New Justice Access Revolution etc as One and as applicable to
each specific Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional or
Global location context.
Conclusion
There are Bright Prospects of Success, should UNDP
and other UNO Entities be willing to effectively deploy their Convener, Collaborator,
Catalyst and Cultivator Power to Persuade and where necessary Pressure National
Leaders and World Leaders to genuinely commit to contributing their quota
towards achieving SDGs in all 193/306 UN Member States Vision Intention and
Reality by end 2030 target date. Ultimate consequences of failure to find
Sustainable Solutions to UK/EU Brexit; US/EU and US/China Trade Wars as well as
to achieve delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States by end
2030 target date would be catastrophic for over 7 Billion Citizens in all North
Countries and South Countries in our World today, not just the over 4 Billion
Poor Worldwide.
It is our hope that Bright
Prospects of Success would not be lost.
Contact:
Director General
Economic Alliance
Group (Global Integrated Sustainable Solutions Provider)
Affiliate Members: International
Society for Poverty Elimination (Global NGO);
ER and Associates
Limited (International Development Cooperation Consultants)
New End Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty, NEHMAP Initiative (Global
Social Enterprise) etc
M: +234-8162469805
Website: www.nehmapglobal.org
Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk info@nehmapglobal.org
6 September 2018.
