EAG ISPE
ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION
(Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions Provider) (Global Social Development Innovation Organization)
(Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions Provider) (Global Social Development Innovation Organization)
ER&A NEHMAP Initiative
ER and Associates Limited New End Hunger, Malnutrition
and Poverty Initiative
(International Development
Cooperation Consultants) (Global Social Economy and Social
Enterprise Organization)
Introduction
The Development Cooperation Forum, DCF Newsletters provide an overview of recent
DCF research and analysis, brief on latest DCF activities and meetings, and
flag upcoming relevant events and processes, within and outside the United
Nations. The Newsletters are prepared by the DCF Team in the Financing for
Sustainable Development, FfD Office, United Nations Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, UNDESA.
In each Newsletter, UNDESA invites Readers feedback and
suggestions for the DCF through questions like: Are there any key issues or challenges in Development
Cooperation the DCF could more actively
engage in its action-oriented policy debates? What improvements can the DCF make as a global Multi Stakeholder Partnership, MSP Forum to strengthen their impact? The BIG Question is what does UNDESA do with Innovative and Creative Sustainable Solutions submitted in response
to this Invitation? Given UNDESA/DCF Poor
Performance in Utilizing Solutions - Is this a problem only on UNDESA side or Systemic
Problem Cutting Across all
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities including FAO with responsibility
for Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Security, UNDP with responsibility for
Sustainable Development, WHO with responsibility for Health and Well being,
UNESCO with responsibility for
Inclusive Education – Education for Sustainable Development, Education for
Sustainable Production, Education for Sustainable Consumption and Education for
Sustainable Citizenship and the only Autonomous UN Entity – United
Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD with responsibility
for Social Protection, sides?
In
DCF Newsletter Volume 11, No
1, January 2018, DCF
highlighted these Questions: How
does development cooperation feature in your work on the 2030 and Addis
Agendas, on the Paris Agreement? How
are you aligning development cooperation with national sustainable development
strategies? Strengthening the contribution of South-South and triangular
cooperation to sustainable development? Engaging the private sector and
philanthropic foundations in development cooperation? Reinforcing multi-layered
monitoring and review of development cooperation for better results? What is
the next big challenge you see on the development cooperation horizon?
Another BIG Question is: In the event
that DCF is sent Innovative
and Creative Sustainable
Solutions, will DCF recognize these Sustainable Solutions
and more importantly will DCF
take required Action Steps for full Implementation with effective
Monitoring and Evaluation of these Sustainable Solutions? As long as DCF through actions of omission and or omission refuse to
support the implementation and evaluation of these Sustainable Solutions, will
DCF not be undermining its
own efforts at better supporting all 193/306 UN Member States to get back On
Track to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end
2030 target date? Is this a problem only on DCF side but also on the side of other UN System
Entities identified above and indeed 193/306 UN Member States Governments
sides? Again are these not Systemic
Problems Cutting Across all
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities from Headquarters to Sub-Country Offices
in our World today?
The
Key Outcome of DCF 2018 is a clear
Statement that “Achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific
Community, Country, Continent location context, in less than 12 years remaining
to end 2030 target date is an Urgent Call for Development Cooperation Rapid/Fast and Radical/Fundamental Change in
all 193/306 UN Member States Governments: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and
all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities: Headquarters, Regional
Offices, Sub-regional Offices, Country Offices and Sub-Country Offices and
their National and International Partners sides. If this DCF Urgent Call is to
go “Beyond Slogan” that is Empty
Ritual of Annual DCFs’; to be Motion with Movement and Words with Action and
Accomplishment, then DCF, UNDESA, all remaining UNO Entities as well as all
remaining UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities and all 193/306 UN
Member States Governments need to be
more serious about in reality getting back On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs
Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
This
Paper is our Organization’s further contribution to get the Great Task of
achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge back On Track for delivery on time – end
2030, in all 193/306 UN Member States.
USACE
and OECD Resilience Paper September 2018
A
Joint Paper by US Army Corp
of Engineers, USACE and OECD Senior Officials on Resilience
in US Government Entities and OECD
Entities, identify Resilience Research,
Knowledge and Information Gaps that need to be urgently filled, if all
193/306 UN Member States Governments – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary Entities;
all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and their National and International
Partners are to work JOINTLY together
and in ways that HELP to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community, Country,
Continent location context.
The
Joint USACE and OECD Paper’s findings include: Resilience lacks a universally accepted definition and practice that bridges multiple
disciplines and application areas. As such, international governance and norms-building have an opportunity to more clearly scope the theory and practice
of resilience within the global economy. This lack
of universally accepted definition and practice is a major problem in all other Key
aspects of the SDGs Pledge – Conflicts,
Inequality, Unsustainable Production, Poverty etc. this underlines urgent need
to get Multi Stakeholder Partnerships including Communities of
Theories and Theoreticians, Practices and Practitioners to jointly address real and complex problems
on the ground within the specific aspect
of the SDGs Pledge as applicable in each specific Community, Country,
Continent location
context.
This Joint USACE and OECD Paper essentially highlights:-
- The
role of OECD as a major
norms-building organization that seeks to align member state and observing state governing practices via shared principles and goals. It notes OECD’s discourse on
resilience plays a role towards
the broader adoption of
resilience philosophies into the governing
practices of various countries.
- The
role of resilience to improve
the national and international response
to various budding and ongoing
crises, including economic and financial disruption, threats to
societal cohesion and harmony, and general catalysts for crises that may
escalate into violent conflict.
- The fact that many
in academia have reflected upon the interdisciplinary, multi-temporal, and
multistakeholder nature of resilience, yet few have explored HOW
the governing philosophies and policy documents pertaining to resilience
in various industrial, political,
cultural, economic, trade, aid, financial,
corruption, peace, security, humanitarian, philanthropic, religious,
moral, environmental, legal and social sectors are discussed and implemented in high-level policy arenas. Italics ours.
- The
need to consider resilience across
a broad spectrum of categories, including physical and information
systems infrastructure as well as cognitive and social systems and
frameworks. It notes that these represent a small number of the growing
body of resilience literature, and represent opportunities for norms-building bodies like OECD to utilize in their own application
of resilience for international
governance.
- The fact that
there is a growing body of academic literature which academically frames
resilience, present strong need for
a better understanding of OECD’s formulation of resilience as basis to determine:-
a.
HOW OECD understands
and implements resilience in various sectors? and
b.
Which
opportunities may exist for extensions of resilience discussion given growing opinion in scientific literature?
The
Joint USACE and OECD Paper’s Conclusion: “Traditionally, the OECD tended to use resilience to mean the capacity
to resist downturns. There is an awareness that the systemic threats modern
societies face are increasingly difficult to model, and are often too complex
to be solved using traditional approaches of risk assessment that focus
primarily upon system hardness and ability to absorb threats before breaking.
The new approach to resilience will focus on the ability of a system to
anticipate, absorb, recover from, and adapt to a wide array of systemic threats” omits the fact that
all US Government Entities studied had the same
flaws and failures as OECD
and so the Conclusion applies equally to all US Government Entities and indeed to all
193/306 UN Member States Governments Entities; all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF,
WTO (ITO) Entities; all EU Entities, all remaining Regional and Sub-Regional
Political Grouping of Countries Entities in our World
today.
The Joint USACE
and OECD Paper’s Conclusion
underlines urgent need for 193/306
UN Member States; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO); OECD,
EU/EC, GPEDC (Global
Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
and their National and International Partners to jointly address Resilience, Mitigation and Adaptation Dimension of
SDGs Pledge real and complex issues
on the ground as applicable in each specific Community, Country, Continent
location context. If these National and International Stakeholders are to meaningfully address these real and complex
problems on the ground, they have to
JOINTLY find answer to SDGs Pledge How
Questions and related How Questions
as applicable in each specific Community,
Country, Continent location context.
Answering
Resilience How Questions Integral Part of answering SDGs Pledge How Questions
This GPEDC Statement and our
suggested improvement in Language and Text is Evidence that GPEDC
now has deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to meaningfully
address HOW Questions as well as
present Evidence that EAG/ISPE Global Advocacy on finding answer to SDGs etc
HOW Questions is gaining increasing Global Currency:-
“The
scale of the ambition captured in the SDGs has moved from a whole-of-government
effort to whole-of-society-effort, and from billions to trillions of US
dollars. In this context, the proposition of the GPEDC is two-fold. First, that
Multi-Stakeholder Approaches will be increasingly critical moving forward.
Second, that it is time to complement the Goal
Framework (the SDGs; what we want to achieve), and its Financing Framework (the FfD; the means to achieve it), with an Effectiveness Framework (HOW to design and deliver Research, Planning, Data, Implementation,
Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, Results, Transparency, Accountability and
Participation as One Framework and in ways that ensure all National and
International Stakeholders in each specific Community, Country, Continent
location context Best Work Together
to Benefit Together and in Ways that Leave No One Behind in all 193/306 UN
Member States) to complete the International Architecture
for the SDG that get All North and South
Countries presently Off Track, to be back On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs
Pledge (None of the 17 Goals will be considered met if it is not achieved by
All Peoples in All outcries by end 2030 target date) and in the 12 years
remaining to end 2030 Agenda
target date”.
Italics ours to further improve language
and text
If the above GPEDC Statement is applied, the Joint USACE and OECD Paper addresses Information,
Knowledge and Research Gaps in the Resilience
Goal Framework that needs to be urgently filled if Resilience Interventions
that Work to deliver Good Governance at each specific Community, Country, Continent location context as well as at Global levels are
to be designed and delivered and on time. However, the Paper fails to address Resilience Financing Framework –
Finance for Development and related Resilience Interventions Financing
including Corruption (Grand Corruption and Petty Corruption) issues that
undermine Resilience Interventions Productivity and Performance. The Paper also
fails to address Resilience
Effectiveness Framework – the Resilience Interventions as appropriate in
each specific Community, Country, Continent location context HOW
Questions.
We urge 193/306 UN Member States Governments; UN System: UNO, WBG,
IMF, WTO (ITO) Authorities to genuinely appreciate that correct answer to SDGs Pledge How Questions, Alternative Brexit How
Questions and related National and International Development Cooperation How
Questions are both Technical Process and Political Process as One Matter; that
very few Consultants have the Hard Competencies: Learning and Skills
and Soft Competencies: Character, Courage, Cultural, Neutrality, Discipline
and Mindset at Minimum Certain levels required to provide 193/306 UN Member
States Governments – Executive, Legislature, Judiciary at all tiers and UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Headquarters, Regional Offices, Sub-Regional
Offices, Country Offices and Sub-Country Offices with Minimum Certain levels of
Technical Support and Reform Consultancy Services that is required for UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Delivery
as One (DaO); Fit for Purpose and Fit for 21st Century that meaningfully
support 193/306 UN Member States to get back On Track to achieve delivery on
SDGs Pledge in the less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date. These Consultants
need to be Identified, Empowered,
Promoted and Protected, if ongoing UN Reforms is to in reality help
provide the Rapid/Fast and Radial/Fundamental Change
in the National and International Development Cooperation
System as Called for by DCF in 2018.
National
Adaptation Plan, NAP expanded to National, Resilience, Mitigation and
Adaptation Plan, NRMAP that is Vision and Words with Action.
Reports indicated that FAO aimed to underscore the links
between climate change; resilience,
mitigation and adaptation and food security, with the slogan / message “Climate is changing. Food and Agriculture
must too”, for 2016 World Food Day, celebrated October 16. FAO noted that the
slogan/message resonated with the crucial time the Day was celebrated, just
before COP22 Morocco November 2016. FAO called on Countries to address Food and
Agriculture in their Climate Action Plans and invest more in rural development.
FAO noted further that by strengthening the resilience of smallholder farmers,
our World can guarantee Food Security for the Planet’s increasingly hungry
Global Population and also reduce emissions.
This calls for better ways of addressing Specific Resilience, Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges as
One in each specific Community,
Country, Continent location context, in our World as is today and not as any
Stakeholder – no matter How Powerful would wish our World to be. The LAC
Experience – an advantaged Region, in addressing these issues underlines the
Complexity and Magnitude of the real problems on the ground in a disadvantaged
Region like Africa. The implication is that FAO needs to better support
Countries, if its call is to be heeded. And FAO itself and indeed other UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) and 193/306 UN Member States Entities needs support of Competent Consultants,
if they are to Jointly and meaningfully
address these Challenges and if the
UN System is to better support all
North and South Countries in the Great task of achieving delivery on SDGs.
The current National Adaptation Plan Agriculture
component, NAP-Ag, Process for addressing these issues seem to be a less productive process exclusively driven
by Trained Economists rather than a more
productive process inclusively driven by Multidisciplinary Professionals on
4 Levels from Lowest to Highest: Grassroots Professionals Level 1; Grassroots
Professionals Level 2; Higher Professionals Level 1 and Higher Professionals
Level 2. It appears that the current NAP Process is for Higher Professionals
Level 2 only. This raises Huge Capacity Building Challenges for the 3 remaining
identified levels of Professionals that needs to be tackled.
The Improved NAP Process should have 9 indivisible Components – Agriculture;
Health – Plants, Animals, Human; Tourism; Water, Humanitarian, Energy,
Infrastructure; Ecosystem and Biodiversity and Institutional and Systems Reform
as One within New Resilience, Mitigation and Adaptation Plan, NRMAP that is Vision and Words with Action.
Each Component has Climate Change and Environmental Dimension and Political
Vision and Economic Vision Dimension. As long as Issues, Services, Sectors
Matters in Specific Component or Dimension are
addressed without simultaneously addressing complementary Issues, Services,
Sectors Matters, the NRMAP Process will continue
to underperform and SDGs Pledge would not be delivered in all Countries.
There is a link
between indivisible 17 Goals of the SDGs and indivisible 9 Components of the NRMAP and there is a NRMAP Dimension of all the 17 Goals of
the SDGs as well as entire 2030 Transformation Agenda: AAAA, SDG, COP21 and
Agenda 21. The EU as a Region has made the most
Progress in NAP, yet many European Countries are lagging implementing the 2009 EU White Paper on Adapting to Climate
Change. This is one of the issues Alternative Brexit address.
If there is to be Motion
with Meaning, in the work towards NRMAP that is Vision and Words with Action, helping to achieve SDGs by 2030
Target Date – less than 12 years remaining, and in ways that deliver of the SDG
Pledge that no SDG Goal would be considered met if it is not achieved by all
Peoples in all Countries, there is urgent need to reinforce and reinvigorate EU Progress on NRMAP and Benchmark for replication, in all
remaining Regions in our World today.
2019
Year 4 of Implementation: Turning Point for Transformative Change?
Our Organization’s finding of the first 50
years of International Development Cooperation (1960-2009) was released in a Scorecard. The grades given for
Policy, Program, Project implementation were rated 1/3 ‘good’; 1/3 ‘flawed’ and
1/3 ‘failed’ and the grades given for Policy, Program, Project evaluation were
rated 1/3 ‘good’; 1/3 ‘flawed’ and 1/3 ‘failed’ by the respondents.
Over the past ten years, in the second 50
years of International Development Cooperation (2010 – 2059) we observe that lessons relating to global Development
Cooperation appear not to have not been
learned on all 193/306 UN Member States and UN System sides since the
Scorecard remain the same and this poor rating is further evidenced by DCF
2018 Call restated above. The Scorecard authors contend that
unless “community to global
stakeholders jointly agree to face new direction and adopt new priorities” by
“addressing all fundamental issues” the same scores may be repeated by
SDG 2030 target date and by 2059 end of second 50 years of International
Development Cooperation. Again DCF 2018 Call restated
above underlines this fact as well as the need for urgent remedial action.
The authors submitted that if the SDG
targets are to be met by 2030 then all community to global stakeholders in the
implementation and evaluation of domesticated SDG aligned and harmonized with
National Development Plan in each of the 193/306 UN Member States, there is urgent
need for all relevant community to global stakeholders to jointly work towards achieving International Development
Cooperation Scorecard of grades given for Policy, Program, Project
implementation rated 90% ‘good’; 5% ‘flawed’ and 5% ‘failed’ and the grades
given for Policy, Program, Project evaluation rated 90% ‘good’; 5% ‘flawed’ and
5% ‘failed’ in 2030. For the Scorecard authors, the key lies in “transformative change” at community,
sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global levels, guided by the
UN SDGs, indicators and corresponding criteria (2016- 2030).
In 2019
Year 4 of Implementation of SDG, the stage for global initiatives to
promote "integrated approaches” to
the interconnected political, economic, social, security, environmental and
related challenges confronting the world"
has been set and now really is the time
for all community to global stakeholders to jointly focus on triangular relationship between health and
nutrition, education and training and enterprise and jobs aligned with National
Development Plan and domesticated SDG that turn 'vision and words into action'
in each of the 193/306 UN Member States thereby sustaining the planet and its
people for future generations by delivery on the SDG Pledge that No Goal would
be considered met if it is not met by all Peoples in all countries by end 2030
target date.
FAO Tender CPT/2011/003/RFP
(8074/CSH) – Design and Delivery of Management Assessment Centre (MAC)
The
FAO called for EOI for Management Assessment Center, MAC in June 2011
Tender. ISPE/EAG responded to the Call
and made useful contribution towards improving the procurement process that was
acknowledged and appreciated by the Procurement Team. ISPE/EAG Technical
Proposal was probably the most Innovative and Creative and was shortlisted.
However, our Financial Proposal was not accepted.
With
benefit of hindsight, had ISPE/EAG been selected Preferred Consultant, if
indeed our Technical Proposal was the most Innovative and Creative, and had FAO
Management and Governing Council given implementation of the Technical Proposal
full personal and official support, the probability is high that FAO
Productivity and Quality Management Systems as well as Capacity Building
Systems would have recorded significantly higher performance and results, as
ISPE/EAG deliver increasing convergence between MAC ToR Intention and Reality.
We
urge FAO to consider reviewing the past
over 7 years of implementing MAC to determine the level of convergence or
divergence between promises made by the Preferred Consultant in their selected
Technical Proposal and criteria stated clearly in the ToR and also compare
promises made in rejected ISPE/EAG Technical Proposal and criteria stated in
the ToR.
Should
the review suggest that indeed
implementation of ISPE/EAG Technical Proposal could have achieved better performance and results, it is our hope that FAO,
other UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities and indeed 193/306 UN Member
States Governments: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary Entities at all tiers
would indeed Learn Lessons for future
guidance in the selection of Preferred Consultants selected to undertake
Reform Assignments such as Revised MAC, Revised NAP-Ag (National Resilience,
Mitigation, Adaptation Plan, NRMAP-Ag), Alternative Brexit and Revised SDGs’
Pledge delivery by end 2030 in all North and South Countries.
New NRMAP-Ag and New NRMAP Reform
Interventions – Selecting Preferred Consultants
The
UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Entities have standard guidelines for selection of
Consultants. However, the UN System – UNO, WBG, IMF Procurement Process needs
to appreciate the difference in Regular Consulting Services Procurement
such as Financial Audit where standards exist and qualified Service Providers
deliver to these standards and so any Pre Qualified Consultant can deliver
equally on the Assignment, therefore NO HARM is done in selecting the Lowest
Financial Proposal to Definite Quantity Contract and Reform Consulting Services Procurement.
In
Reform Consulting Services Procurement, such as Policy Reform where no
standards exist and Innovation and Creativity are Keys and so all Pre Qualified
Consultants cannot deliver equally on the Largely
Indefinite Quantity Contract Assignment, therefore MUCH HARM is usually
done in selecting the Lowest Financial Proposal, if this does not coincide with
the Highest Technical Proposal. Thus, the selection of Preferred Consultant
that consistently Deliver Good Reform Policies, Programs, Projects, continues
to pose major Challenge for UN
System Entities and Member States.
The
New NRMAP-Ag, NRMAP and indeed all remaining components of SDGs Pledge needs to
have New Procurement Processes, with New
Rules that effectively respond to this difference and in ways that ensure
Accountability is effectively promoted and protected through ensuring that each
Preferred Consultant deliver on promise made in their Technical Proposal. This
way Preferred Consultants who consistently deliver flawed or failed Technical
Proposals are no longer rewarded
with renewed Patronage and Procurement Commissioners and Managers who
consistently select Preferred Consultants who consistently deliver flawed or
failed Technical Proposals are sanctioned.
The
serious issues raised in UNJIU 2017
Partnership with Private Sector (including consultants) Report; UNSG 2018 Comment
on the UNJIU Report and EAG/ISPE Comment on UNJIU Report and UNSG Comment on
UNJIU Report need to be urgently
addressed and in Global Interest (all 3 documents earlier submitted), if MSPs that Work for SDGs Pledge Delivery
are to be supported by Competent
Consultants in
each specific Community, Country, Continent location context.
New NRMAP-Ag and New NRMAP: Moving
from Vision and Words without Action to Vision and Words with Action
The
current NAP-Ag and NAP, without prejudice to Giant Strides already made, is
essentially Vision and Words without
Action and this explains why the much more that remains to be done appears
to be uphill task. This is so because the current NAP-Ag and NAP provide answer to What and Why questions
while avoiding or evading answer to How questions.
The
New NRMAP-Ag and New NRMAP (that meaningfully address all fundamental issues
raised in USACE and OECD Joint Resilience Report and relevant portions of other
Reports/Documents submitted to the GPEDC Call for Evidence Global Consultation
2018/2019 and UNEMG New Model Approach Global Consultation 2018) needs to be Vision and Words with Action that
provide clear and correct answer to What,
Why, When, Where, Who and How questions, if there is to be increasing convergence between New
NRMAP-Ag Vision, NRMAP Vision, AAAA Vision, SDG Vision, COP21 Vision, Agenda 21
Vision and NIEO Vision in each Community in each of 193/306 Member States:
Intention and Reality by 2030 Target date.
To
achieve this, the design and delivery of New NRMAP-Ag and New NRMAP that are
Integral Parts of AAAA (2015), SDG (2015), COP21 (2015), Agenda 21 (Rio 1992
and Rio+20 2012) and NIEO (1974) that is Vision and Words with Action, needs to
be built upon Correct Diagnosis of
root problems on the ground in each specific Community, Country, Continent location
context; Correct Prescription to Diagnosed
Diseases; Correct Surgery to apply the Prescription and Correct Recovery
Management after the Surgery. World Leaders and National Leaders on 193/306
UN Member States; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) sides need to recognize and appreciate that it is fail is
any one of these stages, fail in all the stages.
Globalization
and Brexit as Force for Good and not Force for Evil: Avoiding Global
Catastrophe
Just as Globalization as Force for Evil has HURT and continue to HURT many poor children, youth, women, men and
elders in both North and South Countries sides, Brexit as Force for Evil is HURTING and will HURT many poor
children, youth, women, men and elders even more as events unfold in the
future, if urgent remedial action is not taken. Now over 4 Billion of 7.3
Billion World Population) Poor children,
youth, women, men and elders are HURTING,
by 2030 about 5 Billion of 8.5 Billion World Population) Poor children, youth,
women, men and elders will be HURTING.
Should there be shift to Globalization and Brexit as Force for
Good, Friendly Climate would be
created for National and International Stakeholders in each specific Community, Country,
Continent location context to JOINTLY achieve delivery on Global Agendas – AAAA
(2015); SDGs (2015); COP21
(2015); Agenda 21 (Rio 1992 and Rio+20 2012) and NIEO (1974) Vision Ambitions and
in ways that effectively HELP all
193/306 UN Member States achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years
remaining to end 2030 target date and effectively
END the HURTING.
The many good ideas and
pertinent suggestions harvested from GPEDC Call for Evidence Global Consultation
2018/2019 and UNEMG New Model Approach Global Consultation 2018 have shed light
on WHAT needs to be DONE; HOW What needs
to be Done SHOULD be Done and the Window of Opportunity to Kick Start National and Global Mutual Collaboration
for Result achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States in
less than 12 years remaining to end 2030.
Multi
Stakeholder Partnerships, MSPs that Work for Global Sustainable Development:
Avoiding Global Catastrophe
There is urgent need to Re-establish
Existing Multi Stakeholder Partnerships, MSPs and Establish New MSPs for Global Sustainable Development, if all
193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs
Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
To assure Inclusion,
all relevant Stakeholder Groups on Public Sector: all Tiers and all Arms;
Private Sector: Micro, Small, Medium, Large, Transnational; CSOs/NGOs/CBOs: National and International; SESEOs
(Social Enterprise and Solidarity Economy Organizations, especially Cooperatives):
National and International; Universities and Tertiary Institutions: Top 1,000
Worldwide and all remaining; Religious Organizations: National and
International; Traditional / Tribal Organizations: All Classes; Media
Institutions: Radio, TV, Print, Online – National and International;
Philanthropy Organizations: National and International, Regional / Sub-regional
Groupings of Countries, UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) – Headquarters,
Regional/Sub-regional Offices, Country/Sub-Country Offices need to be
encouraged and meaningfully supported to participate
actively in relevant MSPs.
We
suggest that these relevant National and International Stakeholders be
organized within 12 MSPs:
- Partnership4AKST
– Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology.
- Partnership4MKST
– Mining Knowledge, Science and Technology.
- Partnership4Extension
– Production, Processing, Management and related Extension
- Partnership4PI
– Planning and Implementation
- Partnership4Review
– Monitoring and Evaluation
- Partnership4DD
– Data and Digitization
- Partnership4SESE
– Social Enterprise and Solidarity Economy
- Partnership4PSM–
Public Sector Management
- Partnership4LR
– Learning and Result
- Partnership4CABS
– Changing Attitude and Behavior at Scale
- Partnership4Fighting
Corruption – War on Corruption
- Partnership4DevCom
– Development Communication
MSPs
will have Geopolitically balanced
Co-Facilitators at Global, Continental/Regional,
Sub-Continental/Sub-Regional, Country, Sub-Country and Community levels.
MSPs
operation will recognize that:-
Bad Politics;
Bad Economics; Bad Social Change; Bad Public Communications
Good Politics;
Good Economics; Good Social Change; Good Public Communications
And
that these issues need to be effectively
addressed on both North and South Countries sides
Getting
The Message: Avoiding Global Catastrophe
A former Nigerian Head of Service and Chairman Presidential Committee
on Civil Service Reforms, Alhaji Adamu Fika, in 2012 said “ Our spoils system
has now lead to deaths, just as it did in the USA more than a Century ago. The
spoils system in force in America then, in which politicians shared out all the
posts among them, led to a disappointed applicant assassinating US President
James Garfield in 1881. Immediately this happened, the entire US System got the
message and acted decisively to restore the merit based service in place of the
one based on patronage. But here in Nigeria, almost two dozen applicants were
trampled to death in a frenzy to get jobs that had reportedly been shared out
among politicians, no one is getting the message”.
Is the reality in USA
today not evidence that US Authorities have forgotten the Message, after being reminded again on 11 September
2001? Is the reality of UK/EU Brexit not evidence that UK and EU Authorities
have not gotten the message? Is the reality that all 193/306 UN Member States
are Off Track achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge with less than 12 years
remaining to end 2030 target date, not evidence that it is not only Nigeria,
US, UK and EU Countries that have not gotten the message but indeed all
remaining North and South Countries in our world today? Is it possible for all
193/306 UN Member States to get the
message without all countries embarking on Reforms that deliver New Public Service Fit for the 21st
Century? Is it possible for all 193/306 UN Member States to achieve delivery on
SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date without Reforms that deliver New Public Service
Fit for the 21st Century in all 193/306 UN Member States?
193/306
UN Member States achieving delivery SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years
remaining: Central Role for OECD, GPEDC, UNEMG etc
Organizations like OECD, GPEDC, UNEMG etc have Central Roles to Play if all 193/306 UN
Member States are to get back On Track
to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030
target date.
OECD has done extensive work on Inequalities. If there had been increasing convergence between OECD
Inequalities Vision Intention and Reality, there would be no Brexit and EU
Project would be far more successful than it is today. For Best Results delivering the EU Project, Sustainable Solutions to Inequalities root cause or primary cause
problems on the ground in UK, remaining EU Countries and remaining UN Member
States need to be found, fully implemented with effective monitoring and
evaluation of this implementation in ways that are Integral Parts – Interrelated, Interconnected, Interdependent and
Interlinked to Sustainable Solutions
to root cause or primary cause problems within Conflict, Unsustainable Production,
Hunger, Malnutrition, Poverty, Trade, Debts, Finance, Aid, Gender, Corruption,
Moral, Religious and remaining Action Agenda Items in the 17 Goals of the SDGs as applicable in each specific Community, Country,
Continent location context.
The OECD also works with the EU to help achieve success with EU
Reforms. Again, if there had been increasing
convergence between OECD EU Reforms Vision Intention and Reality, there
would be No Brexit. Information provided on OECD work on EU Reforms give misleading impression that EU reform is
Progressing smoothly and EU is on top of its game. Brexit is evidence this is
not the case in reality. Should Brexit end up as Force for Evil, more EU
Countries would sooner than later Exit EU and EU Project would collapse and
fail. To avoid this, NOW is time for
relevant UK, EU and Partners Authorities to jointly consider Alternative Brexit Proposed in EAG/ISPE
earlier submissions before irreversibility point is passed as UK/EU accelerate
on MADning (Mutually Assured
Destruction) Road to DOOM and DRAG
many more North and South Countries along willy nilly, especially South Countries that will suffer adverse
consequences of Actions they were not
party to taking.
The
OECD and USACE Joint Paper on Resilience highlight the role of OECD as a major norms-building organization that
seeks to align member state and observing state governing practices via shared
principles and goals. It notes OECD’s discourse on resilience plays a role
towards the broader adoption of
resilience philosophies into the governing practices of various countries. OECD
has a duty and responsibility to
play these Roles not only in the
Resilience Dimension of SDGs but in all remaining Dimensions of the SDGs.
It is not only OECD that has this duty and responsibility but also GPEDC, UNEMG and many other National
and International Institutions.
The
ongoing GPEDC Call for Evidence Global Consultation and UNEMG New Model
Approach Global Consultation present Evidence that OECD, GPEDC, UNEMG and many
other National and International Institutions have Central Role to Play in the great Task of getting all 193/306 UN
Member States back On Track to
achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030
target date.
Alternative
Brexit a Master Key for Achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge Worldwide
In July 2017 EAG/ISPE set out 4 Scenarios as possible Brexit
Outcome and noted that 3 of the 4 Scenarios are Bad and 1 of 4 Scenarios is
Good and that only the 3 Bad Scenarios are on the Table, thus whatever option
become the Final Brexit Outcome, real and complex Brexit root cause or primary
cause problems will remain unresolved
and would most likely be worsened by
such Brexit Outcome.
Unfolding events in UK and EU in the past 2 years have vindicated
us. Since Article 50 was activated, by mutual UK and EU agreement, Hard Brexit
– Leave Agreement with Hard Irish Border was eliminated. As UK race to 29 March
2019 EU Exit date, the 2 remaining Scenarios: Leave and Remain Agreement with
Soft Irish Border – Soft Brexit and Leave without Agreement and Ultimate Hard
Irish Border sooner than later – Crash Out are LOSE – LOSE for UK and EU.
These 2 remaining Scenarios on the Table essentially mean that UK
has to Choose between Devil and Deep Blue Sea or Rock and Hard
Place. The Talk now is which
Scenario is acceptable to UK larger majority and does less Damage – Constitutional/Political and Economic/Financial to UK
Economy and Society.
The probability is High that as from February 2019, the Climate in UK and EU will be more favorable for the 4th and only WIN – WIN or Good Scenario – Alternative Brexit. Any of the 2
remaining Scenarios on the Table will produce Brexit as Force for Evil with
ultimate catastrophic consequences for UK, EU, Europe and World. However,
should Alternative Brexit Scenario get on the Table and be pursued with sincerity
and determination, it would be Force for Good that HELP not only to find,
implement, with effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of
Sustainable Solutions to all identified real and complex Brexit root cause or
primary cause problems on the ground in UK and remaining 27 EU Countries, it
will also Produce a Master Key that HELP
all 193/306 UN Member States achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12
years remaining to end 2030 target date.
This is because Sustainable Solutions to Brexit root cause or
primary cause problems in UK and 27 EU Countries are Integral Parts – Interrelated,
Interconnected, Interdependent and Interlinked to real and complex SDGs (2015),
AAAA (2015), COP21 (2015), Agenda 21 (Rio 1992
and Rio+20 2012) and NIEO (1974) root cause or primary cause problems on the
ground in all 193/306 UN Member States. Alternative Brexit Sustainable
Solutions will Help Make
Globalization and Brexit Force for Good; Make 4th Agriculture
Revolution and 4th Industrial Revolution work for the 5 Billion of
8.5 Billion Poor in UK, EU and World by 2030 through End to World Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty.
Strategic
Communications and Public Communications for Achieving: Alternative Brexit in
UK and 27 EU Countries and SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States
by 2030.
Strategic Communications and Public Communications in each
specific Community, Country, Continent location context have Central Roles to Play in the Great Task
of Achieving Alternative Brexit Vision Ambitions in UK and 27 EU Countries,
that is Integral Part – Interrelated, Interconnected, Interlinked and
Interdependent with Great Task of Achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306
UN Member States by 2030, more so with less than 12 years remaining.
If 193/306 UN
Member States Governments and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) are more intentional in using communications as
a tool for political, cultural, economic, financial, social, environmental,
religious, moral CHANGE, and if they
incorporate what is known about HOW the media affect individuals and groups into their National and
International Development Cooperation –
Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One Decision Making, they will be much more
likely to ACHIEVE the kind of long-term
change in public understanding and
opinion that is needed to
maximize their impact in the joint work to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in the less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
193/306 UN
Member States Governments and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) must appreciate the role: that
communications plays in public thinking
and public life, that prevailing theory and practice in the field of
communications posits close, but complicated, connections among these phenomena
that need to be better understood as applicable in each
specific Community, Country, Continent location context, that the real
world is increasingly viewed through the lens of the news media, that as
issues rise and fall on the news media agenda each
specific Community, Country, Continent location context, so does their
potential for attracting the attention
of the public and its policymakers and that the ability of the news media
to set the public agenda determines to a large extent what issues policymakers each specific Community, Country, Continent location
context will feel compelled to
address. Indeed, media in each specific Community,
Country, Continent location context are often read by policymakers as the
proxy for public opinion.
If UK and EU are
to implement Alternative Brexit that
Work for All in UK and EU and if 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve delivery
on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining, all relevant National and
International Stakeholders need to urgently Change
Attitude and Behavior.
This is best done within Strategic
Communications and Public Communications inclusive of Communication for
Behavioral Impact, COMBI and Changing
Attitude and Behavior at Scale, CABS
Interventions. It is pertinent to note that there are some COMBI/CABS Interventions in some Developing Countries for Water and
Sanitation Interventions and less for Health Interventions.
However, if UK and
EU are to find Sustainable Solutions to Brexit real and complex problems on the
ground in UK and 27 EU Countries and if all 193/306 UN Member States are to
effectively get back On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than
12 years remaining to end 2030 target date, there is urgent need for COMBI/CABS
Interventions and Instruments appropriate to each specific Community, Country, Continent
location context. EAG/ISPE COMBI/CABS – One of the Instruments in 3PCM, is
probably the most advance such Instrument available anywhere in our World
today.
Revisiting
UNSG Synthesis Report 2014 and Data Revolutions Report 2014.
Achieving
delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States in less than 12 years
remaining to end 2030 target date calls for embracing a culture of shared
responsibility in order to ensure that promises made become actions delivered.
This demand a framework of implementation; a framework to be able to monitor
and evaluate (review) implementation, based on enhanced statistical capacities
and tapping into the potential of new and non-traditional data sources, and a
United Nations System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) “Fit for Purpose, Fit for 21st Century and Delivery as One,
DaO – Beyond Slogan” to effectively and meaningfully address the challenges
of the 2030 Transformation agenda as applicable or appropriate in each specific
Community, Country or Continent location context. Achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States
in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date is possible if we collectively
mobilize political will and the necessary resources to strengthen the multilateral system and our nations.
Let us take some Extracts from UNSG Ban
Ki Moon Synthesis Report 2014 adjusted to reflect contemporary challenges in
past 4 years:- We
are at a historic crossroads (4 years
ago), and the direction (gone further in the wrong direction) we on both North and South Countries sides
(all 193/306 UN Member States) take will determine whether we (One Global
Village or One Planet of 193/306 UN Member States) will succeed or fail in
fulfilling our promises in the 2030 Transformation Agenda – delivery on SDGs
Pledge be end 2030 target date. With our globalized economy and sophisticated
technology, we (all 193/306 UN Member States as One) can make right decision to
end the age-old ills of world hunger, malnutrition and poverty. Or we can
continue making the wrong decision to keep degrading our planet and keep
allowing intolerable levels of conflicts, inequalities and unsustainable
production to keep sowing bitterness and despair in each affected specific
Community, Country or Continent location context.
The ambition of the 2030 Transformation
Agenda - SDGs is to help all 193/306 UN Member States make right decision
through Working Together to Benefit Together and in ways that Leave No One
Behind resulting is achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years
remaining to end 2030 target date. We need to do more to increase convergence between Ambition Intention and Reality.
Transformation – beyond slogan, can and should be
our watchword
in all 193/306 UN Member States. At this moment in time, we – National Leaders
and World Leaders in all 193/306 UN Member States as well as National Leaders
and World Leaders in UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO I(ITO) are called upon to
lead and act with courage. We – all identified National Leaders and World
Leaders on 193/306 UN Member States and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO)
sides are called upon to embrace change.
Change in our societies. Change in
the management of our economies.
Change in our relationship with our one and only planet. Change as appropriate to achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community,
Country or Continent location context and in less than 12 years remaining to
end 2030 target date.
It
is in providing required Leadership
and in ways that act with courage to deliver
Needed Change in
each specific Community, Country or Continent location context that we – National Leaders and World Leaders in all
193/306 UN Member States and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) sides can more fully respond to the needs of our time and deliver on the timeless promise made at the birth of the United Nations.
Seventy
Four years ago, in adopting the founding
Charter of the Organization, the nations of the world made a solemn commitment in the preamble “to
save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…to reaffirm faith in
fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the
equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small…to establish
conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from
treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to
promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”.
The UN System
has achieved much in 78 years, but much more needs to be achieved by the
UN System in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date, if the UN
System Fit for Purpose, is to meaningfully and effectively support all 193/306
UN Member States to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge.
It is the UN
System “Fit for Purpose, Fit for 21st Century and Delivery as One, DaO –
beyond Slogan” that can help all 193/306 UN Member States get back
On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge through design, delivery, promotion
and protection of a Shared New Model
Approach that would guarantee the
meaningful participation of all relevant National and International
Stakeholders in Sustainable Development, that is Country Sustainability Strategy and SDG in Country for all 193/306
UN Member States and in the fair
distribution of its sustainable benefits to all World Citizens, especially
the over 4 billion Poor on both North and South Countries sides.
In view of the above extracts, if all 193/306 UN Member States
Governments; all UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities and their
National and International Partners do
not speedily go back to UNSG Ban Ki Moon Synthesis Report 2014 and Data Revolution Report 2014 as basis for Reversing from MADning (Mutually
Assured Destruction) Road to DOOM to Return
to Year 2014 Cross Roads Junction, TURNING
to Right to MAPing (Mutually Assured Prosperity) Road to BOOM and start accelerating to recover lost ground through implementing MDG unfinished business
and completing first 5 Years
Implementing SDGs in such a way as to ensure
that within next 2 years – by end 2020, SOLID Foundation has been laid for EMPOWERING High Flying Countries
to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in 10 years by end 2028 and Lagging Countries are
PUSHED and PULLED to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge by June 2030,
that is with 6 months to end 2030 target date, all 193/306 UN Member States have achieved delivery on SDGs Pledge.
This way isolated Communities in few Countries still lagging behind would be effectively PUSHED
and PULLED because should just one Community in just
one Country FAIL to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge, ALL 193/306 UN Member States – including the Greater Majority that
have already achieved delivery o SDGs would be DEEMED to have JOINTLY Failed to achieve delivery on
SDGs Pledge by end 2030.
This is EAG/ISPE interpretation of the Rapid/Fast and
Radial/Fundamental Change in National and International Development Cooperation Systems that the DCF 2018 Outcome Call for. Should
this DCF Call be undermined, thwarted or
unheeded, we would all arrive at end 2030 only to discover that many
fundamental issues that ought to have
been resolved by end 1st Quarter 2015 Year of Decision are still outstanding by end 4th
Quarter 2030 Year 15 of Implementation. Should this
be the reality by end 2030, the ultimate consequences will be catastrophic for
8.5 Billion People Rich and Poor in our World, especially the about 5 Billion
Poor children, youth, women, men and elders. The Rich also would find it
increasingly difficult to enjoy their wealth.
The choices National
and World Leaders on 193/306 UN Member States and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO
(ITO) make in the days ahead to end January 2019 and in the months ahead to end
2020 will greatly determine which
reality our World will have by end 2030. We do hope that these Leaders
would make Right Decision as soon as
possible and in Global Interest.
Action
Next Steps
- GPEDC, UNEMG and OECD
demonstrate genuine commitment to effectively supporting needed change
through jointly adopting Single New Model Approach – the UNEMG New Model
Approach Version 2 that is the Outcome of the UNEMG New Model Approach
Global Consultation 2018, that is One Worldwide Shared Approach such as 3PCM
firmly rooted in Correct Diagnosis, Correct Prescription, Correct Surgery
and Correct Recovery Management, as applicable in
each specific Community, Country or Continent location within New
Innovative Global Goals Project that effectively connect all Communities
in all North and South Countries to UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO)
Headquarters:-
3PCM is available, affordable, accessible and
adequate backbone for the Single New Model Approach. For Best Results,
Governments and Institutions serious about achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in
less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date need Technical Support and
Reform Consultancy Services. The
Frank Reality is that Quality of Consultant and level of Political Will and Public Will determine Pass or
Fail achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery.
- GPEDC, UNEMG and OECD demonstrate genuine commitment to
meaningfully deploy needed change in (1) towards effectively supporting
all 193/306 UN Member States to get back On Track to achieve delivery on
SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date
through participation on the EAG/ISPE/ER/NEHMAP Global Goals Project and
Kick Start Mutual Collaboration
from immediately sending out Call for
Expression of Interest in MSPs for SDGs Sustainable Solutions in All North
and South Countries Pilot Program and Scale Up Program Invitation
.
- If
indeed GPEDC
and UNEMG have at this stage in their respective Global Consultation
Process, GPEDC
and UNEMG have already accepted need for UNEMG New Model Approach Version
2 with EAG/ISPE 3PCM
as Backbone for Operationalizing Evidence GPEDC harvested
on Viable ways and means of supporting 193/306 UN Member States to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date, there is no need to waste
further valuable time waiting for GPEDC and UNEMG
Global Consultation
Reports 2019 to be released before this Invitation would be sent out. One
Day delay Implementing the Pilot Program and Scale Up Program may be One
Day too late.
- GPEDC, UNEMG and OECD need to seriously consider meaningful and purposeful deployment of their Individual and Joint Power as Catalyst, Cultivator, Collaborator and Convener and in ways that give effective support to the EAG/ISPE/ER/NEHMAP Global Goals Project and its MSPs for SDGs Sustainable Solutions in All North and South Countries Pilot Program and Scale Up Program.
Conclusion
If all past and
present OEDC, GPEDC, UNEMG, UNDESA, DCF, FAO, UNDP and other UNO Entities Study Reports; Conferences/Meetings including Intergovernmental Negotiation
Meetings Outcome Documents: Conclusions and Recommendations were/are Words and
Vision with Action that effectively answered HOW Questions, at end 2018 Year 3
of Implementation, all 193/306 UN Member States will not be Off Track achieving
delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
Our Fragile Planet is now at a
decisive moment. If we do not urgently reverse to 2014 Cross Roads, if we do
not STOP pretending that only South Countries have problems achieving delivery
on SDGs Pledge, if we do not STOP seeking Sustainable Solutions to SDGs Pledge
How Questions and related How Questions in Places where they cannot be found,
even though they are the traditional Go To Places for Such answers, if we do
not urgently seek Right Sustainable Solutions anywhere in our World today that
these may be found, we will suddenly discover that by end 2030 Wrong Choices
have been made and SDGs Pledge has not been achieved. Should this be the
reality in 2030, ultimate consequences will be catastrophic for all on both
North and South Countries sides.
Should relevant authorities on
193/306 UN Member States and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) sides return
to 2014 Cross Roads, take Right Turn to MAPing Road to BOOM and start
celebrating at Pace sufficient to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in all
193/306 UN Member States in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target
date, there are WIN – WIN Sustainable Benefits for all Stakeholders in our
Fragile Planet.
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 January 2019.
