EAG ISPE
ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION
(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)
DCF 2018
Outcome: Achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community, Country,
Continent location context, in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target
date - Call for Development Cooperation Rapid/Fast and Radical/Fundamental
Change in all 193/306 UN Member States Governments – Executive, Legislature,
Judiciary in all Tiers as well as in 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 – Beyond Slogan (4).
Introduction
In Paper (1), we raised National and
International Development Cooperation
serious issues of serious business demanding serious attention of Development Cooperation
Forum, DCF; UNDESA; other UNO Entities; other UN
System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Entities; 193/306 UN Member States Governments
– Executive, Legislature, Judiciary; Political Groupings of Countries –
GPEDC, OECD, EU/EC etc.
In
Paper (2), we raised issues of Resilience as Key Driver for achieving delivery
on SDGs Pledge by 2030; the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe Call for North South Interdependence and Solidarity made
over 25 years ago being as relevant or even more relevant today as when first
made in April 1992 and urgent need to find answer to HOW questions within Pilot Program and Scale Up
Program, if relevant authorities on 193/306 UN Member States and UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) sides are to stop accelerating on MADning (Mutually
Assured Destruction) Road to DOOM, return to 2014 Cross Roads, take Right Turn
and start accelerating on MAPing Road to BOOM as applicable in each specific
Community, Country, Continent And Company location context.
In Paper (3) we provided
additional evidence reinforcing strong need to speedily Kick Start Pilot Program and Scale Up Program in
Phases on North and South Countries as well as UN System starting
from UNO sides, if the much that remain to be done in the great work to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States is to be done in less
than 12 years remaining to end 2030.
The huge interest generated in Papers (1) - (3) encourages us to
release Paper (4) providing additional evidence/information reinforcing strong
need for Community, Country, Continent and
Global Multi Stakeholder Partnerships/Platforms as One, that Work through
deploying Joint Goals Framework, Means Framework and Effectiveness Framework
within Global Pilot Program and Scale Up Program as
Master Keys for finding Sustainable Solutions to National./Regional/Global Crises/ Crisis
including Brexit and that the Pilot Program and Scale Up Program
need to be Kick Started without further delay, if the much that remain to be
done in the great work to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN
Member States is to be done in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030.
'If
my analysis is roughly correct, the forces for change facing the world could be
so far-reaching, complex, and interactive that they call for nothing less than
the reeducation of humankind.
Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
Understanding SDGs; What is Required to get 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
The
SDGs differ fundamentally from their MDGs predecessor. The SDGs are set apart
by their universal reach, which obligates all governments – North and South –
to solve problems at home and do all they can to overcome the challenges that
face us all - Worldwide.
The
SDGs recognize that all responsible – in government, civil society, development
agencies and the private sector – must necessarily play a role, if we are to
overcome urgent environmental, governance, political, social and economic
challenges that face us all - Worldwide.
The
SDGs also represent the world’s first attempt to capture the breath and
indivisibility of shared challenges. The climate crisis, intractable conflict,
skyrocketing humanitarian needs, biodiversity loss and contagious disease are
among the interrelated – interlinked, interdependent, and interconnected
challenges that cannot be solved in isolation. Overcoming One Challenge, demands
tackling all the Challenges, jointly. The SDGs recognize this and take aim at
the hunger, malnutrition, poverty, injustice, insecurity, inequality,
unsustainable production, unsustainable consumption, conflicts, climate change,
and environmental degradation that bind and underlie today’s challenges on the
ground as applicable in each specific community, country and continent location
context.
The
SDGs constitute a resounding call to go beyond past and ongoing business as
usual and change for change sake. Achieving the SDGs requires all-of-society
changes to the way we live, work, and produce, consume, generate energy, design
our cities, and more. This is a challenge for all countries.
The SDGs range from the eradication of hunger,
malnutrition and poverty to the need to act for climate mitigation, to the
promotion of education and gender equality, to preserving natural resources
such as water in sufficient quantity and quality for human needs and much more.
Food access, utilisation, availability, quality and
sustainability are at the core of all SDGs and represent a pre-requisite to
implement the 2030 Agenda in all countries in the world.
Agriculture accounts for one third of global GhG
emissions, cover 38% of the world’s land surface (an area still in expansion),
accounts for 70% of water withdrawals and 80% of desertification.
The number of hungry people is rising again and exceeded
815 million in 2016; overweight and nutrition challenges affect two billion
people both in the North and the South of the world; and about one third of the
food produced for human consumption gets lost or is wasted.
The implication of these realities include that we cannot
transform our world without fixing the food system first; that the SDGs
are a global and national objective, not a partisan objective and that National
Governments are the ultimate duty-bearers of the SDG agenda. Having endorsed
the 2030 World Transformation Agenda on September 25th, 2015, National Governments
are now bound to embark upon a comprehensive program of implementation,
developing a national strategy (-ies), agreeing upon a national monitoring and
evaluation framework and a process for annual reporting, and establishing
multi-stakeholder advisory groups to support implementation and evaluation that
work. Above all, governments need to show a strong public commitment to
implementing the SDGs. They will be accountable to their citizens through
national formal and informal mechanisms, and to the international community via
annual dialogues at the High-Level Political Forum, HLPF.
National
Leaders and World Leaders need to be concerned that at Mid 1st
Quarter 2019 Year 4 of Implementation of the SDGs, all 193/306 UN Member States
are Off Track achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge and that with less than 12
years to end 2030 target date, so much remain to be done, if all 193/306 UN
Member States are to return to 2014 Cross Roads and get back On Track to
achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030. To achieve these UNEA4 March 2019,
DCF May 2019, HLPF July 2019 and HLPF September 2019 need to be organized in
such a way that their respective outcomes indeed Mark Turning Point in National
and International Development Cooperation Rapid/Fast and Radial/Fundamental
Change for delivery on SDGs Pledge in All Countries.
Food And
Agriculture Are Key To Achieving The Entire Set Of SDGs.
The
2030 Agenda recognizes that we can no longer look at food, livelihoods and the
management of natural resources separately. A focus on rural development and
investment in agriculture - crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and
aquaculture: pre harvest, harvest and post harvest – are powerful tools to end
hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and bring about sustainable development in
all 193/306 UN Member States. Agriculture has a major role to play in combating
climate change.
Developing
SDG strategies and plans should be a multi-stakeholder process, engaging
international, national and local government representatives, civil society,
businesses, faith-based groups and representatives from academia and science.
As noted in Transforming our World – 2030 Agenda, inclusive development means
“all stakeholders National and International, acting in collaborative
partnership, will implement this plan – the SDGs”.
Effective
multi-stakeholder engagement within Multi Stakeholder Partnerships/Platforms, MSPs
that Work to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge will build on the expertise of
individual actors to do collective problem solving. Different actors will need
clearly defined roles and responsibilities to make the process work as
applicable in each specific community, country and continent location context.
The UN Secretary General
said agricultural and livestock productivity in Africa was and is under threat
largely due to conflict and climate change. He added, “climatic shocks, environmental
degradation, crop and livestock price collapse and conflict are all
interlinked”.
It is pertinent to note that
food insecurity, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, is related to a variety of
interconnected factors, such as extreme poverty, un-diversified livelihoods,
weak institutions and governance, and, especially, adverse climatic conditions
and social conflicts; that Brexit as Force for Evil will raise serious Food
Insecurity problems in UK, Ireland and remaining 26 EU Member States and that
World Food, Finance and Fuel Crises is Global Crises
Must be tackled and within National and International Development Cooperation
Rapid/Fast and Radial/Fundamental Change.
It is pertinent to note further that Climate
Change and severe extreme weather events could have a tremendous impact on crop
yields, livestock, fish stocks and therefore affect farmer’s incomes
(especially subsistence smallholder farmers) who become more vulnerable to food
insecurity; that NASA recent Report identifies past 5 years as hottest in
history and that our Fragile Planet is on Road to Peril if urgent remedial
Action is not taken in the next 10 years – that is, it is in enlightened self
interest of all 193/306 UN Member States to jointly achieve delivery on SDGs
Pledge by end 2030 and this includes achieving delivery on Sustainable
Solutions to Brexit on time.
Making Fourth Agriculture Revolution
and Fourth Industrial Revolution Work for 8 Billion People in our World of 2030
including 5 Billion Poor Children, Youth,
Women, Men and Elders on both North and south Countries sides is Master Key to
Sustainable Solutions to National/Regional/Global Crises/Crisis including Brexit
and this will of necessity involve measures to tackle Hunger,
Malnutrition and Poverty in EU, Africa and Worldwide including the harmonisation
of governance of food security, sustainability and nutrition; building
institutional responses to reduce extreme poverty and inequalities; supporting
more efficient agricultural systems; ICTs and technology innovation.
Additionally, it also includes supporting
farmers to diversify livelihoods and reduce vulnerability; restoring land and
increasing integrated land and water management to improve harvests;
identification of strategies for building resilience to shocks through
adaptation to climate change, institutional response mechanisms; and finally
monitoring and reporting of the Global Goals –SDGs, AAAA, COP21, Agenda21, NIEO through generation and
sharing of reliable Data and Digitization.
This underlines
urgent need to effectively address today’s food related issues in each specific Community, Sub-Country,
Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context with a multidisciplinary approach — from the
environmental, governance, political, economic, financial, security,
cooperatives, communication, cultural, health, technological, legal and social
perspective. Meeting this goal is necessary to secure the wellbeing and health
of people and the planet and in ways that increase prosperity, promote peace
and strengthen multi stakeholder partnerships in all 193/306 UN Member States.
The coexistence of
hunger and obesity, the overexploitation of natural resources and food loss and
waste or three imbalances that beset the global food system: food waste (nearly
1/3 of world food production), hunger in the face of epidemic levels of obesity
(2.1 billion people impacted), and unsustainable agricultural systems (1/3 of
world grain production is used for animal feed, foodstuffs are used for first
generation biofuels instead of feeding people are the three paradoxes that need
to be meaningfully talked in each specific community, sub-national, national,
sub-region and regional location context, if all 193/306 UN Member States are
to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in the less than 12 years remaining to end
2030 target date. This underlines the urgent need to answer the Big Question: How sustainable farming systems is
being utilized in all 193/306 UN Member States as a roadmap for positive action
and implementation of the SDGs?
Brexit Sustainable
Solutions Integral Part of SDGs Pledge Sustainable Solutions
The exceptionally
high levels of:-
Information Abuse – Too Many People Influenced by False Information
to take Wrong Action
Information Misuse – Too Many People Influenced by Misleading
Information to take Wrong Action
Information Disuse – Too Many People Indifferent to Right Information
Do Nothing, that is, Take No Action
Explain why over
50% Voters abstained from Brexit Vote arising from Information Disuse; Leavers
Won Vote by narrow margin; Levers and Remainers generously deployed Information
Abuse and Information Misuse in their campaigns for Votes.
This Information:
Abuse, Misuse and Disuse, is a serious UK Disease that is of epidemic
proportions. However, the Disease in epidemic proportions is not exclusive to
the UK but is prevalent in Ireland, other EU Member States, rest of Europe and
rest of the World.
A generous dose
of Communication
for Political, Economic, Social, Environmental and Governance Change for Good and
Communication for Sustainable Development including Major Instruments like Communication
for Behavioral Impact and Changing Attitude and Behavior at Scale delivered
alongside other Medications and Instruments is required to cure this disease of
epidemic proportions Worldwide. UK, Ireland, rest of EU, rest of Europe and
rest of World need help of Neutral External Consultants with adequate levels of
Hard Competencies – Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies – Character, Courage,
Cultural, Discipline, Mindset and Leadership for Correct Diagnosis; Correct
Prescription, Correct Surgery and Correct Recovery Management as applicable in each
specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global
location context.
Just as
Ireland’s umbilical cord is tied to UK Economy; Africa’s umbilical cord is tied
to EU Economy. If EU Leaders do not want Citizens in EU Member States including
Ireland as well as Citizens of African Countries and other EU Partner Countries
to suffer Brexit Woes, they must look beyond ongoing Brexit Negotiations to the
real intention of UK Voters for Leave and Remain as well as Brexit Vote
Abstainers as basis for finding effective cure to EU Project Diseases –
including Inequality, Conflicts and Unsustainable Production that Brexit in
reality is symptom of.
It is
pertinent to note that Northern Ireland passed the 2 year mark of being without
a Government on 9 January 2019 – taking the Lead from Belgium – another EU
Member State. The 21 year old Good Friday Agreement, GFA aimed at securing
peace and prosperity has essentially been squandered and Failed Brexit may
finally tear up the Agreement. The EU Approach to defending the GFA may end up
destroying it.
A
better approach is to find effective cure to Northern Ireland Diseases –
including Inequality, Conflicts and Unsustainable Production that is integral
part finding cure to African Countries Diseases and other EU Partner Countries
Diseases – including Inequality, Conflicts and Unsustainable Production as well
as integral part of finding cure to EU Project Diseases – including Inequality,
Conflicts and Unsustainable Production.
We urge
the EU to pick up the gauntlet and let Positive Change start from Ireland and
rest of EU Member States Governments – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary at all
levels; EU Member States Publics – Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Volunteer
Organization and Ordinary Citizens and Universities/Tertiary
Institutions/Higher Education Institutions – Academic Staff, Non Academic
Staff, Postgraduate Students and Undergraduate Students through EU Global Goals
Project.
While
waiting for the Political Climate to be favorable to Re-establishing EU Project
for Stronger Europe and Stronger World on UK Governments – Executive,
Parliament, Judiciary at all levels; UK Publics – Private Sector, Social
Enterprise, Volunteer Organization and Ordinary Citizens sides, the Ireland and
EU Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education Institutions – Academic
Staff, Non Academic Staff, Postgraduate Students and Undergraduate Students can
draw on Global Solidarity of Academics to encourage UK Universities/Tertiary
Institutions/Higher Education Institutions – Academic Staff, Non Academic
Staff, Postgraduate Students and Undergraduate Students to kick start their own
Global Goals Project. This will certainly fast track emergence of New UK
Climate favorable to Re-establishing EU Project for Joint UK, Ireland, rest of
EU, rest of Europe and rest of World Prosperity driven by Rethinking Development Finance; Rethinking
Cooperatives, Social Economy and Social Enterprise; Rethinking Global Economy;
Rethinking Evaluation; Rethinking Development,
Diplomacy, Defence, Democracy, Data and Digitization; Rethinking Elections;
Rethinking Transparency, Accountability and Participation; Rethinking
Sustainability; Rethinking Environment and Climate Change; Rethinking Development
Communication; Rethinking Multi Stakeholder Partnerships / Platforms, MSPs; Rethinking
Government and Governance; Rethinking Leadership and Citizenship; Rethinking Attitude and
Behaviour; Rethinking Globalization and Brexit and Rethinking Lobbying as Force
for Good as Foundation for Achieving increasing Convergence between 2030
Transformation Agenda – AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 (Rio and Rio+20), NIEO
Vision Intention and Reality in each Community in each of 193/306 UN Member States by
Target Date.
Whole System Reform
for Resolving National/Regional/Global Crises/Crisis including Brexit and in
ways that HELP all 193/306 UN Member States Achieve Delivery on SDGs Pledge
The bottom line for those engaged in whole system reform
is that the core strategy must focus on thorough and widespread capacity
building, especially the collective capacity of groups. There must be
determined effort to reduce culture of blame and to increase: wide spread
transparency about results, about what is working and what is not working as
well as about intervening in order to build capacity for continuing and
sustainable progress towards achieving National Goals Interrelated – Interlinked,
Interdependent and Interconnected with Global Goals targets by due date.
To achieve these, what is needed is government management
by design built to fit these difficult times; government that identifies the
root/primary cause of real and complex problems on the ground in specific
community, country or continent location context, recognizes HOW to deliver right sustainable
solutions and abandons tools and approaches that have been shown over time not
to have worked at all or be working poorly. In this effort governments can draw
heavily on the mission driven mindset of its employees – a real comparative
advantage for the public sector over the private sector. Too often National and
World Leaders tap insufficiently into this valuable resource/asset.
It is pertinent to note that if all 193/306 UN Member
States are to get back On Track towards achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in
the barely 12 years remaining, there is need to make Very Big Progress – Quantum Leap Frog Progress – Doing Much
More with available resources and in very limited time. Incremental or Piece
Meal Progress will not be sufficient to Do all that need to be done in the
limited time and resources available.
National and International Stakeholders in each specific
North or South Country’s Sustainability Strategy and SDG in Country that is:
Executive – Political Leaders in Power (Elected and Appointed); Civil Servants
and Public Servants at all Tiers and in all Arms as well as in UN System: UNO,
WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Headquarters, Regional Office, Sub-Regional Office, Country
Office and Sub-Country Office Entities NEED
the support of Central Coordinating
Internal Consultants and Central Coordinating External Consultants who have
relevant authorization to be Politically
Relevant and Analytically Authoritative in each specific Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context for
which the Internal Consultants Agency and the External Consultants Organization
has responsibility.
In challenging times, the Government we need is rarely
the Government we inherit. Instead Government in Power especially at the
beginning of a New Administration must be deliberately designed and managed to
correctly diagnose real and complex problems on the ground in each specific
Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location
context and to make progress with correct prescription, correct surgery and
correct recovery management that help the Government deliver on its duties and
responsibilities to Citizens and in ways that help achieve delivery on National
Goals and Global Goals including delivery on SDGs Pledge in barely 12 years
remaining to end 2030.
The UN Secretary General is doing much to Reform the UNO
but much more remains to be done Reforming the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO
(ITO) to be Fit for Purpose and Fit for
the 21st Century.
Ongoing ECOSOC Reform has Youth Forum. This is good butt
for Best Results, there also need to
be Children Forum, Women Forum, Men Forum and Elders Forum and ECOSOC New York
needs to be effectively Connected with All Communities in All 193/306 UN Member
States within entire UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Delivery as One Reform
that effectively Connect UNO Headquarters New York; WBG and IMF Headquarters
Washington and WTO (ITO) Headquarters with All Communities in All 193/306 UN
Member States. The same goes for all Global Political Groupings of Countries –
G7, G8, G20 and Commonwealth OECD, GPEDC etc; Regional Political Groupings of Countries
– AU, LAC etc and Sub-Regional Political Groupings of Countries – EU, ECOWAS
etc.
Building State/National Capacity that Work for
achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States
The SDGs Pledge
states that none of the 17 Goals of the SDGs will be considered met if it is
not achieved by All Peoples in All Countries
by end 2030. The implication is that if just One of the 17 Goals of the SDGs is
not met in just One Community in just One of the 193/306 UN Member States then
all 193/306 UN Member States have FAILED
to achieve delivery on the SDGs Pledge.
As 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, the magnitude and
complexity of the Task that remain to be done is colossal. Brexit as Force for Evil further intensifies the Great
Task and must be avoided.
The starting point of
this Great Task is Building State/National Capacity that Work
for achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN Member States in the
less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
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-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global
location context.
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, conflict, unsustainable production,
unsustainable consumption and the poverty these causes, so that we can start
taking the small steps that are needed to strengthen
the foundations of our society and building an inclusive society at all
levels. 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.
Building State/National Capacity requires a focus on
three crucial dimensions:-
- The Crafting of political coalitions
needed to set and carry out policies, programs and projects;
- The Mobilizing of resources with which
to implement and evaluate national and international development
cooperation objectives; and
- The Allocation of resources to productive; empowerment; and child and family welfare-enhancing sectors and enforcing rules governing their use.
Given the ultimate catastrophic consequences of Failed
Brexit outcome for UK, Ireland, rest of EU, rest of Europe and rest of World Now is Time to step back to Consider
the fact that:-
- Avoiding or evading answer to
Brexit root cause or primary cause problems will only make matters worse.
- Sustainable Solutions to Brexit root cause or primary
cause problems lies in answer to SDGs Pledge How questions as applicable
in each specific Community, Sub- each specific Community, Sub-Country,
Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context.
- Answer to SDGs Pledge How questions lies in
Pilot Program and Scale Up Program that meaningfully resolve
Global/Regional/Sub-Regional, National/Sub-National/Community Crises/Crisis.
University/Tertiary
Institution’s/Higher Education Institution’s Global Goals Project
The new generation of faculty on campuses in all 193/306
UN Member States Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education
Institutions should strive to conduct
world-class research, while working to identify the relevance of their
research for solving real-world problems
on the ground at specific community, country, continent and global location
context that the University/Tertiary Institution’s/Higher Education Institution’s
has capacity to tackle effectively.
In the new dispensation Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher
Education Institutions in all 193/306 UN Member States need to hire faculty who
are interested not only in the advancement of their academic areas but also in
pursuing commercial applications for their technologies, or engage in
entrepreneurial activities that correlate with their academic disciplines. The
Global Goals Project aims to effectively support all Universities/Tertiary
Institutions/Higher Education Institutions in all 193/306 UN Member States fast track transition to this new
dispensation. Also as faculty become more interested in commercialization
activities, Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education Institutions would
provide additional resources to encourage
mutual collaboration and multi stakeholder partnerships with local
communities and industries, expanding according to their capabilities to
industries/enterprises at each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context.
The University/Tertiary Institution/Higher Education
Institution Non-Profit Organization / Social Economy and Social Enterprise,
SESE Organization allows domestic - local, national, and international – sub-regional,
regional and global industries to partner with expert faculty, other Government
Officials and students performing sponsored research. These Multi Disciplinary and Multi Stakeholder
Partnerships, MSPs that Work not only connect University/Tertiary
Institution’s/Higher Education Institution’s and other Government Agencies
Experts with Industry Experts, but also facilitate
the commercialization of research, and enhance collaborative, cooperative and
experiential learning experiences and opportunities. With the creation of
the Foundation/SESE organization outside the University/Tertiary Institution/Higher
Education Institution, professors, lecturers and other state employees remain
in compliance with state restrictions on equity and revenues streams, while
allowing them to be effectively compensated
for their work through income from licensing revenues and other shares.
To capitalize on the expertise of seasoned entrepreneurs,
each University/Tertiary Institution/Higher Education Institution in all
193/306 UN Member States need to consider building Entrepreneur in- Residence
(EIR) Programs. The EIRs work with University/Tertiary Institution’s/Higher
Education Institution’s researchers, other government agencies researchers,
students, faculty, and staff in the development of early stage start-up
companies to provide guidance and advice. EIRs help interested faculty members
better understand entrepreneurship, evaluate technology for licensing, expand
their network of resources, and guide them on how to start the
commercialization process. EIRs usually have a focus area that meets faculty
needs, often have a good working knowledge of current intellectual property
laws and can assist faculty in finding those ideas in their research programs
that are worth commercializing. The EIR program provides mentorship opportunities that help stimulate innovative and
entrepreneurial activity throughout campus.
A high priority for the 193/306 UN Member States
Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education Institutions System is to streamline the technology transfer
process, to more effectively identify research with market potential, and to
move it from the lab to the marketplace and in record time.
Even with successful and innovative programs, about 20
percent of the University’s/Tertiary Institution’s/Higher Education Institution’s
population may not fully accept change.
However, experience provides a helpful ameliorative blueprint. Consistency and a clear articulation of
the Vice Chancellor/President’s vision
usually earn the respect of skeptics. The University’s/Tertiary Institution’s/Higher
Education Institution’s quest as University /Tertiary Institution/Higher
Education Institution Fit for Purpose and Fit for the 21st Century
would be helped by the Vice Chancellor/President’s intuitive understanding of internal constituencies, an ability to
maintain enough dynamism to make concessions where necessary, a genuine
commitment to building a capable and competent senior leadership team and most
importantly, the University’s/Tertiary Institution’s/Higher Education
Institution’s leadership team recognizing
that innovation, by necessity, means not being constrained by conventional
thinking. Thus with creativity in the Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher
Education Institutions, there are no obstacles that cannot be managed. Just as a bell, innovation without movement
does not ring. So Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education
Institutions in all Countries need to go ahead, let innovation ring - join the movement for Transforming their
University/Tertiary Institution/Higher Education Institution to University/Tertiary
Institution/Higher Education Institution Fit for Purpose and Fit for the 21st
Century.
3 Steps of Action for Resolving National/Regional/Global
Crises/Crisis including Brexit and in ways that HELP all 193/306 UN Member
States Achieve Delivery on SDGs Pledge
3 Steps to Operationalizing in Practice Leave No One
Behind and Work Together Benefit Together Concepts as applicable in each
specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global
location context:-
- Analysis / Examine – Desk
Analysis; Orientation Workshops; Management Surveys, Engineering Surveys
and Financial Surveys;
- Pilot Program and Scale Up Program
– Empower and Enact – Implementation and Evaluation of Study Reports
and Conferences and Meetings Outcome Documents Conclusions and
Recommendations to Test Innovative and Creative Ideas harvested from (1)
in Pilot Program, Adjust Pilot Program to address flaws and failures in
real life situation before blowing up in Scale Up Program as appropriate
in specific Community, Country, Continent location context;
- Building Bridge between Lessons
Learning and Lessons Forgetting – Applied History and Dynamic
Communication – Move (2) forward in ways that ensure National and Global
Goals are achieved by Target Dates through Communication Strategy that
ensure all National and International Stakeholders are aware of the
Results - Success and Failures, and Challenges – Opportunities and Threats
facing each Partner and ways and means the Partner is addressing same,
noting that High Flyers enjoy Gains and Laggards endure Losses but
Laggards Losses pose Risks to High Flyers if same remain unaddressed. This
makes High Flyers and Laggards genuinely appreciate that Leave No One
Behind and Work Together Benefit Together are indeed SDGs/SDGs Pledge
Concepts that is in the enlightened self interest of both High Flyers and
Laggards to fully implement and effectively deliver and on time.
The starting point in the implementation of the 3 Steps
of Action is Twofold:-
1. An appreciation
that Our World is in Crises and Our World is the Crisis; that EU and its
Institutions – EC, ECB, ECJ, EP and COE is in Crises and EU and its
Institutions – EC, ECB, ECJ, EP and COE is the Crisis; that same apply to
similar Sub-Regional and Regional Political Groupings of Countries in our World
today – and that Crises – Multiple and Crisis - Singular are always steeped in
context. Even if at the time of unfolding of the Crises/Crisis that context is
difficult to grasp, careful reconstruction shows HOW (and the extent to which) the factors active in the launch and
unfolding of the Crises/ Crisis were rooted in history and context. Such
attentiveness to context and history is a quality that is particularly
nourished by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Yet these and other
relevant Professionals are not
meaningfully involved in attempts to find Sustainable Solutions to the
Crises/Crisis – World Food, Fuel, Finance Crises/Crisis; Irish Crises/Crisis;
UK/EU Brexit Crises/Crisis etc
2. A renewed effort
to support all 193/306 UN Member States to achieve delivery on SDGs/SDGs Pledge
in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date, should be long-term,
strategic-level, low-carbon action plans, supported by a holistic national
urban/rural planning approach that enables the integration of large mainstream
investment flows rather than a project-by-project approach on the sidelines of
core development strategies and decisions.
Also understanding the interface
between the demand and supply sides of public services is key to
establishing and successfully implementing with effective monitoring and
evaluation, a comprehensive end
hunger, malnutrition and poverty strategy of which social protection framework
including safety nets and social assistance are a sub-set, in any given
community, country or continent specific location context. This underlines urgent need for strategies, policies, programs
and projects that are grounded in a proper
understanding of the size and dimension of the problems that Governments
and their National and International Partners face, as they grapple with challenges of sustainable
development.
National and Global
Leadership in UN System and all 193/306 UN Member States
In the work towards doing
the much that remain to be done if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back
On Track achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to
end 2030 target date, the BIG Question
is: Who takes responsibility for Bad Political, Economic, Social, Governance
and Environmental Decisions that hinder 193/306 UN Member States from achieving
delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date?
The Leadership BURDEN means that there is Lag between Good Decisions in
any or all of these areas taken by relevant National Leaders and Global Leaders
and when these Good Decisions manifest positively in the Lives and Livelihoods
of Ordinary Peoples – Citizens and there is also Lag between Bad Decisions
in any or all of these areas taken by relevant National Leaders and Global
Leaders and when these Bad Decisions manifest negatively in the Lives and
Livelihoods of Ordinary Peoples – Citizens.
This underline urgent need to Rethink Transparency, Accountability and
Participation alongside other Rethinking identified in the Paper and deploy
outcome as appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context, in ways that effectively
hold National Leaders and Global Leaders responsible for decisions they take in
Office. This way 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years down the line, Good Decisions can be
Rewarded and Celebrated and Bad Decisions can be Sanctioned and Condemned –
even if the National Leader/Global Leader is Dead.
We have used Leadership in its broadest sense –
Governments – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary at all
tiers;
Global Political Groupings of Countries – UN System: UNO,
WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO); G7, G8, G20, G77+China; Commonwealth; OECD, GPEDC; etc
Regional Political Groupings of Countries – AU/AC; LAC
etc
Regional Political Groupings of Countries – EU/EC, ECOWAS
etc
There is also urgent need to find effective ways of
holding Followers and Citizens Accountable for Imposing Public Will on National
Leaders and Global Leaders that Force these Leaders to take Bad Decisions or their
Refusing to embrace and support Good Decisions taken by these Leaders.
It is pertinent to note that Leaders Accountability and
Followers/Citizens Accountability are Two
sides of the same Coin, if our World is to get back On Track to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge by 2030.
It is pertinent to note
that 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 underlines
urgent need for analytical work and
piloting that might help all concerned national and international stakeholders
to understand better the linkages
between local governance, service delivery and social safety nets/social
protection.
This will require capacity
building for policy making and financial
instruments to assist the cities/communities in both developed and
developing nations with the up-front investments needed to create and undertake
low-carbon initiatives and related initiatives. Such support should be an important
part of any global climate/SDGs Pledge delivery negotiation outcome.
It will also require the Professional tackling of the Leadership Challenge in all North and
South Countries in our World today through:-
- Leadership Burden:
Presidents/Prime Ministers/Heads of Government, who mean well and
genuinely desire and promise to deliver positive change for greatest number
of citizens – Most Popular when Least Effective and Least Popular when
Most Effective. Time Lag between Painful Decisions and Beneficial Results
deceive Public to continue being fickle – they seek to avoid or evade Pain
while seeking to enjoy and celebrate Gain. The Challenge of Mastering this
paradox is one that Good Leaders must overcome.
- Government Effectiveness: The
Business of Government is Governance. Governance Sustainability greatly
depends on Government Effectiveness and Vice Versa. All North and South
Countries Need Capacity in Government to Get Things Done. This Capacity
determines if the Country will demonstrate and be seen to demonstrate
minimum certain levels of Government Effectiveness and Governance
Sustainability required to design and deliver, National and Global Goals
by target date in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context.
- Recognizing the Big Issues
Challenging North and South Countries in our World today are essentially
similar – Growing National Economies in ways that create opportunities for
all especially the disadvantaged and deprived; Providing High Quality
Food, Health, Employment, Entrepreneurship and Education Services;
Ensuring Safety, Security and Justice. In most cases the Best Sustainable
Solutions for each specific Community, Country or Continent location
context are already know – exist in some Study Report or
Conference/Meeting Outcome Document but need to be updated and
complemented with appropriate Field Work – Orientation Workshops and
Surveys: Management, Engineering and Financial.
- Appreciating in the 21st
Century, meeting this Challenge in each North or South Country is no
longer about Political Leaders knocking down Political Opponents
arguments, it is about Political Leaders in Power:-
a) Building Up a Robust System of Government appropriate to their
specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global
location context that deliver Results – the National and Global Goals by target
date.
b) Appreciating that Pace
of Change in the 21st Century is Incredible – New Technologies
in Communications, Energy, Medicine etc; New Global Challenges like Climate
Change, Migration and Terrorism etc; Existing Global Challenges like Financial
Crisis; Food Crisis, Fuel Crisis, Corruption etc. Only Systemic Change that
Totally Overhaul or Rebuild the System will be adequate to deliver the
Sustainable Solutions for the Results Citizens desire and deserve.
c) Appreciating that the Best Systemic Change Design and Delivery start from the Right
Conceptual Analysis. Whereas much of Politics is conducted in a completely non
intellectual atmosphere, the Best Policy actually comes from a clear and
rigorous intellectual approach. There must be an unbroken thread between a
Conceptual Analysis on what the real problem on the ground is, then an
Orientation or Direction in order to resolve it and then a specific Policy,
Program, Project Intervention, 3PI and 3PI Training as One. This sequence is
crucial – the specific 3PI and 3PI Training as One has to flow from specific
Policy Direction and the Policy Direction has to come from a Right Conceptual
Analysis.
d) Appreciating that the Implementation and Evaluation of 3PI and 3PI Training as One needs
to be firmly grounded in Accountability that are based on Commitments to both
Internal and External Publics.
e) Appreciating that Government
Effectiveness and Governance Sustainability must be measured in the
Simplicity of Live Events that have meaning to Individual and Corporate
Citizens.
f) Appreciating that Government Effectiveness and Governance
Sustainability delivering Simplicity of Life Events to Individual and Corporate
Citizens must be firmly grounded in Innovation
and Creativity that Work for each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context.
g) Appreciating that Innovation and Creativity that Work
depends of favourable climate –
political, cultural, economic, financial, social, security, justice etc
promoting “Work Together to Benefit
Together” and “Leave No One Behind” Concepts of the SDGs.
h) Appreciating that design and delivery of SDGs in Country and Country Sustainability
Strategy in all North and South Countries must be driven by Sustainable
Public/Civil Service for Sustainable Transformation of Society in each specific
Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location
context.
i)
Appreciating that the actual People
developing and enacting, that is the Policy
Makers/Decision Makers/ Political Leaders in Power at each point in time
Matter. They must have minimum certain levels of Hard Competencies: Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies: Character, Courage, Cultural, Discipline,
Mindset and Leadership required to ensure that the Duty Bearer is able to deliver on the Duties and Responsibilities
of the Office he/she occupy.
j)
Appreciating that Governments around the World – Big or Small; Rich or Poor; North
or South can and should Learn from One
Another.
k) Appreciating that Governments in both North and South
Countries need help from competent
External Consultants if they are to achieve Sustainable Success grappling
with these Big Challenges.
- The UNO Entities in particular and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO)
Entities in general have much to contribute if all North and South
Countries are to achieve meaningful success overcoming Challenges in (4).
If these UNO Entities and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO Entities are
to help Transform our World, they must first Transform themselves. To
achieve this, these UNO Entities and UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO)
Entities need help from competent External Consultants.
- Regional Political Groupings like EU/EC,
AU/AC and equivalent inn all remaining Regions in our World today have
Central Roles to Play in (4) and (5).
- Global Platforms like GPEDC, OECD also have
Central Roles to Play in (4) - (6).
- Top 1,000 Universities and Tertiary
Institutions/Higher Education Institutions in
particular and indeed all
Universities and Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education Institutions in
all 193/306 UN Member States have Central Roles to Play in (4) – (7).
- Internal and External Consultants with adequate levels of Hard Competencies: Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies: Character, Courage, Cultural, Discipline, Mindset and Leadership to effectively support MSPs that Work to effectively tackle real Challenges on the ground as applicable in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context have Central Role to Play in (4) – (8).
Domesticating of Global Goals in all 193/306 UN Member
States
The Great Task to achieve delivery on SDGs
Pledge including Sustainable Solutions to Brexit greatly depends on Domestication
of Global Goals – SDG, AAAA, COP21/Agenda 21 and NIEO as applicable in each
specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global
location context through Design and Delivery of Policy, Program and Project
Interventions, 3PIs and 3PIs Training as One within 10 Cross Cutting Themes
aimed at achieving delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context by
end 2030 target date:-
- Hunger,
Malnutrition and Poverty
- Environmental
Sustainability and Climate Change
- Basic
Services: Water, Sanitation, Health, Employment, Housing, Education,
Justice, Security, Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Mining, Management,
Communication, Social Protection, Extension, Research and Development,
Conflict Resolution, Risk Management
- Basic
Infrastructure: Transport, Telecom, Internet, Energy, Electricity,
Finance, Technology
- Capital:
Human Capital – Knowledge, Creativity, Ability, Experience; Financial
Capital – Loan, Equity, Grant, Tax; Physical Capital – Real Assets
including Real Estate, Land, Infrastructure; Social Capital - Networks and Relationships Connecting
People, Creating Value, Enabling Change; Spiritual Capital – Spirituality,
Prophesy, Deliverance
- Communication for Behavioral Impact; Changing Attitude and Behavior at Scale
- Inclusive / Lifelong Education – Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Sustainable Citizenship, Education for Sustainable Consumption and Education for Sustainable Production
- Inclusive / Lifelong Entrepreneurship – Public Organization, Commercial Organization, Social Organization and Volunteer Organization
- Urban and Rural Communities Extension, Research and Development.
- Service Delivery, Support for Pro Poor Economic Growth and Institutional Reform and Support for Reforming Institutions
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment, Lessons Learning
- Transparency, Accountability, Stakeholder Participation
- Systems Reform, Policy Reform, Structures Reform, Procedures Reform, Project Reform, Culture Reform
- Risk Management, Disaster Management, Geodesign
- Technology for Development
- Finance for Development
- Finance, Accounts, Law, Strategy
- Development Anthropology, Social Psychology, Marketing Communication
- Creative Arts for Behavioral Change
- Media: Radio, TV, Print, Online for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Solutions to National/ Regional/Global
Crises/Crisis
Our World and its 5 Continents and 193/306 UN
Member States; Africa and its 5 Sub-Regions and 52 Countries; EU and its 28
Member States including UK that may be on its Way Out at this time; Europe with
EU and Non EU Member States including Turkey that is Arab Country on European
Land as well as other Sub-Regional, Regional and Continental Political Groupings
in remaining parts of our World are in Multiple and Serial Crises or Our World
and its 5 Continents and 193/306 UN Member States; Africa and its 5 Sub-Regions
and 52 Countries; EU and its 28 Member States including UK that may be on its
Way Out at this time; Europe with EU and Non EU Member States including Turkey
that is Arab Country on European Land as well as other Sub-Rerional, Regional
and Continental Political Groupings in remaining parts of our World are in
Multiple and Serial Crises is the Major Crisis?
The above Multiple Crises including the
respective Major (Single) Crisis are worsened by the following weaknesses:-
- Socio
Economic Model
that fail to serve the needs of disadvantaged and deprived in each
specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and
Global location context.
- Banking and
Financial Institutions whose flamboyant and speculative financial
service activities are making huge profits while they cease to discharge
their basic social functions, namely intermediating between savers and
investors and assessing credit risk. A system where financial activity is
not auxiliary to non financial activity cannot be stable.
- Fiscal
crisis
where gap between tax design and the reality of tax collection is growing.
This is worsened by public spending that many tax payers see as not
delivering value for money or fitness for purpose and use this as excuse
for tax avoidance or tax evasion. While tax avoidance is legal, tax
evasion is illegal. Both should be illegal.
- Macro-economic
crisis
where macro-economic steering capacities – the pulls and levers of
macro-economic policy are rendered inoperable by structural changes in
World Economy such as the sinking of the Breton Woods International
Monetary System in 1971 but 45 years later Institutions Safeguarding the
System- World Bank Group and IMF refuse to allow needed change.
- Political crisis - The developments leading to the structural weaknesses (1) – (4) came hand in hand with the growth of transnational economic activities. Thus, the nation-state remained the key political unit while it progressively lost the economic and institutional means with which to discharge the constitutional mandates of full employment and rising living standards. That was bound to create a growing political unrest at heart, the increasing polarization and politicization at each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context, resulting from the growing gap between what politicians pretended they were capable of doing, and what they were actually capable of doing. By inflating social expectations at the very time that they found themselves with ever fewer means to realise them, political representatives set the stage for a structural political crisis.
It is clear that if Our World/Each of the 5 Continents is
to break the viscous circle of being too
rich to be poor and too poor to be rich, Community, Sub-Country, Country,
Sub-Continent, Continent and Global Stakeholders need to jointly ask - What is
the definition of:-
- Political
Justice, Economic Justice, Social Justice?
- Political
Inclusion, Economic Inclusion, Social Inclusion?
- Political
Freedom, Economic Freedom, Social Freedom?
- Political Dignity, Economic Dignity, Social Dignity?
The answer to
these 4 in 1 Questions would shed light on the fact that Sustainable
Solutions to all identified Crises/Crisis in all 193/306 UN Member States; Global,
Regional, Sub-Regional Political Groupings of Countries lies in National
Leaders and World Leaders genuinely
appreciating that in the same way that the flu is a lethal disease for
those who are very frail, the flu is a serious problem for those who have a
previous condition, but the flu is only a temporary setback for those whose
immune system had been shaped up by a previous flu.
The implication is that present National/ Regional/Global
Crises/Crisis may end up being lethal for not only UK and EU but also Nigeria,
and Africa; China and Asia and USA and rest of our World, if urgent remedial
action driven by Sustainable Solutions that Work to meaningfully support all
193/306 UN Member States get back On Track to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge
in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target date are not speedily found
and fully implemented with determination as well as effective monitoring and
evaluation of this implementation as applicable in each specific Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global location context.
Urgent Need to Resolve Brexit to be Force for Good
Driving Delivery on SDGs Pledge
As UK and EU race to Brexit 29 March 2019 exit date, Fantasy Meet Brutal Reality as UK and
EU Leaders now know that LOSE LOSE Outcome would Hurt UK, EU and the World. Right now
National, Regional and Global Stakeholders are not even really recognizing that we have this problem.
It is pertinent to note that
ongoing Brexit Negotiations whichever way it ends on 29 March 2019 will not address root cause or primary cause
of Brexit and there is high probability it would make National/Regional/Global
Crises/Crisis in UK, Ireland, rest of EU, rest of Europe and rest of World even
worse after 29 March 2019, unless urgent
remedial action is taken and on time.
We stress the importance of a meaningful implementation of the SDGs,
in the fair resolution of National/Regional/Global Crises/Crisis including
Brexit, considering that the SDG Implementation is already in its fourth year
and needs a more ambitious
implementation and evaluation action plan, if SDGs Pledge Delivery is to be
achieved in all EU Member States including UK that may be on its way out and
all remaining UN Member States and in ways that deliver Sustainable Solutions
to all identified National/Regional/Global Crises/Crisis including Brexit.
It is pertinent to note that
protection and improvement of health and wellbeing is also central to the synergistic interactions of the SDGs.
As UK and EU move nearer to 29 March 2019, fundamental issues of Food Brexit, Agriculture
Brexit, Health and Wellbeing Brexit, National Security Brexit etc are coming to
the fore. These fundamental issues cannot
be wished away but need to be discussed, negotiated and established and on
time.
It is pertinent to note
further that Sustainable Solutions
to National/Regional/Global
Crises/Crisis including Brexit lies in appreciating that the SDGs would need to be further mainstreamed in current and
future policies in all EU Member States including UK that may be on its way out,
as well as in all EU Partner Nations, essentially all remaining UN Member
States. However this will not happen by essentially making use of existing
tools and coherence mechanisms without
additional tools and linked
collaboration, coherence, cooperation, coordination and commitment mechanisms.
It will be recalled that the
Conclusions of the EU Council representing the EU Member States adopted in June
2017 a document recognized that a higher
level of ambition is required from both the EU Institutions and the EU
Member States to implement and evaluate the 2030 Agenda – SDGs (2015 – The Main
Agenda), AAAA (2015 – Finance for Development Dimension of the SDGs), COP21
(2015 – Climate Change Dimension of the SDGs) inclusive of Agenda21 (Rio, 1992
and Rio+20, 2012 – Environment Dimension of the SDGs) and NIEO (1974 –
Political Dimension of the SDGs), for delivery on SDG Pledge in all 193/306 UN
Member States by end 2030 target date.
In the document EU Member
States through EU Council urged the EU Commission to undertake a comprehensive gap analysis, identify further action in all
relevant policy areas, and to speed up the elaboration of an EU-wide SDG implementation strategy with timelines,
objectives and concrete measures. Had the EU Council ensured that the EU Commission effectively consulted and
collaborated with all 28 EU Member States including UK that may be on its way
out, Brexit Negotiations that started a few months earlier March 2017 would
today has have better outcome.
The EU Council also
acknowledged that the universal and
integrated nature of the 2030 Agenda and the interlinkages between SDGs call for a much more holistic and coherent approach that involves internal and
external actors. This required some structural
reorganisation of the Council’s own working methods. In particular, all
relevant Council formations and their working groups should ensure the
coherence of sectoral policies and include all three dimensions of sustainable
development – economic, social and environmental – in EU internal and external
policies. This seemingly technical evolution in working formations is a strong
statement of intent and a different way of doing business. Again had the EU Council Walked its Talk,
necessary EU wide Reforms (in all EU
Institutions) would have been Kick Started and this would have had positive
influence on the Brexit Negotiations.
It is sad that UK and EU
have allowed frayed nerves to blind
them from their shared history especially after World War 2 when the UK
collaborated with US on Marshal Plan for EU including UK; the positive roles UK
Played in EU Parliament Committees and other EU Institutions. EU Leaders
especially Germany, France, Netherlands cannot run away from answering fundamental Question that ought to have
been settled with Citizens in all 28 EU Member States – What Type of Regional in reality Sub-Regional Political Groupings
of Countries do we want to jointly
establish:-
- A Supranational Entity wherein all Member States
Surrender individual Sovereignty – Model (A)
- An Intergovernmental Entity in which Member States Cooperate
and Collaborate in Solidarity without Surrender of Individual Sovereignty
– Model (B)
- A Blend of (1) and (2) – Model (C).
Any Reform of the EU that would find Sustainable Solutions to National/Regional/Global Crises/Crisis
including Brexit facing all 28 EU Member States including UK on its way out,
must be built on the backbone of answer
to this Main Question, agreed to unanimously or by consensus of all 28 EU
Member States including UK on its way out. However, without help from Neutral and Competent External Consultants the EU
and UK will on their own be unable to sit down to discuss the Questions not to
talk of dialoguing in such a way as to find mutually acceptable answer to this
Major Question. The reality is that
as long as UK and EU fail to sit down to answer this Major Question, the EU Project will be on Fast Track to Total Collapse
and the UK will be on Fast Track to
National Crises that make the worst UK National Crises Child’s Play.
There is a Spiritual Dimension to Brexit. British
Christianity is in trouble because Britain itself is disappearing. Immigrant
religion is still thriving in the UK, whether it is Christian or Muslim. But
that is because it has an entirely different relationship to the surrounding
culture. The answer is not to
discriminate against African, Arab and Asian economies but to be open to all on
the Physical Dimension while meaningfully addressing the Spiritual Dimension of
the problem. This Spiritual Dimension
affects UK Political Culture. However, it is not only the UK that is facing
Spiritual Dimension of Brexit and SDGs Pledge Problems worsened by their
Political Culture.
Irish Border problem holding
back Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is firmly rooted in Irish Christianity – Catholics and
Protestants and this explain why 20 years after Good Friday Agreement Irish Christians
– Catholics and Protestants as well as Irish Nationalists and Unionists cannot
live together. The Irish must find Sustainable Solutions to their Spiritual
Dimension of Brexit and SDGs Pledge as well as Political Culture problems on
the ground. All remaining 26 EU Member States need to also look inwards and
meaningfully address Spiritual Dimension of Brexit, SDGs Pledge and Political Culture
problems on the ground in their own specific Community and Country location
context.
Not to embrace an EU Fit for Purpose and Fit for 21st
Century Model of harmonisation and identical
regulation designed to effectively
deliver Stronger UK, Stronger EU, Stronger Europe and Stronger World inclusive
of mutual recognition to learn HOW
to achieve better ends by better means
is to assure early collapse of EU Project
as well as to ensure that all 193/306 U Member States fail to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years
remaining to end 2030 target date.
The time of NOW for EU "Not to be parochially regional but
to be ambitiously global", the starting point is Sustainable
Solutions to UK/EU Brexit root cause or primary cause problems.
Way Forward – Achieving SDGs Pledge in all 193/306 UN
Member States by 2030
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 (US$700 Trillion). In this
context, the proposition of the EAG/ISPE/AR/NEHMAP is three-fold:-
First, that Community,
Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global as One Multi-Stakeholder
Partnerships and Platforms, MSPs for specific National Goals and each of the 17
SDGs Goals or Group of 2 – 17 SDGs Goals Jointly adopting and deploying Universal/One Worldwide Approach that
is Common, Systemic, shared Approach with clear and known Principles, Instruments
corresponding to each Principle, Practices and Database will be increasingly
critical moving forward.
Second,
that it is time to ensure the MSPs that Work effectively deploy the One
Worldwide 3 in 1 Integrated Frameworks of National Goals effectively linked
with Global a) Goals Framework – SDGs (2015), COP21 (2015), Agenda21 (Rio 1992 and
Rio+20 2012), NIEO (New International Economic Order 1974) – What National and International
Stakeholders want to Jointly achieve; b)
Means Framework – AAAA, that is Finance for Development that is the
National and Global Goals Financing
Framework and c) Effectiveness
Framework (HOW to design and deliver Research, Planning, Data,
Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, Results, Transparency,
Accountability and Participation as One
Cohesive And Coherent Community, Country, Continent, Global 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 National and 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) including Sustainable Solutions that meaningfully address all Communities,
Countries, Continents and all Groups unique problems on ground in each specific
community, sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global location
context – the National and Global Goals
Implementation and Evaluation for Results Framework;
Thirdly,
it is time complement ongoing effort on 193/306 UN Member States and UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO (ITO) Delivering as One sides with Pilot Program and Scale
Up Program that is sufficiently All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious to
meaningfully support all 193/306 UN Member States get back On Track to achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining to end 2030 target
date.
Way Forward – UNEMG New Model Approach Version 2 Report
2019
UNEMG executed a Global Consultation on its
New Model Approach and UNEMG New Model Approach Version 2 Report 2019 is
expected to be released shortly. It is our hope that this UNEMG Report will
indeed demonstrate that UNEMG has actually learned lessons from lessons learnt
from failures of past and ongoing Approaches for achieving delivery on
Sustainability, Governance, Environment, Climate Change, Biodiversity,
Development Cooperation and related National and Global Goals; that this Report
will be released in time for UNEA4 Participants to endorse it and that the
Report will contribute meaningfully to UNEA4 and following UNO Events in 2019
indeed Marking Tuning Point in National and International Development
Cooperation Rapid/Fast and Radial/Fundamental Change Driving Transformation of Society in all 193/306 UN member States
and in ways that ensure All North and South Countries achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date.
Way Forward – GPEDC Call for Evidence Report 2019
GPEDC executed a Global Consultation on its
Call for Evidence Initiative and GPEDC Call for Evidence Report 2019 is
expected to be released shortly. It is our hope that this GPEDC Report will
indeed demonstrate that GPEDC has actually learned lessons from lessons learnt
from failures of past and ongoing Approaches for achieving delivery on
Sustainability, Governance, Environment, Climate Change, Biodiversity,
Development Cooperation and related National and Global Goals; that this Report
will be released in time for UNEA4 Participants to endorse it and that the Report
will contribute meaningfully to UNEA4 and following UNO Events in 2019 indeed
Marking Tuning Point in National and International Development Cooperation
Rapid/Fast and Radial/Fundamental Change Driving
Transformation of Society in all 193/306 UN member States and in ways that
ensure All North and South Countries achieve
delivery on SDGs Pledge by end 2030 target date.
Conclusion
In the EU today, there is
failure, real or perceived, of the EU Member States Economies to deliver higher
living standards for many of its people. This real or perceived failure cannot
be wished away.
We have provided additional evidence supporting the fact
that Alternative Brexit could move Brexit away from current Force for Evil to
Force for Good; that there are Bright Prospects of Success achieving delivery
on SDGs Pledge in less than 12 years remaining, if urgent remedial Action is
taken and on time. We have warmed that failure to find Brexit Sustainable
Solutions that is Integral Part of 193/306 UN Member States Country
Sustainability Strategy and SDG in Country would have ultimate catastrophic consequences
for 8.5 Billion People in our World of 2030 especially the 5 Billion Poor
Children, Youth, Women, Men and Elders in all North and South Countries. We
have Challenged Top 1,000 Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher Education
Institutions Leading all remaining Universities/Tertiary Institutions/Higher
Education Institutions to contribute their Quota through Inclusive Education or
Lifelong Education – Education for Sustainable Development, Education for
Sustainable Production, Education for Sustainable Consumption, Education for
Sustainable Citizenship.
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The Ball is now in the Court of National Leaders and World
Leaders – Will they Play or Will they Keep Looking On as the World accelerate
on MADning (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Road to DOOM or will they DO the NEEDFUL and HELP all 193/306 UN Member
States to speedily return to 2014 Cross Road and start accelerating on MAPing
(Mutually Assured Prosperity) Road to BOOM?
It
is our hope that opportunity for bright prospects of success would not be lost.
To avoid this answer to HOW questions within Pilot Program and Scale Up Program
need to start without delay.
Contact:
Director General
Economic Alliance Group
(Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions Provider)
Affiliate Members: International Society for Poverty Elimination
(Global Social Development Innovation Organization);
ER and Associates Limited
(National and International Development Cooperation Consultants)
New End Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty, NEHMAP Initiative
(Global Social Economy and Social Enterprise Organization) etc
M: +234-8162469805
Website: www.nehmapglobal.org
Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk info@nehmapglobal.org February 2019.
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