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)
ISPE EAG Comment on Cooperatives at 100 (2)
GFFA 2020 Outcome: Achieving Delivery on SDGs Pledge in each specific Community, Country, Continent location context, in less than 11 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.
Introduction
At the end of 16 of 60 Quarters of SDG Implementation on 31 December 2019, all 193/306 UN Member States remain Off Track achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by end 2030.
The overarching outcome of DCF 2018 was urgent need for National and International Development Cooperation Radical/Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get DONE, the much that remain to be DONE, in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, is to be DONE and on time. Yet Call to Action essentially remains mere Talk or Slogan.
The USA NASA and UNFCCC in 2018 respectively warned that should our World fail to take appropriate Climate Change Action, in next 12 years to 2030, the ultimate consequences of such failure, will be catastrophic for our Fragile Planet. Yet there is no Framework for All Inclusive, All Embracing Action that is Adequately Ambitious, in all 193/306 UN Member States, to avoid this looming ultimate catastrophic consequences.
The UN Behavioral Insights Week, UNBIW, 14 – 18 October 2019, a Global Summit, indeed underlined the fact that Innovation is Master Key, if the much that remain to be DONE, to get all 193/306 UN Member States effectively get back On Track, to achieve Delivery on SDGs Pledge in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, is to be DONE and on time.
If the Great Mismatch and Huge Gap between Solutions needed to effectively get all 193/306 UN Member States back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery, in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date and Solutions being provided in past 4 years of SDGs Implementation ending December 2019, is to become Great Match and Filled Gap, there is a need for all Leaders in the 7 identified Major Stakeholder Groups to Change Course and without delay.
Should ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions as One Authorities support Pre Summit Days, Summit Days and Post Summit Days Activities and Events; ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions would be contributing their quota towards turning the Great Mismatch to Great Match and effectively filling the Huge Gap.
In Paper (1) we noted that the 50th Anniversary of Cooperatives Development at ILO was celebrated on 23 March 1970 and that the ILO COOP 50th Anniversary was reported as marking the Golden Age of ILO Technical Cooperation in the Cooperative Field.
We set out our Thoughts on Priorities and Direction for achieving 150th Anniversary or Sequicentinnal Anniversary of Cooperatives Development as ILO celebrating Cooperatives Contribution to achieving Past Global Goals on target dates – 2030 and 2045, as well as Future Global Goals – 2060 and Beyond. We submitted that the required ILO COOP Transformation to ensure that these Celebrations are Reality not Dream on Target dates, the 100th Anniversary or Centenary Anniversary on 23 March 2020, the Bi-Golden Age of ILO, should Mark Turning Point in Cooperatives Fit for 21st Century.
This Paper 2 set out our further Thoughts on Priorities and Direction ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions as One Authorities need to consider supporting, if the Cooperatives Fit for 21st Century HUGE Potential to help achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery, in less than 11years remaining to end 2030 target date, as well as present and future National and Global Goals, in all 193/306 UN Member States by target date, is not to end up mere slogan, academic exercise and/or interesting Professional Debate, thus strengthening 193/306 UN Member States capacity to get back On Track, to achieve delivery on SDGs Pledge in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, noting that failure to get DONE the much that remains to be DONE, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to achieve SDGs Pledge delivery by 2030, will have ultimate catastrophic consequences for our fragile Planet.
WCSDG Report on A Fair Globalization 2004
The Independent ILO World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization, WCSDG. released a very important Report, in 2004. ILO prepared a Summary that is essentially Brief Reviews of Policy Issues set out in the important Report.
WCSDG Report on A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All 2008 – Brief Reviews of Policy Issues.
It will be recalled that the Report was released in 4 of 15 years of MDG Implementation. Had ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions as One Authorities and their National and International Partners Worked Together to Benefit Together and in ways that Leave No One Behind, MDGs 8 Goals Vision Ambitions would have been achieved by 2015.
It is interesting that, today 4 of 15 years of SDG Implementation, the same mistakes – flaws and failures that hindered our World from achieving MDGs by 2015 (even though the MDGs largely affected South Countries) are re- occurring decimals. If not urgently remedied, these mistakes would also hinder our World from achieving SDGs by 2030. This time the ultimate consequences of failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 would be catastrophic for our fragile Planet.
The SDGs affects all North and South Countries. If National Leaders and World Leaders do not know WHY our World Failed to achieve MDGs 8 Global Goals by end 2015 target date, they will not know HOW to Configure our World to achieve the far more Comprehensive SDGs 17 Goals and in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date. It is pertinent to note that our World does not have 11 years to achieve SDGs. Our World has till end June 2020 for ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions and their National and International Partners to Change Course Now, if our World is to avoid looming ultimate catastrophic consequences of failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030.
National, Regional and Global Implementation of the Report
The points made on the Follow Up Activities and Events Page:-
“A variety of voices are pressing the case for change in the current process of globalization. The wide-ranging recommendations in the Report are a response to that demand. But there is no guarantee of consistent action without systematic follow-up to the recommendations made in the Report. It is essential to engage the commitment and sustained involvement of both State and non-State actors. In all cases, there is a central role for the multilateral system of the United Nations in animating and supporting the follow-up process as a whole.
The nature of globalization requires us, as an international community, to look beyond inter-governmental processes and nation States, to involve new actors and forces that can help find solutions. We need the energy, creativity and reach of the many networks of non-State actors that are already active, involving both business and civil society. We need to adapt international institutions to the realities of the new era. This means forming coalitions for change, often with partners well beyond the precincts of officialdom.
At the international level, the Report envisages follow-up action to be undertaken in two phases. The first phase would aim to publicize and build widespread awareness of and support for the proposals and objectives. The second phase would initiate action to change the current process of globalization in line with the policy recommendations in the Report.
As part of the first phase of action, all actors within the global community are encouraged to use this Report as a basis for discussion and analysis; to consider its policy proposals; to take up recommendations; and to develop plans for advocacy and action. In its work, the Commission has attempted to move from confrontation to dialogue. The Report provides a platform where consensus can be built to take the necessary corrective action”.
Comment
There is Huge Divergence between Promises made above and Realities on the ground at National, Regional and Global levels.
This underlines urgent need for ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions and their National and International Partners to jointly and meaningfully address fundamental issues of Globalization leaving behind Vulnerable Individuals and Communities in all 193/306 UN Member States in Arithmetic Progression which is Bad and Digitization leaving behind Vulnerable Individuals and Communities in all 193/306 UN Member States in Geometric Progression which is Worse.
ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization 2008
The ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization, 10 June 2008 is the Third Major Statement of Principles and Policies adopted by the International Labour Conference since the ILO’s Constitution of 1919.
ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization 2008
Please find the Declaration Preface, with slight update based upon current realities:
The ILO is a Tripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations and Workers Organizations.
The Declaration came at a crucial political moment (2008 – Global Financial Crisis), reflecting the wide consensus on the need for a strong social dimension to globalization in achieving improved and fair outcomes for all. It constitutes a compass for the promotion of a fair globalization based on Decent Work, as well as a practical tool to accelerate progress in the implementation of the Decent Work Agenda at the country level. It also reflects a productive outlook by highlighting the importance of sustainable enterprises in creating greater employment and income opportunities for all.
In the work towards getting the Declaration approved in 2008, the ILO Decent Work Agenda received widespread international backing at the highest political, regional and global levels, culminating with the 2005 United Nations World Summit. On that occasion, Heads of State and Government stated: “We strongly support fair globalization and resolve to make the goals of full and productive employment and decent work for all, including for women and young people, a central objective of our relevant national and international policies as well as our national development strategies.” This statement also built on the commitments of the World Summit for Social Development of 1995.
The Declaration expresses the universality of the Decent Work Agenda: all Members of the Organization must pursue policies based on the strategic objectives – employment, social protection, social dialogue, and rights at work. At the same time, it stresses a holistic and integrated approach by recognizing that these objectives are “inseparable, interrelated and mutually supportive”, ensuring the role of international labour standards as a useful means of achieving all of them.
The Declaration calls upon the ILO to assist its Members in their efforts towards its implementation, according to national needs and circumstances. To that end, it presents a challenge to the International Labour Conference, the Governing Body and the International Labour Office, signaling that “the Organization should review and adapt its institutional practices to enhance governance and capacity building in order to make the best use of its human and financial resources and of the unique advantage of its tripartite structure and standards system”.
Therefore, the Organization and its Members must mobilize all available means of action, both nationally and internationally, to promote the objectives of the Declaration and implement its commitments in the most effective and efficient way.
The Declaration provides leaders and decision-makers with a balanced approach that connects with people and productive solutions at home, while also offering a common platform for governance at the international level. It contributes to policy coherence for sustainable development in national policies, among international organizations and in development cooperation, bringing together social, economic and environmental objectives.
In this regard, it highlights that international and regional organizations with mandates in closely related fields can play an important role in the implementation of the integrated approach required and invites them to promote decent work. It states that as trade and financial market policy both affect employment, it is the ILO’s role to evaluate those employment effects to achieve its aim of placing employment at the heart of economic policies.
The Declaration also calls for developing new partnerships with non-state entities and economic actors, such as multinational enterprises and trade unions operating at the global sectoral level, in order to enhance the effectiveness of ILO operational programmes and activities.
Comment
At the end of 11 years of Implementing the Declaration; ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions need to undertake joint Evaluation. If they do not know WHY there were flaws and failures in the Implementation and Evaluation of the Declaration in past 11 years they will not know HOW to Implement and Evaluate the Declaration and in ways that help all 193/306 UN Member States get DONE, the much that remain to be DONE, in less than 11 years, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by end 2030 target date.
If the Huge Potential of Cooperatives Fit for 21st Century to help achieve National Goals and Global Goals including SDGs by 2030, is to be actualized as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Planet/Global location context there is urgent need for:-
- ILO to move from a Tripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations and Workers Organizations to Quadripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations, Workers Organizations and Cooperatives Organizations.
- Innovation that Work for Poor to be One of the Master Keys –
https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/10/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and.html Special Addresses to UN Behavior Insights Week 2019 Paper 1
https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/10/global-push-to-achieve-sdgs-vision-and_7.html Special Addresses to UN Behavior Insights Week 2019 Paper 2 including Scaling Up Business Impact on the SDGs
- (1) and (2) need to be underlined by All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious One Worldwide Approach to Ending World Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty; Achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in all 193/306 UN Member States in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date DRIVING Research, Data, Planning; Implementation; Monitoring, Evaluation; Learning, Results; Transparency, Accountability and Participation Frameworks for Design and Delivery of National, Regional and Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions to National, Regional and Global Complex problems -
https://developmentchangechampions.blogspot.com/2019/03/3pcm-benefits-focused-one-worldwide.html 3PCM One Worldwide Approach to National and International Development Cooperation
The Story of ILOs Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No 193), 2015 Report
This Important ILO Report 2015 is essentially “A review of the process of making ILO Recommendation No. 193, its implementation and its impact”.
At the end of 4 years of Implementing the Report; ILO, FAO, UNDESA, remaining UNO Entities; 193/306 UN Member States; Universities and Higher Education Institutions need to undertake joint Evaluation. If they do not know WHY there were flaws and failures in the Implementation and Evaluation of the Report in past 4 years, they will not know HOW to Implement and Evaluate the Report and in ways that effectively help all 193/306 UN Member States get DONE, the much that remain to be DONE, in less than 11 years, if all 193/306 UN Member States are to get back On Track, to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery, by end 2030 target date.
Extracts from the Report (italics ours)
- Recommendation No. 193 is an international instrument that aims to guide ILO member States in the design and implementation of favourable cooperative development policies and legislation. It sets out a series of measures that, taken together, can enable cooperatives to contribute to the economic and social wellbeing of their members and of society at large.
- It also underlines the need to create more awareness and understanding of the cooperative form of enterprise, so that people are able to choose which business model best suits their needs, and calls for a concerted effort to improve the documentation of the contributions made by cooperatives.
- Adequate cooperative policies and legislation are only one of the many promotional measures suggested by the Recommendation.
- Success of cooperative enterprises requires that the ground is well laid through a coherent design and concerted implementation of various measures.
- Attempts in the 1920s to turn the ILO into a quadripartite structure, by including cooperative organizations, failed. 100 years later, the future of ILO greatly depends of a quadripartite structure.
- The Cooperative Service was created within the ILO. Its role was to “give careful attention to the study of different aspects of co-operation which are connected with the improvements of the economic and social conditions of the workers. It was to act as an international centre for cooperative research, documentation, information and advice as well as to liaise with cooperative organizations.
- The International Committee on Inter-Cooperative Relations purpose was twofold: (a) to promote the development of moral and economic relations between the consumers’ and the agricultural cooperative organizations, and (b) to act as a liaison body between the cooperative movement as a whole and the ILO. The Committee was disbanded in 1938 but need to be speedily re-established.
- Recommendation (No 70) 1944 stressed the need for adequate legislation covering all forms of cooperatives. It underlined the need for assistance and development of cooperative societies, including cooperative organizations of workers for the promotion of health, housing and education, to be accepted as part of the economic programme of competent authorities in dependent territories.
- Cooperation also figured frequently on the agenda or in the discussions of other organs of the ILO and indeed organs of other UNO entities. Cooperation in ILO and other UNO Entities must underline value of cooperative action in other resolutions on economic requirements for social progress and conditions of life and work of primary producers. This DEMANDS going back to Original Cooperation Vision of Dr. Fauquet, the first Chief of ILO Cooperatives Branch.
- The law and practice report 2000 proposed that Recommendation No. 127 be revised to provide an appropriate framework for the promotion of cooperatives in the 21st century. This remains a challenge 20 years after. This underlines urgent need to meaningfully address fundamental issues of:-
a) Governmental policies should create enabling environments to enable the growth of cooperatives taking into consideration the special character of the co-operative model of enterprise, its goals and contributions to the economic and social development of local communities and countries;
b) Governments should in collaboration with cooperative organizations identify and remove obstacles that persist and do not allow cooperatives to compete on a real equal footing with other forms of enterprise.
- The future of Recommendation No 193 is important as, despite the fact that it has already had an influence in over 100 countries, it has not yet been fully implemented. There continues to be an under-recognition of the contribution of cooperatives to economic and social development and therefore too little understanding about this model of enterprise.
- In this situation, Recommendation No. 193 has to be further disseminated and capacity building efforts have to continue to ensure there is wider compliance with the Recommendation. Priority must be given to the requests coming from the ILO member States that have not yet used the Recommendation in revising their cooperative policies and legislation.
Comment
We commend ILO for this enlightening story of past 13 years of Recommendation No 193.
4 years after the Story Report, that is 17 years of Implementation of Recommendation No 193, the Story is still essentially the same.
If DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership do not know: WHY 193/306 UN Member States are still in MDG Mode rather than SDG Mode in over 16 of 60 Quarters of SDG Implementation and WHY over 4 years of Implementing: The Story of ILOs Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No 193), 2015 Report; over 11 years of Implementing ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization 2008 and over 15 years of Implementing ILO World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization Report 2004; All 193/306 UN Member States are yet to optimize Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprises contribution to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date; they will not know HOW to get all 193/306 UN Member States back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date. Should our World fail to answer this How Question, our World will miss the June 2020 DEADLINE to Change Course.
Should this DEADLINE the Missed, our World will simply be on autopilot to Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030, that is, the ultimate catastrophic consequences of Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 become inevitable. This is avoidable, should relevant authorities on Powerful North and South Countries as well as Major UN Entities – ILO, FAO, UNDESA, Change Course Now, Amazing Transformation will occur before our very eyes.
To achieve this Amazing Transformation, there is urgent need to for New ILO that is Quadripartite Organization whose Members are Representatives of Governments, Employers Organizations, Workers Organizations and Cooperatives Organizations as well as FAO, UNDESA, other UNO Entities as Renewed Organizations; other UN System: WBG, IMF, WTO Entities as Renewed Organizations; 193/306 UN Member States Governments as Renewed Government Entities, to urgently address the following points and in Common Interest, Common Future and Common Destiny of All Humanity:-
1. Engaging the commitment and sustained involvement of both State and Non-State Actors as well as the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO.
2. Looking beyond Inter-governmental Processes and Nation States, to involve New Actors and Forces that can help find National, Regional and Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions.
3. Need to harness Energy Creativity and Reach of the many Networks, Partnerships and Platforms of Non-State Actors that are already active, involving: Business, Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Enterprise, Civil Society, University and Higher Education Institution.
4. Need to adapt International Institutions to the Realities of the New Era. This means forming Coalitions for Change, often with Partners well beyond the Precincts of Officialdom.
5. Need for Multi-Stakeholder Platforms of State and Non State Actors, as well as the UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO where consensus can be built to take the Necessary Corrective Action based on Correct Diagnosis, Correct Prescription, Correct Surgery and Correct Recovery Management.
6. Central Role for the Multilateral System of the United Nations in Animating and Supporting the Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Follow-up Process as a whole based on Indivisibility (Interrelated, Interdependent, Interconnected and Interlinked) of the 17 Goals of the SDGs.
7. Need for each UN entity to review and adapt its institutional practices to enhance governance and capacity building in order to make the best use of its human and financial resources as well as any unique advantage of its structure and standards system.
This DEMANDS operationalizing the practice the 2 Concepts of the SDGs - Work Together to Benefit Together and Leave No One Behind; answering SDGs Pledge Delivery in less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date HOW Questions within New SDGs Pledge Delivery Worldwide Model; taking Technical Advice and Reform Consulting Service Support from Firm that has adequate levels of Hard Competencies – Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies - Character, Courage, Cultural, Communication, Attitude, Behavior, Discipline and Mindset, to help address Practical Action issues at National, Regional and Global levels.
Conclusion
In view of the above, it is in DCF Leadership, UNDESA Leadership, ILO Leadership, FAO Leadership, other UN System Leadership, as well as 193/306 UN Member States Governments Leadership, enlightened self interest to let Radical /Fundamental and Rapid/Fast Change in Decent Work, Food, Nutrition and Agriculture; Conflict, Insecurity and Inequality; Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability and all remaining Dimensions of SDGs start immediately. Otherwise, the ultimate catastrophic consequences of All 193/306 UN Member States FAILURE to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date, is inevitable.
UK/EU Brexit along current direction and priorities only makes these ultimate catastrophic consequences more inevitable in All 193/306 UN Member States. This underlines urgent need for Alternative Brexit that address Original EU Project and UK in EU Challenges Linked to Decent Work and achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 Challenges in all 193/306 UN Member States.
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.
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