ISPE EAG
INTERATIONAL
SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION ECONOMIC
ALLIANCE GROUP
Achieving AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Vision and Words with
Action Agenda by 2030
His Excellency Mr. Andrej Logar, Chairperson of
the 70th General Assembly Second Committee and Permanent Representative of
Slovenia to the United Nations, is convening informal
consultations with NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC on the agenda and work of the
Second Committee on 22 October 2015, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Conference
Room 2, at the United Nations Headquarters. A summary of the proceedings
will then be made available to Member States in advance of the draft GA
resolutions to be tabled later this month to be negotiated in November &
December.
The NGO consultations will follow a consultation
among Member States scheduled for Friday, 9 October, 3 - 6 pm, where they will
discuss how the methods of work of the GA Second Committee may be harmonized
with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, together with the agendas of ECOSOC and
GA Third Committee, to eliminate overlaps and duplication. Based upon the
results of the Member States consultation on Friday, a discussion paper by DESA
will be prepared in preparation for the consultation with ECOSOC NGOs on 22
October.
This innovative step in the Second
Committee represents a unique opportunity for civil society to share its
distinctive perspective and concrete inputs to Member States’ deliberations on
the Committee’s agenda and work in order to better respond to the challenges of
implementing the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
This nomination process seeks candidates
as speakers to address either of the following questions:
1. How can the Second Committee ensure that
its work is in line with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development?
2. How should the agenda of the Second
Committee look like in the coming years?
A Call has also been made to interested persons to provide
brief and concrete written contributions, which will be posted on CSONet. This
Paper is in response to the Call.
Expanding Questions
1.
How can the Methods
of Work of the GA Second Committee be effectively Aligned and Harmonized with
the objectives of AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, together with the Agendas
of ECOSOC and all remaining GA Committees – 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 to eliminate overlap
and duplication?
2.
How should the
Agendas of ECOSOC and GA Committees 1 – 6 look like in the coming years 2016 –
2030?
New
Development Architecture
3.
The AAAA focus is on the Finance for Development
Component of SDG, while the COP21 Outcome Document will focus on the
Environmental Sustainability Component of SDG. The current AAAA and SDG answer
What and Why questions without answering How questions and so despite UN
Sustainable Development Summit September 2015, the AAAA and SDG remain Vision
and Words without Action. To convert to AAAA and SDG Vision and Words with
Action, AAAA and SDG How questions – How to achieve AAAA and SDG Ambition by
Target Date in all 193 Member States, Who does what and Who Pays for What, How
will Sanctions be enforced etc need to be answered and without delay. The
failures in AAAA and SDG Processes need to be corrected in COP21 Process
otherwise the COP21 Outcome Document will also be Vision and Words without
Action – thus repeating past Error.
The 17 SDGs are in reality 2 Major Goals –
Poverty Elimination and Environmental Sustainability and 17 Minor Goals that
need to be expanded to 21 to highlight Corruption, Conflict, Religion and Data
issues that are currently hidden in the 17 Global Goals. To convert the 21
Minor Goals into Policy, Program, Project Interventions, 3PIs and 3PI Training
as One in specific context Village to Global in each of the 193 Member States
Demand New Development Architecture effectively linking each Community in each
Local Government in each of the 193 Member States with UN Headquarters New York
and with specific responsibility for improving Coordination, Collaboration and
Cooperation between SDG Office; AAAA Office; EfS (Environment for Sustainability)
Office; ECOSOC Office; Master Multi-stakeholder Platform, MSP; MSP Poverty
Elimination Implementation, MSP Poverty Elimination Evaluation, MSP
Environmental Sustainability Implementation, MSP Environmental Sustainability
Evaluation. Each MSP will speak 6 UN Languages.
Fighting Hunger
and Poverty
1.
The overarching purpose of AAAA, SDG and
COP21 Outcome Document (when it is ready in December 2015) is to help Fight and
Win War on Poverty at Global level as well as at National level in each of the
193 Member States. Do UN, WBG, IMF, Governments in 193 Member States and
Partners Village to Global really know why poverty exists? Do they know the
contribution of weak and ineffective leaders that do not have enough incentive
or urgency to implement change or who face opposition that advocates for
themselves, their tribe, their religion, etc towards making the complex Hunger
and Poverty even worse?
It is clear that those leaders failing
their people in this way are either elites themselves or beholden to them and
their desire to stay elite. Does anyone think the success stories of South
Korea, Singapore, Chile, Mauritius were achieved because of the contribution of
some strategy guru’s and tech leaders who told everyone else they are asking
the wrong question? It may be a good idea to have an anthropologist involved
because the issue is not who has the best idea or the smartest approach or
clearly the most money to throw at the problem. The issue is about deep seeded
socio-economic-political-cultural-religious problems exacerbated by scarce
resources and constant threats to livelihoods. The issue is also lying with
Data as well as lack of Credible Data Systems.
The current AAAA and SDG that is Vision
and Words without Action does not speak to these issues and that is why How
questions continue to be avoided or evaded and also why WBG has a Study Report
that say SSA will not meet SDG by 2030 yet WBG joins its Voice to call on World
Leaders to work towards achieving SDG by Target 2030 date. What a contradiction.
This WBG Methodology that is Fail at birth is the same Methodology being used
by UN, IMF, Governments in 193 Member States, so how can the SDG, AAAA and
COP21 Outcome Document Vision Ambition be achieved on due date or at all?
Our Study finding is that a major problem with the development industry
is the surplus of smart people with ego’s who think they have the best
solutions and convince developing country leaders that their pedigree better
enables them to proscribe policy solutions.
The new architecture of development is going to have to come from the
inside out, localized solutions that are first, politically and socially
palatable and have buy in from those that promote them. The outside in approach
is not working. The ordinary people know why poverty exists but too often are
unable to influence any positive change in their own lives without empowerment.
Internal Consultants and External Consultants, National and Global with minimum
certain levels of Competences – Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft
Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset have to be identified, promoted and
protected to support Village to Global Stakeholders in the deployment of One
Worldwide Approach, Business Unusual Approach, Whole of Government, Bank,
Institution, Society, Country Approach to Whole of Government, Bank,
Institution, Society, Country Problems etc Jointly using Correct Diagnosis,
Prescription, Surgery and Recovery Management Methodology.
The time is now for Executives in UN, WBG, IMF and Senior Officials of
Governments in 193 Member States to recognize that sustainable solutions to the
national / global poverty problem lie within asking “why does poverty exist?”
Remember, the development industry basically can provide resource that does not
exist to enable poverty elimination, zero hunger, disease eradication,
increased amounts of children vaccinated and educated even provide the best
policy recommendations so countries can flourish. But its the “last mile” that
depends on the actions of the people being served by the Development Industry working
Jointly with relevant Stakeholders in their specific context to effectively
Demand for change that these Resources – Influence, Science, Technology,
Innovation, Arts, Manpower, Spiritual, Land and Water can be unlocked and
deployed to achieve increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome
Document Vision Intention and Reality in the specific Community in each Local
Government in each of the 193 Member States.
1.
Multi
Stakeholder Platforms, MSPs: Policy Coherence, Coordination and Collaboration for Sustainable Development, P3CSD
Many analysts have submitted the proof that the “Global
Goals” is the right approach to World Sustainable Development will be in its
implementation. They have asked “Will the policy makers and other
powerful actors take an integrated,
coherent, coordinated and collaborative approach across the SDGs? Or will they – as has been argued
happened for the MDGs – implement them
as if they are separate problems in separate boxes requiring different sets of
actions?”
The view of the analysts is that tremendous possibility of
taking an integrated approach, to
the SDGs suggests that the most important aspect of the SDGs is a little phrase
hidden away in Goal 17 on Strengthening Means of Implementation. It is Target
17.14: “Enhance policy coherence for sustainable
development.” In other words: accept
the reality that everything is connected with everything else and figure out
how to solve problems from there. Far better that than try to fix problems,
on their own and then wonder why, they are so hard to fix. The implication is
that:-
1.
Get Target 17.14
Right; Get Goal 17 Right and Get Goal 17 Right, Get all 17 (21) Goals in the
SDGs Right.
2.
The implementation
as well as the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Implementation of each AAAA and
SDG Action Agenda Item Demand Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development at
several Multi Stakeholder Platforms levels
3.
The Scope of Policy Coherence, Coordination and Collaboration for Sustainable Development, P3CSD Agenda has expanded in many ways
and concerns all 193 Member States regardless of their level of National
Development
4.
New P3CSD Principles, Instruments / Tools
corresponding to each Principle, Practices and Database within One Worldwide
Approach to Sustainable Development are needed to effectively take into account
today’s more complex Policy, program, Project Interventions Inter-linkages,
interconnectivity and interdependence from Village to Global levels in each of
the 193 Member States
5.
The Application of P3CSD should Integrate Poverty
Elimination, Environmental Sustainability, Development Resources (Influence,
Science, Technology, Innovation, Funding, Manpower, Spiritual, Land and Water)
and Development Communication in the work towards achieving AAAA and SDG Vision
and Words with Action Agenda in each Community in each Local Government in each
of the 193 Member States applicable to the specific location context.
6.
The Application of
P3CSD should bring Measuring Progress,
Pinpointing Gaps and Filling all identified Gaps on time to the forefront in
the National and International Development Agenda of each Government in each of
the 193 Member States
7.
The Application of
P3CSD should Strengthen the Capacity of
each Government in each of the 193 Member States to more effectively address
real and complex Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global
Development Cooperation Challenges they are grappling with in ways that
meaningfully promote and protect the Common Interest and Common Future of
Citizens in all 193 Member States.
8. The Application of P3CSD underlines urgent need to revise the many existing rules of procedure and protocols and create new rules of procedure and protocols that better support the full implementation of sustainable solutions to AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document, Synthesis Report, Data Revolution Report, FAO Conference on Hunger and Poverty Plan of Action etc Recommendations; the effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation as well as the effective oversight of both the implementation and its monitoring and evaluation and in ways that create opportunities and meaningful spaces for all concerned Village to Global Stakeholders in each of the 193 Member States.
World
Sustainable Development Strategy
The WSDS which is what the SDG, AAAA and COP21 Outcome Document as One
really is, is essentially a Global Strategy with four overarching Cross Cutting
Themes - Trade, Aid, Debts and Corruption.
So much activity is ongoing in the fight against corruption, but the
more activities we have the more corruption is getting worse. Are we losing the
fight against corruption? Not necessarily, and certainly not for lack of effort
or effectiveness. However, we notice cases where the more successful an
anti-corruption body is, the more likely it is to fail. At first blush, that
correlation seems illogical; but successes encourage counterattacks by powerful
and well-funded individuals or groups. In addition, the media hold
anti-corruption agencies to standards of success that often are impossible to
achieve. Success in a series of small cases will be met by accusations that
“you let the big fish get away.” Civil society organizations always seem
dissatisfied and always want you to do more, even if one could argue that this
is what those organizations are supposed to do!
The Big Question is: If we do not know why corruption is fighting us, we
will not know how to fight corruption. And, if we do not know why a successful
anti-corruption body attract death, we will not know how to nurture and grow
anti-corruption body at sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and
global levels that will be successful on sustainable basis. This Big Question
cannot be answered without answers to all HOW questions in Synthesis
Report, Data Revolution Report, Global Nutrition Report, COP21 Outcome
Document, AAAA (revised) and SDG (revised).
While the AAAA and SDG documents are
well-written, each has many technical terms. We now need a simpler document
(AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome Document) for the public, so everyone can understand
it, recite it, and teach it … like the Ambassador from the Netherlands
once said in his intervention, in language that his 13 year old daughter can
read and tell her friends. Getting the language and the messaging right is not
only about publicity and communications, it is also about facilitating
ownership by the people in each of the 193 Member States. We suggest Member
States work with Civil Society, Knowledge and Communication Professionals and
Journalists and the Citizens themselves to do this. Indeed this would
demonstrate that the commitment to multi-stakeholder partnerships is serious,
something we call for more broadly.
The People’s Voice at the Local level should be effectively heard at
National levels and then be effectively Communicated at the Sub-regional,
Regional and Global levels. This process would follow 3Cs': Coordination,
Collaboration and Cooperation.
The Argument
We commend the negotiations that transformed the FfD Zero Draft into a
successful agreement, resulting in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the AAAA
endorsed by World Leaders in July 2015. The AAAA (revised) as Finance for
Development Component of the SDG is intended to be the backbone of the MOI of
the SDG endorsed by World Leaders in September 2015. Now Five Reports: the
AAAA, SDG, Global Nutrition Report, Synthesis Report and Data Revolution
Report need to be coordinated in ways that answer How questions with clear Roles
– Duties, Responsibilities and Rights for FfD Office, SDG Office, ECOSOC
Office, Master MSP, MSP Poverty Elimination Implementation, MSP Poverty
Elimination Evaluation, MSP Environmental Sustainability Implementation and MSP
Environmental Sustainability Evaluation.
This would result in a mechanism being put in place to be sure that all 17
(21) Global Goals and Targets are fully implemented and realized on schedule
dates latest 2030. This requires an expanded and detailed document about the
MOIs' in the AAAA (revised), SDG (revised) and COP 21 Outcome Document that is
each Vision and Words with Action and that effectively fill all identified gaps
and link all identified disconnect within effective Global Collective Action
for Political Stability, Economic Stability, Financial Stability, Peace and
Security and Fighting Corruption.
Further, the Global Collective Action for Political Stability, Economic
Stability, Financial Stability, Peace and Security and Fighting Corruption
should improve legislative oversight and People's Voices at Sub-national,
National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global Parliament levels. This calls for
designing institutional architecture that revamps existing institutions and
establishes new institutions from top down and bottom up, e.g. from Village to
Global levels.
The SDG Initiative can and should be a “World Sustainable Development
Strategy”, WSDS, built on Pillars of Development and Human Rights in all its
ramifications; Diplomacy and Negotiation; Defense and Security; Democracy and
Elections each with Political and Cultural; Economic & Financial; Social
and Environmental; Religious and Moral Dimensions appropriate to specific
Village to Global Context in each of the UN 193 Member States, whose design
help deliver sustainable solutions to real and complex world political,
economic, social, cultural, terrorism, corruption and religious etc problems on
the ground and in ways that help Reform National Institutions and International
Institutions to be fit for the 21st Century; that is help establish and sustain
New World Order. The WSDS requires a "One Worldwide Approach with Local
Context" adopted by each of the 193 Member States and their Partners.
WSDS overarching Goals are Poverty Elimination and Environmental
Sustainability. To achieve these there are Four overarching Cross Cutting
Themes – Trade, Aid, Debts and Corruption, that are Interlinked, Interconnected
and Interdependent, such that it is fail in one fail in all. If Corruption is
to be tackled with the seriousness that it deserves, it cannot be a Target
hidden in SDG Goal 16 but a Goal on its own. WSDS Vision Ambition cannot be
realized without Peace. But Peace is threatened by Terrorism and Conflict –
Intra State and Inter State which is underlined by Corruption. Again these
issues hidden in SDG Goal 16 need to be removed to stand alone as separate
Goal. The implication is that if Member States and their Partners are serious
about achieving increasing convergence between SDG (revised) and AAAA (revised)
Vision Intention and Reality current SDG Goal 16 needs to be unbundled to
produce new SDG Goal 16 focused on Governance and four New Goals focused on
Corruption, Conflict, Religion and Data bringing the SDG to 21 and working out
appropriate number of Targets.
Implementing WSDS calls for Joint Local, National, Sub-regional,
Regional and Global Stakeholders Approach to Fighting and Winning a War on
Poverty, Hunger, Disease and Environmental Degradation (PHDE). This require Winning
Twelve Battles Against Arrogance, Ignorance, Indifference, Incompetence,
Indiscipline, Injustice, Intolerance, Insincerity, Inequality, Interference,
Impunity and Corruption (A10IC).
In this War we must recognize the denominators – Poverty of Ideas,
Integrity, Trust, Competence and Spirit.
We would like to see more emphasis on the importance of peace for
achieving sustainable development and that peace as a desirable outcome in
itself is strongly - and rightly - affirmed. including Peace as one of five Ps
of the SDG is strongly welcomed. This requires a crucial focus on the causes
of violence, insecurity and injustice - both in the narrative as well as in
the Goals and Targets. It also requires
evolving Corruption Free Society at
sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global levels. The vision
for development financing fails to constructively engage with the peace
agenda. The AAAA (revised), SDG and COP21 Outcome Document should acknowledge
the risk of doing harm and effectively support peace-building as well as the
risk of fighting corruption effectively and efficiently on successful and
sustainable basis from Village to Global levels.
Similarly, the role of third parties in data production in each Action
Agenda Item in each of the 17 / 21 SDG (revised), AAAA (revised) and COP21
Outcome Document as well as monitoring and evaluation of policy, program,
project interventions in AAAA (revised), SDG (revised) and COP21 Outcome
Document needs to be more strongly affirmed
The AAAA (revised), SDG (revised) and COP21 Outcome Documents should
also go further in recognizing the more multi-polar Global Order and in
effectively promoting a renewal in multilateral partnerships and trust. We need
to think about how the AAAA (revised), SDG and COP21 Outcome Document – as WSDS: Action Plans with ACTION, can effectively ACT as a common narrative with universal buy - that can coordinate Village to Global
Multi-Stakeholder ACTION in a period of
geopolitical uncertainty.
Building
Public Support for Anti Corruption Efforts
Fighting
corruption is not easy. Unlike many criminals, dishonest public officials often
continue to have power and influence. Political interference, even in cases
involving low-level officials, frequently can derail a prosecution. Civil
society organizations may help uncover fraudulent activities, but they also may
undermine effective prosecution by inadvertently tampering with evidence or
tipping off the crooked politicians. Worse, they can go “public” with
exaggerated claims that make the final conviction and restitution look
comparatively puny and suspicious. The media may release stories prematurely,
allowing corrupt parties to hide or destroy evidence and move illicit proceeds
to safe havens, often in other parts of the world.
Months
of work can be wasted because other parties have undermined a National Anti
Corruption Agency’s efforts. Developing evidence in corruption cases is not
easy, especially because most corruption is “consensual”—that is, both sides –
Citizens / Citizens and Citizens / Non Citizens within and outside the Country,
benefit from the exchange.
Unfortunately,
this explains why many people in anti-corruption agencies do not see civil
society and the media as friends. This perceived adversarial relationship leads
to a spiral of distrust and suspicion on all sides. As a result, Sub-national,
National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global anti-corruption efforts become less
effective, and the agencies are thrown into an increasingly negative light.
There
is a global recognition that something can and must be done about corruption,
that is why it is bundled up in SDG Goal 16—but far less agreement about how to
correct the situation most effectively, that is why this Statement is calling
for a separate SDG Goals focused on Governance, Corruption, Conflict, Data and
Religion and for answers to Synthesis Report, Data revolution Report, AAAA
(revised), SDG and COP21 Outcome Document HOW
questions. Although there was early acknowledgment that independent
anti-corruption agencies might hold the key, many in the international
community now are questioning such agencies’ value because of the high-profile
destruction of successful agencies in both developing and developed countries.
Another Big Question – Are these anti-corruption agencies truly independent?
Are there competent Investigators, Prosecutors, Judges and Courts of minimum
certain levels of quality and quantity? Where Competence is Hard Competences –
Learning and Skills and Soft Competences – Character, Courage and Mindset.
What
is to be done? Level 1, Leaders and
Management in anticorruption bodies must understand that success always occurs
on two fronts: getting the “bad guys” and being able to explain why the
agency’s work is both effective and important. Anti-corruption initiatives must
be institutionalized not individualized with emphasis on establishing effective
media strategies and taking proactive measures to get the anti-corruption
message to the public. These Leaders and Management must help their agencies understand
how to control the way they present themselves to the public, how to frame
their agencies’ work, and how to develop allies in the press and the community
at large Level 2 – Heads of
Government must understand that success on sustainable basis greatly depends on
their full personal and official support and must lead by example subjecting
themselves, their family and friends to the rule of law so they can have the
moral right to subject other Citizens and Non Citizens to the rule of law. Level 3 – Civil Society and Media must
understand that without required Political, Economic, Social, Cultural,
Security and Religious Space the Heads of Government, Leaders and Management of
anti-corruption bodies cannot work in ways that institutionalize success on sustainable
basis within effective and efficient Justice Administration System.
No
one reading this needs to be lectured on the importance of controlling
corruption and countering its devastating impact on individuals, communities,
and nations. Because of the United Nations Convention against Corruption,
everyone in the global community has an opportunity to change the reality of
corruption. But it is those good anti-corruption professionals, frequently
little appreciated and too often demeaned, who can have real impact. It is
their efforts that will win or lose the battle. And I commend and celebrate
them with these words from someone who was noted for giving a good fight: it is
also important to note that there are many bad anti-corruption professionals, hence
the need to put in place early warning mechanism to speedily identify them and
flush them out of the Justice Administration System.
Acid Test of Credibility
The implication of holding UNSDS 2015 after adoption of
SDG, is that what World Leaders have adopted is SDG that is Vision and Words
without Action and what UNSDS 2015 seek to achieve is ways and means of
converting current AAAA and SDG into new AAAA and SDG that is Vision and Words
with Action. Unless this conversion is achieved, it will be an uphill task for
World Leaders to deliver on their promise to achieve SDG by 2030.
The acid test of credibility of SDG is how it delivers:-
1.
Better Domestic and International Trade in each of 193 Member
States.
2.
Better Financing – Equity, Loan and Grant for all particularly
the Poor
3.
Better War on Corruption and Terrorism and
4.
Better Environmental Sustainability.
New Thinking, New Ideas, New Ways
of Doing Things etc
The only way World Leaders can deliver on their promise
during the adoption of SDG is to improve Coordination, Collaboration,
Cooperation, Solidarity and Accountability in the design and delivery of mutual
support mechanism that help each of the 193 Member States to pass this acid
test of credibility of the SDGs.
To achieve this, the 193 Member States jointly and
severally must demonstrate and be seen to demonstrate:-
1.
Willingness to accept new ideas, new thinking, new ways of doing
things
2.
Willingness to establish new coordination, new collaboration,
new cooperation, new solidarity, new accountability and new partnership
3.
Readiness to accept past flaws, past failures, past drawbacks,
past shortcomings and past hindrances
4.
Readiness to build bridge between lessons learning and lessons
forgetting, create learning organization and create learning society
5.
Readiness to create Demand for Planning – Research, Planning,
Data as basis for creating Supply for Planning – Research, Planning, Data
6.
Readiness to create Demand for Implementation as basis for
creating supply for Implementation
7.
Readiness to create Demand for Evaluation – Monitoring,
Evaluation, Assessment as basis for creating Supply for Evaluation –
Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment
8.
Readiness to create Demand for Accountability – Transparency,
Accountability, Citizen / Stakeholder Participation as basis for creating
Supply for Accountability – Transparency, Accountability, Citizen / Stakeholder
Participation
9.
Readiness to create Demand for Learning – Learning and Result as
basis for creating Supply for Learning – Learning and Result
10. Readiness to accept One Nationwide
/ Region wide / Worldwide 3PCM – Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management
Approach and Methodology to Sustainable Benefits focused National and
International Development Cooperation Policy, Program, Project Intervention,
3PI and 3PI Training as One in each Action Agenda Item in each of the 17 SDGs
applicable to specific context – Village to Global in each of the 193 Member
States
We observe with regret that although AAAA and SDG call
for innovative approaches, new partnerships, rule of law, accountable
governance, comprehensive and effective accountability as well as follow up and
review / monitoring and evaluation mechanism – that is Business Unusual, it is
still Business as Usual. Unless World Leaders and Global Citizens Immediately
Operationalize in Practice the Spirit and Letters of revised AAAA and revised
SDG, the probability is high that errors in AAAA and SDG will be repeated in
COP21 Outcome Document. Allowed to occur, the ultimate consequence is likely to
be catastrophic.
AAAA and SDG Village to Global Capacity
Building
The above fundamental issues of Willingness and
Readiness need to be complemented by fundamental issues of Ability – Capacity
Building; Ability – Resources and Invitation – Mandate within National and
Global Platform.
Capacity Building should be on three levels:-
1.
Individual – Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft
Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset
2.
Institution / Government – Processes, Procedures, Systems,
Operations that empower Individuals to operationalize in practice Competences
they acquire through formal and informal education and training to help achieve
increasing convergence between Institution / Government Vision, Mission and
Mandate Intention and Reality.
3.
Society – Political and Cultural; Economic and Financial; Social
and Environmental; Peace and Security; Religious and Moral Space that empower
Individuals and Institutions to Thrive in the work towards achieving
Institution / Government Vision, Mission, Mandate Intention and Reality with or
without chaos.
Resources include: Influence, Science, Technology,
Innovation, Art, Fund, Manpower, Spiritual, Land and Water.
One
Worldwide Approach
At the UNSDS 2015, Mogens
Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly, noted the need for multi-stakeholder
platforms to address the crosscutting and complex nature of the SDGs and to
avoid the silos approach. He said the UN’s three pillars, peace, security and
development, “are as interconnected as sustainability and development.” Can
this statement be operationalized in practice without addressing serious issues
of serious business raised in this and earlier Policy Briefings and articles?
There is a Need for Master Multi
Stakeholder Platform, MSP driving Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation within
all other MSPs' in each of the 17 SDGs' and operationalizing in practice all
Synthesis Report and Data Revolution Report Recommendations as well as AAAA and
SDG Vision and Words with Action Agenda Items. Key outcomes of UNSDS 2015
should include:-
1.
Adoption of One Worldwide Approach and Business Unusual Approach.
2.
Endorsement of UNGA Official Status to the Master MSP and all other
MSPs'.
3.
Harvesting all good ideas and pertinent suggestions generated from UNSDS
2015 New York and Online and related Events into an Outcome Document with Clear
Recommendations for full Implementation with effective Monitoring and
Evaluation of this Implementation from Village to Global levels in each of 193
Member States.
Conclusion
Never has our World been so rich. Never has
our World been so poor. The vicious circle of being too poor to be rich and too
rich to be poor must be broken by AAAA and SDG if our World is to be a happier,
safer and healthier place to live, work, play and raise children. There is more
than enough Resources - Influence, Science, technology, Innovation, Fund,
Manpower and Spiritual to achieve increasing convergence between AAAA (revised)
and SDG Vision Intention and Reality, if there is shift from working HARDER to
working SMARTer; shift from Disordered Change to Ordered Change. Can this
viscous circle be broken without the evolution of a Corruption Free Society?
There is a need for definition of Commonly
Occurring Forms of Corruption acceptable to all 193 UN Member States; there is
a need to replace current subjective World Governance Indicators measuring
Corruption with SMART Objectively Validated Indicators measuring Corruption and
ranking all 193 Countries on the same Index. For example, SMART OVI for Bribe
Takers ranking all 193 UN Member States will see many Developing Countries
including Nigeria high on the list and SMART OVI for Bribe Givers ranking all
193 UN Member States will see many Developed Countries including US, UK, France
and Germany high on the list. It takes two to tango. Giving Global Publicity to
Bribe Takers Index while shielding from the Global Media the current incomplete
Bribe Givers Index is itself Corruption.
Sustainable Solutions to Poverty, Hunger,
Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and related problems including Corruption
and Terrorism on the ground in Developed and Developing Countries exist.
Ability to successfully implement these solutions with effective monitoring and
evaluation of this implementation exist or can be acquired. However, the Big
Challenge is the Willingness to successfully implement these solutions with
effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation. Tackling this Big
Challenge is essentially issue of Changing Attitude and Behaviour at Scale that
the 7th and 8th IGN need to effectively address.
The Roadmap to Paris will be more
productive and result oriented if Structured and Organized produce COP21
Outcome Document that is Vision and Words with Action thus avoiding Error in
AAAA and SDG and in ways that effectively address overarching Goals of Poverty Elimination and
Environmental Sustainability from the Dimensions
of Trade, Aid, Debts and Corruption with focus on Level 1. Implementation Solutions Level 2. Follow Up and Review Solutions Level 3. Capacity Building – Individual
Level - Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences:
Character, Courage and Mindset; Institution
Level – Resources and Processes empowering the Individual to deploy
Competences towards achieving Corporate Goals and Environment Level – Political, Economic, Social, Cultural, Security
and Religious Space for Institutions and Individuals to Thrive on Chaos,
CommWSDS as well as Communication for WSDS.
There is a need to create a 7th
GA Committee on Environmental Sustainability. There is a need to appreciate
that UN, WBG, IMF, 193 Member States Governments and Partners need Technical
Support from Consultant with required Competences that can help each of the
AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Stakeholders Stake-holders to correctly
identify where they are now (A); where they need to be to achieve AAAA, SDG and
COP21 Outcome Document Goals and Targets by 2030 (B) and How to move from (A)
to (B).
We are willing to offer a more detailed
information / clarification as directed by GA Second Committee and or other
relevant UN Authority.
Contact:
Director General
International
Society for Poverty Elimination / Economic Alliance Group
5, Moses Orimolade
Avenue,
Ijapo Estate,
Akure, Ondo State,
Nigeria.
M: +234-8162469805
