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 HOW to Fight and WIN War
on CONVID 19 in this 2020s’ (4)
SBCC 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 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
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020, Mauro Ferrari, the EU’s Chief Scientist resigned from his
position as Head European Research Council, ERC. In a damning Statement to the Financial
Times, he described his frustrations during his 3 months stay on the job, in
his spirited effort to design a System for EU Central Coordination of Scientific Research in all
dimensions: new drugs, new vaccines, new diagnostic tools, new behavioral
dynamic approaches based on science.
CNN
International in a Tweet on Friday, 10 April 2020 broadcast article by one of
its correspondents, Luke McGee titled “The EU
has Bungled its response to COVID 19 and might never fully recover”. In the
article, Luke analyzed Mr. Ferrari’s struggles against the background of “EU is
in Crises and EU is the Crisis”. Luke’s assessment is summarized in the title
of his article.
In
Paper (1), we set out EAG Thoughts on HOW to Fight and Win CONVID 19 in the
2020s by Building Bridge between Lessons Learning and Lessons Forgetting, that
is actually Learning Lessons from Past Global Public Health Emergencies to Find
Sustainable Solutions to CONVID 19.
In
Paper (2), we are elaborated on these New Ideas, as CONVID 19 Devastation keep
getting worse and it is in Urgent Global Interest that World Leaders Change Course
without Delay.
In
Paper (3), we underlining the role of Communication for Change, Development and
Environment Fit for the 21st Century in Fighting
and Winning War on CONVID 19 in US, Europe and rest of the World Linked to
getting DONE the much that remain to be DONE, if all 193 UN Member States are
to get back On Track to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years
remaining to end 2030 target date.
In this Paper (4), we seek to draw the attention
of World Leaders to the reality that it is not just EU that has bungled its
response to COVID
19, it is in fact the entire UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO; all Regional and
Sub-Regional Political Groupings of Countries, of which EU is just One; all 193
UN Member States; all Universities in all Countries and all Media in all Countries.
The
time is Now to focus on National, Regional and Global Central Coordination of COVID
19 Response that Work linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030, if our
World is to avoid looming Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences of Failure to
Fight and win War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030
in US, Europe and rest of the World.
Review of Mr. Ferrari’s
Resignation Statement
He
believes in science at the service of society, especially when it counts the
most. He found that now it does count the most, since it is only through
science that Covid-19, and its successor pandemics, will ever be defeated.
He
came to ERC, in May 2019 on volunteer basis, upon announcement of his
appointment and assumed office on 1 January 2020 motivated by my enthusiasm for
the great reputation of this world-leading funding agency, my commitment to the
idealistic dream of a United Europe, and my belief in serving the needs of the
world, through service to the best of science. He left ERC on 7 April 2020
finding that those idealistic motivations were crushed by a very different
reality.
The
ERC Governing Body was more interested in Shadow than Substance; Bottom Up than
Top Down, Business as Usual than Business Unusual regardless of the devastation
COVID 19 was having on Lives, Employment and Income in the EU in particular as
US and rest of the World in general through their remaining rigid in
maintaining Old Paradigms rather than adopting New Paradigms that help Win War
on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in EU, US and rest of the
World.
He
had seen enough of both the governance of science, and the political operations
at the European Union. In the three long months at ERC, he indeed met many
excellent and committed individuals, at different levels of the organization of
the ERC and the EC. However, he lost faith in the system itself.
He
believes that now the times require decisive, focused, and committed actions –
a call to responsibility for all those that have an aspiration to make a
difference against this devastating tragedy.
He
believes further that now it is time for him to return to the frontier, to the
frontlines of the fight against COVID 19, with real resources and
responsibilities, away from offices in Brussels, where his political skills were
clearly inadequate, and again at the true service of those who need new medical
solutions.
He
noted that despite his formal title at ERC, his real role has been to serve as
an advisor to the European Commission. Following his departure, he will be
honored and happy to continue to provide his most conscientious advice, in a
public and transparent manner, for free, and without the need for misleading,
high-sounding titles, if Europe or anyone else wishes to ask.
Review of Mr. Ferrari’s
Resignation Statement – Comment
Mr.
Ferrari’s real experience provides further evidence that:-
1. Ongoing approach at Fighting War
on COVID 19 is not working on US, Europe and rest of the World Governments
side; Global, Regional and Sub-Regional Political Grouping of Countries sides including
Global - UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO and Sub-Regional – EU; Universities and
Higher Education Institutions including Top 10, Top 100 and Top 1,000
Universities in the World; Philanthropy Organizations and Media including the
Most Powerful Global Media sides.
2. Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge
Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World greatly depends on World
Leaders adopting New Paradigms and that Delay or Denial would have Ultimate Catastrophic
Consequences for US, Europe and rest of the World.
3 Global Events
John Hopkins University, Springboard Webinar on COVID
19, Tuesday 7 April 2020
Highlights
1. The webinar outcome underlined need for pre webinar day,
webinar day ad post webinar day as one, technical and political process
discussions that effectively address all
COVID 19 determinants/dimensions – Political, Cultural, Economic, Financial,
Social, Communication, Science, Technology, Governance, Reform, Religion, Moral
etc as One and as applicable or appropriate in each specific Community, Sub-Country,
Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global/Planet location context using
Whole of World, Whole of Government, Whole of Society etc Approach and noting
that it is Fail in One Fail in All.
2. The webinar essentially set out to answer Fighting and
Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in US,
Europe ad rest of the World HOW Questions but ended up essentially answering
What Questions in this regard. What Questions have always been over-answered,
as this is easy. HOW Questions have always been avoided or evaded in
Universities and UN Evens, as this is especially difficult. Yet it is in
finding Correct answers to HOW Questions that US, Europe and rest of the World
could Fight and Win War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery in
the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030 target date.
3. The webinar underlined need for balanced Panel of Resource
Persons whose Pooled Expertise, Experience and Exposure – Hard Competencies –
Learning and Skills and Soft Competencies - Character, Courage, Cultural, Communication, Attitude, Behavior,
Discipline and Mindset are adequate to effectively address all fundamental issues in (1) and
(2).
4. The webinar indeed generated man good ideas and pertinent
suggestions that need to be speedily harvested and processed into webinar
outcome report including conclusions and recommendations on the way forward in
global interest. Should this report be produced as suggested by Lanre during
the webinar as well as in earlier EAG submissions, the webinar would indeed
mark turning point in Fighting and Winning War COVID 19 linked to
achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World.
New Paradigms
Existing
mainstream theories are not Fit for 21st Century and this explain
why they are inadequate in the design and delivery of National, Regional and
Global Integrated Innovative Sustainable Solutions to National, Regional and
Global Challenges of Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving
SDGs Pledge Delivery b 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World.
It
is finding Correct answers to HOW Questions that New Paradigms would replace
Old Paradigms to help evolve New World Order, that is Ordered Change within
which Domestic and Global Stakeholders in US, Europe and rest of the World Work
Together to Succeed Together Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to
achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030, that is promoting and protecting the Common
Interest, Common Future and Common Destiny of US, Europe and rest of the World
rather than ongoing Dis-Ordered Change that is Failing to Win War on COVID 19
and Failing to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 thus Guaranteeing Ultimate Catastrophic
Consequences for US, Europe and rest of the World, should US, Europe and rest
of the World Leaders Fail to Change Course Now and genuinely Commit to Full
Implementation of the suggested webinar outcome Report.
Time is of Essence
World
Leaders now know that US, Europe and rest of the World are Off Track achieving
SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030; that COVID 19 is making bad situation far worse,
as it is Catalyzing Global Depression that promise to make 1930s Global
Depression Child’s Play, should irreversibility point be passed and this is
Guarantee SDGs Pledge Deliver would not be achieved by 2030 as our World is on
Auto Pilot to Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences of Failure to Fight and Win
War on COVID 19 and Failure to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in US,
Europe and rest of the World.
As
no one know when this irreversibility point could be passes, time is of the
essence as One Day Delay implementing the suggested webinar outcome report
could be One Day too late for US, Europe and rest of the World to avoid
Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences of Failure to DO the Needful and On Time to
Fight and Win War on COVID 19 as well as achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030
in US, Europe and rest of the World.
In Sum,
The
webinar has shed light on What Needs to be DONE to Fight and Win War on COVID
19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of
the World and HOW.
The
BIG Challenge is Will Springboard/SBCC/JHU-CCP/JHU pick up the gauntlet and let
Change Start from them – Individually and Jointly? Or will it be Business as Usual?
If
former, there are Bright Prospects of Success.
If
the later, Springboard/SBCC/JHU-CCP/JHU will be demonstrating that in reality
they are more part of the problems than part of the sustainable solutions.
It
is our hope that Springboard/SBCC/JHU-CCP/JHU will decide to pick up the
gauntlet.
UNDESA/UNDSDG Webinar on COVID 19, Thursday 9 April 2020
Highlights
We were somewhat
disappointed by the webinar, as it appeared more Abstract and Disconnected than
we expected from the webinar promotion by UNDESA/UNDSDG. This is evidenced by
many who joined the webinar pulling out almost immediately or after a short
while.
It was shocking to
find that at a stage, about mid way, over 600 participants on the WEBEX
Platform fell to about 400 participants. We had to send text urging
UNDESA/UNDSDG to really investigate WHY this HUGE drop in participants is so,
to enable them take appropriate remedial action in future webinars on COVID 19.
It is pertinent to note that participants kept dropping out before the webinar
ended.
In our view the
webinar was more of Pontification and Pretending All is Well Fighting War on COVID
19 in US, Europe and rest of the World but need to be Better, thus the webinar
is Business as Usual. Is this not the position of EU and ERC that led to Mr. Ferrari’s
resignation?
Yet the webinar made
some Good Points including:-
1.
Need for Coordinated Global Response that makes our World far
better than before the COVID 19 Crisis including solving fundamental issues of
inequality that COVID 19 is worsening.
2.
Realign Pandemic Responses in US, Europe and rest of the
World to accelerate World Sustainable Development noting that every Crisis
present Opportunity to Rethink and Rebuild
3. Recognize that COVID 19 Crisis in US, Europe and rest of the
World highlights Importance of Government Systems and Services that Work for
the Poor.
We note that there
appeared to be no genuine interest in answering the Good Points How Questions
and related follow up questions asked by Lanre and moving from Vision and Words
without Action to Vision and Words with Action that effectively tackle Fighting
and Winning War on COVID 19 in US, Europe and rest of the World linked to
getting DONE the much that remain to be DONE if all 193 UN Member States are to
achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery in the less than 11 years remaining to end 2030
target date.
There is a probability
that after assessing the webinar outcome, UNDESA/UNDSDG may decide to Change Course
and DO the need UNO and entire UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO are to contribute
meaningfully towards helping US, Europe and rest of the World Fight and Win War
on COVID 19 in US, Europe and rest of the World linked to achieving SDGs Pledge
Delivery in all 193 UN Member States and in the less than 11 years remaining to
end 2030 target date.
Big Questions
EAG
sent 7 Big Questions to UNDESA/UNDSDG before the webinar and asked follow up
questions during the webinar.
As
long as these questions are avoided or evaded, UNDESA/UNDSDG and indeed the
entire UNO will keep behaving like the EU and ERC, thus Guaranteeing the War on COVID 19 will not be Won
and US, Europe and rest of the World will not achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by
2030 – that is Guaranteeing Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences of Failure to
Fight and Win War on COVID 19 in US, Europe and rest of the World and Failure
to achieve SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030.
The 7 Questions are:-
1. WHO is the Apex UNO Entity with responsibility for World
Public Health response to COVID 19. HOW has WHO delivered on this Statutory
Responsibility with specific reference to:-
a) Global Central Coordination of 193 UN Member States
Governments; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO; 193 UN Member States
Universities/Higher Education Institutions and 193 UN Member States
Philanthropy Organizations Joint Response to CONVID 19?
b)
UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Delivery as One, DaO driving UN
System Joint Response to COVID 19?
2. UNDESA and all its Divisions led by UNDSDG is the Apex UNO
Entity with responsibility for World Economic and Social response to COVID 19.
HOW has UNDESA delivered on this Statutory Responsibility with specific
reference to:-
a) Global Central Coordination
of 193 UN Member States Governments; UN System: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO; 193 UN
Member States Universities/Higher Education Institutions and 193 UN Member
States Philanthropy Organizations Joint Response to COVID 19?
b) UN System: UNO,
WBG, IMF, WTO Delivery as One, DaO driving UN System Joint Response to COVID
19?
3. Can Correct answer to Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19
linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 be found without:-
a)
Overhauling all decayed Systems and Services in US, Europe
and rest of the World?
b) Unprecedented levels of Policy Cohesion, Collaboration, Cooperation
and Coordination in US, Europe and rest of the World Governments – All Arms of
All Tiers; UN Systems: UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO – Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country
Offices; 193 UN Member States Universities and 193 UN Member States
Philanthropy Organizations and their National and International Partners?
c) Meaningfully involving Original Ideas Creators whose Ideas
have been harvested from Domestic and Global Conferences, Consultations and
Studies and processed into the Conferences, Consultations and Studies Reports Conclusions
and Recommendations, in the Implementation of the Reports?
4. HOW can COVID 19 Fear and Panic in US, Europe and rest of the
World be harnessed and deployed to Change COVID 19 from Present Force for Evil
to Desired Force for Good Driving the Organization, Orientation and Discipline
of Citizens in all 193 UN Member States to be the Moving Force Driving
TRANSFORMATION of World Society within New World Order to Win War on COVID 19
linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the
World?
5. Communication for
Change, Development and Environment that Work for 5 Billion Poor Children,
Youth, Women, Men and Elders in US, Europe and rest of the World, out of the
8.5 Billion People in our World of 2030, is Maker or Breaker of Fighting and
Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in all
193 UN Member States. HOW can 193 UN Member States Governments and UN System:
UNO, WBG, IMF, WTO Create DEMAND as basis for Universities and Consultants Creating
SUPPLY for this type of Communication?
6. Without Government in
all 193 UN Member States being More Effective Central Actors in the Great Task
of Fighting and Winning War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge
Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World, the War cannot be Won and
SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 cannot be achieved. HOW can real and complex
problems of Public Sector – Civil Service and Public Service; Public
Governance: Services – Health, Education; Food, Nutrition and Agriculture;
Security etc and Systems: Political, Economic, Financial, Social, Religious etc
and Transformational Investments: Human Capital,
Physical Capital; Financial Capital –
Grants, Loans, Equity; Network Capital – Multi Stakeholder Partnerships on the
ground in each Community in US, Europe and rest of the World be Solved on
Sustainable basis and in ways that help Fight and Win War on COVID 19 linked to
achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World?
7. Without Inter-Ministerial, Inter-Governmental,
Multi-Sectoral, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships wherein
all relevant Domestic and Global Major Stakeholder Groups as applicable or
appropriate in each specific Community, Sub- Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent
and Global/Planet location context Work Together to Succeed Together, seeking
to Fight and Win War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by
2030 in US, Europe and rest of the World is FLUKE. Can this type of
Partnerships be Designed and Delivered without UNDESA re-writing New UN
Partnership Strategy (UNDESA promised to release July 2018 but the New UN
Partnership Strategy is yet to be released) to meaningfully include all good
ideas harvested from this webinar as well as EAG submissions to the New UN
Partnership Global Consultation and ensuring that the re-written New UN
Partnership Strategy is released on or before 30 April 2020?
WBG/IMF Virtual
Spring Meeting 17 – 19 April 2020
This
is the 3rd of the 3 Global Events. It is a Virtual Meeting in 2020
due to COVID 19. It is
another opportunity to demonstrate shift to New Paradigms that help US, Europe
and rest of the World Fight and Win War on COVID 19 linked to achieving SDGs
Pledge Delivery by 2030 in all 193 UN Member States.
It must demonstrate and be seen to
demonstrate Lessons Learnt from the JHU Springboard webinar and the
UNDSESA/UNDSDG webinar. It must demonstrate and be seen to demonstrate support
for Researchers like Mr. Ferrari and Consultants like EAG.
Conclusion
The
time is now to take National and International Development Cooperation Radical/Fundamental
and Rapid/Fast Change beyond Slogan.
The
time is now for National and World Leaders to genuinely appreciate that Technical
Solutions to COVID
19 without Political Solutions amount to No Issue or is No Issue; that should
they provide Political Solutions to National, Regional and Global Integrated
Innovative Sustainable Solutions, all remaining Economic, Financial, Social, Security,
Communication, Religions etc Solutions as applicable or appropriate in each specific
Community, Sub-Country, Country, Sub-Continent, Continent and Global/Planet location
context would emerge and that they need to Work Together to Succeed Together; that they need to adopt
One Worldwide Approach including Whole of Agenda, Whole of Society, Whole of
UN, Whole of Government etc.
However, without Technical Advise and Reform Consultancy
Services Support from Consultants who have demonstrated answers to Fighting and
Winning War on COVID 19 HOW Questions linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery
by 2030 in all 193 UN Member States HOW Questions, this One Worldwide Approach
cannot be effectively deployed in the Design and Delivery of Interventions that
Work for 5 Billon Poor Worldwide.
We urge
Presidents/Heads of Government in any Powerful North or South Country genuinely
interested to take all necessary measures to Fight and Win War on COVID 19
Linked to achieving SDGs Pledge Delivery by 2030 to take up the Challenge of Hosting the suggested HLPF, to please
contact us on email below to discuss action next Steps in their Country and
Global Interest.
There are bright
prospects of success should World Leaders ensure that the HLPF to find Integrated Innovative
Sustainable Solutions hold as suggested. However, there are Ultimate Catastrophic Consequences should
it be Business as Usual and the HLPF not
be convened and on Time.
It is our hope that opportunity for bright prospects of success
would not be lost.
Contact:
Director General
Economic Alliance Group
M: +234-8162469805
Website: www.nehmapglobal.org
Email: nehap.initiative@yahoo.co.uk info@nehmapglobal.org April
2020.
