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Towards the Sustainable Development Goals:
The World We Want
A Presentation Prepared for the DPGH Group
4 March 2015
Rogers Dhliwayo
Economics Advisor/UNDP Tanzania
Outline of the Presentation
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What Next?
Why the Post 2015 Development Agenda?
The Process
Inputs – Key Reports in 2013
The Open Working Group (OWG)
Analytics: The World We Want and MY World
Where Are we Now?
The SDGs vs MDGs
Reflections on the SG’s Synthesis Report
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Way Forward – The Next Steps
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Why a New Development Agenda?
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Current development model is leading to breaches in the
planetary boundaries, jeorpdazing the very existence of human
civilization on this planet - effects of climate change.
Inadequacy of the curent development model in achieving in
reducing poverty and achieving other human development
goals.
New development agenda must eradicate poverty
within the context of sustainable development (Rio+20 Outcome
Document – The Future We Want).
The Process
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Processes to define the Post 2015 Agenda gained momentum in
2012 with…
Open and Inclusive consultations – guiding principle
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UNDG supported 3 streams of consultations - National,
Regional and Global thematic consultations
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Other parallel consultations to inform the SG – High Level
Panel (HLP), Sustainable Development Solutions Network
(SDSN), CSOs, Global Compact (pvt sector)
Inputs – Key Reports in 2013
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HLP – A New Global Partnerships: Eradicate Poverty and
Transform Economies through Sustainable Development
(proposal of 12 goals)
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UNDG Report – A Million Voices: The World We Want
(Sept 2013)
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SDSN Report – An Action Agenda for Sustainable
Development (proposal of 10 Goals)
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SG’s Report – A Life of Dignity for All (2013)
The Open Working Group (OWG)
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30 member representatives of the GA
Tasked to bring together Rio +20 Aspirations and the Post
2015 Development agenda – SDGs
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Started work in January 2014, considering all key reports
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Proposal of 17 Goals and 169 targets to the GA.
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It is important to note that the proposed SDGs and targets
were a results of all submissions by various processes!!!
Analytics: The World We Want and MY World
MY World Stats: 7,138,023 Votes (17 Feb 2015)
Where Are We Now?
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As per SG’s synthesis report, the 17 Sustainable Goals and 169 Goals which has
been proposed by the Open Working Group are the basis for SDGs negotiations.
The vision is for the goals to promote sustainable development and poverty
eradication.
The first 16 goals address priority areas that:
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Increase the ambition/ improving and sustaining current achievements on existing
MDG goals (poverty, health education, gender) with added dimensions on
Economic sustainability (inclusive growth, jobs, infrastructure, industrialization)
Environmental sustainability (climate change, oceans and land based ecosystems,
sustainable consumption and production)
All held together by the glue of ‘peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development’ (governance agenda, rule of law, violence).
The 17th goal covers means of implementation (finance, trade, technology, capacity
building, partnerships, and data) – Scheduled for mid-July 2015 in Addis/Ethiopia
The OWG’s Proposed 17 SDGs
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The SDGs versus MDGs
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Key Strengths of the proposed SDGs include:The notion of leaving no one behind – with many targets
aspiring zero/fully coverage (raising the ambition of the
MDGs)
Stand alone goal of Inequality (within and between countries)
Stand alone goal on gender inequality , including ending of
all forms of violence, discrimination, child marriages, and
female genital mutilations
The SDGs versus MDGs
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Environmental issues are strongly represented – fulfilling a long sought
marriage between development and environment (climate change,
marine and land base ecosystems, and sustainable consumption and
production)
Governance - for the first time – incorporating a goal and targets on
governance and peaceful societies (legal identity, tackling corruption and
bribery etc)
Participatory/Inclusiveness Process in formulation of the SDGs: The
participation and buy in of a wide range of stakeholders including
member states and non governmental organizations
The broad nature of the SDG is also a reflection of the nature of
challenges facing the world today
SG’s Synthesis Report: Reflections
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 UN Secretary-General’s synthesis report on the post-2015 development agenda -
‘The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting
the Planet', proposes an integrated set of six essential elements: dignity; people;
prosperity; planet; justice; and partnership.
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On dignity, the report stresses eradicating poverty as the agenda's overarching
objective, and calls for addressing challenges related to inequality, the rights of
women, youth and minorities (MDGs1, 3 and SDGs 1, 5)
On people, the report recommends addressing, inter alia: education; health;
violence against women and girls; and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) –
(MDGs 2, 4, 5, 6 and SDGs 2, 3, 4)
On prosperity, the report calls for inclusive growth that ensures all people have
employment, social protection and access to financial services (SDGs, 7, 8, 9, 10,
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On planet, the report calls for equitably addressing climate change, halting
biodiversity loss and addressing desertification and unsustainable land use,
protecting forests, mountains, oceans, and wildlife and reducing disaster risk
(MDG 7 and SDGs 6, 12, 13, 14, 15).
On justice, the report discusses governance, reconciliation, peacebuilding and
state-building (SDG 16).
On partnership, the report describes elements of transformative partnerships that
place people, planet and mutual accountability at the centre (MDG 8 and SDG
17) .
Six Elements of the SDGs
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The SG’s Synthesis Report
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In brief the report:
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Endorses the 17 goals and 169 targets agreed to in July by the Open Working
Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Demonstrates the extensive consultation that has gone into crafting the agenda,
and the broad-based support that now exists for an ambitious and
comprehensive final agreement;
Makes the case for an integrated, universal sustainable development agenda
that links inclusive economic growth, human well-being and the imperative to
sustain healthy ecosystems;
Puts the broader international human rights framework at the core of the
agenda, including economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, as well as
the right to development and future generations’ right to well-being.
In implementing a new agenda, the report recommends: committing to a universal
approach with solutions that address all countries and groups.
Way Forward – The Next Steps
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Localizing the SDG? What does this mean in practice?
 Localizing as monitoring SDGs at sub-national level –– disaggregated data at sub-national level
and capacity issues
 Localizing as the role of LGAs in implementing the goals – capacity issues?
 Partnerships?
 Participatory monitoring – Asking people what they think: Using perception data to monitor the
SDGs
Implementation and Monitoring are complimentary!
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Integration within the SDG framework is essential in that a number of development challenges - gender,
equality, rights, governance, and resilience, cut across all of the goals
The unfinished business of the MDGs - what worked and what didn’t work?
Role in SSC
Big data/data revolution – Is there a role for the UN and DPs in Tanzania?
Look at the capacity gaps and data requirements and even test some of the proposed SDGs to inform the
data and capacity gaps.
Where to get information?
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http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
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http://www.worldwewant2015.org/
Thank You