1. Understanding the Post 2015 Agenda
Bruce Gordon, WHO
SWA Partnership Meeting, November 12th 2013

2. What is the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
• 2015 refers to the year that the current Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) will expire and a new
global agenda will be adopted.
• Aims to be an agenda that builds on the strengths of the
MDGs, but also addresses their shortfalls, “the
unfinished business” and neglected issues and new
challenges;
• Process should be more inclusive of various
stakeholders (Civil Society, Government, UN, Private
Sector and Business, Academia, Citizens);
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3. Two main processes
1. Process driven by UN Member States
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grew out of the Rio conference in
2012
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now working through the Open
Working Group
2. Process led by Secretary General
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“global conversation”
•
High Level Panel of Eminent
Persons - reported to SG in May
2013
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4. What is the Open Working Group?
• 30 seats shared by 70 Member
States, divided into regional
groups
• Chaired by Hungary and Kenya
• Eight meetings planned
between March 2013 and
February 2014 – each on a
different theme
• Water and Sanitation were
discussed in May 2013
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5. Multitude of Voices
• 1st UNDG Report: “The Global Conversation
Begins” (March 2013)
• High Level Panel on Post-2015 Report (May
2013)
• Sustainable Development Solutions
Network – Post 2015 Report (June 2013)
• United Nations Global Compact – Post 2015
Report (June 2013)
• Regional Economic Commissions – Post
2015 Report (June 2013)
• Water Thematic Consultation Report by UNWater, UNDESA, UNICEF (August 2013)
• 2nd UNDG Report: “Million Voices: The World
We Want” (Sep 2013)
• UN Secretary General’s Post2015 Report
(Sep 2013)
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6. Convergence of messages and principles
• Build on the MDGs and complete unfinished business
• Focus on elimination of extreme poverty and reducing
inequalities
• Sustainable development at the heart
• Good governance and accountability must be addressed
• Goals and targets shall be aspirational, universal, simple,
measurable, time bound and easy to communicate
• Partnerships and innovation are key to identify and deliver
on the agenda
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7. Special Event on MDGs in September 2013
• Renewed call for acceleration for meeting the MDGs
• Call for a single post-2015 process
• Clarification of the process and road ahead, plans for:
• Secretary General’s report synthesizing all efforts
for the opening of the General Assembly in
September 2014
• Intergovernmental negotiations on content at the
General Assembly in 2014
• Summit in September 2015 to adopt the new
agenda
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8. A Streamlined Process?
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9. What has the water and sanitation sector
been doing?

10. JMP Consultations on post-2015 WASH
• started in May 2011, 200 individuals, 100
organisations, 4 working groups, 2 major
consultative meetings
Working Groups
1. Sanitation
WSP (World Bank)
2. Water
WaterAid and IRC
3. Hygiene
USAID
4. Equity and nondiscrimination
UN SG’s Special Rapporteur on the
Human Right to Water & Sanitation
+ Communications
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Lead
WSSCC
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11. Shared vision
• No one practices open defecation
• Everyone has safe water, sanitation and hygiene at
home
• All schools and health centres have water, sanitation
and hygiene
• Water, sanitation and hygiene are sustainable and
inequalities in access have been progressively
eliminated
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12. Proposed targets
• Target 1: By 2025, no one practices open defecation,
and inequalities in the practice of open defecation have
been progressively eliminated
• Target 2: By 2030, everyone uses a basic drinking water
supply and handwashing facilities when at home, all
schools and health centers provide all users with basic
drinking water supply and adequate sanitation,
handwashing facilities and menstrual hygiene facilities,
and inequalities in access to each of these services have
been progressively eliminated
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13. Proposed targets
• Target 3: By 2040, everyone uses adequate sanitation
when at home, the proportion of the population not using
an intermediate drinking water supply at home has been
reduced by half, the excreta from at least half of
schools, health centers and households with adequate
sanitation are safely managed, and inequalities in access
to each of these services have been progressively
reduced
• Target 4: All drinking water supply, sanitation and
hygiene services are delivered in a progressively
affordable, accountable, and financially and
environmentally sustainable manner.
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14. Communication Materials
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15. UN Water Paper
• “UN-Water Recommendations for a Potential Global Goal
on Water”
• Prepared by the UN-Water SDG Working Group
• Contributions from a range of UN agencies, including
WHO and UNICEF
• Still in draft form
• Release of final version at a side event for Member
States in January 2014
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16. Next Steps
• SWA Steering Committee
has developed a
Statement on WASH in the
post-2015 agenda
• Member states
encouraged to find
opportunities to intervene
in UN process
• UN Water paper still in
preparation
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