Understanding Post MDG process leading to SDG

1. SDG Watch – Tamil Nadu
CEO Forum Launch & Workshop
25th September 2016
Thomas Pallithanam
Understanding
Post MDG Process Leading to
SDGs

2. Millennium Development Goals

3. Wither MDGs
• Hopes of MDGs being attained
• Late 2013 – little hope of any Nation State
reaching the entire goals & targets
• And so the choice
• Extend
• Modify
• Overhaul
• Leading to serious critique

4. Post MDG Development
• The Critique:
• Millennium Powerful in intent
• MDGs -watering Down of Millennium
Declaration
• Top-down
• No participation
• No Accountability
• No Rights Perspective

5. To address these draw-backs
• Wide consultation
• MyWorld Survey: The World I Want
• 16 Statements – Your 6 priorities
• Hearing People’s Voices
• Compilation and HLP Report (Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, David Cameron)

6. High Level Panel Report
• 30th May to the Secretary General
• Conclusion
• Post-2015 agenda is a universal agenda.
• It needs to be driven by
5big, transformative shifts:

7. 5 Transformational Shifts
• 1. Leave no one behind.
• 2. Put sustainable development at the core.
• 3. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive
growth.
• 4. Build peace and effective, open and
accountable institutions for all.
• 5. Forge a new global partnership.

8. Understanding UN dynamics –
Post 2015
• Who
• What
• When

9. Post 2015 process – Who?

10. Post 2015 process – Who?
• Governments
- NY missions
• UN Agencies
• Civil Society
• Private Sector
• Thought Leaders/Academics

11. Post-2015 debates… Economic
growth & African
independence!
But we
need ODA
until then…
Africa
LDCs
Poverty must be the
central objective,
otherwise, what is in
it for us? ODA is
already falling
Europe… and others
We need to clean up
our own backyard,
while fighting extreme
poverty abroad
We need strong voices
and commitments from
LDCs/Africa for this to be
legitimate
The rules
of the
game must
change
MICs
Don’t try
and tell
us what
to do!
BRICS
G77
End extreme poverty and
make development more
equitable and sustainable
for all. Show us the money
first!
Post
what?
Post
what?

12. Post 2015 process – What?
Major milestones to date:
• Rio +20 Declaration – Jun 2012
• High Level Panel report – May 2013
• MDG Special Event outcome – Sept 2013
• Open Working Group report – Jul 2014
• ICESDF report – Aug 2014
• Secretary General’s Synthesis Report – Dec
2014

13. Post 2015 process – When?
5 Major moments (looking ahead):
Secretary General’s Synthesis Report –Dec 2104
Post 2015 Negotiations – Jan 2105
Financing for Development Negotiations –Jan 20115
 Financing for Development Conference - July 2015
 Heads of State SDG Summit September 2015

14. Post 2015 politics
5 Global ‘big bets’ on Post 2015 politics,
that:
i)The deal will be determined by a select number of
states
i)The tough ‘transformative 20%’ will remain unresolved
until the end of the negotiations
i)The political space for ‘focusing’ the agenda is
contested and closing
i)The ‘Leave no one Behind’ principle risks being ‘Left
Behind’ in practice
i) Financing = the framework
•

15. The beginning of action/2015 in TS &AP

16. January 15th Global Launch

17. With TS Dy CMs Sri. Rajaiah (then)
& Sri.Mohammad

18. With AP Speaker Sri.Kodela
Sivaprasad

20. With Sri.Chinnarajappa, Dy CM AP

21. Launch in TS & AP

22. Post Launch strategy
• Use the existing mobilization moments to take
forward action/2015
• The important moments selected-
• International Women’s Day
• Ambedkar Jayanti Day
• May 1st – Workers Right
• Moments of Adivasi Mobilisation

23. Action/2015 around Women’s Day

24. Post Cards To PM Campaign
• To create awareness on SDGs
• To bring pressure on the Government to
endorse the SDGs
• Target 25,000 post cards per state to PM
• Press releases in as many districts as possible
• State level press release at the conclusion of
the campaign

26. Some glimpses from districts

27. Financing For Development July 13
to 15th Addis Ababa

28. Signature Template

30. Light The
Way

31. Soundbites … india
‘We have to aim at
higher benchmarks
to sustain our efforts
on infant and
maternal mortality’
‘cannot support ‘hard-
core’ issues of conflict
prevention and post-
conflict peace-building
as it is the
responsibility of the
security council’
‘Every nation should have
a starting point that does
not undermine the
opportunity to reach a
higher plane of economic
growth and social
productivity’
‘agenda should be
foremost about
economic development
and economic
transformation in
developing countries’

32. UN Summit –July 25th

33. Vision
“To be the generation that ends
extreme poverty in all its forms –
Tackle Injustice, Inequality and
Insecurity through an ambitious post-
2015 framework with a single set of
universal goals prioritising a
permanent end to extreme poverty and
realisation of people’s rights”

34. From vision to action.
• The Sustainable Development Goals:
• 17 Goals and 169 targets.
• 5 p’s
• People, Prosperity, Planet, Peace, Participation
• Leave No One Behind
• International Indicators in place
• Focus on Youth
• Focus on Peace and Justice
• Focus on Accountability

35. SSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

36. • 1. NO POVERTY: End poverty in all its forms
everywhere
• 2. NO HUNGER: End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
• 3. GOOD HEALTH: Ensure healthy lives and promote
well-being for all at all ages
• 4. QUALITY EDUCATION: Ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all
• sustainable consumption and production patterns
• land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

37. • 5. GENDER EQUALITY: Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls
• 6. CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION: Ensure
availability and sustainable management of water
and sanitation for all
• 7. MODERN ENERGY: Ensure access to affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• 8. GOOD JOBS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: Promote
sustained inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent
work for all

38. • 5. GENDER EQUALITY: Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls
• 6. CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION: Ensure
availability and sustainable management of water
and sanitation for all
• 7. MODERN ENERGY: Ensure access to affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• 8. GOOD JOBS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: Promote
sustained inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent
work for all

39. • 9. INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE: Build
resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and
sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• 10. REDUCED INEQUALITIES: Reduce inequalities
within and among countries
• 11. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES:
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
• 12. RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION: Ensure
sustainable consumption and production patterns

40. • 13. PROTECT THE PLANET: Take urgent action to
combat climate change and its impacts
• 14. LIFE BELOW WATER: Conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine
resources for sustainable development
• 15. LIFE ABOVE WATER: Protect, restore and
promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse

41. • 16. PEACE AND JUSTICE: Promote peaceful and
inclusive societies for sustainable development,
provide access to justice for all and build
effective, accountable and inclusive institutions
at all levels.
• 17. PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS: Strengthen
the means of implementation and revitalize the
global partnership for sustainable development

42. Follow up in India
• NITI Aayyog - The nodal agency.
• NITI Aayyog - Identified concerned ministries and core
central schemes for being nodal and supportive to the 17
goals and targets under the 2030 agenda.
• The State governments along with NITI Aayyog and the
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation hold
key roles in implementation of the SDGs.
• National Indicators and the high level parliamentary
mechanism are yet to be in place.
• The State governments are formulating state plans based on
the SDGs.
• Research and Information System for Developing Countries
(RIS) a think tank for Ministry of External Affairs tasked with:
•

43. RIS Task
• Hold consultations among lawmakers, policymakers,
academia, private sector and the civil society in India
on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Ensure maximum awareness and participation at an
early date towards drawing up a roadmap for the
implementation of relevant targets in India.
• Collaborate with key international think tanks and
organizations in India on specific issues related to the
SDGs to strengthen knowledge partnerships.

44. Challenge
• Deepen ones understanding of: SDGs, Targets,
Indicators
• Create Awareness at the grass root level
• Monitor Implementation
• Determine the Gaps
• Lobby
• Advocacy
• Hold Government Accountable

45. Thank you