Post 2015 Development
The Millennium Summit is remembered for the promise leaders made to join together in a common endeavor to free "the entire human race from want." Unlike many international commitments, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are still remembered more than a decade after their inception. Poverty has indeed fallen across the world, much more quickly than most of us expected, yet the debate has now begun on what should replace the MDGs when they expire in 2015. Do we need a new set of global development goals? If so, should they be for the very poorest? Or should they be extended to the broader challenges of a planet that will have more than 8 billion people by 2030?
David Steven
Jeffrey Strew
Climate, Scarcity and Sustainability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Addressing the issues of climate change, resource scarcity and sustainability will be critical to the future of development. Yet these issues are also among the most politically difficult to address in multilateral settings and have become a sticking point in deliberations over successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Alex Evans
Topic(s): Post 2015 Development, United Nations
The future of the development agenda is the subject of intensifying debate, with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) due to expire in 2015. Reaching agreement looks increasingly challenging, with the potential for sharp divisions between key actors on the scope and depth of the post- 2015 agenda. In this context, CIC's Emily O'Brien and Richard Gowan examine a series of international agreements across three other policy areas – environmental policy, financial regulation and human rights – to identify how successful agreements are designed, negotiated and implemented.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Emily O'Brien, Richard Gowan
Topic(s): Post 2015 Development, Resource Scarcity
Beyond the Millennium Development Goals | Agreeing a Post-2015 Development Framework
Debate on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals has now begun in earnest. The UN Secretary General has made the agreement of new goals a centerpiece of his second term, promising to "forge consensus around a post-2015 sustainable development framework and implement it." This paper provides an overview of the MDGs and their expected status in 2015; describes the background to , and options for, a post-2015 framework; discusses the political challenges of agreeing a new framework; and sets out considerations for governments and other stakeholders.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Alex Evans, David Steven
Region/Country: Brazil
How to Prioritize U.N. Goals
The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Three Facts and Three Challenges
Somalia's New Deal Compact: The Meaning of Ownership
A Leap Forward for the Post-2015 Process and Sustainable Development Goals
Sustaining Peace: Partnerships for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
The meeting "Sustaining Peace: Partnerships for Prevention and Peacebuilding" served as one of the critical events in the process leading up to the High-Level Meeting and a valuable platform for the relevant stakeholders to present their perspectives. The event engaged diverse stakeholders in discussion on preventing conflict and addressing its root causes. Participants included university students and faculty, private sector representatives, civil society organizations, and government representatives.
Paige Arthur
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and the SDG Agenda
The side-event produced an opportunity for participants to:
discuss how to prevent conditions that are conducive to violent extremism;
share experiences and good practices in addressing the drivers of violent extremism;
discuss how to strengthen the links between C/PVE and the SDGs – as fully implementing the SDGs will help prevent violent extremism by addressing the socio/economic/political factors that enable radicalization;
examine how C/PVE should be linked to the UN's renewed focus on sustaining peace; debate how to further involve youth and civil society to prevent and counter violent extremis
Sarah Cliffe