10 November 2014
NGOs Voice Views for Post-2015 Synthesis Report
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NGOs and civil society groups have issued a number of inputs and considerations for the post-2015 development agenda.

Publications, including several letters to Amina Mohammed, the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, focus on influencing the Secretary-General's forthcoming synthesis report of post-2015 inputs, and offer recommendations for the accountability, implementation, and framework of the agenda.

November 2014: NGOs and civil society groups have issued a number of inputs and considerations for the post-2015 development agenda. Publications, including several letters to Amina Mohammed, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, focus on influencing the Secretary-General’s forthcoming synthesis report of post-2015 inputs, and offer recommendations for the accountability, implementation, and framework of the agenda.

Several child-focused agencies submitted a letter to Mohammed calling for the post-2015 development agenda to be accountable to children and young people. It recommends that children and youth be engaged in monitoring development implementation, data collection, and upholding human rights.

A letter from the Women’s Major Group stresses that gender equality, addressing the root causes of poverty, and women of all ages should be the focus of the synthesis report. It also emphasizes the need for human rights to be at the center of the next development agenda, and for the synthesis report to set this ambition.

The German Development Institute (DIE), in a commentary titled ‘Post 2015: setting up a coherent accountability framework,’ stresses that governments and other actors must be incentivized to participate in accountability, and recommends that incentives be reputational, financial, knowledge-based, and complemented by strong ownership at the national level.

Beyond 2015 drafted a collection of Post-2015 “Red Flags,” aimed at ensuring that the next development agenda reaches a high level of ambition, coherence, commitment to action, and accountability. The red flags address issues of equity, human rights, the planet, participation, accountability, the economy, and peace, noting that these are priority areas that face some challenge to their inclusion in the agenda.

A policy paper from World Vision International, titled ‘Reaching the Unreached: Cross-sector partnerships, business and the post-2015 development agenda,’ highlights the ability of partnerships to catalyze innovation in hunger, nutrition, and reaching zero preventable deaths. It stresses that business has a critical role to play in cross-sectoral partnerships, to make sure that benefits to the most vulnerable are maximized.

Grand Challenges Canada published a blog on the potential of the “Grand Challenges Approach” for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including by bridging the public and private sectors, and creating new solutions for those most in need. The Grand Challenges Approach focuses on research and development, collaboration between funders and innovators, and selecting projects based on expertise and potential for scale. [Child-Focused Agencies Letter] [Women’s Major Group Letter] [Post 2015: Setting Up a Coherent Accountability Framework] [Beyond 2015 Red Flags] [Reaching the Unreached: Cross-sector partnerships, business and the post-2015 development agenda] [Grand Challenges Canada Blog]

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