January 2013: The UN Task Team for the Post-2015 Development Agenda (UNTT), along with four UN agencies, has released a new thematic Think Piece, titled “Partnerships for development: Perspectives from global health.” The paper explores the idea of partnerships and its relationship to development for the framing of the global health agenda after 2015.

Exploring the influence of issue-based partnerships, durable agreements, and global governance by non-traditional actors, the paper evaluates various degrees of collective action in the global health agenda. It recommends the expansion of partnerships globally to combat issues of fragmentation and duplication in development priorities. Additionally, it calls for partnerships with support of many actors from differing sectors, and the inclusion of health and environmental considerations in proactive sustainable development policy-making.

Contributors to the piece include: the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).

This paper is one of a series of nine new Think Pieces published by the UNTT’s working group on the global partnership for development beyond 2015. The papers will be synthesized in a report to be published in March 2013. [Publication: Partnerships for development: Perspectives from global health] [UNTT Think Pieces] [UNTT Resources]