United Nations General Assembly Open Working Group Sustainable Development Goals From MDGs and Rio+20 to a post-2015 sustainable development agenda MGCY Youth Blast - OWG9 March 2014 - Ralien Bekkers
Feb 08, 2016
United Nations General Assembly
Open Working Group Sustainable Development Goals
From MDGs and Rio+20 to a post-2015 sustainable development agenda
MGCY Youth Blast - OWG9March 2014 - Ralien Bekkers
MDGs• 2000: Millennium Declaration
• 2015: Achieved? Not there yet!
Rio+20
• Sustainable Development Goals & UNGA Open Working Group
• High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (UNGA/ECOSOC)
Relevant decisions:
OWGOpen Working Group
• Mandated to develop SDGs
• Co-chaired by Kenya & Hungary (H.E. Kamau & H.E. Korosi)
• 30 seats, 70 members: Member States sharing seats (troikas)
• 8 stocktaking meetings on content (March 2013 - February 2014)
• 5 more meetings for drafting final document (now - July 2014)
Post-2015• What happens after MDGs?
• New development goals
• September 2013: 1 set of goals (post-MDG/SDGs together)
• Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 Agenda
• Various reports and proposals (HLP, SDSN)
• Many consultations (WorldWeWant2015, MyWorld, UNDP, regional/national/local)
Overview of processes
Processes so far & right now
Processes/events during 68th UNGA
• Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (now until June): creating SDG proposal
• High Level Meetings & Thematic Debates on Post-2015, UNGA President
• Expert Committee on Financing for Sustainable Development: work until August, report to UNGA
• HLPF will meet at the beginning of July
• Online consultations (ongoing)
Processes in the near future
Processes/events during 69th UNGA
• Synthesis report on post-2015 by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
• Intergovernmental negotiations on document with final post-2015 goals
• Mobilizing action for achievement of current MDGs and post-2015 SDGs?!
Young people!
• What do we want post-2015?
• What do we currently miss?
•What do we do?
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SAY!The time is now. Demand a voice at the UN.
Several relevant websites• UN Website on SD: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
• SD post-2015: http://sustainabledevelopment2015.org/
• MGCY: http://childrenyouth.org/
• Global Partnership for Youth: https://crowdsourcing.itu.int/
• IISD Reporting Services: http://www.iisd.ca/
• World We Want: http://www.worldwewant2015.org/
Questions/suggestions/contact:Ralien Bekkers - [email protected]