SDG Watch – Tamil Nadu

CEO Forum Launch & Workshop

25th September 2016

Thomas Pallithanam

Understanding

Post MDG Process Leading to

SDGs

Millennium Development Goals

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

Post MDG Development

• The Critique:

• Millennium Powerful in intent

• MDGs -watering Down of Millennium Declaration

• Top-down

• No participation

• No Accountability

• No Rights Perspective

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)

High Level Panel Report

• 30th May to the Secretary General

• Conclusion

• Post-2015 agenda is a universal agenda.

• It needs to be driven by

5 big, transformative shifts:

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.

Understanding UN dynamics –

Post 2015

• Who

• What

• When

Post 2015 process – Who?

Post 2015 process – Who?

• Governments

- NY missions

• UN Agencies

• Civil Society

• Private Sector

• Thought Leaders/Academics

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 abroadWe 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?

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

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

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

•

The beginning of action/2015 in TS &AP

January 15th Global Launch

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

With AP Speaker Sri.KodelaSivaprasad

With Sri.Chinnarajappa, Dy CM AP

Launch in TS & AP

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

Action/2015 around Women’s Day

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

Some glimpses from districts

Financing For Development July 13 to 15th Addis Ababa

Signature Template

Light The

Way

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’

UN Summit –July 25th

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”

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

SSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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:

•

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.

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

Thank you