Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Global Push To Achieve SDGs Vision and Words with Action Agenda 26

ISPE       EAG
INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION                   ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP

Achieving AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Vision and Words with Action Agenda by 2030 in 306/193 Member States – Part 15

Commentary (2) on 6 May 2016 co-Facilitators Draft Resolution on Review of SG Report on Follow Up and Review: A New Landscape for Stakeholder Engagement in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF?

We commend the effort of the co-Facilitators towards having a draft resolution on the follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Global level ready for adoption by end May 2016.

We observe that Outcome of Consultation on Elements Paper on Follow Up and Review included regular consultation with co-facilitators of other processes, ensure coherent approach across the system etc that coincide with points we consistently advocate.

We observe the continuing improvement in language and text. This is good. However, we are concerned that the document remain Vision and Words without Action and will remain so for as long as clear and correct answers to How questions are avoided or evaded. It is not helpful to produce an impotent document that ensures past mistakes are re-occurring decimals.
We are in this paper making comment for improving the draft resolution. Commentary (1) addressed Gaps that need to be filled. This Commentary (2) suggests edits and comments for improving the draft resolution.

Vision and Words with Action

It is established that this review of SG Report on Follow Up and Review process like other ongoing processes, with exception on UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 process, continue to avoid or evade finding clear and correct answers to How questions. The result is that these processes outcome documents remain Vision and Words without Action, that retain mistakes, flaws and failures of past outcome documents, some of which the processes were set up to correct.

We urge relevant authorities on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGos Member CSOs/NGOs sides to recognize that if they do not know why UN Member States rejected or ignored SG Report on Follow Up and Review, SG Synthesis Report etc they will not know how to revise these SG Reports and produce New SG Reports that will be accepted by UN Member States, fully implemented by all UN Member States and also ensure that all UN Member States, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and MGoS each contribute its quota towards the effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation.

It is against this background that we urge relevant authorities on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGos Member CSOs/NGOs sides to consider the following points as basis for converting the revised SG Report on Follow Up and Review that could emerge from implementing these Resolutions, into Vision and Words with Action:-
1.      The Resolutions cannot replace revising SG Report on Follow Up and Review to produce Vision and Words with Action Document.
2.      Community to Global Engagement Mechanism on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGos Member CSOs/NGOs sides needs to be strengthened and in ways that effectively link each Community in each UN Member State with New York.
3.      Community to Global Capacity Building on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGos Member CSOs/NGOs sides needs to be strengthened. This calls for tackling Challenges of Education, Capacity Building, Pro Poor Institutional Reform, Pro Poor Economic Growth and related matters all structured within:-
a)     Inclusive EAT4SD: Education and Training for Sustainable Development – 5 Linkages: EAT4SD Theoretical and Practical Instruction; EAT4SD and Industry; EAT4SD at Different Levels – Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Vocational, Professional; EAT4SD at different Types of Institutions – Government, Private, NGO, Parochial, other’ EAT4SD and Extension – Government, Private, Pluralistic.
b)     Inclusive CAB4SD: Capacity Building for Sustainable Development – 3 Levels: Individual – Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset; Institution – Pro Poor Institution Reform Processes and Pro Poor Economic Growth Processes that Support Individuals practicing their Hard and Soft Competences in their Day to Day work and in ways that help achieve Corporate Goals and Vision and Society – Political & Cultural, Economic & Financial, Social & Environmental, Religious & Moral, Peace & Security Space for Institutions to Thrive on Chaos.
c)      3PI and 3PI Multidisciplinary Training, Research and Consultancy as One: Policy, Program, Project Intervention, 3PI and 3PI Training as One in each Action Agenda Item in AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 Aligned and Harmonized to National development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs in Developed and Developing Countries sides.
d)     Integrated Master Plans: Village to Global
e)     Internal and External Consultants Support System: Village to Global
f)       Correct Diagnosis, Prescription, Surgery and Recovery Management System: Village to Global
g)     One Worldwide Approach to (a) – (f) and earlier part of (1).
4.      Community to Global MSP for 2030 Agenda on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGos Member CSOs/NGOs sides needs to be strengthened. MSP for 2030 Agenda that will be successful on sustainable basis need to focus on Action on three fronts:-
a.      Stakeholder Participation, Transparent and Accountable Action – All concerned Stakeholders National and Sub-national Governments: Executive, Parliament, Judiciary; Civil Society, Philanthropies, Multilateral Organizations, Businesses and many others including the Communities that are Target Beneficiaries of True Development Initiatives need to be meaningfully involved in an inclusive manner that is transparent. Each Stakeholder must be accountable to themselves and other Stakeholders for their action(s) or inaction(s) and in the later case accepting potential sanctions for lack of compliance with commitments. This call for Building Trust and Mutual Respect and in ways that ensure all partners are effectively represented in governance mechanisms and that all voices are heard.
b.      Cooperative, Collaborative, Cohesive, Coordinated, Effective and Efficient Action – With the increasing diversity of partners involved in sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global development cooperation, it is more important than ever to avoid duplication and repetition of effort and fragmentation – problems which FfD Forum Outcome and HLTD Outcome, once more, underline as re-occurring decimals. Achieving 2030 Agenda Vision Ambition by target date call for Effective and Efficient Action through focusing Partnerships on specific Disciplines – Evaluation, Procurement, Institutional / Policy Reform etc, Services – Water, Education, Police etc , Sectors – Power, Telecomms, Finance etc and Issues – Governance, Leadership, Anti Corruption etc this does not mean that more and bigger Partnerships are the best solutions. MSPs need to be streamlined, all relevant Stakeholders need to be encouraged to participate actively in finding sustainable solutions in pilot programs and taking sustainable solutions to scale at National level and committed Leadership from each Stakeholder Group in the MSP is required to give MSPs the momentum they need to tackle complex sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global development cooperation challenges on the ground within the specific location - Community to Global, in which the MSP operate, stay on course and mobilize the mandate, manpower, money, material, machine and other resources required to get the job done.
c.       Expertise, Exposure and Experience based Action - The reform of sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global development cooperation to meet today’s sustainable development challenges in each Community in each Member State call for changes in attitude, behavior, culture and mindset. Dialogue and learning from experience and exposure are essential to produce desired change. MSP for 2030 Agenda must emphasize the importance of learning from experience and exposure; building bridge between lessons learning and lessons forgetting; knowledge sharing, capacity building – individual, institution and society, patronage, standards, regulation and networking; enhancing the quality of development cooperation at levels appropriate for specific MSP as way of improving its impact, effectiveness and relevance; peer reviews that focus on how development cooperation is framed, managed and delivered; development cooperation – monitoring, reporting and  evaluation cycles that are used to support continuing adaptation etc.
The Development Cooperation Report 2015 proposes 10 success factors for MSPs that would have capacity to mobilize National and Global Collective Action for achieving SDG:-
1.         Secure High Level Leadership
2.         Ensure Partnerships are Country Led and Context Specific
3.         Avoid duplication of effort and fragmentation
4.         Make governance inclusive and transparent
5.         Apply the right type of partnership model for the challenge
6.         Agree on principles, targets, implementation plans and enforcement mechanisms
7.         Clarify roles and responsibilities
8.         Maintain a clear focus on results
9.         Measure and monitor progress towards goals and targets
10.    Mobilize the required financial resources and use them effectively

It is clear that promoters and members of MSPs need practical help and technical support if their MSP is to pass the 10 success factors. This once more underlines urgent need for relevant authorities to find clear and correct answers to MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States How questions and in ways that effectively address fundamental issues of OH3A2T2LRSP - Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Accountability, Attitude, Transparency, Transformation, Leadership, Learning, Results, Stakeholder Participation as applicable to specific context (2030 Agenda in whole or part) of Thematic Interest to the MSP and specific Location – Community to Global where the MSP operate. These arrangements cannot be left to occur on their own but need to be negotiated, discussed and established and on time.

5.      The AAAA is the Financial Dimension of all 17 SDGs. The COP21 and Agenda 21 are the Environment Dimension of all 17 SDGs and need to be integrated into a Single Document. We have identified 10 Dimensions of all 17 SDGs. These are: Economic, Financial, Environment, Justice, Humanitarian, Corruption, Political, Social, Security and Reform Dimension of all 17 SDGs. These 10 Dimensions of all 17 SDGs each has Advocacy and Lobbying, Development Communication and Development Research, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and Digitization, Performance Management and Measures of Success Components that are interconnected, interdependent and interlinked. There are therefore 16 Cross Cutting Themes that each demands an SG Report. The revised SG Report on Follow Up and Review cannot stand alone but must be complemented by remaining 15 SG Reports. Some of these SG Reports exist and need to be revised. Others need to be produced.
6.      Creating Demand as basis for Creating Supply. To effectively and efficiently address crisis and challenges from Community to Global levels in each of the 16 Cross Cutting Themes, there is a need to Create Demand for required Professional Services as basis for Creating Supply of these Professional Services.
7.      Creating Learning Society. To effectively and efficiently address crisis and challenges from Community to Global levels in each of the 16 Cross Cutting Themes, there is a need to Create Learning Society for required Service Providers and Service Users to thrive on chaos.
8.      Reform MGoS. The MGoS Concept in SDG is borrowed from MG Concept in Agenda 21 and UNEP Vision. It is clear that without Reforming the MGoS, it cannot deliver on its duties and responsibilities in the work towards achieving 2030 Agenda by target date. It is not just MGoS that need to undergo Reforms, each entity in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF as well as each entity in UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary need to also undergo Reforms that produce National and International Development Cooperation Systems fit for the 21st Century.
The co-facilitators of review of SG Report on Follow Up and Review process are suggesting Observer Participant Status for MGoS. The co-facilitators of the HLPF Modalities process are suggesting Active Participant Status for MGoS. There is a need for all co-facilitators in all ongoing processes to be on the same page in suggesting Active Participant Status for MGoS.
9.      Reforming ECOSOC Accreditation. With over 4,000 ECOSOC Accredited NGOs, there should be no disconnect between each Community in each UN Member State and New York, if these NGOs were alive to their responsibilities and are operating at minimum certain levels of Capacity as described above. There is a need for a four tier ECOSOC Accreditation: Level 4 Open Virtual Participation in Global Consultations. Level 3: Closed Virtual Participation in Video Conferences, Conference Calls and related Global Consultations. Level 2: Physical Participation in Conferences and Seminars and Level 1 Physical Participation in Intergovernmental negotiations. 20% of bottom performers from Level 1 to Level 3 will be demoted yearly to next level. 20% of Level 2 and 3 Top performers will be promoted yearly to next level. The number equivalent to 20% of Level 3 will be promoted from Level 4. Each Region, Sub-region and Country will have specific number of CSOs’/NGOs allocated to it based on known formula that is subject to review based on known rules.
10.  If National Leaders and World Leaders are serious about achieving increasing convergence between Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States, it is clear that current arrangement where all reviews in SG Report on Follow Up and Review are voluntary is unhelpful. There is a need for carefully calibrated balance between Voluntary and Legal aspects of each of the 16 SG Reports identified in (5).
11.  Pilot Program and Scale Up Program. Innovative and Creative Sustainable Solutions to root problems in specific Community to Global location, in each of the 16 Cross Cutting Themes need to be tried and tested in Pilot Programs before expanding to Scale Up Programs. The challenges for design and delivery of successful Pilot Programs are different from challenges for design and delivery of successful Scale Up Programs.
According to Johannes Linn; a systematic focus on scaling up successful development interventions could bridge gap between top down objectives and bottom up approaches necessary to achieve desired outcomes from AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21. He has identified Eight Lessons for successful Scale Up that underline points made in MSP for 2030 Agenda set out in (4):
a.      Look into the “black box” of institutions. It is not enough to decide that an institution should focus on and support scaling up of successful development interventions. You actually need to look at how institutions function in terms of their mission statement and corporate strategy, their policies and processes, their operational instruments, their budgets, management and staff incentives, and their monitoring and evaluation practices.
b.      Scaling needs to be pursued institution-wide. Tasking one unit in an organization with innovation and scaling up, or creating special outside entities (like the Global Innovation Fund set up jointly by a number of donor agencies) is a good first step. But ultimately, a comprehensive approach must be mainstreamed so that all operational activities are geared toward scaling up.
c.       Scaling up must be championed from the top. The governing boards and leadership of the institutions need to commit to scaling up and persistently stay on message, since, like any fundamental institutional change, effectively scaling up takes time, perhaps a decade or more.
d.      The scaling up process must be grown within the institution. External analysis and advice from consultants can play an important role in institutional reviews. But for lasting institutional change, the leadership must come from within and involve broad participation from managers and staff in developing operational policies and processes that are tailored to an institution’s specific culture, tasks, and organizational structure.
e.      A well-articulated operational approach for scaling up needs to be put in place.
f.        Operational staffs need to receive practical guidance and training. It is not enough to tell staff that they have to focus on scaling up and then give them a general framework. They also need practical guidance and training, ideally tailored to the specific business lines they are engaged in. IFAD, for example developed overall operational guidelines for scaling up, as well as guidance notes for specific area of engagement, including livestock development, agricultural value chains, land tenure security, etc.  This guidance and training ideally should also be extended to consultants working with the agency on project preparation, implementation, and evaluation, as well as to the agency’s local counterpart organizations.
g.      New approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) have to be crafted. Typically the M&E for development projects is backward looking and focused on accountability, narrow issues of implementation, and short-term results. Scaling up requires continuous learning, structured experimentation, and innovation based on evidence, including whether the enabling conditions for scaling up are being established. And it is important to monitor and evaluate the institutional mainstreaming process of scaling up to ensure that it is effectively pursued. I’d recommend looking at how the German Agency for International Development (GIZ) carried out a corporate-wide evaluation of its scaling up experience.
h.      Scaling up helps aid organizations mobilize financial resources. Scaling up leverages limited institutional resources in two ways: First, an organization can multiply the impact of its own financial capacity by linking up with public and private agencies and building multi-stakeholder coalitions in support of scaling up. Second, when an organization demonstrates that it is pursuing not only one-off results but also scaled up impact, funders or shareholders of the organization tend to be more motivated to support the organization. This certainly was one of the drivers of IFAD’s successful financial replenishment consultation rounds over the last decade.
By adopting these lessons, development organizations can actually begin to scale up to the level necessary to bridge the missing middle. The key will be to assure that a focus on scaling up is not the exception but instead becomes ingrained in the institutional DNA. Simply put, in designing and implementing development programs and projects, the question needs to be answered, “What’s next, if this intervention works?”
12.  Paradigm Shifts. Achieving increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States, Vision Intention and Reality by target date greatly depends on relevant National and Global Leaders on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and MGoS sides making Multiple Paradigm Shifts including from Silos to Synergy; Business as Usual to Business Unusual; Parroting Change to Practicing Change; Academic Research to Development Research; Talking and Thinking to Action and Accomplishment etc and in ways that effectively deploy Whole of Bank / Institution / Government / Community / Country / World Thinking towards the sustainable solutions to Whole of Bank / Institution / Government / Community / Country / World Problems.
Suggested Amendments to Draft Resolution

We are suggesting amendments to existing paragraphs in the Draft Resolution as well as new paragraphs.

Existing Paragraphs

Paragraph 12

Reiterates its decision in Resolutions 67/290 and 70/1 that the forum shall be open to the major groups and other stakeholders (MGoS) in the meetings of the HLPF and other UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Entities. In accordance with paragraph 15 of resolution 67/290, representatives of the major groups and other relevant stakeholders will be allowed to attend all official meetings of the HLPF and other UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Entities; to have access to all official information and documents; to intervene in official meetings; to submit documents and present written and oral contributions; to make recommendations; and to organize side events and round tables, in cooperation with Member States and the Secretariat and further decides in this regard that in the organization of the HLPF and other UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Entities meetings, innovative and inclusive arrangements including web based interfaces shall be deployed so as to support the effective, broad and balanced participation of all MGoS by sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional location and by type of organization within all aspects of the Cross Cutting Theme under discussion at the specific HLPF or other UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF Entity meeting.

Paragraph 14
... and further underscores the need for MGoS, UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary to build Capacity on three levels – Individual Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset; Institution and Society - to enable them deliver on their duties and responsibilities.

New Paragraphs

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Reiterates the call to UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; Member States and MGoS to establish MSPs that is sufficiently all inclusive, all embracing and ambitious to effectively address challenges in specific Cross Cutting Theme in 2030 Agenda and further decides that these MSPs must be sufficient to ensure that development interventions in all Cross Cutting Themes in 2030 Agenda – AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in all Member States are well designed and delivered from Community to Global levels.

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Reiterates the call to UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and Member States to ensure that they Create Demand for Data, Digitisation, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, Performance Management and Measures of Success as basis for Creating Supply for Data, Digitisation, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, Performance Management and Measures of Success.

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Reiterates the call to UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; Member States and MGoS to create Engagement Mechanism fit for the 21st Century and further decides that ECOSOC accreditation needs to be reformed to effectively support MGoS Active Participant Status that effectively link each Community in each Member State to New York; MGoS Concept needs to be reformed to set out clear rules for creation of new MGs to ensure that all traditionally excluded groups are not left behind

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Reiterates the call to UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; Member States and MGoS to recognize that War on Corruption in all its forms - Political, Economic, Financial, Moral, Cultural, Religious etc need to be more tactically, strategically and professionally fought and in ways that effectively address curative and preventive dimensions from Community to Global levels.

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Reiterates the call to UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; Member States and MGoS to recognize that Resolutions cannot replace revised SG Report on Follow Up and Review and further reaffirms that revised SG Report on Follow Up and Review cannot stand alone but needs to be complemented by other revised SG Reports as well as new SG Reports.

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Reiterates the call to UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; Member States and MGoS to recognize that avoiding or evading answer to AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans of Member States How questions is not helpful and further reaffirms that clear and correct answer to How these How questions are best found in Doing and this involves Pilot Programs and Scale Up Programs that are well designed and delivered.

Conclusion

If all ongoing processes are to effectively and efficiently deliver Outcome Documents that is each Vision and Words with Action; if all National and Global Leaders on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs sides are to jointly focus on Action and Accomplishment in the work towards achieving increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans Vision Intention and Reality target date, then they individually and collectively can no longer afford to keep avoiding or evading finding clear and correct answer to AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans How questions; fully implementing these answers with effective monitoring and evaluation of this evaluation from Community to Global levels.

It is pertinent to note that clear and correct answer to these How questions ought to have been found before end first quarter in 2015 Year of Decision. It is sad that in this second quarter of 2016 Year of Implementation these clear and correct answer to How questions are yet to be found. As long as clear and correct answers to these How questions are not found, the probability is high that SDG will like MDG fail to achieve Vision ambitions by 2030 target date. However, there are bright prospects of success in the work towards achieving 2030 Agenda Vision Ambitions if National and Global Leaders face new direction and adopt new priorities underlined by clear and correct answer to these How questions. It is our hope that these bright prospects of success will not be squandered. Should this be the case, the ultimate consequences could be catastrophic.


We are willing to offer a more detailed information / clarification on any of the points made in this Paper.


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Global Push To Achieve SDGs Vision and Words with Action Agenda 25

ISPE       EAG
INTERATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POVERTY ELIMINATION                   ECONOMIC ALLIANCE GROUP

Achieving AAAA, SDG and COP21 Outcome Document Vision and Words with Action Agenda by 2030 in 306/193 Member States – Part 14

Commentary (1) on 6 May 2016 co-Facilitators Draft Resolution on Review of SG Report on Follow Up and Review: A New Landscape for Stakeholder Engagement in UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF?

We commend the effort of the co-Facilitators towards having a draft resolution on the follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Global level ready for adoption by end May 2016.

We observe that Outcome of Consultation on Elements Paper on Follow Up and Review included regular consultation with co-facilitators of other processes, ensure coherent approach across the system etc that coincide with points we consistently advocate.

We observe the continuing improvement in language and text. This is good. However, we are concerned that the document remain Vision and Words without Action and will remain so for as long as How questions are avoided or evaded. It is not helpful to produce an impotent document that ensures past mistakes are re-occurring decimals.

We are in this paper making comment for improving the draft resolution. Commentary (1) addresses Gaps that need to be filled. We are working on Commentary (2) that will suggest edits and comments for improving the draft resolution.

Answer Monitoring and Evaluation How Questions

We are pleased that 2030 Agenda: Scope and Implications Strand has joined National Implementation Strand of the UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 to adopt key points in NEHAP/ISPE/EAG submissions to UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 that are crucial if Global Goals - AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 are to be Vision and Words with Action and if implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of all Agenda Items from Community to Global levels is to achieve increasing convergence between Vision Intention and Reality in each Community in each UN Member State by 2030 target date. 

It is our hope that the Integrated Report of the 3 Strands will produce a First Draft SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 that would be released soon. We do look forward to making contributions that could help improve the Draft SG Report on e-Discussion 2016.

We observe that the attendance of Heads of UNO, WBG and IMF at UN CEB April 2016 is evidence that our type of advocacy is being increasingly taken seriously by relevant UN Authorities. We urge relevant UN Authorities to speedily make UN CEB April 2016 Outcome Document available to the public.

It is pertinent to note that AAAA is essentially the Finance Dimension of all 17 SDGs and not just about Goal 17 alone; that the Finance Dimension of all 17 SDGs need to be complemented with Economic, Environment, Justice, Humanitarian, Corruption, Political, Social, Security and Reform Dimension of all 17 SDGs. These 10 Dimensions of all 17 SDGs each has Development Communication and Development Research, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and Digitization, Performance Management and Measures of Success Components that are interconnected, interdependent and interlinked and that addressing all root problems from Community to Global levels individually and collectively underline urgent need for UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs on Developed and Developing Countries sides to find clear and correct answers to MSP, Lobbying, AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans How questions.

It is our hope that contributions that could help improve UN CEB April 2016 Outcome Document will also help improve the Draft SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 thus making Final Copy SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 the first UN Document to set out clear and correct answers to Economic, Environment, Justice, Humanitarian, Corruption, Political, Social, Security, Finance and Reform Dimension of all 17 SDGs and their respective Development Communication and Development Research, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and Digitization, Performance Management and Measures of Success Components and related Global Goals and National Goals How questions.

UN CEB April 2016 and UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 suggest that the idea of finding clear and correct answer to How questions is gaining increasing currency and more authorities on UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States and MGoS sides are recognizing urgent need to answer How questions - although language and text in some of these UN Documents is yet to be clear in stating specifically that How questions need to be answered. We note that this 2030 Agenda: Scope and Implications Summary used clear language in calling on Stakeholders to address urgent need to answer How questions.

We urge relevant authorities to recognize that without meaningfully involving the idea creator and as soon as possible, in the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of ideas harvested from each UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF Entity Global Consultations avoidable error would be make and this could be very costly.

For example, it is not helpful to keep the UN CEB April 2016 Outcome Document outside public view. It is only when the document is in public domain that Institutions like ours could make comments on improving its provisions and in ways that help achieve better implementation of these provisions and it is not helpful to implement UNDP and UNDESA e-Discussion 2016 Outcome Document / SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 without meaningfully involving idea creators whose submissions have been synthesized into the Report.

It is clear that finding correct answer to How questions demands minimum certain levels of  Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset on Community to Global Stakeholders – 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament, Judiciary; UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and MGos Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs sides and that these Community to Global Stakeholders need to work in improving Cooperation, Collaboration, Cohesion and Coordination within Master MSP and MSP Platforms on which Community to Global Internal Consultants and External Consultants provide the required levels of technical support and advise to UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary; MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs on Developed and Developing Countries sides.

We further urge the relevant authorities need to recognize that correct answer to How questions can only be found in the Doing and this would involve the type of capacity building we have described in 3PCM Model. It is our hope that these authorities will stop looking for solutions that exist and will not allow bright prospects of success to be squandered.

The Draft Resolution can only be potent – Vision and Words with Action, if clear and correct language and text set out specific provisions effectively and efficiently addressing all points made in this and other sections of this Paper.

Review of SG Report on Follow Up and Review

The co-Facilitators are making Giant Strides in the work towards delivering draft resolution ready for adoption by end May 2016. However to deliver potent draft resolution that is Vision and Words with Action they need to move away from Business as Usual and move towards Business Unusual – not only in effectively addressing How questions issues raised in earlier section of this Paper but related issues such as:-

UN System, UN Member States and MGoS Engagement Mechanism

We urge the co-Facilitators to recognize that MGoS (CSOs/NGOs) Engagement Mechanism is in Decay from Community to Global levels; that UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF Engagement Mechanism as well as UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary Engagement Mechanism are also in Decay; that overhaul of MGoS Engagement Mechanism, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF Engagement Mechanism and UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary Engagement Mechanism is necessary condition for achieving increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 Countries Vision Intention and Reality.

We urge the co-Facilitators to recognize that many Networks at Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional and Regional levels working on any aspect of Global Goals aligned and harmonized with Community and National Development Plans need to get effectively involved in Strengthening the UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and MGoS and Non MGoS Engagement Mechanism. The reality is that many Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional and Regional and Global Networks are yet to establish Engagement Mechanism that effectively link each Community in each Country in each Region to UN Headquarters. 

The Acid Test of Credibility of the draft resolution is How it answers Community to Global UN System, UN Member States and MGoS Engagement Mechanism How questions within specific Community to Global Context of Global Goals - AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21.

ECOSOC Accreditation

We refer to the Notice from DESA NGO Branch calling on those who may not yet have ECOSOC accreditation to submit their Registration Application by 1 June 2016.

6 Benefits have been listed for NGOs with ECOSOC accreditation. Records show over 4,000 NGOs have ECOSOC registration and that there are 9 MGs and 3 or 4 other Stakeholders, yet in Global Consultations of many UN Entities, less than 20 NGOs actually participate in Drafting Outcome Document and less than 50 endorse the Final Outcome Document. The fact that just a tiny fraction of accredited CSOs/NGOs deliver in this area is a Big Challenge. This and related problems underline the Decay in MGoS Engagement Mechanism from Community to Global levels that is exacerbated by Decay in UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF Engagement Mechanism and Decay in Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary Engagement Mechanism.

It is pertinent to note that NEHAP/ISPE/EAG is yet to have ECOSOC accreditation but has contributed as much as any other CSO/NGO in the Final Push to achieve MDG by 2015 and Transition from MDG to SDG; that NEHAP/ISPE/EAG is the Only Institution in our World today Advocating for clear and correct answer to AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 How questions and that there is difference between AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation Model MGoS, UN System and UN Member States are interested in and AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation Model that is in Interest of MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States - Executive, Parliament, Judiciary working Jointly towards achieving increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 Vision Intention and Reality by 2030 target date in each Community in each Country - 306/193 UN Member States.

It is sad that in the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of UNEP Vision, National Leaders and World Leaders on UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF; UN Member States and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGO did not learn lessons from flaws and failures in implementation and monitoring and evaluation of Agenda 21 Vision that created the MG Concept 24 years ago and that in the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of AAAA, SDG and COP21 these National and World Leaders, once again did not learn lessons from flaws and failures in implementation and monitoring and evaluation of Agenda 21 Vision and UNEP Vision. The Result is that errors made in Agenda 21 and UNEP Visions are reoccurring decimals in AAAA, SDG and COP21 Visions. 

These National and World Leaders need to recognize that without going back to the Original Agenda 21 Vision and Original UNEP Vision, fully implementing these Original Visions with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation, it will be uphill task seeking the implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of AAAA, SDG and COP21 in ways that achieve increasing convergence between AAAA, SDG and COP21 Vision Intention and Reality on 306/193 UN Member States, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and MGoS sides using the MGoS Concept.

There is evidence to support the fact that MGs do not know what their Duties, Responsibilities and Rights can and should be in the work towards achieving Global Goals using Original MGoS Concept; that there is no Central Coordination of MGoS Engagement for Result in the UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF, that UNNGLS that should play this MGoS Central Coordination Role in the UN System has been undermined, that Multiple NGO Branches in the UN System is unhelpful - UN Entities in UNO Component of UN System have many NGO Branches, the WBG has less number of NGO Branches than UNO and the IMF is allergic to Constructively Engaging NGOs/CSOs (MGoS), and that MGoS participation in work towards achieving Global Goals is currently less than required for Total Success on Sustainable Basis in all 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21.

It is pertinent to note that the Backbone of Community to Global Integrated, Interlinked, Interdependent and Interconnected MGoS Engagement Mechanism, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF Engagement Mechanism and 306/193 UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary Engagement Mechanism is Master MSP and MSPs that effectively and efficiently address all fundamental issues within Economic, Environment, Finance, Justice, Humanitarian, Corruption, Political, Social, Security and Reform Dimensions of all 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 as applicable within specific Community to Global Context and Location. 

At the moment some 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 Action Agenda Items are over covered, some are under-covered and some are not covered at all by MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs at Community, Sub-national, National, Sub-regional, Regional and Global levels. This should not be the case if the Global Goals are to be achieved by 2030 target date.

Let us consider a situation in which 100 CSOs/NGOs are working in one to all processes/components of Action Agenda Items in each of the 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 within Policy, Program, Project Intervention, 3PI and 3PI Training as One, that is, 1,700 CSOs/NGOs with 20% being Global CSOs/NGOs working in all Regions, Sub-regions, Countries and Communities in all 306/193 UN Member States; 40% being Regional CSOs/NGOs working in all Sub-regions, Countries and Communities in their Region and 40% being National CSOs/NGOs working in all Communities in their Country - will NY not be effectively connected to each Community and in ways that give Stronger Voice to the People and ensure that No One is Left Behind? Will these Structured, Organized, Oriented and Disciplined 1,700 CSOs/NGOs in this new scenario not do better than the over 4,000 CSOs/NGOs in current unstructured, non-orientated, unorganized and undisciplined scenario?

Is it not the Duty of OP in each of the MGs to take up any issue any CSO/NGO is having with any UN Entity with appropriate Duty Bearer or Policy Maker or Decision Maker in that UN Entity? Is it not the Duty of UNNGLS to effectively compliment the effort of the OP in this regard? Is such Mechanism in place now? Should there not be categories of ECOSOC Registration that relate to each ECOSOC accredited CSO/NGO (MGoS) level of Operation - Part or All Global Goals and Size of Coverage Area - Community to Global? Should there not be a Mechanism for Monitoring and Evaluation of each ECOSOC accredited CSO/NGO (MGoS) Performance as basis for annual renewal of ECOSOC Registration? Can CSOs/NGOs (MGoS) contribute meaningfully towards achieving AAAA, SDG, COP21, Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States if the Engagement Mechanism on MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States are not urgently overhauled? Can MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States do this on their own without Professional Support and Technical Advice from Institution that has built the Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset to effectively support Community to Global Stakeholders in this regard? 

The point we are making is that there is no point in continuing ECOSOC registration without first overhauling the CSO/NGO  (MGoS) Engagement Mechanism and simultaneously overhauling related Engagement Mechanism on UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF side as well as related Engagement Mechanism on UN Member States - Executive, Parliament, Judiciary side on one hand and establishing effective and efficient Community to Global Master MSP and MSPs covering all Action Agenda Items in all 17 SDGs, AAAA, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States on the other hand. 

In view of the above there is urgent need for clear and correct answer to Community to Global UN System, UN Member States and MGoS Engagement Mechanism How questions. Can this be done without answering all How questions we have consistently raised? Now that the idea of finding clear and correct answer to How questions is gaining currency in UN Entities, can these answers be fully implemented with effective monitoring and evaluation of this implementation without meaningfully involving idea creators whose suggestions are included in Community to Global Consultation on MGoS, UN System - UNO, WBG and IMF and UN Member States - Executive, Parliament and Judiciary sides?

2015 Agreements - AAAA, SDG and COP21 – Acid Test of Credibility

The Acid Test of Credibility of each of the 3 Global Agreements in 2015 – AAAA, SDG and COP21 is How it delivers:-
1.      Better National and Global Collective Action for Village to Global Sustainable Development
2.      Better UNO, WBG and IMF – UN System Delivering as One, DaO Driving Village to Global Sustainable Development
3.      Better Trade, Aid, Debts and Taxes in each of 306/193 UN Member States
4.      Better War on Poverty, Hunger, Disease and Environmental Degradation, PHDE and War on Terrorism, Insurgency, Slavery and Corruption, TISC in each of 306/193 UN Member States.

It is pertinent to note that for each Entity on 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Legislature and Judiciary; UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF and Citizens – MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs; Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs; Traditional and Religious Institutions; Education and Training Institutions; Media Institutions; Business Enterprises, Social and Solidarity Enterprises sides to Pass this Acid Test of Credibility, clear and correct answers to How questions must be found and on time. The Draft Resolution need to contribute and be seen to contribute meaningfully towards strengthening UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and Citizens – MGOs Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs to Pass this Acid Test of Credibility.

Strengthening Cooperation, Collaboration, Coherence and Coordination

Policy Makers and Decision Makers on 306/193 UN Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs in Developed and Developing Countries sides need to jointly adopt Inclusive P4CSD: Policy Cooperation, Collaboration, Coherence and Coordination for Sustainable Development.

The additional Challenges are those of Education, Capacity Building, Pro Poor Institutional Reform, Pro Poor Economic Growth and related matters all structured within:-
a)     Inclusive EAT4SD: Education and Training for Sustainable Development – 5 Linkages: EAT4SD Theoretical and Practical Instruction; EAT4SD and Industry; EAT4SD at Different Levels – Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Vocational, Professional; EAT4SD at different Types of Institutions – Government, Private, NGO, Parochial, other’ EAT4SD and Extension – Government, Private, Pluralistic.
b)     Inclusive CAB4SD: Capacity Building for Sustainable Development – 3 Levels: Individual – Hard Competences: Learning and Skills and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset; Institution – Pro Poor Institution Reform Processes and Pro Poor Economic Growth Processes that Support Individuals practicing their Hard and Soft Competences in their Day to Day work and in ways that help achieve Corporate Goals and Vision and Society – Political & Cultural, Economic & Financial, Social & Environmental, Religious & Moral, Peace & Security Space for Institutions to Thrive on Chaos.
c)      3PI and 3PI Multidisciplinary Training, Research and Consultancy as One: Policy, Program, Project Intervention, 3PI and 3PI Training as One in each Action Agenda Item in AAAA, SDG, COP21 Outcome, Agenda 21 Aligned and Harmonized to National development Plans in 306/193 UN Member States, UN System including WBG and IMF and MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs and Non MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs in Developed and Developing Countries sides.
d)     Integrated Master Plans: Village to Global
e)     Internal and External Consultants Support System: Village to Global
f)       Correct Diagnosis, Prescription, Surgery and Recovery Management System: Village to Global
g)     One Worldwide Approach to (a) – (f) and earlier part of (1).

Sustainable Development Intelligence and Sustainable Development Science

At EAG our Vision is a World without Hunger and Poverty. We have developed the most advance One Worldwide Approach – Policy, Program, Project Cycle Management, 3PCM to National and International Development Cooperation that is sufficiently “All Inclusive, All Embracing and Ambitious” to help Community to Global Stakeholders on UN System – UNO, WBG and IMF; 306/193 UN Member States – Executive, Parliament and Judiciary and Major Groups and other Stakeholders, MGoS Member CSOs/NGOs on Developed and Developing Countries sides work in better Cooperation, Collaboration, Cohesion and Coordination towards achieving increasing convergence between Global Goals – AAAA, SDG, COP21 and Agenda 21 aligned and harmonized with Community and Country Development Plans.

The 3PCM Approach include Sustainable Development Intelligence – the bridge between understanding the threat of collapse and decay and opportunities of creation and strengthening; Sustainable Development Science – Integrated Development Communication and Development Research, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Data and Digitization, Performance Management and Measures of Success Sciences deployed in ways that meaningfully support physical scientists/researchers, natural scientists/researchers and social scientists/researchers to work better with themselves and Community to Global Stakeholders identified above to identify root problems on the ground in the work towards design and delivery of community, sub-national, national, sub-regional, regional and global system fit for the 21st century; find practical and sustainable solutions to these problems, fully implement these solutions with effective monitoring and evaluation of these solutions.

Extracts from 2030 Agenda Scope and Implication Strand of UNDP/ UNDESA e-Discussion

In the first phase of the implementation of the Agenda 2030, to make sure that the agenda takes root at a local level, each country’s government and its leaders should consider the following:
·        develop a clear strategy on how the SDGs will be implemented;
·        ensure that the process will be inclusive and participatory;
·        conduct future spending reviews to ensure a coherent cross-department SDGs delivery;
·        appoint a Government Minister for day-to-day responsibility of the SDGs; and
·        allow and support progress to be independently reviewed by academia, business and civil society.

The UN development system could provide coordinated and integrated support for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through:
1.         Promoting immediate selection of One Worldwide Approach, Whole of the UN System including WBG and IMF Approach;
2.         Promoting an immediate shift from silos to synergy and fragmentation to Multi Stakeholder Partnership;
3.         Promoting Innovative Use of Science and Technology;
4.         Promoting Innovative Use of Monitoring and Evaluation results;
5.         Promoting Innovative Use of Finance for Development results;
6.         Promoting Change and Modernization in the UN System including WBG and IMF to become Fit for the 21st Century and to become more cost effective and deliver better;
7.         Promoting Attitudinal, Behavioral and Cultural Change within the UN System including WBG and IMF;
8.         Immediately addressing the current lack of clarity with regard to an overall point of integration to synthesize and oversee the implementation effort in its entirety; and
9.         Immediately addressing all How To(s) and Know How(s) within (1) – (8).

The draft Resolution needs to clearly address and be seen to address points made in this section and other sections of this Paper.

Conclusion

The draft resolution has many good and well intended provisions. But god intention is not enough. Accommodation has been provided for CSOs/NGOs, but do CSOs/NGOs have the Hard Competences: Learning and Skill and Soft Competences: Character, Courage and Mindset to deliver on their Duties and Responsibilities in the new dispensation? If all aspect of Monitoring and Evaluation is left entirely to Voluntary Initiatives of UN Member States, can Global Goals Vision Ambitions become reality by 2030 Target date? Can clear and correct answers to these and related questions be found on UN System, UN Member States and MGoS sides without fully addressing all points raised in this and earlier Papers?

Valuable time has been wasted. The SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 shed light on way forward in the Common Interest and Common Future of Citizens in 306/193 UN Member States. It is up to National Leaders, World Leaders, UNO Executives, WBG Executives, IMF Executives, MGoS Executives, Non MGoS Executives and other Stakeholders Executives to give necessary endorsement to the SG Report on e-Discussion 2016 and press forward to effectively support full implementation as well as effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of all Recommendations set out in SG Report on e-Discussion 2016.


We are willing to offer a more detailed information / clarification on any of the points made in this Paper.


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