A Post- 2015 Jobs Goal: 500 Million New Paid Jobs by 2030
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There’s a lot of interest in an ‘employment goal’ as part of the post-2015 agenda.
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Proposals on Education Post- 2015: Lots of ambition but mind the gaps
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This week we launched ODI’s new Future Development Goals Tracker.
UNDP’s Clark: balancing water, food, energy key to post- 2015 goals
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Global development goals due to replace current anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015 could be unified by a concept that calls for an integrated view of economic growth and development, said Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Seventh Regional EST Forum in Asia and Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
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The integrated event of Seventh Regional EST Forum in Asia and Global Consultation on Sustainable Transport in the post-2015 Development Agenda will be held on 23‐25 April 2013 in Bali, Indonesia.
A Post- 2015 Cry for Quality Education… But Who Hears It?
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With the all but impossible task of deciphering global priorities – let alone goals and strategies to achieve them – the post-2015 United Nations development process got a dose of clarity recently.
Beyond Averages: Averages Inequalities for Post- 2015
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Since September last year, UNICEF and UN Women have been supporting an open consultation on Addressing Inequalities in relation to the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
The Future of the Millennium Development Goals
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On February 11th, the United Nations Foundation organized a panel on the United Nation's Post- 2015 Development Agenda, featuring Mr.
UN Women and Post- 2015 Development Agenda
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Based on lessons learnt from MDGs as well as based on evidence gathered through work of the UN system, the OECD, and the World Bank, achieving progress towards various development targets very much depends on enhancements of women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Global Goals for Human Rights and Governance After 2015: Part VI
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As discussed in previous blog posts in this series, good governance and human rights are essential to human well-being, and should be included in the post-2015 global development agenda.
Call for quote for the development and integration of a ‘human translation’ component for Joomla! 2.5
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CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has worked for nearly two decades to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened.
Fragile States and the Post- 2015 Development: The Need for Resilience Architecture in the Face of MDG Failure
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Fragile states constitute a global development crisis.
Government of Finland: EU Ministers for Development- post- 2015 development goals and Mali
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Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala will attend the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Development Cooperation being held in Dublin on 11 and 12 February.
Monrovia Meeting Stresses Poverty Eradication, Equity for Post- 2015 Agenda
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A UN group tasked with defining a new post-2015 development agenda completed their second substantive meeting last week in Monrovia, Liberia focusing on the theme of “National Building Blocks for Sustained Prosperity.
Corruption blocking millennium goals for weak, say NGOs
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In India, women, dalits and minorities are not going to achieve millennium development goals set by the United Nations for 2015.
Myanmar, FAO to implement millennium development goals
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Myanmar government and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will implement three of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) under a five-year Country Program Framework (2012-16), official media reported Wednesday.
UNICEF, UN Women Update Members States on Inequalities Consultation
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The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN Women, co-leaders of the Global Consultation on Inequalities in the post-2015 development agenda, provided a briefing for UN Member States and Observers at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 4 February 2013.
Remittances, migration and the post- 2015 development agenda
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Last week the UN high-level panel to create a framework for post-2015 development met for the second of three rounds of official talks in the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
Forget post- 2015 development goals- a global new deal is what’s needed
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Many familiar problems were raised at the Liberia meeting of the UN high-level panel tasked with drafting global post-2015 development goals: extreme poverty, lack of productive employment, environmental degradation and growing inequality.
Post- 2015 Global Water Consultations
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As part of this process, a UN-led consultation process ‘The World We Want 2015’ is taking place.
The post- 2015 Panel: An unenviable task
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The 27 eminent persons gathering in Monrovia this week to discuss what should replace the current set of Millennium Development Goals have a prodigiously difficult task ahead of them.
Key Tweets from the Post 2015 High Level Meeting in Monrovia
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David Cameron arrives in Monrovia to co-chair the Post-2015 High Level Meeting.
What kind of world do we want after 2015
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Sometimes it can feel difficult to make our voices heard on this big planet.
Reaction to HLP meeting on post- 2015 in Liberia
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Brendan Cox, Save the Children’s Director of Policy and Advocacy said in Monrovia:
“Today’s commitment from the High Level Panel in Liberia to focus on ending extreme poverty is what we’ve been calling for.
Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlson to Liberia for meeting of UN post- 2015 panel
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Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson is one of 26 members on the UN high-level panel tasked with presenting proposals for the global development agenda after 2015, the deadline for the current Millennium Development Goals.
UK International Development Committee Concerned about Post- 2015 Process
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The ongoing process to craft a post-2015 global development agenda should be more transparent – otherwise, world leaders may not want to sign on, a panel of British parliamentarians worries in a report published Tuesday that also identified job creation as the most important goal for the coming years.
SBY trip to address MDGs, new trade
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono landed in Liberia as the first stop on his eight-day African and Middle Eastern trip to address economic and multilateral diplomatic missions.
Commissioner Piebalgs Participates in the UN Panel on Post- 2015 Development Agenda
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Today EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, will take part in the second UN High Level Meeting on the post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda beyond 2015, which takes place in Monrovia, Liberia.
Migration, Post- 2015 Development Goals, And the KNOMAD
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Even as the US media is in a frenzy about comprehensive immigration reforms - long overdue, but in terms of detail, still more forest than trees - there is another sense of urgency about how might migration feature in the post-2015 development goals (see my earlier blog).
UNCTAD to lead post- 2015 e- discussion on development- led globalisation
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Consultations on growth and employment are being coordinated by an advisory group consisting of staff from the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization, UNCTAD, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and UN Women, as well as representatives of other international and civil society organizations.
Consultations in Viet Nam on the post- 2015 development agenda
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The United Nations in Viet Nam has initiated a series of consultations with a broad range of Vietnamese citizens on the new development framework to be put in place in 2015, once the current Millennium Development Goals expire.
New report on post- 2015 development agenda
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Today the HoC International Development Select Committee launched its report on the post 2015 development agenda.
International Development Committee on Post- 2015
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On 22 January, the International Development Committee published a report on the post 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Global Goals for Human Rights and Governance After 2015: Part II
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Over the past fifteen years a nascent consensus has begun to emerge that some aspects of good governance and human rights are integral to development as both a means and an end.
The World We Want: Next Development Agenda Post- 2015
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“Post-2015 development agenda.
Universal health coverage and the Post- 2015 Development Agenda
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Worldwide, about 150 million people a year face catastrophic healthcare costs because of direct payments such as user fees, while 100 million are driven below the poverty line.
Towards a Just and Transformative Post- 2015 Development Agenda
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On January 22, 2013, IBON International, WALHI, INDIES, PCFS and APRN are inviting peoples organizations, social movements and NGOs from across Indonesia to a workshop titled “Towards a Just and Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda”
The workshop’s objectives are:
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The Post- 2015 Development Agenda
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Since the Millennium Development Goals were formulated, we have had a pretty historic global conversation about how developed and developing countries can partner to achieve an ambitious agenda – to eliminate extreme poverty from the planet, and at least halve it by 2015.
HIV in the Post- 2015 Development Goals- Let’s Keep the Momentum Going
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The International Development Committee (IDC) today publishes its Post- 2015 Development Goals report calling for a simple and measurable set of global targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015.
The Post- 2015 Consultations- Does Quantity Add Quality?
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At the moment the average civil society organization can now choose to contribute to up to 11 thematic and 60 to 100 national consultations, each one of them using several outreach media – e-consultations, meetings, papers, expert groups, panels, twitter, video, facebook hangouts – multiplying the input opportunities ad infinitum.
One idea the world has not tried
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There is one idea we have not tried: making job creation our number one priority.
Crowdsourcing the Post- 2015 Development Agenda
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With the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals fast approaching, the United Nations is already planning its post-2015 agenda.
UNAIDS Launches e- Consultation to Ensure AIDS remains Central in the post- 2015 agenda
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UNAIDS is hosting an online consultation from January 21 through February 3 on the UN and Civil Society joint platform, "The World We Want," to determine a roadmap for global development after the 2015 Millennium Development Goals' target date.
The Open and Rocky Road Post- 2015
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What values does a Yemeni journalist who fuelled the Arab Spring hold in common with a former principal of the U.
An inclusive Post- 2015 Framework with some teeth!
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Yesterday, I had the honour of moderating the roundtable debate on ageing and disability with my colleague AK Dube of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities, as part of this week's meeting of the UN High-level Panel in Monrovia, Liberia.
Invitation to Attend Dialogue Meeting on Addressing Inequalities, 18 February 2013
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Participate in the Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda and make your voice heard.
Liberia: HLP Must Formulate New Global Development Goals
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Our country, Liberia is currently hosting a United Nations High Level Panel Post 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) meeting.
UN Members States Begins Negotiations on HLPF
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In the first informal meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on establishing the High-level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF), Members States and Permanent Observers convened to discuss its format and organizational aspects.
It’s time the UN reviewed development goals
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The countdown to the post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda is a time for debate about how the development community and countries around the world should collaborate on improving wellbeing, sustainability and social justice from 2015.
CIVICUS urges Zambia to guarantee an enabling environment for Civil Society
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RI’s Reemergence through Summit Diplomacy
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Early in February, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will join UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Monrovia, Liberia, in leading the third UN High-Level Panel Meeting for the Post 2015 Development Agenda discussions.