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UN calls on countries to ensure access to water and sanitation in development agenda

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The United Nations and its partners today called on the international community to prioritize ensuring access to water and sanitation to vulnerable populations in the ‘post-2015’ development agenda, stressing this would help combat inequality and promote human rights and sustainability.

Justice and Development: Challenges to the Legal Empowerment of the Poor

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We have made great strides in reducing poverty and enabling human development.

Improving Education Governance and Financing: A Bigger Role for the Private Sector

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What are the key obstacles in financing education? Who should be held accountable for ensuring that children receive a good quality education? These questions are at the heart of the debate going on in the post-2015 development agenda’s Global Consultation on Education, which is wrapping up this week.

Q & A: Building a Post- 2015 Global Development Agenda

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As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, different United Nations agencies are beginning to discuss what the post-2015 Development Agenda will encompass.

Request for proposal: Design, development and technical maintenance support for the new CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) online platform (extended)

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Request for proposal: Design, development and technical maintenance support for the new CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) online platform

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New Lancet Series: NCDs and the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is one of the biggest threats to international health and development, confirms a major new Series in the Lancet today.

Lag in Millennium Development Goals

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The unachieved goals include poverty alleviation, improving literacy rate and ratio of girls in schools, bringing down infant and maternal mortality ratios, improving access to water and sanitation and funding of social sector programmes.

The (Tangled) Road Map to September’s UN General Assembly Meeting on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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Preliminary results from a global survey asking people to choose the most important issues for a better world reveals education is at the very top of the list.

Public Dialogue and Leadership Meeting on Addressing Inequalities in the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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The Public Dialogue and Leadership Meeting on Addressing Inequalities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda took place from 18-19 February 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Panel discussion: Towards a disability- inclusive post- 2015 development framework: Regional Perspectives

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The United Nations General Assembly will hold a High-Level Meeting on Disability and Development with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”.

Anyim, Okonjo- Iweala to lead talks on post- 2015 development agenda

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As part of its efforts to develop an inclusive post-2015 development agenda, Precious Gbeneol, the senior special assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals, has announced that her office in collaboration with the United Nations System in Nigeria is organising a stakeholders’ consultative forum.

Health in the post- 2015 development agenda

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As the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the UN is driving a global consultation around a new global development agenda post 2015.

Promise to mainstream disability in development agenda

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The 51st session of the Commission for Social Development concluded at the UN Headquarters in New York yesterday.

Challenges of post- 2015 framework

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European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potočnik spoke yesterday at the 27th Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme held in Nairobi, Kenya and addressed the critical issues of poverty and sustainability of prosperity.

Water in the Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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Following the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, the United Nations are facilitating an open consultation to identify priorities from citizens and stakeholders around the world for the post-2015 development agenda, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will reach their target date in 2015.

Post- 2015

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For the debate on what should follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015, a number of processes have been put in place to seek inputs from country, regional and global levels, into the post-2015 development agenda and framework.

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.

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.

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