In September 2015, States formally adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their accompanying 169 targets, as enshrined in The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Continue Reading

In early 2014, USAID/Nigeria invited the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) to conduct a cross-sectoral conflict assessment focusing on USAID programs and the risk of violence during the 2015 presidential elections.

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This document is designed as a reference guide for UN Country Teams (UNCTs), under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinators, that wish to support Member States and national stakeholders in adapting The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to national contexts (“mainstreaming”) while protecting its integrity. As such, this guide does not seek to be either prescriptive or exclusive, but rather to spark thinking by UNCTs on how they may wish to proceed. Continue Reading

Poverty, hunger, starvation and diseases were the major challenges facing the developing nations while the developed economies seemed to be enjoying the benefits of development including human rights, democracy, and good governance. Continue Reading

Felix Dodds is a Senior Fellow at the Global Research Institute and a Senior Affiliate of the Water Institue at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He was the co-director of the 2014 Nexus Conference on Water, Food, Energy and Climate. Continue Reading

This is to share with you some of the resolutions taken by the board of Trustees of Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (formerly Campaign2015+ International) in two of their meetings held in September and in November 2016. Continue Reading

Preamble: The Nigeria Chapter of Campaign 2015+ / Beyond 2015 International held a one-day strategy meeting to prepare its members on effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria immediately after its launch in September 2015. Continue Reading

Third FfD FAILING to FINANCE DEVELOPMENT
Civil Society Response to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development

Addis Ababa, 16 July 2015

We, members of hundreds of civil society organizations and networks from around the world engaged in the Third FfD Conference, would like to express our deepest concerns and reservations on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, based on both our ongoing contributions to the process and the deliberations of the CSO FfD Forum (Addis Ababa, 10-12 July 2015). Continue Reading

Remaining priority areas to highlight for Beyond 2015 in upcoming FFD influencing

1. Sustainability and the principles of financing in a ‘sustainable’ way

Beyond 2015 identified several priorities in the ‘Implementing the Ambition position paper related to this issue.

Critical points we raised:

• We need a new understanding of financing that explicitly recognizes human rights as a basis to promote the interlinkages between the three pillars of sustainable development (social, environmental and economic); an understanding which identifies principles which ensure that ‘finance for development’ becomes ‘financing for sustainable development’, which recognises the limits of a growth-focused agenda, and the role that finance providers- especially the private sector- must play in helping us tackle the crucial challenges of climate change and environmental degradation facing our planet.

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CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) Response to the zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit on the Post-2015 Development Agenda draft for comments@ 14 June

CPDE appreciates the aspirational nature of the zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The documentsets the tone for achieving an ambitious universal agenda by 2030 that can benefit both people and the planet. From a development effectiveness angle, however, severalkey elements are either missing or given insufficient weight to adequately address the challenges that await us. Continue Reading

SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON THE SDGS   

GOAL 1: Ending Poverty

• 1: Limited and problematic baseline Reference to 1.25 USD a day only.
• 3: Very general reference to social protection. The social protection clause also need to address the ongoing development financing process which focused on privatization of social services, curtailing access to the much needy and most vulnerable. A strong social protection mechanism with an explicit reference to over focus on areas such as high military expenditure, that diverts and consume resources, which otherwise could be utilized for social spending.
• 4: The reference to access and ownership of land by vulnerable should be considered in line with the earlier reference to application of human rights.
• 5: The integration of climate change concerns and focus to end vulnerable of communities is highly appreciable. However, building resilience and reducing vulnerability of climate extreme events is also overly focused by world bank group. Such resilience measures should not be another forms of privatization of development and promotion of infrastructures for profits.

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