Rio+20 Follow-up. 1

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1 Rio+20 Follow-up Agreement on the need for developing a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) that are global in nature and universally applicable 1

2 Rio+20 Follow-up: Open Working Group A 30-member open working group of the GA is tasked with preparing a proposal on the SGDs GOAL: Will submit a report to the 68th Session of the GA Sep 2013 The meeting was opened by the President of the General Assembly and addressed by the Secretary-General in the UN General Assembly Hall in New York. With the attendance of more than 50 Member States and 15 UN agencies and NGOs The meeting was closed by Ambassador Csaba Körösi, Hungary, Co-Chair of the Open Working Group The report will be available at the website One of the main conclusion :SDGs should build on the MDGs and to be action-oriented addressing in a balanced way of the three dimensions of sustainable development Some key messages Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger Employment and decent jobs Sustainable consumption and production Critical importance of gender equality and empowerment of women Access to and good management of essential of human well-being like food, water, health, and energy 2

3 Rio+20 Follow-up: Open Working Group Second session April 2013 Overarching framework: poverty eradication and sustainable development Cross-sectoral issues: governance, inequality and equity, gender equality and women s empowerment, human rights and rights-based approaches. Conceptualizing the SDGs and the SDG process (the note prepared by the UN Technical Support Team) Exchange of views on poverty eradication Development Agenda should seriously take into account the following considerations: 1. The core values contained in MDGs seem to be as valid today. 2. The post-2015 UN Development Agenda would need to build on broad consultations with main stakeholders to generate consensus and ownership. 3. The post-2015 framework should be more sensitive to sub-national disparities and regional specificities. 4. The format of concrete goals, targets and indicators should be retained, be realistic and should not be restricted to what seems easiest to reach and etc. 5. The post-2015 UN Development Agenda should be meaningful to consider including intermediate targets. 6. The global agenda should be flexible to tailor targets to regional, national and sub-national realities but with certain minimum degrees of achievement and the internationally agreed basic principles relating to sustainability, inclusion and equity, full employment and etc 7. Policy recommendations do not become prescriptive and have the flexibility to take account of national realities, but include a mechanism to revisit National Budgets and Plans against development gaps. 8. Goals and targets for the global partnership should be more precisely defined to improve accountability (avoid interpreting the partnership for development as a partnership of developed versus developing countries and donors versus recipients). 3

4 UN System Task Team (UNTT) on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda Established by the Secretary-General in Jan 2012 DESA & UNDP are the two co-chairs Over 60 UN Entities and other international organizations The terms of reference of the Task Team include: assessing ongoing efforts within the UN system consulting external stakeholders, such as civil society, academia and the private sector defining a system-wide vision and road map 4

5 UN System Task Team (UNTT) Governance and Accountability Deficits Identified global, national and local governance and accountability deficits as one several global challenges to which the post-2015 UN development agenda should respond A number of priority practice areas Participation in decision-making Corruption prevention Public administration reform E-government Access to information Public-private partnerships Rule of law Freedom of the media 5