UNDG Announces Second Round of Post-2015 Consultations

As reported by the iisd Reporting Services, the UN's One Secretariat on Post-2015 has announced a new round of consultations on the post-2015 development agenda. These will take place from January to December 2014 and will include national, regional and global discussions, and place emphasis on "how to make the agenda work."

As stated in the concept note, the continuation of the dialogue around the post-2015 development agenda will serve to “deepen consultation over the course of UNGA68 (September 2013 – September 2014) and the 69th Session by sponsoring, together with national governments and key actors/stakeholders (including civil society, the private sector, scientific and academic community, and other institutions such as the World Bank and OECD), open dialogues on some of the means of implementation, such as partnership, monitoring and accountability, and implementation at the local level. The locus of these discussions would be national, regional and global.”

Areas for consultation will be:

• Localizing the post-2015 development agenda


• Helping to strengthen capacities and institutions


• Participatory monitoring, existing and new forms of accountability


• Partnerships with civil society and other actors


• Partnerships with the private sector


• Culture and development

The UN Development Group (UNDG) intends to identify two to three leading agencies and stakeholders for each issue. Five to seven countries per theme will be selected to hold national consultations. UNDG also will continue to maintain The World We Want Web Platform to provide an open forum for discussion on the post-2015 agenda.

The consultation plans were announced in the One Secretariat's 'The Future of Development: The Post-2015 Development Agenda Newsletter.' The newsletter also notes the launch of a TeamWorks consultation space, featuring links to blogs, events, news, publications, and national and thematic consultations on the post-2015 agenda.

Announcement of Second Round of Consultations

IISD RS Sources:

[TeamWorks Space]

[World We Want Platform]

[IISD RS coverage of the first stage of consultations]

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