Briefing for UK-based Civil Society Organizations by Ambassador Pertti Majanen, Co-Chair and Liz Ditchburn, member of the UN Expert Committee on Financing for Sustainable Development
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According to Ambassador Perrti Majanen, Co-Chair of the UN Expert Committee on Financing for Sustainable Development, the post-2015 development agenda is a “dream and it needs paying for”. Both he and Liz Ditchburn from the UK Department for International Development, who is also a member of the Committee, gave an important briefing to UK-based civil society in London on Friday 15 November 2013.
In introducing the work of the Committee, Ambassador Majanen pointed out that the Millennium Declaration and MDGs constitute one of the greatest efforts of mankind and have been very successful but leaves many challenges. It is important to see that the MDGs are