UNDG Releases Draft Consultation Report on Participatory Monitoring and Accountability
Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 2:16PM The following is reported by the IISD Reporting Services:
“Marginalized persons and/or people living in poverty should be at the center and the owners of their own development processes with all other relevant actors accountable to them regarding progress on said development outcomes,” according to the draft report from the UN Development Group's (UNDG) Participatory Monitoring and Accountability Consultation. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women, the co-facilitators of the post-2015 consultation, have released the draft report for comments.
‘Participatory Monitoring for Accountability: Critical Enablers for the Successful Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)' provides a rationale for a participatory monitoring and accountability approach as a central component of the post-2015 development agenda. It calls for a paradigm shift toward viewing people living in poverty, and the organizations that serve them, as “active, collaborating policy stakeholders rather than as aid recipients.” A participatory monitoring for accountability process is one that encompasses inclusive, transparent practices to monitor the effectiveness and useful of international, national, regional and local policies with people working together in an organized way to identify and track priority issues, with the aim of addressing and solving barriers to development and poverty eradication, according to the report.