Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations 20-31 July, no 18: completion of discussion on ‘draft outcome document for adoption’

In an extended session yesterday (Wednesday) morning, the intergovernmental body completed its review of the ‘draft outcome document for adoption’. The Co-facilitators then went away to revise the document and a new version will be available about 12 noon (EDT). 

While Member States and groups are moving towards agreement on several issues, a number of key concerns will remain, which the Co-facilitators will hopefully be able to address in the new draft. These include:

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Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations 20-31 July, no 17: Statement to Co-facilitators from the Health in post-2015 NGO coalition

Intervention on health by Marianne Haslegrave, on behalf of the Health in Post-2015 NGO Coalition

Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations 20-31 July, no 16: to delete paragraph 44 on the role of the family

The attached letter has been sent to the Co-facilitators, signed  by three major groups and 103 organizations requesting the paragraph 44 on the role of the family requesting its deletion, or otherwise revision.

Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations 20-31 July, no 15: Final session discussion on preamble and declaration

We are now in the final week of the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda after seven previous sessions. The focus of the discussions is the draft of the outcome document “dubbed for adoption”. The postings on the website will relate specifically to civil society organizations working on sexual and reproductive health and rights, youth and other related issues...

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Addis Ababa Action Agenda endorsed by General Assembly

The outcome of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) has been endorsed by the UN General Asselmby. Delegates in a plenary session adopted resolution A/69/L.82 tenitled ‘Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,' which includes the AAAA as an annex.

In the resolution, the UNGA recalls its resolution 68/204 on the follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development, in which it decided to convene FfD3, as well as resolutions 68/279 and 69/278 on the modalities for FfD3; endorses the AAAA adopted by the Conference; and expresses its “profound gratitude” to the Government and people of Ethiopia for hosting FfD3 and for providing support.

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Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations 20-31 July, no 14: Group positions on goals and targets

As can be seen from the letter from the Co-facilitators, accompanying the revised draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, they are discouraging general statements and keeping the “focus firmly fixed on textual work and on finalization of the draft document.” They also hope that group arrangements can be used to articulate the views of Member States on the draft. 

There are still divergences in the positions taken by the various groups and with this in mind, we feel it is important that advocates are aware of the groups positions last week. We have already posted those on the preamble and declaration (See: Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations, 20-31 July, No 8 Opening statements from G77 and China, regional and other groups). Below we are including those given during the opening of the discussion on the goals and targets:...

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Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations, 20-31 July, No 13: Urgent: Post-2015 Revised draft outcome document now posted

A revised draft outcome document has been circulated by the co-facilitators together with  a letter describing th eprocess for the coming week. They are  available on the Sustainable development website.

Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations, 20-31 July, No 12: negative statement on sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda

During the discussions on the preamble and declaration, as can be seen in our posting No 9 (ADD LINK) many Member States made strong statements calling for the inclusion of sexual and reproductive health and rights. The statement below was made by Nigeria and is fully reported for reference purposes. It is interesting to note that in making this statement, Nigeria neither aligned itself with either the Group of 77 and China, nor with the Africa Group.

Usman Sarki, Deputy Permanent Representative for Nigeria thanked the Co-facilitator and started off by congratulating all delegates, Member States and civil society organizations and other stakeholders on the important achievement that they registered of the adoption of the Addis Ababa outcome on FfD. It was a historic landmark and a historic achievement that they should build on in discussing the post-2015...

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Post-2015: Special Accreditation for non-ECOSOC accredited NGOs now open for the United Nations Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda

We have received the following information ab out accreditation for the United Nations Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda from DESA:

Dear All,

In accordance with General Assembly resolution 69/244 of 29 December 2014, the United Nations Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly. More information can be found here: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit

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Post-2015 development agenda intergovernmental negotiations, 20-31 July, No 11: CSO statement “A Vision for Urgent Action on health, education and development”

This statement was also  delivered by Marianne Haslegrave, Commonwealth Medical Trust on Tuesday 21 July 2015

Thank you Co-facilitator,

I speak on behalf of civil society working on education, and the “Health in the Post-2015 NGO Coalition.”

Education and health for all are critical factors to fulfill the entire SDG agenda.

The Declaration should explicitly state that all governments will work towards achieving the full set of goals and targets. This requires specific and time-bound actions and not -- as now weakly worded for non-communicable diseases, “ to devoting greater efforts”...

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