Sustainable Development & Human Rights

During the session on “accountability and transparency of multi-stakeholder partnerships” held in the framework of the Partnership Forum at the UN, Barbara Adams from Global Policy Forum and Social Watch said that partnerships are based in a win-win dynamic but there is a need to understand of what is “win-win”.

20160331-Barbara-Adams-ECOSOC-Partnership-Forum from Social Watch on Vimeo.

Would be beneficiaries of such initiatives have to be included, she argued. “We need to look and see how the contribution of partnerships [...]

Von Marianne Beisheim

Beim Nachhaltigkeitsgipfel der Vereinten Nationen (VN) im September 2015 haben die Staats- und Regierungschefs und -chefinnen aller Mitgliedstaaten die 2030-Agenda für nachhaltige Entwicklung verabschiedet. Auch die Bundesregierung hat zugesichert, die Umsetzung rasch angehen zu wollen, sowohl in Deutschland als auch weltweit mit Partnern und deutscher Unterstützung. Kanzlerin Merkel kündigte an, ehrgeizige Umsetzungsanstrengungen bereits im Juli in New York vorstellen zu wollen. Welche Impulse wären hierbei wichtig, um eine ambitionierte Umsetzung der Agenda so gut wie möglich voranzubringen?

Die Diskussion um die Instrumente zur Messung der Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung (SDG), einem der Kernelemente der Agenda 2030, hat an Fahrt aufgenommen. Die Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) der Vereinten Nationen (UN) hat am 19. Februar 2016 ihre Vorschläge für diese globalen Indikatoren vorgelegt. In den seit Anfang 2015 laufenden Beratungen der Expertengruppe hat sich gezeigt, dass es nicht möglich war, den hoch politischen Prozess der Auswahl und Ausgestaltung der Indikatoren durch die Überweisung an ein [...]

By Sarah Dayringer

The UN Statistical Commission (UNSC) is comprised of Chief Statisticians from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and has a working method of decision by majority vote, rather than by consensus. “Data needs are vast and the Data Revolution is reshaping the landscape quickly,” John Pullinger, former chair of the UNSC said in his opening remarks of the 47th session of the Commission.

Discontent among many UNSC Member States with the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals [...]

In support of the upcoming ECOSOC Partnership Forum (March 31, 2016), researchers Marianne Beisheim and Nils Simon have prepared an independent paper to inform and stimulate a debate around "ways to improve, inter alia, transparency, accountability and the sharing of experiences of multi-stakeholder partnerships and on the review and monitoring of those partnerships." The paper defines and differentiates types of multi-stakeholder partnerships, identifies reasons for their successes and/or failures, briefly recaps the history of the UN’s involvement in those partnerships [...]

In support of the upcoming ECOSOC Partnership Forum (March 31, 2016), researchers Marianne Beisheim and Nils Simon have prepared an independent paper to inform and stimulate a debate around "ways to improve, inter alia, transparency, accountability and the sharing of experiences of multi-stakeholder partnerships and on the review and monitoring of those partnerships." The paper defines and differentiates types of multi-stakeholder partnerships, identifies reasons for their successes and/or failures, briefly recaps the history of the UN’s involvement in those partnerships [...]

Throughout the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the commitment to the integrated nature of sustainable development. The challenge of how to capture this has shown some interesting dynamics, most recently in regard to the global indicators. Statisticians have sought to integrate their work across indicators on decent work and social protection, which can be found in SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 16. Similarly indicators on gender equality go across many of the same goals. This [...]

During the United Nations observance of International Women’s Day 2016, Barbara Adams from Global Policy Forum and Social Watch addresses the obstacles to Women’s Rights: the unfair global trade and investment system and the lack of a debt workout mechanism deviate the resources that should ensure an universal social protection floor.

Obstacles to Women's Rights and to the SDGs. Barbara Adams at the UN. March 8, 2016 from Social Watch on Vimeo.

By Karen Judd and Sarah Dayringer

Throughout the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the commitment to the integrated nature of sustainable development. The challenge of how to capture this has shown some interesting dynamics, most recently in regard to the global indicators. Statisticians have sought to integrate their work across indicators on decent work and social protection, which can be found in SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 16. Similarly indicators on gender equality go across [...]

By Sarah Dayringer

The UN Statistical Commission (UNSC) is comprised of Chief Statisticians from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and has a working method of decision by majority vote, rather than by consensus. “Data needs are vast and the Data Revolution is reshaping the landscape quickly,” John Pullinger, former chair of the UNSC said in his opening remarks of the 47th session of the Commission.

Discontent among many UNSC Member States with the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals [...]