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Briefings, Economic justice, People-centered Multilateralism

The struggle to shape the Agenda

By Barbara Adams and Gretchen Luchsinger

It is not surprising that the political battles have already become fierce in the concurrent negotiations for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) and the post-2015 development agenda with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At stake is who will shape the agenda—and how much real impact it will have.
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La lucha por la nueva agenda de desarrollo

Por Barbara Adams and Gretchen Luchsinger.

No es sorprendente que las batallas políticas se hayan vuelto feroces en las negociaciones simultáneas para la Tercera Conferencia Internacional sobre Financiación para el Desarrollo (FpD3) y la agenda de desarrollo post-2015 con sus Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). Está en juego quién dará forma a la agenda y cuánto impacto real tendrá.

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Briefings, Economic justice

Are FfD3 and Post-2015 striking the right public-private balance?

By Barbara Adams, Gretchen Luchsinger
Getting the right balance between public and private sector roles and responsibilities in the Financing for Development and Post-2015 process will be fundamental to prospects for sustainable, inclusive development. Yet early evidence suggests this balance is already awry, skewed far in favour of private interests. Are we seeing a process of outsourcing the international agenda?
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¿Qué equilibrio entre público y privado promueven las Naciones Unidas?

Por Barbara Adams, Gretchen Luchsinger

Lograr el equilibrio adecuado entre las funciones y responsabilidades del sector público y privado en la financiación para el desarrollo y en el proceso Post-2015 será fundamental para las perspectivas de desarrollo sostenible e inclusivo. Sin embargo, la evidencia preliminar sugiere que este balance está muy sesgado a favor de los intereses privados. ¿Estamos viendo un proceso de tercerización de la agenda internacional?
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Briefings, Economic justice, Sustainable development, social justice and sustainable peace

Post-2015: Measuring the (real) scope of ambition

By Barbara Adams, Gretchen Luchsinger
The post-2015 development agenda aspires to global transformation. Its content so far, including the set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) agreed in last year’s Open Working Group, affirms that aim through an unprecedented commitment to inclusion, sustainability and universality. This suggests that the world might finally move beyond current imbalanced patterns of consumption and production that have left wide swathes of human deprivation and pushed the limits of planetary boundaries.

Yet the main question, after the most recent intergovernmental negotiations on the agenda in March in New York, is: will the political process live up to the agenda’s promise? Read more…

Briefings, Economic justice

Post-2015 and FfD3: Debates Begin, Political Lines Emerge

By Barbara Adams, Gretchen Luchsinger

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This document is also available in Spanish and in French.

2015 is a pivotal year. The post–2015 sustainable development agenda currently being drafted is premised on the reality that the present model of development is not working, given worsening inequalities and straining planetary boundaries. All countries and peoples—and the planet on which we depend–have the right to live with a better model, one that is inclusive and sustainable. Read more… / Spanish version

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