Beyond 2015 & the SDG FrameworkDeirdre de BurcaBeyond 2015 EU Steering Group

Beyond 2015 Global civil society campaign, Pushing for a strong and legitimate

successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Created in 2010 Partnership between ‘North’ and ‘the South’ More than 1000 Civil Society Organisations

 from 132 countries all over the world. 56% Southern CSOs and 44% Northern CSOs

Beyond 2015 Structures

The campaign has a number of structures including:

Secretariat team (with staff in South Africa, Belgium, the UK and the USA)

Regional Coordinators for Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific and Europe

National hubs and national lead agencies Beyond 2015 Executive Committee  Beyond 2015 UN Working Group (UNWG) Thematic groups - working groups, task forces,

thematic focal points

Beyond 2015 EU Taskforce led by a Steering Group currently

formed by representatives of: 11.11.11, BOND, CAN Europe, Caritas Luxembourg, CIDSE, CONCORD Sweden, European Environmental Bureau, LAPAS, Plan EU Office, Save the Children, VSO International, World Vision and WWF.  

  In May 2013, the ETF launched its position on

the Post -2015 framework "Putting People and Planet First"! 

Beyond 2015 Participating organisations – many views

regarding the content of a post-2015 framework, but united in working together to achieve :

1. A global, overarching, cross-thematic framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, reflecting Beyond 2015’s policy positions.

2. Ensuring the process of developing this framework is participatory, inclusive and responsive to the voices of those directly affected by poverty and injustice

What are the SDGs? In September the world’s governments will agree to a

framework of goals and targets for the future sustainable development of the world.

This is a ground-breaking and potentially transformative framework, for the first time encompassing the 3 dimensions of sustainable development – economic, environmental and social in one single set of goals and targets, including critical issues of governance , to which all governments will contribute globally and deliver on nationally.

The SDG agenda has evolved from a strictly traditional aid and development agenda to one based on international cooperation, justice, solidarity, and environmental sustainability.  

Beyond 2015 Red Lines Universal Comprehensive Transformative Human Rights based approach Multi-dimensional aspects of poverty Inequality Alternative indicators of economic growth Tackling Climate Change Participation Policy coherence for development Financing for development Accountability Global Partnership versus State as Duty-bearer

The Framework 17 Goals 169 Targets Indicators – March 2016 Means of Implementation – financial and

non-financial (eg Overseas Development Assistance, private finance, technology transfer, data collection, policy reform, international regulation, multi-stakeholder partnerships (nb private sector)

Global Partnership,

WHAT NEXT?? After September summit - Beyond 2015

ETF workshop in Brussels in October 2015

Stocktake of the Summit outcomes – the Declaration and the new SD framework

Planning & strategizing for holding duty-bearers (nb EU Member States and EU institutions) to account for implementing the framework.

What Next?? The Beyond 2015 global campaign set to end with the adoption of

the post-2015 framework- but real work only just beginning Implementation at both international and national levels necessary,

including within the EU. Civil society should play a key role in holding duty-bearers – states –

as well as other partners (eg private sector) to account for delivering on the framework –”mutual accountability”

Delivery on the goals and targets, but also on the financial and non-financial means of implementation that states need to commit in order to achieve progress across the framework.

Within the EU, civil society must play a role at both national (Member State) level and Brussels level towards EU institutions.

Given the global reach of the EU, focus must be on internal EU policies as well as its external policies and their impact on sustainable development in other parts of the world.

What Next??

SDG WatchBeyond 2015 Toolbox- particularly important for the national level