Efforts to develop a global development framework beyond 2015 - the completion date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - have continued to advance in recent weeks, with the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda holding its final formal meeting in Bali, Indonesia on 25-27 March.
This 27-member group was formed last July by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and is co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
The panel agreed in Bali “on the need for a renewed Global Partnership that enables a transformative, people-centred and planet-sensitive development agenda which is realised through the equal partnership of all stakeholders.”
The post-2015 process, which seeks to be highly participatory, is simultaneously taking place along a number of different strands, with an emphasis on internet consultations as well as actual face-to-face meetings. Areas covered comprise conflict and fragility, education, energy, environmental sustainability, food security, governance, growth and employment, health, inequality, population dynamics, and water.
More information from these consultations, held by “The World We Want” - a joint initiative between the UN and civil society - can be found online.
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