SDGs
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SDGs: ‘Gaps in data coverage are most likely to exclude the poorest people’
CIVICUS speaks to Dr Claire Melamed, CEO of theGlobal Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, an open, independent, multi-stakeholder network aimed at harnessing the data revolution for sustainable development. Its network includes hundreds of data champions representing the full range of data producers and users from around the world, including governments, statistics agencies, companies, civil society groups, international organisations, academic institutions and foundations.Why is data important?
Data can help governments improve policy-making and service delivery, including aligning budgets with needs. It can also help citizens and civil society groups to have a voice: to make better decisions and hold leaders accountable for their actions. Private companies use data to build capacity and drive entrepreneurship and innovation. In other words, data is a major potential driver of sustainable development. The problem is that very important decisions affecting development around the world are often based on incomplete, inaccessible, or simply inaccurate information.
If you’re missing in the data, then you’re missing in the decisions on budgets and policies that are made with that data. A government is not going to build a road or a school or a hospital for people that it doesn’t know are there, and it’s not going to solve a problem it can’t see.
Of course, not all governments want to solve those problems, and data is also an important tool for civil society advocates who want to highlight problems or put a spotlight on inequality. We’ve all been asked ‘show me the numbers’, and it’s really important that advocates can do that.
What is the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and what work do you do?
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is a growing network of hundreds of partners from governments, multilateral institutions, civil society, the private sector, the United Nations (UN), and academia. What they have in common is a desire to use data to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We’re coming up to our fifth birthday in September 2020.
We help governments, civil society groups and others who want to use data to improve their work to find the best solutions to their problems, and then put them into practice. Data is not only about numbers and platforms, it’s also about people, relationships and institutions. So we put a lot of effort into working with governments, the UN and others over the long term, so that good innovations are adopted in a sustainable way that builds trust and respects people’s rights, while also solving practical problems and helping governments deliver.
One of the things we focus on is how data can better represent the lives of the people who are the least powerful. This is partly about making sure that everyone is represented in the data. Through the Inclusive Data Charter we bring together a wide range of actors to make specific plans and commitments to improve their data on the most marginalised people.
We also believe that people can represent themselves through data. We recently worked with a group of civil society organisations to publish a guide on citizen-generated data (CGD), which is about people collecting data that represents their own experiences and what they think is important, and then feeding that into government systems to influence decisions about budget and policies. It’s already being tested in Kenya, working with the National Statistical Office, and we would love to work with other groups to use it and make it better.
How available is the data required to monitor progress towards the SDGs?
The availability of data on the SDGs is highly variable. In general, issues such as health and education, which were included in the monitoring framework of the Millennium Development Goals, have better data coverage than new issues such as the environment or governance. However, even for those issues where there is some data, it is often out of date or has gaps in coverage. Gaps in coverage are most likely to exclude the poorest people.
A large number of the indicators relating to civic space and participation are still ‘tier 2’, meaning that the data is not yet regularly produced. This is the case with SDG 16.7 (‘ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision making at all levels’), 16.10 (‘ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements’) and 17.17 (‘encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships’). There has been progress in developing methodologies, but the next step is for countries to begin to collect the data regularly and use it to inform their policy-making.
We have been working with civil society groups to increase the use of CGD for the SDGs. The guide to CGD that I mentioned is being tested in Kenya is one example of a tool that will be useful in increasing civil society voice in SDG monitoring and delivery.
How would you assess state reporting on SDG commitments, given their universal and interdependent nature?
It is highly variable. No country is yet collecting all the data that is needed, and in some cases there are gaps that are limiting the ability of civil society to hold governments to account.
Over the past couple of years, we have provided support to a number of countries, including Costa Rica, Kenya, the Philippines and Sierra Leone, to define their priorities and make plans to improve their data in key areas. We’re already seeing improvements in how governments are using data for agriculture, environmental management, water and other areas.
We are working with the World Bank Group, the UN and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network on the ‘Data For Now’ initiative to scale up the use of real-time, dynamic, disaggregated data to achieve and monitor the SDGs. We aim to put tested methodologies to use to give governments and civil society groups the information they need to make the right decisions to achieve the SDGs. ‘Data For Now’ is working with governments to increase the timeliness of data in different sectors, including Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Mongolia, Nepal, Paraguay, Rwanda and Senegal.
Are current pressures on multilateralism impacting on progress on SDG commitments?
Most definitely. The crisis of multilateralism is having a negative impact, in two ways. There are some goals, such as those on climate, which can only be achieved through multilateral action, which is particularly difficult in the current political climate. Additionally, if multilateralism is seen as less important, then the effect of peer pressure and the influence of global norms will be reduced, weakening government incentives to take actions on the SDGs.
Get in touch with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data through theirwebsite, where you can also sign up to the newsletter‘Our World in Data’, orfollow@Data4SDGs and@clairemelamed on Twitter.
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SDGs: ‘Radical policy changes are our only hope of ending global poverty’
CIVICUS speaks with Andy Sumner about the prospects for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the underlying dysfunctions of the current global governance system.Andy is Professor of International Development at King’s College London, president of the European Association of Development Research and Teaching Institutes and Senior Fellow of the United Nations (UN) University World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Why are the SDGs important?
The SDGs are a set of global objectives that are for all states to pursue collectively, as part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They provide a framing for developing policy and a basis for developing strategy by setting goals and targets on poverty, nutrition, education, health and many other aspects of human wellbeing and sustainability. They are the most comprehensive blueprint so far for eliminating global poverty, reducing inequality and protecting the planet.
The SDGs were agreed in 2015 and are to be achieved by 2030. They were approved by all states at the UN, which at least in principle gave them political legitimacy around the world. They are therefore a useful tool for civil society advocacy. They allow you to say to any government, ‘you said you would do this’, and chances are most governments will at least want to be seen to be trying and that means allocations of public spending and other public policies.
Of course, the SDGs have their critics too, because there are a lot of indicators and some of the targets aren’t well defined and not easily measured. Some also say it’s a very top-down agenda developed by governments rather than bubbling up from the grassroots. Nevertheless, it does provide a set of key indicators of development that have been embedded in UN global agreements from many years. And in principle, governments can be held accountable for at least making some attempt to meet the SDGs.
Are the SDGs going to be met on schedule?
The world is currently far behind on the SDGs, at least regarding a range of global poverty-related SDGs. In a recent UN University brief and working paper I published alongside three colleagues from the SDG Centre, Indonesia at Padjadjaran University, we made projections for the SDGs on extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections indicate that economic growth alone will not be sufficient to end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance.
Unfortunately, I think we are looking another lost decade for global development, not only due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the SDGs hard, but also due to the enormous debt overhang from the pandemic and the price shocks that have come from the war in Ukraine.
Looking ahead, there is a strong case for urgent debt relief. There is a debt crisis underway, in the sense that across the global south, and particularly in many of the world’s poorest countries, social, health and education spending is being squeezed simply to pay debt servicing. So this is a crisis not for financial markets but a crisis for real people.
Much of the debt is owed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, so they could do something about this. Of course, there’s also some debt owed to China and private capital markets, which is potentially more complicated. Still, the IMF and World Bank could be more proactive. There are signs already that the situation is being recognised, but not enough urgency as the worry is driven by concern over debt defaults rather than the ongoing austerity crisis.
Do you think failure to meet the SDGs is linked to structural flaws in the global governance system?
I think it is possible to link the catastrophic failure on the SDGs to a failing global governance system. The measures that would be needed to meet the SDGs, notably debt relief and expanded funding, would require a deep reform of the international financing architecture.
Right now, it doesn’t make any sense. The global south may receive official development assistance and other financial flows, but a substantial share kind of evaporates in that debt servicing is sent back to the north, notably via debt service to the IMF and World Bank. Then we can consider all the global south loses, in for example, profit shifting by global companies, illicit flows to and from tax havens, payments for intellectual property for use of technology and so forth. We do see major signs that climate change and exclusion from western vaccines may be among the issues leading to a new assertiveness by global south governments. Take for just one example the recent UN vote on a global convention on tax cooperation championed by the global south.
Urgent reform of the governance of IMF and World Bank is needed that would lead to a change in their strategies around, for example, austerity conditionalities. For example, most of the agreements that more than 100 governments signed with the IMF during the pandemic included a range of austerity measures. This is totally inappropriate, especially if the goal is to meet the SDGs.
A new financing deal is also needed to address loss and damage, not only in relation to climate change – for which a fund has already been agreed, although against the wishes of the global south, it is within the World Bank for now – but also in relation to colonialism and slavery, regarding which demands for reparations remain unaddressed.
How can civil society best advocate for the SDGs?
The SDGs are very often embedded in civil society campaigning because they offer a way to hold governments to account. They require that spending is redirected towards social spending, public education and public health and other priority sectors. As a result, they require that inequalities across income, education and health are addressed.
Civil society should advocate for radical policy changes, because these are the world’s only hope of meeting the SDGs. What is needed is urgent debt relief, which would release funds for social and productive investments across developing countries, and a new focus on redistribution with growth both at the global and national levels.
To change course, we need urgent policy action on two fronts.
First, a stronger focus on inclusive growth and productive capacities. Specifically, new international financing needs to be made available through debt relief or other forms of finance to expand fiscal space across countries of the global south to allow a stronger focus on SDG 8 on decent work and economic growth. This financing should seek the expansion rather than contraction of social and productive spending.
Second, that focus should entail redistribution alongside growth, through policies that build productive capacities, introduce, or expand income transfers to meet the extreme poverty target, and ensure sufficient public investment to meet the health, water and sanitation SDGs.
In short, today’s trajectory demands a forceful, seismic shift towards redistribution, both globally and nationally. This is the pathway to follow if the world is to have any hope of achieving poverty-related SDGs.
Get in touch with Andy throughLinkedIn and follow@andypsumner on Twitter.
This interview was conducted as part of the ENSURED Horizon research project funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed in this interview are those of the interviewee only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. -
Should not meeting the Sustainable Development Goals get you fired?
By Danny Sriskandarajah
The problem with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), was that no one ever lost their job for failing to meet an MDG target. When I say this at high-level meetings, participants shift uneasily in their seats. Their unease really shows when I ask why, if we truly want the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to succeed, would we not hold accountable those of us in governments, intergovernmental agencies, global business, or civil society organisations (CSOs) responsible for achieving them—even to the point that our jobs would depend on it?
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Statement delivered by Secretary-general Ban Ki Moon to ECOSOC to launch the 2011 Millenium Development Goals
Geneva, 7 July 2011
“First of all let me thank you most sincerely for your very kind words and also your strong support and warm welcome on my reappointment as the Secretary-General of the United Nations. I am deeply honoured and privileged to serve this great organization as Secretary-General and I will be more motivated and more engaged with Member States and you can count on me. Again thank you very much for you strong support.
I am pleased to be here for the launch of the 2011 Millennium Development Goals Report. I thank all those who have worked long and hard on this excellent study.
The report paints a mixed picture. On the one hand, it is clear that the MDGs have made a tremendous difference; they have raised awareness and they have shaped the broad vision that remains the overarching framework for development work across the world, and they have fuelled action and meaningful progress in people’s lives. Hundreds of millions have been lifted from poverty, more people have access to education, better health care and improved access to clean drinking water.
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Statement to ECOSOC 2011 High-Level Segment
CIVICUS' UN Representative in Geneva, Renate Bloem, made an intervention today that the UN Economic and Social Council reaffirming that "CIVICUS believes that UN member states and global civil society need to work together to ensure quality education for all, in accordance with international norms and best practices. Moreover, civil society can play a strategic role in shaping development policies and in ensuring their proper implementation."
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The advocate championing citizen action and organizing to enable change
Champions of Change is an initiative started by the Pathfinders to highlight advocates who have made an impact in their communities and have helped to create peaceful, just and inclusive societies (SDG16+). It provides an opportunity to feature individuals, businesses, and organisations doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities. Pathfinders spoke with Lysa John to learn more about her work and what drives her.
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There can be no sustainable development without respect for human rights
- Global civil society calls on governments to put human rights at centre of development
- States failing to make connections between sustainable development and human rights to restrict civil society is against the spirit of Agenda 2030
- Governments need to open channels of communications with civil society groups to make them an equitable partner in the implementation of the sustainable development goals.
Civil society groups across the globe make significant contributions to development and the Sustainable Development Goals cannot be fully realised if the onslaught on civil society and human rights defenders continues.
This is the resounding message from representatives of civil society organisations across the world. In May 2019 more than 60 representatives of civil society from 25 countries met in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss the impact of restrictions on freedom of assembly and association on sustainable development. Reflections from the Johannesburg meeting resonate with those of many others around the world.
Ahead of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) – the United Nations’ central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals – taking place from July 9-18 in New York, the undersigned civil society representatives call on governments to place human rights at the centre of development.
The HLPF 2019 takes place at a time when attacks on civil society representatives have reached alarming proportions. Reports reveal that civil society is under serious attack in 111 countries, including those who will present progress made on the SDGs at the HLPF under the associated Voluntary National Review (VNR) framework. The last decade has experienced a spike in the killing of human rights defenders who exercise their right to assemble and associate peacefully. The issue of disruption of protest action and gatherings and the excessive use of force by the police and law enforcement agents is of major concern to many of the groups who endorse this statement.
As representatives of civil society, we note with concern that our governments make a distinction between human rights and development – often viewing campaigners and community leaders who engage in human rights activities as unnecessarily disruptive and being far removed from developmental issues. Indeed, authorities have accused them of having anti-development tendencies despite civil society actors having a stake in societal progress and being full-fledged development partners.
This disconnect often means that governments exercise too much control over the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), collude with non-state actors including private corporations in bringing about their preferred strategy for SDG implementation and often ignore or exclude the voices of civil society when launching development projects. While most human rights defenders are targeted for their campaigning, those advocating for land, environmental and indigenous rights are the most targeted and therefore most likely to be silenced.
Ahead of the HLPF, two human rights defenders – Ryan Hubilla and Nelly Bagasala from the Filipino human rights advocacy group Karapatan – were brutally killed for their work. Before the murders, Karapatan staff had been surveilled by the military and police operatives.
The HLPF will review six of the SDGs, including those promoting inequality reduction within and among countries, action on climate change, inclusive and equitable quality education and access to justice for inclusive and accountable institutions. Sadly, the issues that are up for review are at the heart of ongoing restrictions and reprisals by state and non-state actors.
In 2019 alone, peaceful protests against increases in costs of living and rising inequalities have been violently repressed in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua and Venezuela; student protests have been prevented in Liberia; and demonstrations against flawed judicial processes violently repressed in Cameroon have been met with violent repression. In Russia, on 12 June 2019, 530 protesters were arrested and detained after demanding accountability following the arbitrary arrest, detention and release of journalist Ivan Golunov.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there has been a spike in attacks, harassment and persecution of environmental rights defenders. In Columbia for example, paramilitary forces continue to target activists working on land, environmental and indigenous rights and have killed some like Robinson López. These are just some of the examples of the real political malaise being seen in many parts of the world, one with very serious consequences for the people involved.
States often have a narrow view of development when they regard it as the construction of infrastructure and the exploitation of natural resources. So they particularly target those who express concerns over the lack of community consultation on infrastructural projects or over environmental impact when corporations placed profits over the interests of communities when exploiting natural resources. Governments also fail to make connections between sustainable development and the use of restrictive legislation to undermine the work of civil society in various undemocratic ways.
The HLPF is an opportunity to reverse these trends as it highlights the complementarity of and interconnectedness between development partners. Its 2019 theme “Empowering People and ensuring inclusiveness and equality” reiterates the common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC) principle at a time when it is clear governments cannot realise SDGs alone. Thus, we need to emphasize that there can be no meaningful development without human rights. Civil society groups working on different thematic areas make significant contributions to development and the SDGs cannot be fully realised if the onslaught on civil society and human rights defenders continue with impunity. Lawmakers must realize that human rights defenders are not anti-government but rather support and uphold laws that do not violate human rights.
Seven human rights defenders working on issues ranging from economic development, community development, anti-corruption initiatives and the rights of women and girls are currently living under strict bail conditions in Zimbabwe, after being arrested on their return from the Maldives for participating in a capacity-building workshop.
In light of these restrictions, we call on states to;
- Amend, repeal and modify restrictive laws and regulations that target civil society and the freedoms of association and assembly and ensure that these laws are in line with international human rights standards;
- Sign, ratify or adhere to agreements that protect human rights defenders and guarantee an enabling environment for them to carry out their activities.
- Stop the practice of targeting human rights defenders, community activists and other representatives of civil society, desist from ascribing false labels to them and ensure that like every other citizen, their rights are respected and protected;
- Establish channels of communication between the state and civil society in relation to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that civil society is considered an equal partner in the delivery of the Goals and treated as such;
- Ensure that at all levels, human rights are at the centre of all development initiatives and guarantee peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice and accountable institutions and reduced inequality.
Signatories:
- A Common Future
- Action Foundation Common Initiative Group
- Action pour le Developpement
- AgriBiz Home
- ASSAUVET/NGO
- Action for Improvement of Food child and Mother (AFICM)
- Alliance for Community Action
- Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
- AfriYAN
- Association of citizens PLANT
- AL-Shafaa Organisation
- ANSA-EAP
- Agency for Peoples Empowerment, Sierra Leone, Limited (APEM SL LTD)
- Act Mara Diocese – Mugumu Safe House
- Adolescents Initiatives Support Organization (AISO)
- ADD International
- Action Aid
- Action for Rural Aid Empowerment
- Actions for Democracy and Local Governance (ADLG)
- Active Women Foundation
- Agape Aids Control Program
- Ahadi Forum Tanzania (AFTA)
- Arusha Non-Governmental Organisation Network (ANGONET)
- ARUWE
- Association for Non-Governmental Organisation Zanzibar (ANGOZA)
- Association of Rare Blood Donor (ARBD)
- Balkan Civil Society Development Network
- Business and Human Rights Tanzania (BHRT)
- Biharamulo Community FM Radio (BCFM)
- Biharamulo NGOs Network Forum
- Biharamulo Originating Social Economic Development Association (BOSEDA)
- Biharamulo Social Economic Development Association (BISEDEA)
- BINGOS FORUM
- Civic Initiatives
- Centre for Peace and Justice
- Civil Society Development Foundation
- COSADER- Collectif des ONG pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et le Développent Rural
- Community Centre for Integrated Development
- Consortium of Ethiopian Rights Organizations (CERO)
- CIVICUS, World Alliance for Citizen Participation
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
- Centre for Community Regeneration and Development (CCREAD-Cameroon)
- Centre for Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development (CenFISD)
- Children's Assurance Program Sierra Leone (CAP-SL)
- Centre for Social Policy Development
- Caricuao Propone
- Center for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
- Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Government, Inc.(CCAGG)
- CODE-NGO
- Centre of Youth Dialogue (CYD)
- Civic and Legal Aid Organization (CILAO)
- CSYM HUDUMA*the Christian Spiritual Youth Ministry
- Collaboration for Development and Humanitarian Action Inc
- CESOPE
- CHIFU KIMWELI FOOTBALL CLUB
- Child Watch
- Children Dignity Forum
- Christian Education and Development Organisation (CEDO)
- Civic and Legal Aid Organisations
- Community Development Initiatives Support Organisation (COSIDO)
- Community Focus Tanzania
- Community for Educators and Legal Assistance
- Community Support Initiatives-Tanzania
- Crisis Resolving Centre
- C-SEMA
- CWCA
- Discourage Youths from Encourages Poverty
- Derecho, Ambiente, y Recursos Naturales
- David Chanyeghea-New Age Foundation
- Dawning Hope
- Dignity Kwanza Community Solutions
- Door of Hope to Women and Youth in Tanzania
- DUNGONET (NGO’S NETWORK FOR DODOMA)
- Economic Empowerment and Human Rights Sierra Leone (EEHRSL)
- Education and English for You
- Empower Society, Transform Lives (ESTL)
- Equality for Growth
- Fundamental human Rights & Rural Development Association FHRRDA
- Faidika Aidika Wote Pamoja (FAWOPA)
- FAWETZ
- FICOFAWE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
- FIDELIS Yunde-Youth Movement for Change
- Free Mind Foundation
- Fondation Lucienne SALLA
- Global Vision
- GEARS Initiative
- Gidion Kaino Mandesi Dolased
- Girls Education Support Initiatives
- GIYEDO
- Gospel Communication Network of Tanzania
- Growth Dimensions Africa
- Global youth clan Sierra Leone chapter
- GLOBAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
- Glow Movement, South Africa
- Global Vision
- HURISA
- HuMENA for Human Rights and Sustainable Development
- Human rights Center Memorial and OVD-Info
- HakaConnect.org
- HAKI CATALYST
- HAKI ELIMU
- HAKI MADINI
- HAKI RASILIMALI
- HAKI ARDHI
- Happy Children Tanzania Organisation
- HILDA S. DADU-PHLI
- HIMS ARUSHA
- Human Rights National Association of Educators for World Peace
- Humanity Aid for Development Organisation
- HURUMA Organisation
- Initiative for Good Governance and Transparence in Tanzania (IGT)
- IHAN (International Humanitarian Activists Network) / JAKI (Jaringan Aktivis Kemanusiaan Internasional)
- Initiative Africaine Pour le Developpement Durable
- International Center for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV)
- INTRAC
- ISDO RWANDA
- ISRAEL ILUNDE –YPC
- Just Fair
- JAMII Media Limited
- John Seka-Seka and Associates Advocates
- JUKWAA LA KATIBA TANZANIA
- JUMA KAPIPI
- Jumuiya Ya Kuelimisha Athari Za Madawa Ya Kulevya Ukimwi Na Mimba Katika Mdogo (JUKAMKUM)
- JUMUIYA YA KUELIMISHA ATHARI ZA MADAWA YA KULEVYA UKIMWI NA MIMBA KATIKA UMRI MDOGO (JUKAMKUM)
- JUMUIYA YA KUENDELEZA UFUGAJI NYUKI NA UHIFADHI MAZINGIRA (JUKUNUM)
- JUMUIYA YA KULINDA NA KUTETEA HAKI ZA WANAWAKE NA WATOTO MKOANI (JUKUWAM)
- JUMUIYA YA KUTETEA HAKI ZA WANAWAKE NA WATOTO SHRHIYA YA OLE (JUKUHAWA),
- JUMUIYA YA MAENDELEO YA ELIMU KWA WATOTO PEMBA (JUMAEWAPE)
- JUMUIYA YA MAENDELEO YA ELIMU KWA WATOTO PEMBA (JUMAEWAPE),
- JUMUIYA YA MAENDELEO YA WAVUVI WA KOJANI (KOFDO)
- JUMUIYA YA MAENDELEO ZIWANI (JUMAJZI)
- JUMUIYA YA OWEDE
- JUMUIYA YA TUMAINI JIPYA PEMBA(TUJIPE)
- JUMUIYA YA TUSISHINDWE DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION PEMBA (TUDOPE)
- JUMUIYA YA WASAIDIZI WA SHERIA PEMBA (JUWASPE)
- KARAPATAN
- Kagera Human Rights Defenders and Legal Aid Support Organisation
- Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay (KGPP) Inc.,
- Kadesh International
- Khpal Kore Organization
- KUTAFITI-The Social Science Centre for African Development
- KARENY MASASI
- Kigoma Paralegal Aid Centre (KIPACE)
- Kigoma Ujiji Non-Governmental Organisation Network (KIUNGONET)
- Kigoma Women Development
- KIKUNDI CHA USHINDI
- KIWOHEDE
- KOK Foundation
- Lawyers for Human Rights
- LARETOK-LE-SHERIA NA HAKI ZA BINADAMU NGORONGORO (LASHEHABINGO)
- Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC)
- Lindi Regional Press Club (LRPC)
- Lindi Women Paralegal Aid Centre (LIWOPAC)
- Liwale FARMERS Association (LIFA)
- Migrant workers Association of Lesotho (MWA-Ls)
- Monna ka Khomo (Lesotho Herd boys Ass.)
- My Future Matters
- Manyara Early Childhood Development Network
- Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS)
- Media Education Centre
- Magata Primary Cooperative Society
- Manyara Regional Civil Society Network (MACSNET)
- Mapambano Centre for Children
- MAWAZO DANIEL-NYDT
- Mbeya Hope for Orphans
- Mbeya Paralegal Aid Centre (MBEPACE)
- MBEYA WOMEN
- MCHOMORO AIDS COMBAT GROUP
- Media Association for Indigenous and Pastoralist Communities
- Media Support Tanzania
- MICHAEL REUBEN NTIBIKEMA-ELIMU MWANGAZA TANZANIA
- MICHEWENI ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND AIDS CONTROL(MIDECAC)
- MIKONO YETU CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION (MIKONO YETU)
- Morogoro Paralegal Centre (MPLC)
- MSICHANA INITIATIVES
- Mtwara NGOs Network (MTWANGONET)
- Mtwara Paralegal Centre
- MTWARA YOUTH ANTI AIDS GROUP
- MUKEMBA GROUP MAENDELEO
- MUSSA JUMA-MISA TANZANIA
- MWANAMKE NA UONGOZI
- National Council of NGOS (NACONGO)
- NNATIONAL Union of Mine and Energy Workers of Tanzania (NUMET)
- NEEMA KITUNDU-FAWETZ
- NETWO
- New Family Organisation
- New Hope Winners Foundation (NHNWF)
- NGUVUMALI Community Development of Environment
- NICAS NIBENGO- BASE FOR EDUCATION DISSEMINATION
- NOMADIC PASTORALIST DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION(NOPADEO)
- NTABYMA
- NYAKITONTO YOUTH FOR DEVELOPMENT TANZANIA
- Nelson Nohashi Ministry
- New Horizon Global
- NGO World and Danube
- ONG Les BA TISSEURS
- Outreach Social Care Project, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Open Mind Tanzania
- Organisation for Rural Self-Help Initiatives (ORSHI)
- Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate
- Population and Development Society
- PEN Kenya
- PAMOJA DAIMA (PADA)
- Paralegal Primary Justice (PPJ)
- Peace Relief Organisation (PRO)
- PEMBA Association for Civil Society Organisation (PASCO)
- PEMBA EAST ZONE ENVIROMENT ASSOCIATION (PEZEA)
- PEMBA ISLAND RELIEF ORGANIZATION (PIRO)
- PEMCO
- Peoples Development Forum (PDF)
- Peoples Health Movement Tanzania (PHM)
- PINGOS FORUM
- Policy Curiosity Society
- Poverty Alleviation in Tanga (POVATA)
- Promotion and Women Development Association (POWDA)
- PROSPERUS HEALTH LIFE INITIATIVES
- PWAAT
- RAFIKI Social Development Organisation
- REHEMA JOSPHEPH-CENTA
- Resource Advocacy Initiative (RAI)
- RIEFP
- ROWODO
- RUANGWA Organisation for Poverty Alleviation (ROPA)
- Rural Woman Development Initiative (RUWODI)
- Rainbow Pride Foundation
- Recycle Up!
- RESEAU DES JEUNES POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT ET LE LEADERSHIP AU TCHAD, Chad
- RESPECT CAMEROON
- Salum Mbaruok
- Sikhula Sonke Early Childhood Development
- SPEDYA-Africa
- Street Youth Connection Sierra Leone (SYC-SL)
- Sujag sansar orgnaition
- Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO)
- SADELINE HEALTH CARE TRUST
- Safe Space for Children and Youth Women Tanzania (SSCYWT)
- SAHRiNGON
- SAKALE Development Foundation
- SAUTI YA HAKI TANZANIA
- SAUTI YA WANAWAKE UKELEWE
- Save the Mother and Children of Central Tanzania (SMCCT)
- SAWABI BIHARAMULO
- Service Health and Development for People
- SHALOM OPHARNAGE CARE CENTER
- SHAMILA MSHANGAMA
- SHIMAWAMI
- SHIRIKA LA BINADAMU NANDANGALA
- SHIVYAWATA
- SHUKURU PAUL-HRC
- SOPHIA KOMBA-CAGBV
- SORF DODOMA
- Sports Development Aid Lindi
- Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA)
- The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
- The Maldivian Democracy Network
- Tai Tanzania
- Tanzania Agricultural Modernization Association (TAMA)
- Tanzania Development Trust
- TEACH
- The Need Today
- The Youth Voice Of SA
- Tim Africa Aid Ghana
- Transparence_RD Congo
- Trio Uganda, United Kingdom
- TUKELAKANG ENTETE FOUNDATION / YAYASAN TUKELAKANG ENTETE
- Trag Foundation
- TAMHA Paralegal Aid
- TANDAHIMBA Women Association
- TANGA Paralegal Aid
- TANGIABLE INITIATIVES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT TANZANIA
- Tanzania Association of NGOs (TANGO)
- Tanzania Centre for Research for Research and Information on Pastoralism (TCRIP)
- Tanzania Citizen Information Bureau
- Tanzania Hone Economic Association (TAHEA) BIHARAMULO
- Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC)
- Tanzania Legal Knowledge and Aid Centre
- Tanzania media Woman’s Association (TAMWA)
- Tanzania Media Women’s Association
- Tanzania Network for Legal Providers (TANLAP)
- Tanzania Network of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (TNW+)
- TANZANIA Pastoralist Community Forum (TPCF)
- Tanzania Peace Legal Aid and Justice
- Tanzania Tobacco Control Forum
- Tanzania Widows Association (TAWIA)
- Tanzania Women Empowerment in Action (TAWEA)
- Tanzania Women Teachers Association
- Tanzania Youth Potential Association
- TAWASANET
- TAWEDO
- TAWLA
- TECDEN
- TEN/MET
- TGNP MTANDAO
- The African for Civil Society (TACS)
- The African Institute for Comparative and International Law (AICIL)
- The Development for Accountability in Tanzania
- The Foundation of Human Health and Social Development (HUHESO)
- The Life Hood Children and Development Society (LICHIDE)
- The Organisation of Journalists Against Drug Abuse and Crimes in Tanzania (OJADACT)
- The Voice of the Marginalised Community
- TNRF
- Tree of Hope
- TUNDURU PARALEGAL CENTRE (TUPACE)
- TUPACE
- TUSHIRIKI
- TUWAANDAE WATOTO
- TYVA
- Union for Promotion / Protection, Human Rights Defense and the Environment-UPDDHE/GL Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- UNODC, Canada
- UMMY NDERIANANGAB-SHIVYAWATA
- UMOJA WA VIKUNDI VYA UZALISHAJI MALI NA UELIMISHAJI RIKA MAGU (UVUUMA)
- UMOJA WA WAWEZESHAJI KIOO
- Under the Same Sun (UTSS)
- UTPC
- UTTI MWANGA’MBA-CWCA
- UVINZA NGOS NETWORK (UNON)
- Volunteer Activists
- VIJANA ASSEMBLY
- Vital Projection Limited
- Voice of the Voiceless
- Volunteer for Youth in Health and Development (VOYOHEDE)
- Victoria Quade, New Zealand
- Women for Social Progress, Mongolia
- WAHAMAZA
- WAJIBU Institute of Accountability
- WALIO KATIKA MAPAMBANO NA AIDS TANZANIA(WAMATA)
- WASOMI VOICE FOUNDATION
- WGNRR AFRICA
- Widows and Orphaned Development Organisation
- WILDAF
- WOFATA
- WOMEN ACTION TOWARDS ENTRP.DEVELOPMENT
- WOMEN DIGNITY
- Women Legal Aid Centre (WLAC)
- Women Life Foundation
- Women Wake-Up (WOWAP)
- Women’s Promotion Centre (WPC)
- Women’s Empowerment in Action
- WOTE INITIATIVES
- WOTE SAWA YOUTH DOMESTIC WORKERS
- WOVUCTA
- Youth Against Aids Poverty
- Young League Pakistan, Pakistan
- Youth Africa and Peace Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF SIERRA LEONE, Sierra Leone
- Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana
- Youth Partnership for Peace and Development, Sierra Leone
- YUNA
- ZAFELA
- ZAHRA SALEHE-ICCAO
- ZAITUNI NJIVU- ZAINA FOUNDATION
- Zanzibar Aids Association and Support for Orphans (ZASO)
- Zanzibar Association for Children Advancement (ZACA)
- Zanzibar Children Rights Forum
- Zanzibar Fighting Against Youth Challenges Organisation (ZAFAYCO)
- Zanzibar Legal Service Centre
Find out more about our work at the HLPF here.
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Uganda: UN Launches Online Debate on Aids Fight After 2015
The joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, has today launched a two-week online discussion (eDiscussion) to foster debate of how to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic after 2015.
The thematic consultation is an open and inclusive online discussion targeting individuals, members of civil society, the academia, governments and the private sector to discuss the ways in which the global AIDS response can and should inform the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Read more at allAfrica
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UK Parliamentarians have their say on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda
report on the debate about the development framework to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. The report wraps up the IDC’s ‘enquiry’ on the post-MDGs during which they heard from VIPs like Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Post-2015, as well as a range of academics and civil society actors, including written evidence submitted by the AfGH UK network.
The report is a departure from the usual work of the IDC holding the Government to account on their development work. Here they are informing and shaping the future agenda. There is much to welcome in the report. Critically for AfGH, the IDC has put its weight behind the potential of Universal Health Coverage as an important way to capture different health needs and interests in the next development framework. It notes that this needs to be done in such a way that the current MDG emphasis on maternal and child health is not lost and elsewhere that the vital unfinished business of the MDGs, which includes all of the health targets, is not forgotten.
Read more at Action for Global Health
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UN Launches Global Survey on Development Agenda
The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) has launched a global survey which will provide a more open and inclusive planning of the global development agenda post 2015.
The survey called MY World “The United Nations Global Survey for A Better World” will be available online in bahasa Indonesia later this week.
UNIC director Michele Zaccheo said Tuesday that MY World would allow as many people as possible to voice their opinions. This is a chance to tell decision makers what you want prioritized in the global development agenda post 2015. The survey will give them an accurate global picture of what citizens were thinking about, he added.
Take the survey at http://www.myworld2015.org/Read more at The Jakarta Post
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Unanswered Questions: How Civil Society’s Contributions to Sustainable Development are Undermined at the HLPF
By Lyndal Rowlands, CIVICUS UN Advocacy Officer
As Colombia joined 45 other countries in New York last month to review progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda, four grassroots activists were killed as they fought for sustainable development in Colombian communities. A question posed by an Indigenous representative to the government about such killings – of which there were more than 100 last year – went unanswered, illustrating the many layers at which civil society is obstructed from meaningful participation in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, from the local level to the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Read on: International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Warm and cuddly global goals? The international community must get real
By Danny Sriskandarajah
Two years into their life, and amid the grim political realities of the last year, the sustainable development goals seem increasingly like warm words with little if any bite. With the clock counting down till 2030, we urgently need to find ways of driving real changes in behaviour, policy and investment if we are to create a more just and sustainable world. We need nothing short of an accountability revolution.
Read on: The Guardian
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What “Global Citizenship” means to you - if anything
Marina Cherbonnier, CIVICUS membership engagement specialist and Bridge 47 steering group member.
Do you consider yourself as a citizen of the world? Alternatively, do you feel uncomfortable, threatened or simply blank when hearing the term “global citizenship”? It fascinates me that the concept is crystal clear to some but does not resonate at all with others. It largely depends on the experience and exposure we have of the world - but not only.
In the highly conceptual world that “International Development” evolves in, there is a project called Bridge 47. It works towards providing “global citizenship education” for all as a means towards building a world that is fair and resilient. The name “Bridge 47” resonates with the “SDG 4.7” framework: the 4th Sustainable Development Goal on Education for All, of which item 7 focuses on global citizenship education.
Learning to be a citizen of the world, in brief, is to grow the consciousness that everything is connected. For instance, child labour is not far from you if you buy products prepared by children. Learning to be a citizen of the world means building the spirit and competencies to make day-to-day decisions and actions that will have a positive impact on ourselves, our communities and the rest of the world all together.
2-4 October 2018 marked the first gathering of Bridge 47 staff and steering group – which CIVICUS has been a part - since the launch of the project. The objective was to take stock of the project’s progress since then. We identified challenges and addressed them on a strategic and practical level, by looking at the four aspects of the project: innovation, advocacy, networking and partnership. It also brought together a hundred potential partners to strengthen the network around the project.
The event gathered a fascinating group of diverse, international and enthusiastic people driven by social values and principles, and convinced about the power of working together. Most importantly, Global Citizenship (and my job) took all its meaning when appreciating how the CIVICUS delegation of members present united spontaneously as a family, despite their differences. Take Khurram: a senior monitoring and evaluation expert from Pakistan, Claudia: a young student in special education from Angola, Jamil: a SDG educational program implementer from Palestine. Their only apparent similarity was in their work on education. They bonded immediately and used each other as safety net while engaging with other participants.
Over the past 10 years of working with international networks, it is precisely the connection that operates amongst members that has nurtured my faith for universal peace and care. The sense of belonging that a global community spurs is magical. CIVICUS membership IS global citizenship in spirit and practice.
Yet, what strikes me is that those of us who have been convinced about the necessity of working collectively are yet to identify how to do this in a more efficient and cohesive way. How do we move from less “Blabla” to more “Boom Boom”, as eloquently put by one of my previous partners? As long as we stay in our own conceptual sphere, with our own language, how far will we go? How do we translate ideas into concrete actions? “How do we get real?” It is time to move from convincing ourselves of the need to work together. Implementing activities and showing what global citizenship means in practice are the next steps for Bridge 47 in 2019 onward. Stay tuned.
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Young leaders breaking down the Agenda 2030 to the National level
Virtual Global Exchange on Zoom: Young Sustainable Development advocates will break down the 2030 Agenda from Global to Local accountability mechanisms for civil society.
August is a month to commemorate the great effort millions of young people around the world are doing to support the well benign of their communities, defending human rights and protecting democracies all over the world. This Virtual Global Exchange session will highlight the experiences of young leaders holding decision-makers accountable to their Sustainable Development promises.
Under the framework of the ongoing series of webinars for civil society around Legitimacy, Transparency and Accountability, join this interactive virtual exchange and tell us: how is civil society participating in your country or region to advance, monitor and adapt the Sustainable Development Goals to local contexts? What have been the greatest learnings from this experience? What are your recommendations for organisations starting these efforts during COVID-19?
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Virtual Global Exchange on Zoom: Breaking down the 2030 Agenda
When:Wednesday 19 August 2020
Time:9:00 México / 16:00 South Africa
Where:Zoom
RegistrationshereThe event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation to English and French.
Guest speakers:Rosario Garavito, The Millenials Movement; Marcia Alarcón, TECHO Paraguay; Roberto Baeza, The Hunger Project Mexico
Moderator:Roberto Zárraga, Red Global de Acción Juvenil
Read more: “Believe Better” A working paper on young people’s inclusion in national follow up, review and accountability process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.What is the Agenda 2030?
The Agenda is a commitment to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development by 2030 world-wide, ensuring that no one is left behind. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda was a landmark achievement, providing for a shared global vision towards sustainable development for all.
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Young People and Inequalities: Recommendation for the Post- 2015 Development Agenda
Leading up to the year 2015, the United Nations and Civil Society are organizing a series of consultations to help shape the post-2015 development agenda. Part of this process is aGlobal Online Conversation, which provides a platform for people all over the world to share their visions for building a just and sustainable world free from poverty. The following contribution was made by IWHC to the online thematic consultation on Inequalities, specifically within the sub-discussion on “Inequalities faced by girls”.
Young people all over the world face a range of unique challenges to exercising their rights. Barriers to age-appropriate health services, meaningful education, and viable livelihoods opportunities are among the most pressing impediments to youth empowerment.
Read more at Akimbo