Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future

CHApTER TEn
10
The Millennium
Declaration
remains
relevant and its
implementation
through the
MDGs has set
a widely
acknowledged
standard of
international
collective action.
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COnSTRuCTIng
THE pOST-2015 AgEnDA
10.1 Introduction
the preceding chapters suggest four key
conclusions on the formulation of a post-2015
global development framework:
• A transformative agenda is vital: the
international community should pursue a
wider and more transformative approach to
development than was captured in the mDGs,
if poverty is to be eradicated. this calls for
economic and social transformations that
emphasise creating employment, addressing
inequality and finding sustainable solutions.
poverty should remain a core focus of this
agenda, but the objective should be to tackle its
causes by adopting a model of development that
is more inclusive and sustainable.
• National ownership is key: a new framework
should pay more careful attention to how global
goals relate to national policy needs and targets,
respecting domestic policy space and linking
national and international efforts in a mutually
supportive and flexible manner. It may help to
opt for some form of ‘mixed-design’ framework
that allows for both global and national goals,
as well as targets and broad principles.
• Scale up global collective action: richer
countries, such as those in the Eu, should
strengthen their support for a new framework by
EuropEan rEport on DEvElopmEnt 2013
extending collective action to areas important
to development, such as international financial
regulation, trade, migration and climate change;
by enhancing the coherence of all policies with
international development, in line with the
principle of policy coherence for Development;
and by continuing to increase both the level and
effectiveness of their aid.
• A new framework should be about instruments
as much as about goals. the temptation in
considering a successor to the mDGs is to
focus only on the goals and human development
targets to be achieved. Yet some of the areas
where progress has been least promising, such as
mDG8, has been precisely in making better use
of the instruments identified for international
cooperation, such as official development
assistance (oDa), as well as other resources,
international agreements and regimes. a new
framework should therefore clearly highlight
the instruments to be used and the targets set
for their use.
this final chapter brings together the different
strands of the arguments made throughout this
report, and demonstrates how these build up
to these four key conclusions. In the process, it
identifies a number of main messages on both the
possible content of a post-2015 framework (the
‘what’) and on the instruments and mechanisms
that could be deployed to achieve that vision (the