Reflection on the High Level Panel post 2015 report
By members of the Women’s Major Group1
This critical analysis by the Women’s Major Group members2 on the Highlevel Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons report, released on May 30th with recommendations for the Post 2015 Development Agenda3, notes the report as a starting point for discussion, but not good enough. The Women’s Major Group is concerned about the narrow set of goals and the predominance given to the corporate/business sector in the “new” development agenda. We look to the world’s governments to be far more ambitious and focused on addressing the root causes of inequality, injustice and poverty inherent to the existing economic paradigm, as they negotiate the next sustainable development framework in the Open Working Group on SDGs and the Post 2015 Development Agenda.
Contents
- Goals setting; too reductive to allow for sustainable development
- A new 15year timeframe; delaying essential human rights even further!
- Contradictions; between goals and businessasusual economic model
- Human rights inconsistent application
- Critical analysis of selected specific Goals and Targets and Means of Implementation
GOAL 1: End Poverty: too narrow in scope, too onedimensional
GOAL 2: Empower Girls and Women and achieve Gender Equality: some positive targets, but lacks women’s rights as underpinning the entire development agenda
GOAL3: Provide quality education and lifelong learning: lacks girls’ priorities
GOAL 4: Ensure Healthy Lives: some positive targets, but fails to address social Determinants of health
GOAL 5: Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition: should recognize women’s
GOAL 7: Secure Sustainable Energy: utterly insufficient and likely to have
GOAL 8: Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Equitable Growth: Fails to
GOAL 9: Manage Natural Resource Assets Sustainability: too limiting in defining
GOAL12: Global Enabling environment and Catalyse Long -Term Finance: entirely insufficient on finance, trade and climate protection
- Nothing ‘New’ about proposed Global Governance and Global
- Partnership for Development
- No accountability of corporations
- Financing for Gender Equality should be a priority – it is not in the HLP
report
- Concluding: This report should not be taken as a basis for development of the Post
2015 Agenda
