CONCORD-Beyond 2015 European
Task Force workshop
22-23 October 2015
Workshop agenda
DAY 1 morning
10:00-10:15:
10:15-11:25:
11:25-11:40:
11:40-13:15:
13:15-14:15:
Welcome
Stocktaking of EU positions and
outcome
Coffee break
Panel debate: From New York to
Brussels – where next for the EU
on Agenda 2030?
Lunch break
Workshop agenda
DAY 1 afternoon
14:15-15:45:
15:45-16:00:
16:00-17:30:
Zooming in on key Agenda 2030
issues
Coffee break
Evaluating the CONCORDBeyond 2015 ETF work
Optional dinner in Chaff at 19.00 CET (flipchart)
Workshop agenda
DAY 2 morning
9:00-9:15:
9:15-10:15:
10:15-10:45:
10:45-11:00:
11:00-12:45:
12:45-13:00:
13:00-14:00:
From Addis to Paris
Introduction on CSO
involvement in sustainable
development
Mapping of what cross-sectoral
collaboration exists as EU and MS
level
Coffee break
Future Strategy
Closing remarks
Lunch
CONCORD-Beyond 2015
Session 1: Where have we come from?
Sally Nicholson
How did we get there?
September 2015
May 2012
January 2013
Beyond2015 ETF inputs
Our Key Issues and the EU position
Beyond2015 Red Flags
People and Planet
Integration
Universality
Equality
Participation
Alternative measures of progress
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
Means of Implementation/Global Partnership
Accountability
People and Planet
“Business as usual is no longer an option, whether in
terms of human dignity, equality or sustainability”
“The agenda should leave no-one behind”
“Human rights and fundamental freedoms must be respected,
protected and fulfilled, including freedom of expression, association
and the media”
“(…) and addresses the structural causes of poverty, inequality,
climate change and environmental degradation”
“(…) recognise that environmental sustainability is
fundamental to ensuring the sustainable prosperity and
well-being of all people within planetary boundaries”
Integration and Equality
“(…) should integrate the three dimensions of
sustainable development in a balanced way
across the agenda; ensure coherence and
synergies and address interlinkages throughout
the goals and targets”
“Goals, targets and indicators across the framework
should address legal, social and economic barriers to
gender equality”
“(…) to ensure that the agenda has a rights-based
approach encompassing all human rights”
On the subject of integration ..
Universality
“The EU and its Member States recognise that
advancing sustainable development also depends
on our own domestic action and on developing our
own set of implementation measures
(...) the post 2015 agenda should be reflected in the
internal and external policies of the Member
States and of the EU including the renewed EU
Sustainable Development Strategy and the Europe
2020 strategy and related policies”
Participation and Accountability
“(...) increase people’s ability to effectively and
meaningfully participate in and contribute to the policy
choices affecting them and to hold governments and
other actors accountable for progress”
“Indicators (…) should be developed taking account of
experience, best practice and expert knowledge as well as citizen
voices for accountability”
“The EU and its Member States will continue to work
constructively and inclusively with all partners and with
stakeholders (…) throughout the preparation of the post-2015
agenda as well as during its implementation”
Policy coherence for sustainable
development
“The EU and its Member States remain fully committed
to ensuring Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) as
a key contribution to the collective effort towards
broader policy coherence for sustainable
development”
“All countries should promote policy coherence for
sustainable development at all levels and review
and assess their policies (…) in order to support the
successful implementation of the framework”
Alternative measures of progress
“We must recognise the need to look beyond
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to broader
measures of progress (…) to address a more
comprehensive idea of sustainable livelihoods
and well-being”
Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans’
speech at UNGA
“It's also our turn now to step out of our comfort zone. It's about very concrete questions.
How we have to turn around our economies to make them circular – leaving behind our
‘take-make-consume and dispose’ growth pattern”.
“And it's about breaking out of silos. Sustainable development is not just an economic or
social challenge, or an environmental problem: it's all three – and our efforts on each need
to reinforce rather than undermine one another.” (UN General Assembly, September 2015)
National and global level
What happened at national level?
- Ireland – Audry Deane
- Hungary - Éva Bördős
How did this impact the global level? Leo Williams
HAND - Hungarian Association of NGOs for Development and
Humanitarian Aid
Consolidating Beyond 2015’s Engagement in the post-2015
Agenda
Hungarian National Lead Agency
22 October 2015
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
THE BEYOND 2015 CAMPAIGN IN HUNGARY WAS A SUCCESS
HAND HAS MANAGED TO:
 IDENTIFY KEY ACTORS AND DECISION MAKERS
 CARRY OUT LOBBY WORK
 DISSEMINATE INFORMATION (DECISION MAKERS, ACADEMIA, MEDIA)
 LINK ONGOING POLITICAL ISSUES (E.G. MIGRATION) WITH THE SDGS
 ENHANCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
 GET JOURNALISTS ENGAGED
 INCREASE MEDIA ACTIVITIES
 ORGANIZE EVENTS THAT REACHED HUNDREDS
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
1. ADVOCACY
 DISSEMINATED INFORMATION AMONG OWG AND HUNGARIAN UNGA
DELEGATION
 GROUP LOBBY WITH OTHER NGOS AROUND THE EU FOREIGN COUNCIL
MEETING IN DECEMBER 2014
 POLICY SHORT BRIEFS TO THE DECISION MAKERS
 LOBBY MEETINGS WITH HIGH LEVEL OFFICIALS AT MFA, PRESIDENT’S
OFFICE, OMBUDSMAN, MPS AND MEPS
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
2. ENHANCING STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
 FACILITATING WORKING GROUPS AT THE ANNUAL GATHERINGS OF THE GREEN
NGOS (2014/2015) - 139 NGOs / 500 PARTICIPANTS / AGED 20-30
 WORKSHOP WITH FORMER SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE CO-CHAIR OF THE OWG, MR
JANOS ZLINSZKY
 DISCUSSIONS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS
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BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
3. STAKEHOLDER DISCUSSIONS
 PRESENTATION AT A TRAINING FOR COLLEAGUES OF THE HUNGARIAN EXIM
BANK
 JOINT-COMMITTEE (ENVI AND DEVE) EVENT AT EP - ORGANIZED BY HU
MEP MR. BENEDEK JÁVOR
 EXPANDING CONTACTS AT THE SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVE COUNCIL
 HAND MEMBERS EVENT
 MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLD BANK GROUP JOACHIM VON
AMSBERG
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
4. ENHANCING CITIZENS’ ENGAGEMENT
NGO CONFERENCE ON SDG IMPLEMENTATION – 16/09/2015
 200 PARTICIPANTS
 PRESENTATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS FROM
 CSABA KÖRÖSI, SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT
 MARCEL SZABÓ, OMBUDSMAN FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
 GABOR BARTUS, SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON SUST DEVE
 TIMEA HUBER, HEAD OF DEPT, MFA
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
4. ENHANCING CITIZENS’ ENGAGEMENT – CONT.
FIVE-PARTY POLITICAL DEBATE ON THE GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY OF
HUNGARY AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SDGS – 24/09/2015
 80 PARTICIPANTS
 EXTENSIVE MEDIA COVERAGE
 FIRST TIME FOR POLITICIANS TO PUBLICLY DISCUSS LINKS BETWEEN
MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
4. ENHANCING CITIZENS’ ENGAGEMENT – CONT.
CO-ORGANIZED EVENTS:
 HUNGARY’S TASK ON CLIMATE PROTECTION - NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN
PARLIAMENT -10/15/2015 - 600 PARTICIPANTS – BY FRIENDS OF THE EARTH HU
 DELIVERING THE SDGS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE’ INTERN. CONFERENCE - 16/10/2015
- BY CEEWEB
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
5. MEDIA PUSH
 A NEW FACEBOOK PAGE 99 STEPS FOR A MORE EQUAL WORLD – 2234 LIKES
(FOLLOWERS) SO FAR
 TWITTER ACCOUNT
 RADIO AND TV INTERVIEWS
 2 VIDEOS:
 1ST ON THE ANNUAL GATHERING OF GREEN NGOS. COOPERATION WAS
STARTED WITH A CAN MEMBER, THE CLEAN AIR ACTION GROUP (CAAG),
ONE OF THE LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS IN HUNGARY
 2ND VIDEO-INTERVIEW WITH MR CSABA KÖRÖSI, PUBLISHED ON
BEYOND2015.ORG AND HAND.ORG.HU WEBSITES
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
MOST IMPORTANT OUTCOMES
 PROPOSAL ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SDGS IN HUNGARY
PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2015
 POLITICIANS’ ENGAGEMENT: PROPOSED PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON THE
SDGS
 NEW STRATEGIC ALLIANCES:
 ENVI/HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS
 THE SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON SUST DEVE
SCREENING:
HOW
THE
NATIONAL
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGY AND SECTORAL STRATEGIES COVER THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
 STRENGTHENED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MFA
BEYOND2015 ACTIVITIES AND ACHIVEMENTS IN HUNGARY
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Eva Bordos
Member of the Board, HAND
[email protected]
CONCORD-Beyond 2015 ETF panel debate
From New York to Brussels – where next for the EU on Agenda 2030?
Panel debate with:
Christian Vanden Bilcke, Head of Directorate Sustainable
Development and Climate Change of the Belgian Federal Public Service
Foreign Affairs
Philipp Schönrock, Co-chair Beyond 2015, CEPEI
Hans Stielstra, Acting Head of Unit Global Sustainability, Trade &
Multilateral Agreements, DG Environment, European Commission
Martin Heather, Policy Officer, Policy and Coherence Unit, DG
International Cooperation and Development
Elly Schlein, Member of the European Parliament
Moderated by: Tanya Cox, co-chair CONCORD-Beyond 2015 ETF
CONCORD-Beyond 2015 European
Task Force workshop
Session 3: Zooming in on some key
Agenda 2030 issues
Zooming in on 4 key issues
• Governance and accountability
• Equality – how to ensure no one is left
behind?
• Economic justice
• Communicating Agenda 2030
CONCORD-Beyond 2015
Session 4: Evaluating the work of the
CONCORD-Beyond 2015 ETF
Evaluating CONCORD-Beyond 2015 ETF
• Human scatterplots
• Break-out group discussions
• Feedback to plenary
• Plenary discussion
• What next?
Break-out group discussions
• Info sharing, accessibility and involvement
• Policy and advocacy
• Structure, governance and decision-making
• Communication, identity and branding
• Other
Workshop agenda
DAY 2 morning
9:00-9:15:
9:15-10:15:
10:15-10:45:
10:45-11:00:
11:00-12:45:
12:45-13:00:
13:00-14:00:
From Addis to Paris
Introduction on CSO
involvement in sustainable
development
Mapping of what cross-sectoral
collaboration exists as EU and MS
level
Coffee break
Future Strategy
Closing remarks
Lunch
CONCORD-Beyond 2015
Session 5: From Addis to Paris
McLynn and Jean Laetitia Saldanha
CONCORD-Beyond 2015
Session 6: Introduction on CSO
involvement in sustainable development
Sustainable Development
Leida Rijnhout
Director Global Policies and Sustainability
European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
Brussels
23 October 2015
Environment vs development?
of ecosystems are
now damaged or
being used
unsustainably
rise in temperature by
the end of the century,
due to doubling of GHG
emissions by 2050 ,
under BAU.
2 to 3
billion
additional middle class
consumers by 2030
of global extraction of natural resources per year
if consumption stays at current rates
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inequality, conflicts, stress, traffic jams, unemployment…
Development within the limits
Sustainable development ?
Or recognition of limits !
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Unproductive Growth
The economist Herman Daly calculated that after a certain point of economic
growth it will be unproductive: your growth will cause so much damage that your
profit is below zero. (ISEW as indicator)
Use of natural resources pp
Resource Justice
Former Soviet
countries
Industrial countries
Ceiling (= overconsumption)
Environmental Space
Floor (= dignity life line)
Developing countries
Level of welfare
Based on Rochol
MDGs versus SDGs
MDGs
SDGs
Development
Sustainability
Focus on developing countries
Focus on all countries
Aid and Trade agenda
Human Rights and Justice –
redistribution of wealth
No recognition of planetary
boundaries
Living within the limits
Environment is luxury
Environment is basics for
developing well-being
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Paradigm shift
• Systemic change –>
transition
• Indicators: focus on well
being
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Reversed Cooperation Aid
Who helps who ?
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•
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Developing countries have
negative trade balance of 4.898.546 million dollar (19802006)
Official Development Aid
(ODA) :
= 1.528.050 million dollar
(1980-2006)
External debt: Developing
countries pay 433.284 million
dollar more, than what they
receive (1990-2004)
Ecological debt: (only
calculated on EF) 5.566.000
million dollar per year.
ODA per year (2003) :
56.000 million dollar. 100x
less than ecological debt !
SDGs are universal
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•
•
•
This means all goals have to be implemented in EU too
Not a North-South agenda anymore
Paradigm shift in development thinking
Which implies also a paradigm shift in “development
cooperation” thinking
• Redistribution of wealth: fair share of resource use
• Domestic resources – tax shifts
• Policy coherence
Need for new EU Sustainable Development Strategy
30 October, 2015
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Thanks !!
[email protected]
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Major group structure for HLPF
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The High Level Political Forum
• HLPF will be responsible for the coordination of the SDGs
and the 2030 sustainable development agenda
• HLPF will be central to the reviews and the indicators
• The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) will
publish reviews, and countries, business, organisations
that are engaged in the SDGs are encouraged to
contribute to the GSDR
• Civil society participation: based on Rio+20 outcome: 9
Major groups and other stakeholders
9 Major Groups an other
Stakeholders:
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EEB is officially an Organising Partner of the Major
Group of NGOs, together with Civicus (NY) and CEPEI
(Colombia).
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Role of Organising Partner
The role of the OPs will be facilitative rather than representative. Given the number
and diversity of NGOs that comprise this Major Group, OPs are expected to remain
neutral, take a holistic approach by assisting and facilitating the participation of all
NGOs within the NGO constituency. The role of the OPs entails assisting and facilitating
participation of the NGO Major Group in the intergovernmental processes at the UN in
a broad sense. Advocating for the active role of NGOs accredited to the HLPF is their
overarching responsibility, as well as to protect and strengthen the space for civil
society at the UN.
The UN NGO Major Group OP role includes a number of components, which are, inter
alia, based on those outlined in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs’ “Note on Major Groups Governance” (2013):
• Consultation with NGO Major Group
• Communication, outreach and advocacy
• Resource Mobilization
• Liaison with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in
particular its Division for Sustainable Development.
• Coordination with other Major Group Organising Partners
NGO Major Group Facilitation Committee Structure and Terms
The NGO Major Group Facilitation Committee shall be comprised of global OPs,
regional OPs, and Thematic Cluster Coordinators. The following structure is proposed
for the Facilitation Committee:
• Up to 3 Global OPs (North/South, gender and “issue” balance)
• Up to 8 regional OPs from among the regions to ensure geographical balance and
that reflects the jurisdiction of the UN Regional Commissions. The regions are (1)
Africa, (2) Asia, (3) MENA, (4) Europe and CA, (5) Latin America, (6) North America,
(7) Pacific, (8) Caribbean.
• Up to 5 Thematic Cluster Coordinators shall represent the views of all thematic
clusters recognized by the Facilitation Committee duly constituted by the NGO
Major Group.
The NGO Major Group strives to have gender and regional balance, and thematic
diversity on its Facilitation Committee by bringing together networks of organizations
which have global policy expertise, regional expertise, relevant thematic expertise
embedded in the SD concept, and organizational expertise (networking, advocacy,
outreach, grassroots, capacity building).
Other stakeholders ???
• Not really defined, but some groups start to be
“recognised”: disabled persons, elderly, educators,
parliamentarians, … - still unclear their internal structure
and accountability
• Creates confusion and conflicts
• Other major groups ?
• Members states view ??
CONCORD-Beyond 2015
Session 7: Mapping of what cross-sectoral
collaboration exists at national, EU and
global level
Cross-sectoral collaboration in Belgium
• Report « Perspectives for the implementation
of the SDGs in Belgium »
• 35 organizations from different sectors:
development, environment, domestic poverty,
woman rights, youth, mobility
• Challenges
– Reaching out to other sectors
– Overweight of development NGOs
– Long-term collaboration
SDG Watch
CONCORD
Experiences from other MS?
CONCORD-Beyond 2015
Session 8: Future Strategy
Deirdre de Burca
THANK YOU