Submitted by Emelyne Calimoutou, PhD &
LLM Candidate, Washington College of Law
LLM Candidate, Washington College of Law
The Law, Justice and Development Week is starting today and will last until October 24, 2014 at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC. As in previous years, the LJD Week 2014 is co-organized by the Legal Departments of the World Bank Group. The event is delivered in collaboration with the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development, a collaboration that includes more than 150 global institutions.
The fifteen-year Millennium Development Goals period will be completed at the end of 2015 and it is now time for the UN to address the financing and implementing of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which is actually the theme for this year’s LJD Week.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s initiatives to promote sustainable development and design and implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda relie on three different entities, which proposed three different approaches with different priorities. In fact, in addition to the Working Group on Sustainable Development, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon launched the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and announced the 27 members of a High-level Panel to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015, the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) aims at mobilizing scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable development problem solving at local, national, and global scales.
The objective of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) is to focus on a limited list of ten priorities and associated goals identified by the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
The following goals have two main characteristics interconnected to the four dimensions of sustainable development:
Goal 1: End extreme poverty including hunger.
Goal 2: Promote conomic growth and decent jobs within planetary boundaries.
Goal 3: Ensure effective learning for all children and youth for life and livelihood.
Goal 4: Achieve gender equality, Social inclusion, and human rights for all.
Goal 5: Achieve health and well-being at all ages.
Goal 6: Improve agriculture systems and raise rural prosperity.
Goal 7: Empower inclusive, productive and resilient cities.
Goal 8: Curb human-induced climate change and ensure sustainable energy.
Goal 9: Secure biodiversity, and ensure good management of water, oceans, forests, and natural resources.
Goal 10: Transform governance and technologies for sustainable development.
The High-Level Panel of eminent persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda is part of the Secretary-General’s post-2015 initiative mandated by the 2010 MDG Summit to advance the development framework beyond 2015. The work of the Panel is to draw on experience gained in implementing the MDGs, both in terms of results achieved and areas for improvement. The Panel submitted an online report entitled “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development” containing twelve goals to the Secretary-General on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in May 2013.
These recommendations lead to draw a universal agenda driven by twelve goals.
Goal 1: End Poverty
Goal 2: Empower girls and women and achieve gender equality
Goal 3: Provide quality education and lifelong leaving
Goal 4: Ensure healthy lives
Goal 5: Ensure food security and good nutrition
Goal 6: Achieve universal access to water and sanitation
Goal 7: Secure sustainable energy
Goal 8: Create jobs, sustainable livelihoods, and equitable growth
Goal 9: Manage natural resource assets sustainably
Goal 10: Ensure good governance and effective institutions
Goal 11: Ensure stable and peaceful societies
Goal 12: Create a global enabling environment and catalyse long-term finance
The Post-2015 Development agenda will lead to discuss both of these reports. A Post-2015 development agenda proposal will be tabled in September 2014 in the UN General Assembly, and a year of discussion and debate is anticipated to follow. LJD Week 2014, which will provide a timely opportunity to define the role of law and justice in the post-2015 development agenda.
Website: http://www.worldbank.org/ljdweek2014
Registration: http://www.worldbank.org/ljdweekregister
Contact: ljdweek@worldbank.org
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