UN panel proposes empowering women and girls as key development goal.
A panel of senior politicians and officials, set up to identify future development goals for the UN, has concluded that it should be possible to eradicate extreme poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy and preventable deaths by 2030.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon set up the UN High Level Panel on the Post 2015 development Agenda (HILP) to devise goals and targets for international development after 2015, when the Millenium Development Goals, agreed by the UN in 2000, run out.
The panel by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia handed him their report last week.
The report argues that eradicating extreme poverty must also be linked to sustainable development - tackling poverty and protecting the environment should no longer be seen as separate issues.
Economies, it says, should be developed to create jobs and provide benefit to a wide range of people, there should be a focus on promoting peace and effective, open and accountable institutions, corruption, money laundering and tax avoidance must be challenged and governments should work together with their people, so that no-one is left behind.
The report proposes a set of 12 goals to bring this about.
Near the top is empowering women and girls to achieve gender equality, along with quality education, healthcare and food, sanitation and water.
The panel hopes that these goals, if implemented, will help reduce inequality, promote peace, address climate change, improve our cities, address the concerns of young people and enable sustainable consumption and production.
The report suggests that there should be a set of ‘universal goals’, along with targets for individual countries.
The panel also calls for a ‘data revolution’.
Technology should be used to enable people to connect with each other and tools like crowd sourcing used to ensure their voices are heard.
To read the full report, click here.
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