Global progress and plans to the ensure the next generations get the sustainable future they deserve.

1. On the path to sustainable
development
Presentation Ms Anne-Isabelle D. Blateau
Director UNDP Seoul Policy Centre
27 April 2012

2. On the path to sustainable development
• MDGs …will we achieve them by 2015?
• Key threats to sustainable development
• The “new “ debate on sustainable
development and post 2015
• Addressing inequality…at the core
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3. MDGs…will we achieve them ?
Nepal -Syangboche – 3800 m
Their choices in life ?
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4. Will the MDGs reach them?
Access to education ?
Access to health ?
How are their voices heard ?
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5. MDGs…the picture
very little time left , still quite some work to do.…
Strong call from SG for developed countries to fulfill their commitments to
the world’s poorest people, reminding that aid is not charity, but a smart
investment in security and prosperity and engine of growth..
UNDP is the custodian of the MDGs responsible for monitoring/ analyzing and
pushing forward
Produced successive 5 year reports
Following the 2010 report : Acceleration frameworks at country level
targeting the problematic goals
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6. MDGs… the Global picture
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7. MDGs…the more detailed picture
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8. MDGs…the more detailed picture
• poverty : Hungry people # rose form 842 Mio -90-92 to 1.02 Bio 2009
some good stories ( Malawi 53% food surplus in 2007 v 43% food deficiency in 2005 through natl input subsidy programme)
• Universal primary education enrolment : gap in primary school enrolment : narrowed to 95/100 but progress for poor girls slow
• Gender :
– Women in parliament increased to 19% , with Rwanda in the lead with 50.9% but Korea only at 14.7% - still far from parity
– Maternal mortality declined only marginally from 480 to 450 death/100,00 live birth, esp in Sub Saharan Africa
Korea, among the developed countries still has 18 death/100,000 3 x Japan’s rate
• Under 5 Mortality : Rural children More at risk
- 2009 :, nearly 1/4 of the children in the developing world were underweight, & poorest children most affected.
- Children from the poorest households in the developing world are more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday as
children in the richest households.
• Safe water target : on track, but 884 Mio people still use unimproved water sources
Sanitation lagging : in 2006 2.5 bio people _ 37% of pop- did not hv access to latrines, toilets or sanitation ( open defecation
1.2 bio people)
• ODA up by 16 % from 2007 to 2008 to 119,8 Bio USD – but value decreased for first year to devaluation of some currencies
Duty free Imports from developing countries rose from 54% in 1996 to 79% in 2007; from LDCs from 70% in 2005 to nearly 80%
in 2007
Question of post MDGs …new indices? Same indices but more in depth ? ongoing discussion
Need to keep global agenda coherence
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9. Key threats to sustainable development
Bio fuels land use
Gradual build-up Oils prices: food
Relocation to Oil crisis Food crisis prices – transport,
poorer countries fertilizers, etc..
New agenda Move from
• Resilience agriculture to
industry
• Regionalization Cc
Climate • South- south
Change • Environment Governance
Droughts Sharp export
• New energies Financial
Floods decline
Fresh water • Prevention crisis Stocks collapse
Pests • New dimensions Liquidity- loans
• Global responsibility
Disasters Conflicts
Pak : floods
Japan: Tsunami
Haiti :earthquake Over-abuse of
the planet
Globalization : market expansion but increased vulnerabilities
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10. Where do we go from here ..
• Globalization is here to stay and expand
• Population is increasing rapidly putting more demands for
services and on resources
• Crisis are not going to disappear
• Governance institution need to be more reponsible/able to
deal with new challenges
• Incresasing demand for participation
• Increasing role of emerging economies
• Resources are dwindling fast and under major threat
• Dramatic urbanization : by 2050 > 70% pop will be urban
need to find more global solutions
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11. The “new” debate on sustainable
development
• Busan: Nov 2011 new development agenda
New aid environment : emerging countries
everyone responsible and has a role
Need all the actors on board
Country driven : sustainable development happens
primarily at the country level
• Rio +20 : sustainable development – 3 pillars go
hand in hand
Economic growth + Social + environmental sustainability
• Post 2015: moving towards more holistic Sustainable
Development Goals -SGDs..what will they cover?
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12. The “new” debate on sustainable
development
• Rio +20 :
• progress in 6 areas is particularly important:
• From MDGs to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): progress
towards attaining the MDGs must be accelerated and sustained,
and the post-2015 global development goals must evolve into SDGs.
• Green is not enough. ‘Triple-win’ policies and programming are the
way forward.
• Better governance and capacity development matter.
• Finance for development must be revisited.
• Beyond GDP and the bottom line—new metrics for sustainable
development are needed.
• Leveraging knowledge and innovation to deliver results
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13. Sustainable development: not either or…
“triple wins’ expand the sustainable development ‘sweet spot’ where its
strands intertwine (Figure 1). The more we gear policy towards that
intersection the more it expands, and the less daunting the trade-offs become
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14. Linking the 3 pillars…impact on inequality
• Income poverty, gender gaps, unequal access to
resources, basic services, and decent work,
heightened exposure to disaster and environmental
risks—all go together.
• the human costs of environmental degradation and
social underdevelopment are born predominantly by
the poor, whose livelihoods and welfare are most
closely linked to natural resources and social
protection, and who are therefore most likely to bear
the social costs of unsustainable environmental
practices.
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15. Landless and held by loan sharks
• Bad crops prevented them to repay the
loan..they lost everything
• They now live on a floating house on
the lake but are held in ongoing poverty
by loan sharks for fishing supplies
• Their fish is bought by intermediates
who do not give them fair market price
• Kids no longer go to school
Engaging and empowering them as a
community to
Vietnam-Tonle SAP • Taking turns to get several kids to
school
They once had a piece of land for
• Selling their fish themselves on
their house and to grow crops… the market getting better prices
• Looking at credit alternatives
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16. Environment and inequality threats to human development
UNDP Human development report 2011
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17. … and development gaps will be harder to close
UNDP Human development report 2011
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18. Overlapping deprivations
UNDP Human Development Report 2011
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19. Electricity transforms lives…. They are now connected ..to beyond the mountain
This “Untouchable” has now a thriving metal
Nepal –North west- 2000m+ forging business
community built & managed
micro hydro
Women do not have to carry heavy water buckets Kids can learn basic computer skills
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20. On the way to Rio+20...the messages
• Equity and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand
• Expanding choices of the poor – the route to long term sustainability
• Empowerment, accountability and participation are of both intrinsic and
instrumental value in this path-crucially gender equality and women’s
empowerment
• Balanced regional growth needed to correct the inequality between the
regions
• Decentralization, local and inclusive governance, and social mobilization are
needed for empowered citizens to ‘think globally while acting locally’
• Governance: the glue that holds sustainable development together
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21. On the road to post 2015
• Discussions have already started
• Different proposal are starting to emerge
• Preparing for the Special conference in 2013, the UN is :
– Preparing study on lessons learned with recommendations for the Secretary General
(May)
– Engaging in country level broad, thematic , regional & global consultations
– engaging in discussions and dialogues with partners
– producing discussion and position papers on the post 2015 development agenda
– taking advantage of the opportunities provided by global social networks and mobile
technologies
• The UN Secretary General will appoint a High Level Panel
“We must deliver on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) while moving towards
Sustainable Development Goals after 2015. The transition process must build on what worked
with the MDGs and learn from what did not.”
Olav Kjorven Director of the bureau for development policy ( former minister of ……Norway
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22. The UN & sustainable development
• UNDP & the UN system support national transitions to sustainable
development, by:
• Promoting genuinely integrated national development approaches
that focuses on “triple-win” policies and programming;
• Supporting governments with policy and technical support,
including through innovative development programmes like the
Poverty and Environment Initiative, the Green Commodities Facility,
and Legal Empowerment of the Poor, which can help them move
towards “triple-win” development results;
• Pull the joint effort of UN’s in countries, through UNDP’s
stewardship of the Resident Coordinator system;
• Brokering partnerships—including between donors, the private
sector, and civil society—to turn national visions of sustainable
development into reality
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23. “We all aspire to reach better living conditions. Yet, this will not be possible
by following the current growth model . . . We need a practical twenty-first
century development model that connects the dots between the key issues
of our time: poverty reduction; job generation; inequality; climate change;
environmental stress; water, energy and food security.”
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
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24. The “new” debate on sustainable
development
– You are welcome to put your opining on our website 
www.undp.org/uspc
Facebook.com/UNDPSPC
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