A sneak peek into post-2015 agenda priorities

Indonesian President Yudhoyono, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf, co-chairs of the U.N. Secretary General's High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Photo by: DfID / CC BY

In the United Nations’ first wave of global consultations, three priorities have emerged as post-2015 development goals.

The priorities, summed up in a snapshot report called The Global Conversation Begins, have emerged from the results of a global multimedia conversation, involving more than 200,000 people in 83 national dialogues across 189 countries.

The report has revealed the following priorities:

According to the report, the consultations suggest a number of implications for a new development agenda, which include the following:

The report has been distributed to more than 100 representatives of U.N. member states who will play a key role in negotiating the global development framework that will succeed the MDGs.

The United Nations has engaged the participants of its global conversation through a mosaic of communications platforms, including digital media, mobile phone applications, conferences and surveys.

A U.N. Development Programpress release said U.N. teams in the member states have ensured that groups typically silent in global processes — women, indigenous communities, youth, persons with disabilities, among other sectors — could participate in the consultations and make their voices heard on what they believe are priorities for their communities’ development.

Later this month, the report will be handed over to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, whose main task is to prepare recommendations. The panel, headed by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Presidents Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and Susilo Yudhoyono of Indonesia, will meet in Bali at the end of March.

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