Nye utviklingsmål etter 2015

Arbeidet med å utforme nye globale utviklingsmål før Tusenårsmålene (MDG) utløper i 2015 er et sentralt tema under FNs generalforsamling 2013. 

Tusenårsmålene har bidratt til å mobilisere og fokusere internasjonal bekjempelse av fattigdom, ikke minst på helsesiden der Norge har spilt en ledende rolle.

Etter Rio+20 toppmøtet i 2012 er det enighet om at miljødimensjonen skal inkluderes sterkere og at det må utformes mål for bærekraftig utvikling (SDG).

Fra norsk side arbeides for at «post-2015» prosessen i FN skal lede frem til ett sett klare og konkrete bærekraftmål som bygger på Tusenårsmålene og Rio-toppmøtet.

Helse, likestilling, energi og rettferdig fordeling er prioriterte områder for Norges post-2015 arbeid i FN, i generalforsamlingen og i den åpne arbeidsgruppen (OWG).

Norske prioriteringer

Norway supports the acceleration of efforts in the United Nations to achieve the MDGs, to follow up on the decisions of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and to put in place a universal and integrated post-2015 global development agenda with clear, communicable goals and measureable targets aimed at poverty eradication and sustainable development in all its dimensions.  

The Government of Norway will prepare for the UNGA Special Event on 25 September 2013, and work towards a UN Summit to establish a single set of sustainable development goals in 2015, by engaging with other member states in the General Assembly, in the Open Working Group on SDGs, with the UN system and Secretary-General, and with civil society, private sector and other partners at national, regional and international level. 

The following will be priority areas of interest and action for Norway: 

• To scale up efforts to achieve the MDGs, building on their success, momentum and experience gained to close the remaining gaps, complete the unfinished business, and consolidate outstanding progress into the new post-2015 agenda.
• To create a coherent set of post-2015 goals which prioritize equally the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable development, and integrate good governance, rule of law, and institution-building for stability, democracy, and domestic resource mobilization.
• To ensure that the post-2015 framework is people-centered, planet-sensitive, and built on a rights-based approach which promotes and protects international human rights conventions, and includes goals and targets which will contribute to tackle the priority challenges of climate change and the unequal distribution of opportunities and wealth.
• To play an active lead role to secure post-2015 goals and targets in key areas where the MDG agenda must be extended, in particular in the areas of gender equality and women’s rights, and global health, including child and maternal mortality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and universal health coverage (UHC); as well as in areas which were missing in the MDGs, in particular climate-friendly energy and access to sustainable energy for all.
• To also support goals in areas such as universal education, food security, sustainable natural resource management, and the resilience of vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, in the new post-2015 agenda.

To ensure meaningful monitoring and implementation of the post-2015 development framework, Norway will work for the establishment of follow-up accountability mechanisms, in the high level forum on sustainable development, building on existing models, including in the Human Rights Council, other UN system and inter-governmental mechanisms, and ECOSOC, as well as other international, regional and national mechanisms involving civil society, parliaments, private sector, and relevant stakeholders. 

Norway attaches great importance to the role of the United Nations, with its universal membership and unique legitimacy, as the primary body for global governance and inter-governmental development of the post-2015 agenda; and to the leadership of the SG, who should be given a mandate from the UNGA Special Event to support member states in laying out and pursuing a road map for the post-2015 process, including a stock-taking and synthesis report in 2014.