The Post 2015 Agenda

Gaps and Women’s AlternativesArchie Luyimbazi

Communications Consultant, Isis-WICCE

The Post 2015 Agenda

• Set to succeed the MDGs – 2015 – 2030• Drawn by Eminent Persons Commissioned in 2012• Set to be Finalized and Launched in 2015• Not Bidding• Meant for Policy, Resource mobilisation

Guiding Principles

• Leave no one behind• Put sustainable Dev’t at the core• Transform Economies for Jobs and Growth• Build Peace, Open& Accountable Institutions• Forge a New Global Partnership

Specific End Results by 2030

• Eradicate Extreme Poverty• End Hunger• End Illiteracy• End Preventable Deaths especially of Infants

The Post 2015 Goals• Ending Poverty• Empower Girls and Women• Provide Quality Education• Ensure Healthy Lives• Ensure Food Security• Universal Access to Water/Sanitation• Secure Sustainable Energy• Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods• Manage Natural Resource Assets sustainably• Ensure Good Governance• Ensure Stable and Peaceful Societies

The Search for Transformation

• Targeting the Family as rallying point for Dev’t• Women at the center of Resource

Management• Solving the Land Question• Need for two stand alone goals – Women’s

Participation and Ending Violence against Women

Going Forward.

• Cross Roads for Development • Need for a Robust and Clear Women’s Agenda• Women’s Movement has been too Apologetic• Women’s Collective Dividends• Africa Rising / Africa Vision 2063