Courtesy: Neva Frecheville, WWF UK
I’m still reflecting on what came out of the recent ‘Beyond 2015′ conference. It’s time for us to be brave and start looking beyond aid, looking beyond development. This means moving away from simply giving money and towards understanding the complicated systems that shape the world. The post-2015 development agenda will be ambitious. We know we can’t continue to accept a world in which the huge disparities between rich and poor increase, with the environment paying the price.
But a lot of people are still questioning whether a global framework is a useful way of tackling these problems. Part of the decision-process will be looking at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and evaluating what worked and what didn’t.
Here are some of the important issues that are emerging – this isn’t a full list, it’s just an insight into some of the key things we’re going to be thinking about over the coming 18 months…
Transparency and accountability – particularly in the private sector: Globalisation (the increased and accelerated flow of goods, money and information around the world) has radically changed the world in recent decades, but right now it doesn’t work for the world’s poorest peoples or the environment. But how can globalisation be made to work better?
Read more: WWF UK blog >>
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