A new global development agenda is on the table. Here's how to make it the most progressive and ambitious agenda possible
Whether you agree with the emerging post-2015 development agenda or not, it is likely to steer trillions of dollars of spending, as well as key areas of policy over the next 15 years. Its implementation will occupy the minds of governments, business and campaigners. So we need an agenda that is - to use UN jargon - "fit for purpose".
The proposal on the table from the 70 governments of the Open Working Group (OWG) contains an expansive 17 goals and 169 targets. The goals encompass the traditional preoccupations of the donor world: poverty eradication, governance and peace. They also capture the demands of an increasingly vocal south: growth, jobs, infrastructure and, critically, better policy behaviour from richer countries on issues that go beyond overseas development assistance (ODA).
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