Ret til lønnet arbejde et antal dage om året, større personlig sikkerhed og mere lighed i samfundet kan blive fokus for fremtidens udviklingsmål. Med kun tre år til at nå FN’s 2015 mål kører debatten om nye ambitiøse mål for en bedre verden – og de kan blive meget mere politiske og rettighedsbaserede.
LONDON, 9 May 2012 (IRIN): Twelve years gone, and three years still to go: as the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDG) target date of 2015 gets closer, the debate is intensifying about what went right and what went wrong, and – perhaps more importantly – what kind of goals should be set for the future.
Some of the arguments were aired by an expert panel convened at Britain’s Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on 3 May.
The Institute has just published a paper entitled “Human Security and the Next Generation of Comprehensive Human Development Goals” – se http://www.ids.ac.uk/idspublication/human-security-and-the-next-generation-of-comprehensive-human-development-goals
The paper makes the case for adopting targets that are “more explicitly (udpræget) rights-based and participatory”, would focus more on equity (retfærd / rimelighed) and sustainability (bæredygtighed), and “insist on the centrality of employment and decent work”.
Gabriele Koehler, one of the authors, outlined an ambitious wish list for the next set of goals, integrating the much broader idea of “human security”.
It would incorporate everything covered by the existing MDGs, and “we also have a much, much deeper attention to wealth and income inequalities (uligheder), to social exclusion (udelukkelse), to environmental goals… good governance (god regeringsførelse) is an important element… because one has to look at… governance [in] the states that we are expecting to deliver the public goods.”
Koehler would like to see the new goals being applied globally, not just to developing countries, since every country has pockets of poverty and exclusion, and she wants everyone – governments and the governed – to talk much more in terms of rights.
Far more political
All this would make the new MDGs far more political than the current ones, which concentrate on uncontroversial goods, like safe motherhood and child survival, and do not open up the prospect of a government being sued if it cannot ensure a decent job and a safe environment.
But some governments are going down the road of social protection.
India, for instance, has adopted the idea of a ‘right to demand work’, so state governments have to respond with an offer of one hundred days of paid employment per household, while Brazil recognises the right of citizens to a minimum standard of living.
Also on the panel was Romulo Paes de Sousa, until recently Brazil’s deputy minister of social development. He accepted that framing (omsætte) social goods in terms of rights was controversial, but argued that Brazil’s experience showed it was possible to change perceptions (opfattelser).
“When I started to work with social protection in 2004, it was a big problem in Brazil and many countries,” he said.
“They think that social protection produces laziness (dovenskab) and things like that. But it has changed. We still have that debate, but it showed that it is possible to change the perception that the public has of social programmes.”
A new wider agenda
There were calls for some of the existing goals – which are dominated by health and education, and where some targets have not been met – to be rolled over. But if the new agenda (dagsorden) is to be wider, then some sectors may receive less attention in future
“The current, more health-focused MDGs have driven significant progress and investment in health globally,” Olga Golichenko of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance told IRIN.
“The Alliance is concerned that the current health goals would be watered down to weak statements on health. We would like to see improved health outcomes of the poorest and most , noted she, adding:
“Those MDGs which are not achieved should not be dropped, and we need to build on the momentum and progress that has been achieved to date.”
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