Fw: Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities - Newsletter March 2013

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Dear Members of the Post-2015 Addressing Inequalities Consultation web platform,
We are pleased to share with you the e-newsletter of the Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities, including the outcomes of the Public Dialogue and Leadership meeting in Copenhagen and revised final report and key messages.  The newsletter is also available online at: www.worldwewant2015.org/file/320528/download/348801
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Facilitation Team, Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Inequalities

	Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities Co-led by UNICEF and UN WOMEN supported by the Governments of Denmark and Ghana
	Online Newsletter – March 2013
	Public Dialogue and High-level Leadership Meeting – 18-19 February, Copenhagen “Addressing inequalities is not a choice - it's a moral and practical necessity” - UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake “Inequalities are and will continue to be the main challenge of our century” - UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet Following several months of public consultation, the final report and set of recommendations from the Addressing Inequalities Consultation was presented and discussed at meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark on 18-19 February. Day one was dedicated to public dialogue with civil society and other stakeholders. Members of the Addressing Inequalities Advisory Group presented and responded to questions about the report and the issues which emerged through the consultation process from an in-person and online audience.  The sessions were live-streamed and live-tweeted [Storify report], and nearly 1,100 online users from 101 countries visited the Addressing Inequalities e-space on the day of Public Dialogue. Day two brought together high-level political, civil society and UN leaders to further discuss the issues. The day’s discussions were chaired by Anthony Lake, Michelle Bachelet, Christian Friis Bach, Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Paul Victor Obeng, Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission in Ghana. A chairpersons’ statement outlining a number of far-reaching recommendations for tackling inequalities was released following the meeting.  Recommendations The recommendations emphasize that addressing inequalities is a prerequisite for effectively eradicating extreme poverty and ensuring sustainable socio-economic development. There was general agreement that inequality represents one of the biggest social, economic and political challenges at the global level today. Special emphasis was given to the need for integrating human rights principles in a future development framework, in order to address the structural nature of inequalities – especially with regards to gender equality and the rights of girls and women. All the outcome documents, together with IISD’s summary report of the meeting, press coverage and archived video is available here.			Synthesis Report on the Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities The report was presented and discussed at the Leadership Meeting (left) and is available online here. The report draws for its analysis and conclusions on the many written submissions, the e-discussions, the inputs and contributions of the Advisory Group, and on the comments received. Following the meeting, the report and key messages have been revised to more strongly reflect the voices of young people who took part in the consultation, with new sections on young people, girls and young women. The key messages have also been revised to reflect the consensus reached during the meeting. Overview & Key Messages - Presentation: Voices & Key Messages. Website Re-launch: The World We Want, 16 March The World We Want website, host of the Addressing Inequalities Consultation, will be re-launched on 16 March with a new design and enhanced features.  The new functionality will allow users to post their own news, events and views on what the post-2015 development agenda should look like.
	Online Consultation on Disability and Development- 8-28 March As part of the preparatory process for the UN High-level Meeting on Disability and Development, UNICEF and UNDESA are hosting an online consultation on the Addressing Inequalities e-space. Simultaneous discussions are taking place in: Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Portuguese.  The consultation aims to gather views to inform the outcome document of the meeting, to be held in New York on 23 September 2013.  The meeting aims to advance a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond and is expected to produce an action-oriented outcome document. Building on the online discussion on Inequalities and Persons with Disabilities in the Post-2015 development agenda, held as part of the Addressing Inequalities Consultation (summary), this consultation will look more deeply at the particular challenges faced in different regions, and identify the specific measures and actions to be taken by different stakeholders to promote a disability-inclusive society.  Inputs are invited from academia, NGOs, civil society, private sector, governments and the UN System. Please invite your colleagues, partners and networks to participate! Consultation forum: www.worldwewant2015.org/enable Contact: ena...@worldwewant.org			About the Addressing Inequalities Consultation   The Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities aimed to stimulate wide-ranging global discussion on the various forms of inequalities and present main findings to key decision-makers and leaders to inform the post-2015 development framework. The consultation process was co-led and facilitated by UNICEF and UN Women, under the auspices of the UN Development Group (UNDG), supported by the Government of Denmark and the Government of Ghana.   On-going guidance and extensive contributions were provided by an Advisory Group, drawn from civil society organizations, UN agencies and academic institutions. The consultation was informed by 175 written submissions received as a result of a call for papers issued in July and available online (see below). The Consultation also benefitted greatly from a series of 10 e-discussions on key themes. The e-discussions garnered 1,375 responses, largely from civil society (see Summaries online).
	Background Papers on Addressing Inequalities A public Call for Papers was issued in July 2012, as a result of which over 175 background papers were received.   All papers are published to the e-space and many served to inform the final synthesis report. The papers range across the focus areas of the Inequalities consultation, from Minorities, to Gender Equality, to Measurement. Comments can be posted below each paper.  Some highlights include:       Beyond 2015: A shift from poverty to inequalities and from mortality to morbidity – Duttine, Blanchette and MacTaggart argue that people with disabilities continue to experience barriers to health and that global health does not prioritize the implications of morbidities. Their paper proposes that to begin to address these inequalities, the health community must engage more closely with the disability community and begin to redefine its notion of ‘access’ and ‘survival’ as the promotion of life. Read       What has happened to the poorest 50%? ODI Challenge Paper 1 – Amanda Lenhardt and Andrew Shepherd, Overseas Development Institute, present evidence showing that the poorest quintile have not seen the same total amount of benefits as accrued by other wealth groups since the 1990s.  They advise that the post-2015 framework needs to emphasize support for positive actions at national level and be sparing about imposing international goals and targets; the one new goal which could draw attention to the plight of the poorest would be about equality/inequality in its various forms. A second best solution would be to develop equity/equality indicators across any other goals and targets, and then pay a lot of attention to them post 2015.  Read       Addressing horizontal inequalities as drivers of conflict in the Post-2015 development agenda  – Henk-Jan Brinkman, Larry Attree and Saša Hezirof argue that addressing inequalities is important – not only for economic growth, development and MDG achievement – but also from a peace and security perspective.  The paper analyzes how inequalities, violent conflicts, and the relation between them, are holding back development and presents policy options to address inequalities. Read Background Papers by Focus Area: ·         Children & Young People ·         Disabilities ·         Economic & Fiscal Inequalities ·         Education & Learning ·         Environment ·         Gender ·         Ethnicity/Race/Caste/Minorities ·         General/Intersecting Inequalities ·         Health ·         Human Rights & Governance ·         Indigenous Peoples ·         Labour & Employment ·         LGBTI ·         Measurement ·         Political & Civic Participation ·         Urban or Rural Inequalities ·         Violence			Upcoming Events ·         Education Consultation High-level Leadership Meeting, Dakar, Senegal, 18-19 March – webcast live: Education e-space ·         Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda, Bonn, Germany, 20-22 March ·         Water High-level Consultation, The Hague, Netherlands, 21-22 March ·         4th meeting of  the Post-2015 High-level Panel – Bali, Indonesia, 25-27 March 2013 More upcoming events online Recent Events ·         Inequalities Consultation High-level Leadership Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-19 February – video archive at the Inequalities e-space. ·         Addressing Inequalities UNCDF event, New York, 8 March ·         Conflict, Violence and Disaster High-level Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 13 March More IISD Post-2015 Reports online What’s New? Recently added Resources ·         Presentation: Voices & Key Message from the Inequalities Consultation (ppt), 14 March ·         Key Messages from the Inequalities Consultation – revised and updated, 13 March ·         Report on the Inequalities Consultation – revised and updated, 13 March ·         VIDEO: Inequality as a barrier to Human Development - Kevin Watkins, ODI at Kapuscinski development lecture, Stockholm, Sweden, 5 March ·         2013 Human Development Report: The Rise of the South, 14 March For more resources click here
	You can participate in shaping the Post-2015 Agenda: ·         Join the online Consultation on Disabilities and Development with UNICEF and UNDESA, running on the Inequalities e-space until 28 March 2013. ·         World We Want 2015 – participate in the ongoing thematic and national consultations (see below). ·         My World 2015 – vote for your priorities for a better world, to be shared with world leaders to set the post-2015 development agenda.
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