Opinion: Tracking proposals on future development goals

"Just when we thought they had reached top speed, debates on the post-2015 development agenda continue to intensify – with the UN High Level Panel on post-2015 reporting as early as May this year, and the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals due to kick off soon. So it’s likely that in the coming months we’ll see ever more proposals being added to the mix of what goals should come after the MDGs," writes Gina Bergh, researcher of the Overseas Development Institute in this opinion piece.

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has started to track the emerging proposals, and so far they’ve come up with a table that is organised alphabetically by the sector category. They hope it will be useful to those engaging in the debate and putting forward new ideas, to figure out where theirs fit with what’s been said so far. They are calling for experts to add proposals on concrete targets and indicators.

Among the proposals listed is the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda's Thematic Think Piece on disaster risk and resilience and similar documents by ODI and the Canadian Cenre for International Governance Innovation.