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Post-2015 – Why Another Approach is Needed

– Will the new development agenda make a real difference? No, not necessarily writes Jan Vandemoortele. Only strong leadership on the part of the UN Secretariat can prevent an overloaded and fuzzy development agenda. More consultations and intergovernmental negotiations alone will not make it. – Dag Hammarskjöld put forward two concepts of the United Nations […]

Sexual violence in conflicts by Margot Wallström

The 2013 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture: Sexual violence in Armed Conflict was the theme when Margot Wallström, former Under-Secretary-General and UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, took the stage in Uppsala university hall.

‘Righting’ the Development Agenda

In devising the post-2015 framework, the international community needs to move beyond narrow econometrics toward a broad rights-based agenda rooted in the human rights principles that it has already endorsed, and to couple this with rigorous monitoring and accountability mechanisms, writes Roberto Bissio of Third World Institute and Social Watch. Despite significant macroeconomic growth over […]

Almedalen 2013: Sweden and the post-2015 agenda.

Conversation between representatives of Sweden’s political parties during Almedalen 2013. How do we best capture today’s challenges in a new set of Development Goals? What will Sweden push for and what have we learnt during the years with the Millennium Development Goals? Round-table debate with representatives of Sweden’s political parties.

The future of United Nations development work

The dramatic changes that the global economy has experienced over the last two decades combined with the emergence of new global challenges have led academics, policy makers, diplomats and practitioners to conclude that the UN development system is in urgent need of reform if it is to remain relevant in the decades to come.