This critical analysis by the Women’s Major Group members2 on the High-­‐level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons report, released on May 30th with recommendations for the Post 2015 Development Agenda3 , notes the report as a starting point for discussion, but not good enough. The Women’s Major Group is concerned about the narrow set of goals and the predominance given to the corporate/business sector in the “new” development agenda. We look to the world's governments to be far more ambitious and focused on addressing the root causes of inequality, injustice and poverty inherent to the existing economic paradigm, as they negotiate the next sustainable development framework in the Open Working Group on SDGs and the Post 2015 Development Agenda.

Contents
• Goals setting; too reductive to allow for sustainable development
• A new 15-­‐year time-­‐frame; delaying essential human rights even further!
• Contradictions; between goals and business-­‐as-­‐usual economic model
• Human rights -­‐ inconsistent application
• Critical analysis of selected specific Goals and Targets and Means of Implementation
o GOAL 1 End Poverty: too narrow in scope, too one-­‐dimensional
o GOAL 2: Empower Girls and Women and achieve Gender Equality: some positive targets,
but lacks women’s rights as underpinning the entire development agenda
o GOAL 3: Provide quality education and life-­‐long learning: lacks girls’ priorities
o GOAL 4: Ensure Healthy Lives: some positive targets, but fails to address social and
environmental determinants of health
o GOAL 5 Ensure Food Security and Good Nutrition: should recognize women’s role in food
sovereignty
o GOAL 7: Secure Sustainable Energy: utterly insufficient and likely to have negative impact
on female poverty
o GOAL 8: Create Jobs, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Equitable Growth: Fails to call for
global social protection floor and the right to decent work
GOAL 9: Manage Natural Resource Assets Sustainability: too limiting in defining nature as an asset
o GOAL 12: Global Enabling environment and Catalyse Long-­‐Term Finance: entirely insufficient on finance, trade and climate protection
 Nothing ‘New’ about proposed Global Governance and Global Partnership for Development
 No accountability of corporations
 Financing for Gender Equality should be a priority – it is not in the HLP report
• Concluding: This report should not be taken as a basis for development of the Post 2015 agenda

1111_340_Women Major Group HLP post 2015 report Relections June 2013.pdf

Norma Maldonado of Tierra Verde (Green Earth) Guatemala panel presentation on Food Sovereignty at the public hearing with Co-chairs and Member States of the OWG on SDGs on 22 of May 2013

1111_340_PresentationWMG2.pdf

In the post-2015 landscape universal food security and zero hunger can be achieved. To do this we must both better govern the balance between plant-based and animal-based foods and distribute food more equitably between and within countries. In addition, the drive for more efficient food
production must include recognition that animals are more than a simple commodity, and that high welfare standards in farming enhance overall productivity without the negative side effects delivered by low-welfare intensive livestock production systems.

To achieve this, the United Nations and its Member States must:
• include farm animal welfare in agriculture and food security assessments and policies
• recognise that the industrialisation of livestock farming is a major challenge to food security
• reduce the quantity of arable crops fed to livestock, especially cereals, and seek a sustainable balance between animal andcrop production
• promote sustainable diets and address food losses and wastein the supply chain
• protect food security in times of crisis by including animals in emergency response and recovery planning and policies at a national, regional and operational level
• consider how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), their targets and indicators can support specific and regionally-sensitive measures to ensure that global food production and consumption is sustainable and incorporates respect for animal welfare principles

1111_574_Animals and Food Security OWG SDG.pdf

The Rio+20 outcome document proposes the elaboration of a set of Sustainable Development Goals that will contribute to sustainably managing the world’s increasing resource use within the context of dwindling resource availability and prioritizes the eradication of poverty and hunger as a matter of urgency. The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) believes that the introduction of animal welfare as an integral part of sustainable development is important, as global adherence to animal welfare principles will have significant positive impacts for poverty eradication and economic development, food security, public health, climate change and the preservation of biodiversity.

1111_574_WSPA Why animals matter in achieving The Future we Want.pdf