The United
Nations Millennium Campaign, along with many partners within the United
Nations, member states as well as Civil Society Stakeholders are now looking at
prospects for the Post-2015 agenda. As we look towards the year 2015, we will
make a final push to achieve the MDGs, seriously review the experience had with
development goals since 2000 and strive to help create a more inclusive and
holistic set of goals post-2015. Together we can create the momentum to achieve
the MDGs and create renewed energy for the future needs of people and planet.
UNMC is helping to lead on a platform that allows citizens to contribute their
voice to a new development agenda.
One such
initiative is MY World, a global survey for citizens led by the United Nations
and partners. It aims to capture people's voices, priorities and views, so that
global leaders can be informed as they begin the process of defining the new development
agenda for the world. Through creative online and offline methods, MY World
asks individuals which six of sixteen possible issues they think would make the
most difference to their lives. The sixteen issues have been built up from the
priorities expressed by poor people in existing research and polling exercises
and they cover the existing Millennium Development Goals, plus issues of
sustainability, security, governance and transparency. From now until 2015,
they want as many people in as many countries as possible to be involved with
MY World: citizens of all ages, genders and backgrounds, and particularly the
world’s poor and marginalized communities.
Results will
firstly be submitted to the Secretary General´s High Level Panel for Post-2015
before their meetings in Monrovia, Bali and New York and will feed into their
final report and recommendations for a new development framework in May 2013. After
which, MY World will continue gathering people´s voices up to 2015 and results
will be shared with the Secretary General and global leaders as they prepare
the next development agenda in the run up to 2015.
The MY World
global survey was front and centre of Sri Lanka Youth, National Youth Services
Council’s promotional activities on the International Women’s Day. This event
was organized by the Mothers and Daughters Organization of Sri Lanka in
collaboration with the UNFPA Gender Forum and Foundation for Innovative Social
Development. With almost 500 attendees, this year’s IWD proved a perfect
opportunity to promote the MY World global survey as a path to stress for
Women’s issues such as Better Healthcare, Protection against crime and
violence, Political Freedom, Equality between Men and Women and etc.
To help gather
support for the MY World global survey, a team of youth volunteers with offline
survey papers together with a large colourful banner, factsheets, stickers and
even posters who proved very popular among the crowds were present at the
International Women’s Day celebrations. The group of volunteers were also on
hand to encourage people to vote and have their voice heard.
IWD provided a
great opportunity for the My world team of the National Youth Services Council
to interact with the community and raise awareness about the My world 2015
campaign and United Nations Global Development Agenda. Below are some the
photographs of the event.
