INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME

1. INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA THE UN 2030 AGENDA

2. The world today • Hans Rosling provides insights into global development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo [4’47”]

3. Understanding the UN development agenda • At the beginning of the new millennium, in 2000, world leaders gathered at the UN to shape a broad vision to fight poverty in its many dimensions • That vision was translated into 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) • The MDG framework has guided development work across the world for the past 15 years

5. Significant achievements have been made, but many people are being left behind: • Gender inequality persists • Big gaps exist between: • The poorest and richest households • Rural and urban areas • Climate change and environmental degradation undermine any progress achieved; poor people suffer the most • Conflict remains the biggest threat to human development • Millions of people still live in poverty and hunger, without access to basic services

6. However… • The successes of the MDG agenda prove that global action can work • It is argues that global action is the only path to ensure that the new development agenda leaves no-one behind • The world has the opportunity to build on the successes and to embrace new ambitions for the future we want • The new agenda should be “truly universal and transformative” • As the human race, we seek a sustainable future

7. No point in going half way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLqiTvFwJk [2’37”]

8. The origins of the UN 2030 Agenda • 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20) • Appeal made to formulate common goals and include these in the post-2015 development agenda • The MDGs did not consider environmental issues, eg • Emissions of greenhouse gasses • Access to clean drinking water • Management of water resources • New focus on the concept of ‘sustainable development’ • Need to consider the relationship between nature and society • Social, environmental and economic dimensions

9. Scoping the goals: democratic process • Involved all the member states of the UN • Cooperation with major NGOs and civil society agencies • Open forums and regional consultations around the world • Survey of over 4.5 million people about the most important goals and how they might be achieved • Collaborative wish for the world to create a better and more equal place to live in • Around 5 million people involved in the process

10. The international proposal: ‘Transforming our world’ https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf

11. The UN 2030 Agenda • Preamble • Declaration • Sustainable Development Goals • Means of Implementation and Global Partnership • Follow-up and Review https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org

12. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals • The main goals focus on the 5 Ps • People: the wellbeing of all people • Planet: protection of the earth’s ecosystems • Prosperity: continued economic & technological growth • Peace: securing peace • Partnership: improving international cooperation • These five aspects are interdependent • Therefore the SDGs demand integrated thinkingas well as integrated approaches to achieving the goals

13. The focus on People • End poverty in all its forms everywhere • End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture • Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages • Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all • Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

14. The focus on the Planetand on Prosperity • Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all • Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all • Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all • Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation • Reduce inequality within and among countries • Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

15. The Planetand Prosperity (cont.) • Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns • Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts • Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development • Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, comat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

16. The focus on Peace • Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels The focus on Partnerships • Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development

17. 17 goals • 169 targets • https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs

18. Desired outcomes for the UN 2030 Agenda • Improving policy coherence • The SDGs are multi-dimensional: require linkages across policy areas • Supporting inclusive growth and well-being • Leaving no-one behind • Ensuring the planet’s sustainability • Balance between socio-economic progress and sustaining the planet’s resources and ecosystems • Promoting partnerships • Governments, international NGOs, private sector and civil society will need to team up: financial resources, technologies • Having accurate data to inform the process and the progress

19. The value of timely, current, accurate data • Need to strengthen data collection, management and dissemination to capture evidence to inform decision making • Encompasses: • Evidence-based policy for development • Evidence-based management of development projects • What gets measured, gets done • Aligning demand with policy support • There are currently large data gaps, so significant improvements are needed • To strengthen statistical capacity • To use new technology to collect and disseminate data • To achieve global consensus on the data required: standards

20. The significance of open data • Data for development should be made available to the public in open formats • Supports government transparency & accountability • Improves policy decisions • Increases citizen engagement • Promotes government efficiency and effectiveness • Visualisation and analysis tools • Data literacy skills to ensure data are used and interpreted correctly • Librarians have a role to play in developing these data literacy skills

21. INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA IFLA’S WORK AT THE UN

22. IFLA’s advocacy activities at the UN • Extensive negotiations over the past three years to develop the UN 2030 Agenda • Since 2012, IFLA has been engaged with the creation of the UN 2030 Agenda to advocate for: • Ensuring access to information • Safeguarding of cultural heritage • Universal literacy • Access to information and communication technologies (ICT) • These aspects are represented in the UN 2030 Agenda

23. IFLA’s Roadmap to Post-2015 • Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) • Outcome: ‘The Future We Want’ (June) • UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel (2013) • Outcome: Report inc. ‘The Data Revolution’ (May) • Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (2014) • Outcome: Draft SDGs (September) • UN General Assembly (2014) • Outcome: Secretary General’s Synthesis Report (December) • Inter-Governmental Negotiations (2015) • Outcome: Zero Draft Post-2015 Framework Document (June) • Post-2015 Development Summit (2015) • Outcome: Post-2015 Development Framework: Declaration, SDGs, Means of Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability (September)

24. IFLA: Focus on Goal 16 Goal 16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements 

25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxR4T6_3KM [24’51”]

26. Launch of the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development, Lyon WLIC, August 2014

27. What does the Lyon Declaration ask for? “We call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access to information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015 development agenda by: • Acknowledging the public's right to access information and data, while respecting the right to individual privacy. • Recognising the important role of local authorities, information intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as a means of implementation. • Adopting policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by governments, and access by people. • Developing targets and indicators that enable measurement of the impact of access to information and data and reporting on progress during each year of the goals in a Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report.” (Declaration, 6)

28. September 2014 www.sustainabledevelopment.org

30. http://www.ifla.org/publications/toolkit--libraries-and-the-un-post-2015-development-agendahttp://www.ifla.org/publications/toolkit--libraries-and-the-un-post-2015-development-agenda

34. World Universal Literacy

35. Selected Goals and Targets • Goal 2:End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture • Target 2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. • 3.1 by 2030 reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all. • 4.6 by 2030 ensure that all youth and at least x% of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy • Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls • 5b. enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment • Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable • 11.4 strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage

36. The journey so far • IFLA worked with the UN to ensure that the concept of ‘access to information’ was included in Goal 16.10 • It is argued that access to information is fundamental to better decision making, and beyond that, to ensure people have a better life • A number of IFLA documents develop the idea further • IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (2013) • The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development (2014) • Libraries, The Lyon Declaration and the Road to 2030 (webinar, 2015) [see Topic 1B: IFLA’s work at the UN]

37. IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development(2013) • Libraries provide opportunity for all • All locations, all people, marginalised groups, • Libraries empower people for their own self-development • People can learn, create and innovate • Culture of literacy and inquiry • Upskilling in ICT to improve lives and communities • Libraries offer access to the world’s knowledge • Access to information in all its forms • Traditional knowledge, national cultural and scientific heritage • Partnering to ensure equitable access to knowledge resources http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-statement-on-libraries-and-development

38. IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (cont.) • Librarians provide expert guidance • Library staff are trained and trusted intermediaries • Provide learning support for information and media literacies • Libraries are part of a multi-stakeholder society • Working effectively with many groups • Government, education, civil society, business • Experienced partners to deliver policy outcomes • Libraries must be recognised in development policy frameworks • Policy makers should encourage the strengthening and positioning of libraries to solve development problems at community levels • “Libraries have a natural role in providing access to information content and networked services that underpin sustainable development.” http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-statement-on-libraries-and-development

39. The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development(2014) • Aimed at UN member states, in order to influence decisions in the 2030 Agenda • Positions libraries as: • Enablers of development • Partners with governments and development agencies • “It’s crucial that the voice of libraries is heard in these negotiations” • The declaration will get the message about the importance of libraries “where it needs to be heard” • For an “active and engaged civil society,” the involvement of libraries is essential • Opportunities to show how libraries can do more than just provide access to information • Libraries also support a culture of critical thinking and inquiry www.lyondeclaration.org

40. The Lyon Declaration argues that access to information supports development Empowering people to: • Exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights • Learn and apply new skills • Make decisions and participate in an active and engaged civil society • Create community-based solutions to development challenges • Ensure accountability, transparency, good governance, and empowerment • Measure progress on public and private commitments on sustainable development

41. The impact of the Lyon Declaration • Over 600 signatories • Supported by IFLA membership, drawn from 150 countries around the world • Facilitated engagement with government policy makers, to underscore the role of libraries in national development • Served as a tool – a document to wave – at the UN • Underscores the fact that universal literacy is a key element of access to information

42. The impact of the Lyon Declaration (cont.) • 72% library organisations, 28% outside of library sector • Development NGOs, technology sector, media • Europe: 211 -36% • North America: 50 – 8.5% • South America:  73 – 13% • Africa: 48 – 8.5% • Asia: 94 – 17% • International: 90 – 16% • Industry: 5 – 1%

43. The reach of the Lyon Declaration • Visibility • The importance of access to information • The intrinsic value of libraries • Brings together a large group of organisations, reaching beyond the library sector • Signatories: • Library associations • Libraries • Universities • Agencies relating to peace, human rights, press freedom, open access, health services…

44. Responsibility for SDGs has been passed to the UN member states • UN 2030 Agenda is handed over to the UN member states • All member states must prepare their national development plans, and report on their progress • Libraries can play a role in the national development plans • To highlight where current and future library services and programmes fit • To change the way libraries are seen; the roles they can play • Librarians must take up the momentum achieved so far

45. INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN THE UN 2030 AGENDA

46. Libraries facilitate access to information • Access to information supports: • Eradication of poverty • Agriculture • Quality education • Health and wellness • Public access to ICT • Culture • Economic growth • Civil society • … • Access to information underpins the achievement of all SDGs

47. The role of library staff in the context of SDGs • Library staff promote the information rights of citizens • Library staff develop relevant collections and facilitate access to resources • Library staff support access to government information, in all media • Library staff support the development of freedom of access legislation • Library staff model high standards of information ethics • Library staff work with NGOs seeking to ensure transparency in society • ….

48. Libraries and implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda • Libraries make an important contribution to development • Advocacy is needed to ensure that national and regional policy makers understand that libraries and access to information must be included as part of national and regional development plans • Libraries must now show that they can drive progress across the entire 2030 Agenda. • While the SDGs are universal goals, each country will be responsible for developing and implementing national strategies to achieve them, and will be expected to track and report its own progress toward each target (IFLA Toolkit, p.1)

49. Libraries have a huge contribution to make • National development plans will shape many government spending and programme priorities • Social development plans • Education plans • Health and wellness plans • ICT infrastructure plans • … • The priorities will be different in different countries and regions, as we saw with: • Vision 2030 Jamaica

50. Libraries need to be in the mix • When governments are discussing funding priorities, it is imperative that libraries are recognised • By promoting the leading role that they play in national and regional development, there should be changes in the way in which libraries, especially public libraries, are funded • The UN 2030 Agenda offers the library sector opportunities to change the assumptions made about libraries – and therefore also the funding provided