Comments on the post-2015 high level report by John Hendra by Hammarskjöld Foundation

John Hendra, Deputy Executive Director for UN Women and chair of the Task force for the post 2015

The High level panel of eminent persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was released on 30 May 2013. Listen to John Hendra, co-chair of the Task force for the post 2015 agenda, explaining some of the key features of the report. Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch expresses some critical views from a civil society prespective.

Recognizing the successes as well as the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals, John Hendra stresses the need for a future development agenda that is universal and that incorporates accountability mechanisms: “A universal agenda is one that every country is dealing with inequalities, every country is dealing with how it has a sustainable economic process.”

He further says that the new agenda should focus on quality, be cross-sectoral and have a more synergistic and catalystic role: “The next set of goals will be much more complex, much more multi-sectoral, will be harder to communicate than the MDGs, but will get much more to the heart of the problems.”