#hlp2015

At the NGLS Consultation page the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) is facilitating a consultation to gather critical analysis from civil society on four post-2015 reports submitted to the UN Secretary-General:

1)     High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (Post-2015 HLP) 2)     UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) 3)     UN Global Compact (UNGC) - Release expected in mid-June 4)     UN Development Group (UNDG) - Release expected in August

The reports that are already available cover important topics, yet when analysing the TO-BE partnership from an enterprise architecture perspective, it strikes me immediately that one has quickly passed over the 27 Rio Principles that were agreed in 1992.

The report by the SDSN network (2) does not directly refer the Rio Principles.

As for the High-Level Panel Report (1), I noticed this: a) review of Rio Principles is in the Terms of Reference; b) the report ''praises'' the Rio Principles and favours their continued use; c) the report is quite explicit on the negative impacts of land grabs, yet  when trying to find a Rio Principle that would ''condemn'' land grabs, none seems particularly suited; d) the report proposes an ''extended'' global partnership, yet the Rio Principles are rather biased towards state-to-state partnerships, and states' roles Hence my observation that the High-level Panel missed an opportunity to propose new or modified principles, that would offer guidance to all branches in the new global partnership. In my further critical analysis of the reports submitted to the Secretary General, I will use the lens of Enterprise Architecture, as prescribed by TOGAF to create a draft Global Partnership Architecture as a case in Societal Architecture: The Handbook (Work in progress, Leanpub).

Further reading:

Enterprise Architecture, the Preliminary Phase according to TOGAF.

The Global Partnership, description in the Actor Atlas.

A multi-level monitoring & evaluation standard for health systems - exploring the option (2010, at Scribd)