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Secretary-General Swears in Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shakes hands with Amina Mohammed,
followina Ms. Mohammed's swearinci-in ceremony. 06 Auciust 2012 United Nations, New York © UN Photo/Evan Schneider

and a fifteen-year frame of action continue -- and how do you keep nizations. What we did the first
that needs to take place in order to people committed? We hope that time was to roll out on the country
build the next level of sustainable they will keep the momentum level within the UN system. I think
development. going by campaigning and advo- we had almost 100 countries in-
cating particularly at the country volved in that phase. We will have
Bringing these two strands toge- level, because, at this time, those a second phase of UN consulta-
ther - the Open Working Group of us in New York need to be infor- tions in January 2014 that will
[on goals] and the Financing med about what is happening at also reach out to many partners at
Committee - they will submit their the country level so as to achieve the country-level; this is led by the
outputs in September 2014. We complete ownership. When you UN Development Group.
then have the Secretary-General craft something here, and take it
who has been given the remit to down to the country level we can Q: Would it be better to in-
bring all of these threads together hit the ground running and start vest and create frameworks
in a synthesis report which hope- implementing. In the transition to that give people jobs instead
fully will form the basis of the final the country level, many of those of development assistance?
leg of negotiating an ambitious MDGs still needs to be finished
outcome. I think the expectations off, and then we need to look to That is what we are doing! That
are high. We certainly have to get the bigger sort of responses -- to is what sustainable development
it right because in a world where the more complicated environ- is all about -- economic transfor-
so much is going wrong, expecta- ment. mation. Jobs will come through
tions are high. And they involve investing in infrastructure. That
civil society. Q: How do you choose your will create businesses, then you
partners on the ground? will industrialize, and involve
This has been a very transparent yourself in trade where in the
process. We can always say that First and foremost, there is a huge past there were so many bar-
we can do better, but certainly we network available through the riers. You are absolutely right,
have obtained some really good UN system with its different pro- I think it's about decent jobs and
input, and that was the ambi- grammes. Second, there are vast livelihoods.
tion of this agenda. We need to networks, NGOs and others orga-

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