Transcript SDG Thematic by UNCTAD

SDG Thematic Reviews:
What is the Role of the UN
Organization’s Specialized
Bodies? UNCTAD’s view
Chantal Line Carpentier, Ph.D
Chief of UNCTAD New York Office
23 July 2015
Thematic review
17 Goals/5 Ps?
Source: UNCTAD Policy Brief #4 : A Sustainable Development Review Process
UNCTAD review mechanisms
• UNCTAD is the UN Focal Point within the UN system for the integrated
treatment of trade and development and interrelated issues in the areas of
finance, technology, investment and sustainable development
• Governing body is the Trade and Development Board (Geneva)
• 2 Commissions (2 weeks meeting each)
• Trade and Development & Investment and Development
• Reports to GA through ECOSOC
• 7 Flagship & 6 SG Reports
• Proposes that the Post-2015 DA should aim at:
a new paradigm to achieve poverty reduction, socially inclusive & green
economy via economic structural transformation
a revitalized global partnership that leverage trade, investment, technology,
entrepreneurship, finance and other “enablers” for SD
Based on institutional experience
 With national policy reviews (of trade policy, services, trade and gender,
technology and innovation, debt management) and peer reviews (investment
policy, competition policy), and regional reviews (investment policies).
 With CEB Inter-agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity
 Involvement in the MDGs monitoring exercise, as well as in the assessment
by the MDGs Gap Task Force.
 Experience with the 2 main institutional changes in the multilateral system
in Geneva:
 the Universal Periodic Review (brought about by change of the Human
Rights Commission into the Human Rights Council in 2006) &
 the Trade Policy Review Mechanism institutionalized in 1995 when
the WTO succeeded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
 And others such as the OECD environment policy reviews and African Peer
Review Mechanism
Sample UNCTAD Policy review mechanisms
UNCTAD has a wealth of well-tested tools to review policies
and offer technical assistance on demand to Member States
1. Investment Policy Reviews (42 national, 1 regional)
2. Trade Policy Framework Reviews (40 country/regional)
3. Services Policy Reviews (12 national)
4. Voluntary Peer Reviews on Competition Law and Policy (18)
5. Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Reviews (9)
6. E-commerce and Law Reform Programme (60)
7. Entrepreneurship Policy Framework (~40) [one adapted to
youth in August]
How to integrate into/connect to the overall SDG global
review mechanism?
Country level: Participatory & includes:
1. progress made in the achievement of SDGs
2. means of implementation at the disposal of the particular country
3. policy coherence review
4. challenges faced by member states &
5. the functioning of multi-stakeholder partnerships in support of member states efforts
Regional level focus on promoting cooperation and collaboration of government actions
and peer review
Thematic and policy reviews at all levels: UN agencies, funds, and programmes, based on
existing reviews
1. Identify challenges and bottlenecks in implementation, in areas of their expertise/mandate &
2. Identify and mobilize actions to redress such challenges,
Which can be shared at the HLPF – Global Level
1. Enable holistic assessment of synergies across different themes at all levels, &
2. Spill-over effects of actions by one country (or group of countries) on other countries, &
3. Achievement at the global level of the SDGs.
4. Identify countries or segments of the world population that are left behind and develop
palliative measures
Source: UNTT concept note for Post 2015 Summit Interactive dialogue 6: Renewed Partnership
HOW ??
Policy Mechanism Review
Post 2015
CSW
CSD
CND
Stats Comm.
CPD
CCPCJ
UNFF
FfD
ECOSOC Forum on
FfD
5 days – para 132
HLPF
8 Days
ECOSOC/ DSD Secretariat
CSTD -Geneva
Tech. Fac. M
Forum
GOAL 17
MoI
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Flagship /SG Reports
TDB - Geneva
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Inter-Agency Task
Force on FfD
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Inter-Agency Cluster in Trade and Productive Capacity
Committee of
Experts on
International
Cooperation in Tax
Matters
Why this UNCTAD proposal?
1.What are the already existing
thematic review mechanisms
associated with specific SDGs and
targets under their respective
mandates?
2.How these mechanisms could be
integrated into/connect to the overall
SDG global review mechanism under
the auspices of the HLPF?