1. Moving beyond the Millennium Development Goals.
Seeking a new way to define human progress.
Phil Vernon – 8th June 2010

2. Figure 1: The evolution and expansion of Alert’s thinking on aid.
Next: “Development” needs to be re-thought and understood differently. Why and What?, as well as How?”...
The institution of aid needs radical overhaul: How? ..Not How Much?
Aid should include resources for peacebuilding
Conflict sensitivity
Figure 1: The evolution and expansion of Alert’s thinking on aid.

3. Figure 1. United Nations Millennium Declaration
Values and principles
Promote dignity, freedom, equality, equity, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature, shared responsibility and the sovereignty of nations. II
Peace, security and disarmament
Be more effective in maintaining peace and security by providing the resources and means necessary for conflict prevention, dispute resolution, peace-keeping, post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding, and disarmament.
III
Development and poverty eradication
Promote and create global and national environments conducive to development and to the eradication of poverty, and make sufficient resources available. IV
Protecting our common environment
Promote the principles of sustainable development. V
Human rights, democracy and good governance
Support countries to implement democracy, promote a respect for human rights and fight all forms of discrimination and violence against women. VI
Protecting the vulnerable
Ensure the protection of civilians in emergency situations and strengthen international cooperation and coordination of humanitarian assistance.
VII
Meeting the special needs of Africans
Assist Africans to bring about poverty eradication, sustainable development, lasting peace, through debt cancellation, better market access, enhanced aid, and increased foreign direct investment.
VIII
Strengthening the United Nations
Increase the effectiveness of the UN in order to fight poverty, disease, injustice, violence, terror and encourage development for all people.

4. The Millennium Development Goals
Poverty
Primary school attendance
Gender empowerment
Child health
Maternal mortality
HIV/AIDS, Malaria etc.
Environmental sustainability
Global partnerships

5. The MDGs Too narrow Ends vs. Means Unrealistic
Global measures of local change
Perverse incentives

6. Access to justice, equality before the law
Voice and legitimate leadership
Economic opportunity
Freedom from insecurity
Well-being and aspiration
THE VISION

7. Access to justice, equality before the law
Strengthened institutions and values which underpin peace and enable human progress
Access to justice, equality before the law
Voice and legitimate leadership
Economic opportunity
Freedom from insecurity
Well-being and aspiration
THE VISION

8. A model for thinking about how progress happens
Strengthened institutions and values which underpin peace and enable human progress
Access to justice, equality before the law
Voice and legitimate leadership
Economic opportunity
Freedom from insecurity
Well-being and aspiration
Opening access to political and economic opportunity
Democratisation
The establishment of nation-states with a strong sense of membership by the people, and whose governments adopt “developmental” goals and policies
Evolution from personal to impersonal forms of participation in the economy, politics and civil society
Sustained, shared economic growth
A culture which encourages initiative and supports creativity
The establishment, practice and extension of the rule of law
THE VISION
DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES
The transfer of control of organised violence from powerful factions to the accountable state
A model for thinking about how progress happens

9. Conclusions A new narrative of human progress
A newly coined purpose to suit the narrative: to inspire and for accountability
Institutions fitter for purpose

10. Conclusions Vision-based Enabling change Specific about “how”
A new narrative of human progress
Vision-based
Enabling change
Specific about “how”
Role of values & institutions
Multi-discplinary
Humanitarian vs development
A “big conversation”

11. Conclusions Vision-based Not just adding to the MDGs – a new model
A newly coined purpose to suit the narrative: to inspire and for accountability
Vision-based
Not just adding to the MDGs – a new model
Subsidiarity – take context as the starting point for strategies which show how they fit the vision
In time for 2015 to replace MDGs

12. Conclusions Not limited to “aid”: e.g. trade, R2P
Institutions fitter for purpose
Not limited to “aid”: e.g. trade, R2P
Engage politically – work with the grain to change the grain; and on complex societal issues
Engage OECD tax payers in a new way
Long term perspective
Harness the potential of the middle class
Accountable within the vision/purpose and be self critical
Enshrine subsidiarity
Pass the McKinsey test

13. Conclusions A new narrative of human progress
A newly coined purpose to suit the narrative: to inspire and for accountability
Institutions fitter for purpose