Follow-up and review II - Norway - 29July
• We welcome the revised text on follow-up and review, which seems to reflect well the views expressed by member states last week.
• We would only propose a few amendments:
• First, we agree with Canada that references to FUR in the declaration should be kept to a minimum, to avoid it becoming an executive summary.
o On the global indicators in para 71: In line with our statement last week, we propose to delete that the indicators should be adopted by ECOSOC and GA. The indicators must be allowed to evolve as we move forward and get improved data. We therefore propose to replace "adopted thereafter by" with "and included in its report to".
o Regarding para 79, it is still unclear to many of us how the relation between the progress report and the GSDR will work. We believe this should be discussed in 2016 when we consider the scope and methodolgy of the GSDR, and we propose to insert the following language after “this report” in the last line of para 79: “as well as its relation to the SDG-progress report”.
o Regarding para 84, we underline that the UN development system´s role is to support Member States in the implementation of the agenda. Accordingly, we would like to insert “support to” in the second line, between “integrated” and “implementation”.
o Equally, “support to” should be inserted in the next line between “such” and “implementation”, and the following should be added at the end of the sentence, after obstacles: “through the organizations’ regular reporting”. The next sentence should read: “Relevant information from this reporting should be included in the Secretary General’s report on the follow-up of the QCPR.”
o Along the same lines, the language in para 87 should be modified slightly by inserting “support to the” between “timely” and “implementation” in the last line.
84. as amended by Norway: We also stress the importance of system wide strategic planning, implementation and reporting in order to ensure coherent and integrated support to the implementation of the new agenda by the UNDS. The relevant governing bodies should take action to review such support to the implementation and to report on progress and obstacles through the organizations’ regular reporting. Relevant information from this reporting should be included in the Secretary General’s report on the follow-up of the QCPR. We welcome the ongoing ECOSOC Dialogues on the longer term positioning of the UN Development system and look forward to taking action on these issues.
