School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia.
Global Health. 2014 Apr 3;10:19. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-10-19.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were 'top-down' goals formulated by policy elites drawing from targets within United Nations (UN) summits and conferences in the 1990s. Contemporary processes shaping the new post-2015 development agenda are more collaborative and participatory, markedly different to the pre-MDG era. This study examines what would the outcome be if a methodology similar to that used for the MDGs were applied to the formulation of the post-2015 development goals (Post-2015DGs), identifying those targets arising from UN summits and conferences since the declaration of the MDGs, and aggregating them into goals.
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) list of major UN summits and conferences from 2001 to 2012 was utilised to examine targets. The DESA list was chosen due to the agency's core mission to promote development for all. Targets meeting MDG criteria of clarity, conciseness and measurability were selected and clustered into broad goals based on processes outlined by Hulme and Vandemoortele. The Post-2015DGs that were identified were formatted into language congruent with the MDGs to assist in the comparative analysis, and then further compared to the 12 illustrative goals offered by the UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development (High-Level Panel) Agenda's May 2013 report.
Ten Post-2015DGs were identified. Six goals expressly overlapped with the current MDGs and four new goals were identified. Health featured prominently in the MDG agenda, and continues to feature strongly in four of the 10 Post-2015DGs. However the Post-2015DGs reposition health within umbrella agendas relating to women, children and the ageing. Six of the 10 Post-2015DGs incorporate the right to health agenda, emphasising both the standing and interconnection of the health agenda in DESA's summits and conferences under review. Two Post-2015DGs have been extended into six separate goals by the High-Level Panel, and it is these goals that are clearly linked to sustainable development diaspora.
This study exposes the evolving political agendas underplaying the current post-2015 process, as targets from DESA's 22 major UN summits and conferences from 2001 to 2012 are not wholly mirrored in the HLP's 12 goals.
千年发展目标（MDGs）是政策精英们在 20 世纪 90 年代从联合国（UN）峰会和会议中的目标中制定的“自上而下”的目标。当代塑造新的 2015 年后发展议程的过程更加协作和参与性，与千年发展目标前时代明显不同。本研究考察了如果采用类似于千年发展目标的方法来制定 2015 年后发展目标（Post-2015DGs），会产生什么样的结果，确定了自千年发展目标宣言以来联合国各次峰会和会议提出的目标，并将它们汇总成目标。
利用联合国经济和社会事务部（DESA）2001 年至 2012 年期间的主要联合国峰会和会议清单来审查目标。选择 DESA 清单是因为该机构的核心使命是促进所有人的发展。选择符合千年发展目标的明确性、简洁性和可衡量性标准的目标，并根据 Hulme 和 Vandemoortele 概述的流程将其聚类为广泛的目标。确定的 2015 年后发展目标被格式化为与千年发展目标一致的语言，以协助比较分析，然后与联合国 2013 年 5 月高级别知名人士小组关于 2015 年后发展议程的报告中提出的 12 个说明性目标进一步比较。
确定了十个 2015 年后发展目标。六个目标明确与当前的千年发展目标重叠，另外四个新目标被确定。卫生在千年发展目标议程中占据突出地位，并在十个 2015 年后发展目标中的四个目标中继续得到强烈关注。然而，2015 年后发展目标将卫生重新定位在与妇女、儿童和老年人有关的总括议程中。十个 2015 年后发展目标中有六个纳入了健康权议程，强调了卫生议程在经审查的 DESA 峰会和会议中的地位和相互联系。高级别小组将两个 2015 年后发展目标扩展为六个单独的目标，显然这些目标与可持续发展侨民有关。
本研究揭示了当前 2015 年后进程中不断演变的政治议程，因为 2001 年至 2012 年期间 DESA 的 22 次主要联合国峰会和会议的目标并没有完全反映在高级别小组的 12 个目标中。
