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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:24:30 -0500
From: info@devex.com
To: georgeokello_8@hotmail.com
Subject: How the SDGs have changed global development jobs
Doing Good - Development community buzz, innovation & lifestyle | | | | | | July 20, 2016 | | WHAT TO KNOW NOW | | |  | By Tessie San-Martin | |    | | | In a recent blog, FHI 360 CEO Patrick Fine observed: "It is time to recognize that human development challenges will exist as long as there are humans… Building resilience is a long-term endeavor that requires ongoing commitment. It is not an end state." | | | | | | | Photo by: Nyani Quarmyne / Plan | | | He was pushing back on that old adage in our international development industry that our organizations are — or should be — working themselves out of a job. As he concluded, there will always be a job for "strong, capable civil society actors."
I agree with Patrick. There will always be a job. But is it the job we are currently configured to do?
The Sustainable Development Goals have changed that job in profound ways, and most development organizations have not recognized it and are not ready. Recall that the SDGs, in contrast to the Millennium Development Goals, are not just targets designed and agreed to by experts (mostly in the "developed" world) and handed to "poor" and "developing" countries. They are 17 sets of goals that apply universally to every country. And in large part they have come from, have been consulted with and agreed to, by a broad range of stakeholders in almost every country.
If the SDGs are not someone else's agenda but an agenda vetted and embraced by local actors, the role of international civil society entities like Plan is not — or not just — to provide solutions, sage advice and expertise, but to strengthen the social accountability fabric. Doing this well means we need to get out of the business of leading and doing and into the business of empowering, capacity building, informing, and connecting. | | | | | | |
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