PHM-Exch> MDGs and post 2015 -- Bill Gates: Why fix something that isn’t broken?

[Claudio Schuftan]

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Claudio

 *When it comes to the next set of global development goals, Bill Gates has
this to say: Why fix something that isn’t broken? *



In his 2013 annual letter released Jan. 30, the billionaire philan-thropist
noted that because of the progress made toward achieving the Millennium
Development Goals, there is a lot of interest to expand them. The MDGs, he
said, were coherent, the groups that needed to work together on the goals
were easy to identify and these groups could be held accountable for
cooperation and progress.

“But many of the potential new goals don’t have unanimous support, and
adding many new goals, or goals that are not easily measurable, may sap
momentum,” he said.

This wasn’t the first time Gates made his objection to changing the current
goals when they expire in 2015. At the recently concluded World Economic
Forum annual meeting in Da-vos, Switzerland, he said the MDGs should be
left alone.

The letter came out as the U.N. High-level Panel on the Post-2015
Development Agen-da began its third meeting. At the gathering in Monrovia,
Liberia, the group — led by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Liberian
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono — is focusing on the drivers of economic trans-formation “that
need due consideration” in a future global development framework.

For more details at:
https://www.devex.com/en/news/blogs/from-bill-gates-a-warning-on-post-mdgs?
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