Draft outcome document of the United Nations summit
for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda
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45. We acknowledge also the essential role of national parliaments through their
enactment of legislation and adoption of budgets and their role in ensuring
accountability for the effective implementation of our commitments. Governments
and public institutions will also work closely on implementation with regional and
local authorities, subregional institutions, international institutions, academia,
philanthropic organizations, volunteer groups and others.
46. We underline the important role and comparative advantage of an adequately
resourced, relevant, coherent, efficient and effective United Nations system in
supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and sustainable
development. While stressing the importance of strengthened national ownership
and leadership at the country level, we express our support for the ongoing dialogue
in the Economic and Social Council on the longer-term positioning of the United
Nations development system in the context of this Agenda.
Follow-up and review
47. Our Governments have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review, at
the national, regional and global levels, in relation to the progress made in
implementing the Goals and targets over the coming 15 years. To support
accountability to our citizens, we will provide for systematic follow-up and review
at the various levels, as set out in this Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.
The high-level political forum under the auspices of the General Assembly and the
Economic and Social Council will have the central role in overseeing follow-up and
review at the global level.
48. Indicators are being developed to assist this work. Quality, accessible, timely
and reliable disaggregated data will be needed to help with the measurement of
progress and to ensure that no one is left behind. Such data is key to decisionmaking. Data and information from existing reporting mechanisms should be used
where possible. We agree to intensify our efforts to strengthen statistical capacities
in developing countries, particularly African countries, least developed countries,
landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and middle-income
countries. We are committed to developing broader measures of progress to
complement gross domestic product.
A call for action to change our world
49. Seventy years ago, an earlier generation of world leaders came together to create
the United Nations. From the ashes of war and division they fashioned this Organization
and the values of peace, dialogue and international cooperation which underpin it. The
supreme embodiment of those values is the Charter of the United Nations.
50. Today we are also taking a decision of great historic significance. We resolve
to build a better future for all people, including the millions who have been denied
the chance to lead decent, dignified and rewarding lives and to achieve their full
human potential. We can be the first generation to succeed in ending poverty; just as
we may be the last to have a chance of saving the planet. The world will be a better
place in 2030 if we succeed in our objectives.
51. What we are announcing today – an Agenda for global action for the next
15 years – is a charter for people and planet in the twenty-first century. Children and
young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in the new Goals a
platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better
world.
52. “We the peoples” are the celebrated opening words of the Charter of the
United Nations. It is “we the peoples” who are embarking today on the road to
2030. Our journey will involve Governments as well as parliaments, the United
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