In fifth breakfast dialogue, UN, Member States and civil society discuss the measurement of progress in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The fifth in an ongoing series of informal breakfast dialogues, organized by the Baha'i International Community and the International Movement ATD Fourth World, focused on how to measure progress in the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (Programme). Opening remarks were given by H.E. Mr. Guillermo Rishchynski, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN, and Mr. Mac Darrow from the Office of the High Commissiones for Human Rights, Millennium Development Goals Section. We were also joined by Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr from the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. Among other things, participants focused on the rationale for measurement, the need to tailor goals to national contexts, principles underlying measurement approaches, and the shift from “treasuring what we measure” to “measuring what we treasure” and challenges associated with the latter. (Informal notes)