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INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME
LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT
AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA
THE UN 2030 AGENDA

The world today
• Hans Rosling provides insights into global development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo [4’47”]
LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA

Understanding the UN development agenda
• At the beginning of the new millennium, in
2000, world leaders gathered at the UN to
shape a broad vision to fight poverty in its
many dimensions
• That vision was translated into 8 Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)
• The MDG framework has guided development
work across the world for the past 15 years

Significant achievements have been made,
but many people are being left behind:
• Gender inequality persists
• Big gaps exist between:
• The poorest and richest households
• Rural and urban areas
• Climate change and environmental degradation undermine
any progress achieved; poor people suffer the most
• Conflict remains the biggest threat to human development
• Millions of people still live in poverty and hunger, without
access to basic services

However…
• The successes of the MDG agenda prove that global
action can work
• It is argues that global action is the only path to
ensure that the new development agenda leaves no-
one behind
• The world has the opportunity to build on the
successes and to embrace new ambitions for the
future we want
• The new agenda should be “truly universal and
transformative”
• As the human race, we seek a sustainable future

No point in going half way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLqiTvFwJk [2’37”]

The origins of the UN 2030 Agenda
• 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in

Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20)
• Appeal made to formulate common goals and include these
in the post-2015 development agenda
• The MDGs did not consider environmental issues, eg
• Emissions of greenhouse gasses
• Access to clean drinking water
• Management of water resources
• New focus on the concept of ‘sustainable development’
• Need to consider the relationship between nature and society
• Social, environmental and economic dimensions

Scoping the goals: democratic process
• Involved all the member states of the UN

• Cooperation with major NGOs and civil society
agencies
• Open forums and regional consultations around the
world
• Survey of over 4.5 million people about the most
important goals and how they might be achieved
• Collaborative wish for the world to create a better and
more equal place to live in
• Around 5 million people involved in the process

The international proposal: ‘Transforming our world’
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/21252030%20Agenda
%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf

The UN 2030 Agenda
• Preamble
• Declaration
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Means of Implementation and Global
Partnership
• Follow-up and Review
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org

The 2030 Sustainable Development
Goals
• The main goals focus on the 5 Ps
• People: the wellbeing of all people
• Planet: protection of the earth’s ecosystems
• Prosperity: continued economic & technological growth
• Peace: securing peace
• Partnership: improving international cooperation
• These five aspects are interdependent
• Therefore the SDGs demand integrated thinking
as well as integrated approaches to achieving the goals

The focus on People
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved
nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for
all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all
women and girls

The focus on the Planet and on Prosperity
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive employment and decent work for
all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and
sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient
and sustainable

The Planet and Prosperity (cont.)
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production
patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its
impacts
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and
marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of
terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests,
comat desertification, and halt and reverse land
degradation and halt biodiversity loss

The focus on Peace
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for
sustainable development, provide access to justice
for all and build effective, accountable and
inclusive institutions at all levels
The focus on Partnerships

17. Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalise the global partnership for sustainable
development

• 17 goals
• 169 targets
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs

Desired outcomes for the UN 2030 Agenda
• Improving policy coherence
• The SDGs are multi-dimensional: require linkages across policy
areas
• Supporting inclusive growth and well-being
• Leaving no-one behind
• Ensuring the planet’s sustainability
• Balance between socio-economic progress and sustaining the
planet’s resources and ecosystems
• Promoting partnerships
• Governments, international NGOs, private sector and civil society
will need to team up: financial resources, technologies
• Having accurate data to inform the process and the progress

The value of timely, current, accurate data
• Need to strengthen data collection, management and
dissemination to capture evidence to inform decision making
• Encompasses:
• Evidence-based policy for development
• Evidence-based management of development projects
• What gets measured, gets done
• Aligning demand with policy support
• There are currently large data gaps, so significant
improvements are needed
• To strengthen statistical capacity
• To use new technology to collect and disseminate data
• To achieve global consensus on the data required: standards

The significance of open data
• Data for development should be made available to the
public in open formats
• Supports government transparency & accountability
• Improves policy decisions
• Increases citizen engagement
• Promotes government efficiency and effectiveness
• Visualisation and analysis tools
• Data literacy skills to ensure data are used and
interpreted correctly
• Librarians have a role to play in developing these data
literacy skills

IFLA’S WORK AT THE UN

IFLA’s advocacy activities at the UN
• Extensive negotiations over the past three years to
develop the UN 2030 Agenda
• Since 2012, IFLA has been engaged with the creation
of the UN 2030 Agenda to advocate for:
• Ensuring access to information
• Safeguarding of cultural heritage
• Universal literacy
• Access to information and communication technologies
(ICT)
• These aspects are represented in the UN 2030
Agenda

IFLA’s Roadmap to Post-2015
• Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)
• Outcome: ‘The Future We Want’ (June)
• UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel (2013)
• Outcome: Report inc. ‘The Data Revolution’ (May)
• Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (2014)
• Outcome: Draft SDGs (September)
• UN General Assembly (2014)
• Outcome: Secretary General’s Synthesis Report (December)
• Inter-Governmental Negotiations (2015)
• Outcome: Zero Draft Post-2015 Framework Document (June)
• Post-2015 Development Summit (2015)
• Outcome: Post-2015 Development Framework: Declaration, SDGs, Means of
Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability (September)

IFLA: Focus on Goal 16
Goal 16.10
Ensure public access to information and protect
fundamental freedoms, in accordance with
national legislation and international agreements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxR4T6_3KM [24’51”]

Launch of the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development,
Lyon WLIC, August 2014
What does the Lyon Declaration ask for?
“We call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access
to information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable
development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015
development agenda by:
a) Acknowledging the public's right to access information and data, while
respecting the right to individual privacy.
b) Recognising the important role of local authorities, information
intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as
a means of implementation.
c) Adopting policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued
funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by
governments, and access by people.
d) Developing targets and indicators that enable measurement of the
impact of access to information and data and reporting on progress
during each year of the goals in a Development and Access to
Information (DA2I) report.”
(Declaration, 6)

September 2014 www.sustainabledevelopment.org

http://www.ifla.org/publications/toolkit--libraries-and-the-un-post-2015-development-agenda

World Universal Literacy

Selected Goals and Targets
• Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable
agriculture
• Target 2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food
producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including
through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial
services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
• Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
• 3.1 by 2030 reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
• Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning
opportunities for all.
• 4.6 by 2030 ensure that all youth and at least x% of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy
and numeracy
• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• 5b. enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment
• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• 11.4 strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage

The journey so far
• IFLA worked with the UN to ensure that the concept of
‘access to information’ was included in Goal 16.10
• It is argued that access to information is fundamental to
better decision making, and beyond that, to ensure
people have a better life
• A number of IFLA documents develop the idea further
• IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (2013)
• The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and
Development (2014)
• Libraries, The Lyon Declaration and the Road to 2030
(webinar, 2015) [see Topic 1B: IFLA’s work at the UN]

IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (2013)
• Libraries provide opportunity for all
• All locations, all people, marginalised groups,
• Libraries empower people for their own self-development
• People can learn, create and innovate
• Culture of literacy and inquiry
• Upskilling in ICT to improve lives and communities
• Libraries offer access to the world’s knowledge
• Access to information in all its forms
• Traditional knowledge, national cultural and scientific heritage
• Partnering to ensure equitable access to knowledge resources
http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-statement-on-libraries-and-development

IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (cont.)
• Librarians provide expert guidance
• Library staff are trained and trusted intermediaries
• Provide learning support for information and media literacies
• Libraries are part of a multi-stakeholder society
• Working effectively with many groups
• Government, education, civil society, business
• Experienced partners to deliver policy outcomes
• Libraries must be recognised in development policy frameworks
• Policy makers should encourage the strengthening and positioning of
libraries to solve development problems at community levels
• “Libraries have a natural role in providing access to information content
and networked services that underpin sustainable development.”
http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-statement-on-libraries-and-development

The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and
Development (2014)
• Aimed at UN member states, in order to influence decisions in
the 2030 Agenda
• Positions libraries as:
• Enablers of development
• Partners with governments and development agencies
• “It’s crucial that the voice of libraries is heard in these
negotiations”
• The declaration will get the message about the importance of
libraries “where it needs to be heard”
• For an “active and engaged civil society,” the involvement of
libraries is essential
• Opportunities to show how libraries can do more than just
provide access to information
• Libraries also support a culture of critical thinking and inquiry
www.lyondeclaration.org
The Lyon Declaration argues that access
to information supports development
Empowering people to:
1.Exercise their civil, political, economic, social and
cultural rights
2.Learn and apply new skills
3.Make decisions and participate in an active and engaged
civil society
4.Create community-based solutions to development
challenges
5.Ensure accountability, transparency, good governance,
and empowerment
6.Measure progress on public and private commitments
on sustainable development

The impact of the Lyon Declaration
• Over 600 signatories
• Supported by IFLA membership, drawn from 150
countries around the world
• Facilitated engagement with government policy
makers, to underscore the role of libraries in
national development
• Served as a tool – a document to wave – at the UN
• Underscores the fact that universal literacy is a key
element of access to information

The impact of the Lyon Declaration (cont.)
• 72% library organisations, 28% outside of library sector
• Development NGOs, technology sector, media
• Europe: 211 -36%
• North America: 50 – 8.5%
• South America: 73 – 13%
• Africa: 48 – 8.5%
• Asia: 94 – 17%
• International: 90 – 16%
• Industry: 5 – 1%

The reach of the Lyon Declaration
• Visibility
• The importance of access to information
• The intrinsic value of libraries
• Brings together a large group of organisations,
reaching beyond the library sector
• Signatories:
• Library associations
• Libraries
• Universities
• Agencies relating to peace, human rights, press freedom,
open access, health services…

Responsibility for SDGs has been passed to the
UN member states
• UN 2030 Agenda is handed over to the UN member states

• All member states must prepare their national development
plans, and report on their progress
• Libraries can play a role in the national development plans

• To highlight where current and future library services and
programmes fit
• To change the way libraries are seen; the roles they can play
• Librarians must take up the momentum achieved so far

THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN THE UN 2030 AGENDA

Libraries facilitate access to information
• Access to information supports:
• Eradication of poverty
• Agriculture
• Quality education
• Health and wellness
• Public access to ICT
• Culture
• Economic growth
• Civil society
• …
• Access to information underpins the achievement
of all SDGs

The role of library staff in the context of SDGs
• Library staff promote the information rights of citizens

• Library staff develop relevant collections and facilitate
access to resources
• Library staff support access to government information, in
all media
• Library staff support the development of freedom of
access legislation
• Library staff model high standards of information ethics
• Library staff work with NGOs seeking to ensure
transparency in society
• ….

Libraries and implementation of the UN
2030 Agenda
• Libraries make an important contribution to development
• Advocacy is needed to ensure that national and regional
policy makers understand that libraries and access to
information must be included as part of national and
regional development plans
• Libraries must now show that they can drive progress
across the entire 2030 Agenda.
• While the SDGs are universal goals, each country will be
responsible for developing and implementing national
strategies to achieve them, and will be expected to track
and report its own progress toward each target
(IFLA Toolkit, p.1)

Libraries have a huge contribution to make
• National development plans will shape many
government spending and programme priorities
• Social development plans
• Education plans
• Health and wellness plans
• ICT infrastructure plans
• …
• The priorities will be different in different countries
and regions, as we saw with:
• Vision 2030 Jamaica

Libraries need to be in the mix
• When governments are discussing funding
priorities, it is imperative that libraries are
recognised
• By promoting the leading role that they play in
national and regional development, there should be
changes in the way in which libraries, especially
public libraries, are funded
• The UN 2030 Agenda offers the library sector
opportunities to change the assumptions made
about libraries – and therefore also the funding
provided

Library associations and the library sector
need to:
• Increase awareness – at all levels of society –
about the critical contribution libraries can make
• We need very clear statements of the role(s)
libraries can play in the development arena
• We need to have clear examples of good practice
to illustrate and provide evidence of the impact
libraries make

http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/10546

Libraries are already contributing to SDG
outcomes
• By promoting universal literacy, including media and information
literacy, and digital literacy skills
• By closing the gaps in access to information and helping
government, civil society and business to better understand local
information needs
• By providing a network of locations where government
programmes and services can be delivered to those who need
them
• By advancing digital inclusion through access to ICT, and having
dedicated staff to help people develop new digital skills
• By serving as the heart of the research and academic community
• By preserving and providing access to the world’s culture and
heritage

TAKE ACTION!
Library asociations and the library sector
can take the lead…
• They can increase the community’s awareness of
the SDGs
• They can work towards making the SDGs
mainstream in society
• They can talk up the real value of library activities
and demonstrate how these are aligned with the
UN 2030 Agenda

Increase the community’s awareness
• All UN member states are committed to the UN
2030 Agenda
• Every country is being asked to make sure that
everyone knows about the SDGs, and how they
apply nationally and locally
• Library staff can make a huge different here
• Everyone working in libraries has a role in the UN
2030 Agenda to make sure that everyone who visits
the library knows about the Goals
• The national library association has the opportunity
to play a leading role

Making the SDGs mainstream!
• Develop resources to share information about the
SDGs in your libraries
• https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics
• Learn more about what people in your country
want:
• The World We Want https://www.worldwewant2015.org
• MyWorld data site http://data.myworld2015.org
• UN Depository Libraries have an essential role in
communicating information and research to help
decision makers achieve the Goals.

Contributing directly to IFLA’s advocacy role
• Increasing access to information and knowledge
across society, assisted by the availability of
information and communications technologies (ICTs),
supports sustainable development and improves
people’s lives
• IFLA has been advocating over the past two years to
ensure that the UN 2030 Agenda recognises the
importance of:
• Access to information
• Access to ICTs
• Access to culture

Making the most of this opportunity
• The SDGs are an important way to advance the role
of libraries as all governments have agreed to
meeting the SDGs
• Library associations are well positioned to work
across society – with citizens, with government and
with other stakeholder groups
• IFLA will also continue to advocate and build
capacity through a number of other forums
• The Lyon Declaration remains a key document

Raise awareness in your community
• To gain community support for your specific
programmes
• The more support you have, the more likely you are to
be taken seriously
• Get your message out to the whole community
• The trustworthiness of your campaign will influence
the media – the credibility of libraries will increase
• You need to understand the local political situation!

Many options for communication
• Brochures, leaflets • Planting seeds – being with
family and friends who will talk
• Postcards
to other people
• Posters
• One-on-one meetings
• Newsletters
• Group meetings
• Websites
• Social media • Public meetings
• Letters – private and public • Submissions
• Emails • Reports
• Phone • Public surveys
• Media: radio, TV, newspapers
We love the SDGs! [5’10”]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieRkqZ11rLg&feature=youtu.be
Take action!
• Learn to speak the language of development
• http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development
• www.beyondaccess.net
• Familiarise yourself with the SDGs – where do you think
library services can contribute?
• Look at the priorities for development in your country,
and assess where to pitch libraries’ role
• Build cross-sector alliances with development
organisations to solve problems – think outside the library
community
• Actively engage with policymakers to get libraries
incorporated into national development plans

Take action!
• Raise awareness and build capacity focusing on implementing
the UN 2030 Agenda at the national and regional level.
• Develop materials and events e.g. in conjunction with
conferences and in-country meetings to support awareness-
raising around the UN 2030 Agenda.
• Organize and attend workshops to assist librarians develop the
skills of collecting data and stories to show how libraries are
contributing to the UN SDGs.
• Bring together associations and key institutions in the region to
form alliances or partnerships in pursuit of SDG advocacy.
• Organize and attend workshops facilitated by experts on different
issues in the SDGs who can provide advice or research relating to
advocacy, or support meetings with policymakers.

Take action!
• Spread the word! Follow IFLA on Twitter (@IFLA and
@IFLA_Lib4Dev) and Facebook (IFLA) and share the news with
your community!
• Join the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on
Public Access through Libraries to stay in touch with the latest
stories and events regarding libraries and development –
including the launch date for the Development training module
• Send news or stories on libraries and development
to violeta.bertolini@ifla.org
• Follow the Calendar of Events to discover if there are any libraries
and development workshops or conferences near you.

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INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMME

THE UN 2030 AGENDA

LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA

LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA

LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA

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• 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in

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• Involved all the member states of the UN

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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

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The focus on Partnerships

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IFLA’S WORK AT THE UN

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• UN 2030 Agenda is handed over to the UN member states

• Libraries can play a role in the national development plans

• Librarians must take up the momentum achieved so far

LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA

THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN THE UN 2030 AGENDA

LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UN 2030 AGENDA

• Library staff promote the information rights of citizens

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