Seoul Post 2015 - Seoul Post-2015 Conference: Implementation and Implications

The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNDP hosted an international conference on a future global development framework on 7th of October in Seoul.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most successful anti-poverty push in history. The number of people living in poverty has fallen to less than half of the 1990 level. Over two billion people have gained access to better drinking water and the share of city slum dwellers has dropped significantly, improving the lives of at least 100 million people.
Yet the MDGs expire in 2015. Whilst pushing hard to meet the remaining targets, the world is working out how to build on the successes and tackle new challenges.
The "Seoul Post-2015 Conference: Implementation and Implications" marks a point in the global conversation where the world turns its focus to how the new global development framework will work.
At the Seoul conference some of the world’s leading development thought, opinion leaders and practitioners:
Shared opinions, analysis and aspirations for the implementation of a global development framework to 2030.
Helped define specific challenges in each area of development and discuss how they can contribute to implementing the future framework more broadly.
Insight and analysis from the conference will support the inter-governmental deliberations that will lead to an agreement on a final post-2015 agenda. These formal negotiations will precede a Heads of State and Government Summit in 2015 to sign off on the new goals.
The main messages coming out of the conference were on a range of processes to transition to implementation considerations including:
Institutions: key to the implementation agenda, but the question of how to connect a global framework to country level institutions remains. There is agreement that post 2015 agendas must connect to domestic political contexts and planning.
Modalities and Strategies to drive development progress has a goal focused approach, but sub-national realities are more about the intersection between goals (e.g. health facilities are not useful if access via good infrastructure like roads is not considered). This evidence must be captured to push forward.
Partnerships: MDGs are state-centric and post 2015 should be developing partnerships that go beyond the state and integrate the private sector, CSOs and other orders of government. The global partnerships for development agenda may continue to be important to facilitate this.
Financing will occur in an environment where less ODA is available (and for MICS ? not as important a source of assistance) and domestic resource mobilization strategies and approaches will be harnessed and balanced between old instruments (taxes, VAT, corporate levies) and new approaches. A challenge is how a universal agenda taps into a range of financial mechanisms that meet the special needs of LDCs
Monitoring and Accountability: there is a political dimension to monitoring, not just a technical one, as political will to engage in the agenda to deliver on commitments domestically and internationally come into sharper focus.