CONCLUSION OF THE CONSULTATIONS WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS ON THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

• Over 400 participants—representing key sectors and stakeholders—from 24 countries participated in the conference on "Creating the Future We Want in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda."

• This meeting, part of a global process of consultation on the post-2015 development agenda, had the broadest range and largest number of participants to date.

• It was agreed to ask that the issue of international migration be included as part of the www.worldwewant2015.org platform.

The consultations with non-governmental actors, "Creating the Future We Want in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda," ended yesterday in Guadalajara, Jalisco. With over 400 participants, these were the most widely attended consultations to date in the global process to negotiate a new international development agenda.

For three days, the participants—representing academics, the private sector, social organizations and groups for women, children, youths, the disabled, indigenous communities and others—discussed issues to include on the development agenda that will be adopted when the Millennium Development Goals expire at the end of 2015.

Representatives from each sector held panel discussions on issues such as: the universality of the post-2015 agenda and its cross-cutting components; food and nutrition security; health; sustainability; energy; water; biodiversity; employment; equal opportunities; social and financial inclusion; the right to housing; inequality gaps; risk prevention and integrated risk management; international migration; education; consistency, convergence and coordination between international organizations, agencies and funds; methodology; monitoring; citizen participation and measuring and reporting on implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Among the preliminary findings of the consultations, it was agreed to ask the UN Secretariat General, which is coordinating this international effort, to include the issue of international migration as part of the platform.

At the close of the consultations, Ambassador Patricia Espinosa, as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, pledged to continue promoting the dialogue with all sectors and actors seeking to contribute to the process of negotiating a new international development agenda that puts the human being first. She stressed that we are just at the beginning of the road to this goal and that the Guadalajara consultations were a first step in taking into account the concerns of the various stakeholders and sectors involved.

The findings, set forth in a paper entitled "Guadalajara Recommendations," area available along with other documents and information at: participacionsocial.sre.gob.mx/post2015