Values

Foundation Values

Environmental

Sustainability

• The framework must specifically recognise global resource constraints and should aim at a more equitable distribution of resources in addition to sustainable use of renewable and non-renewable natural resources.
• The framework must set out how it meets the rights and needs of future as well as present generations.
• The framework must incorporate the precautionary principle – the burden of proof that an action or policy is not harmful to the public or the environment should fall on those taking the action.
• The framework must promote an enabling environment conducive for people to live in harmony with themselves and nature.
• All goals and targets must be consistent with environmental sustainability.

Human Rights

• The framework must be wholly consistent with international human rights law and standards, address injustice, and demonstrate how progress towards its goals will also allow progressive realisation of these rights
• The framework must embrace a holistic, rights-based approach to development that is based on equality, equity and inclusive participation, ensures that the most marginalized can benefit from development and growth, and must empower all to be active agents of change.

Poverty Eradication

• The framework must demonstrate throughout that it is aiming at the eradication, not simply the reduction, of extreme poverty.
• Poverty eradication must be embedded in all goals and targets which, in turn, must aim to ‘get to zero’ rather than percentage reductions.

Equity

• The framework must promote reductions in inequality within and between nations
• Progress must be aimed at entire populations, not percentage improvements, ensuring that ALL are included and not only those most “easy to reach”. Consequently, the framework must deliver action which specifically targets those who are most marginalised and vulnerable (as a result of intersecting factors including age, gender, disability, ethnicity, geographic location and others), ensuring that they are equally included in the implementation and outcomes of the framework.
• The framework must require the disaggregation of data across all goals, targets and indicators and other mechanisms to track the inclusion of those who are marginalised, and to measure improvements in equity and equality.
•  Reporting on progress will require reporting against each goal and target in both absolute and relative terms and success will only be reported for goals which show improvement in equity as well as absolute terms.

Global Responsibility

• The new framework must recognise shared global challenges and include the obligations, ownership and accountability of every country to respond to the needs of ALL, for example assessing the sustainability of existing consumption patterns in light of the need to promote well being and equity and collectively keep consumption within the limits of our planet’s resources. 
• Contextualised national targets are needed for different countries, reflecting different challenges and strengths, and inspired by the principle of common but differentiated responsibility.
• The framework must be coherent overall, with goals and targets promoting synergies between sectors and contributing to a holistic and collective approach to achieving our purpose.  

Implementing Values

Accountability

• The framework must set out enforceable accountability and transparency mechanisms and processes at national, regional and global levels. This must include national oversight and independent review mechanisms at the international level with multi-stakeholder participation.
•  The framework must include monitoring mechanisms with reliable, comparable and disaggregated data (both quantitative and qualitative) and baselines.  These mechanisms must also operate with maximum transparency of source and use.
• The responsibilities of different actors, including, civil society, governments, multilaterals and private sector actors, must be clearly reflected at all levels of the framework so that actors are able to hold one another to account.
• Monitoring processes must promote a deep, holistic view of development, sustainability and justice, and must avoid reducing the framework to simplistic measures.

Evidence

• The framework must be clearly defined and based upon the experiences of people living in poverty and marginalization through their direct input into the process and outcomes, recognising these individual experiences are more than “anecdotal evidence”.
• The framework must be demonstrably based on lessons from the MDGs including national and global reporting processes such as the outcome document of the 2010 MDG summit
• The framework itself, during the implementation period, should be open to monitoring feedback loops which suggest changes of emphasis or a refocusing on specific aspects at the global or national level.

Effectiveness

• The framework must represent a coherent set of goals, targets and indicators which will be effective in ensuring that the structural causes, not just the symptoms, of poverty, inequity and environmental degradation are tackled.
• The framework must be ambitious and achievable, with the potential to deliver demonstrable and sustainable progress within the agreed timeframe, dependent on collective international, regional and national effort.
• The framework must be clearly communicated so that it can be understood in the same way by all actors.
• The framework must clearly indicate the mechanisms, processes and resources required for its effective implementation by different actors at all levels. 

Participation

• The framework must reflect and support the active participation of ALL people in their individual and collective development process.
• The development, monitoring, re-planning and implementation of the framework must be based on extensive consultation involving all stakeholders especially people living in extreme poverty and marginalization.