Response of the Civic Space Initiative to the July 2014 Proposal of the Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

In this letter to the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Post 2015 Development Planning, the Civic Space Initiative (CSI) partners express our concern that there is no explicit recognition of an “enabling environment for civil society” in the Open Working Group’s proposal on Sustainable Development Goals and urging that the UN Secretary General’s synthesis report highlights this issue.