Inclusive Participation in Global Development Governance: Contributions from Mexico’s Foreign Policy

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda adopted by the United Nations (UN) on September 28, 2015 constitutes the most significant of all global efforts to support the establishment of proposals and means for promoting renewed standards for human welfare, to be addressed from 2015 to 2030. While it is true that such aspirations arose from the outcomes of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), one of the main provisions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is that its 169 objectives reflect the ambition to create more precise, adaptive, representative, and universal goals when compared to the goals established in the year 2000 with the Millennium Declaration. In order to set these goals, the UN system followed a strategy of creating an open intergovernmental and social process managed by the UN. In this context, the government of Mexico, committed to the construction of better models of global development governance, publicly declared its support for the new agenda and made clear its commitment to active participation in the above content-development process; to this end, it instituted a range of activities on both a national and a regional level.