Leave No One Behind

Excerpts and snapshots from an online lecture on ‹Leave No One Behind› for the Handong Global University in Pohang, South Korea, in September 2020, delivered by Ambassador Thomas Gass, then Assistant Director General at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC):

• Work of Other Organisations on Leave No One Behind

  United Nations

  • UNSDG (2022), Operationalizing Leaving No One Behind: Good Practice Note for UN Country Teams Link
  • UNICEF (2021), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): A Guidance Note for Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) Link
  • UNDP (2020), Checklist for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Socio-Economic Country Responses to COVID-19 Link
  • UNDP (2020), Temporary Basic Income: Protecting Poor and Vulnerable People in Developing Countries Link
  • UNESCO (2019), The United Nations World Water Development Report 2019: Leaving No One Behind Link
  • UNDP (2018), What Does it Mean to Leave No One Behind? Discussion Paper and a Framework for Implementation Link
  • United Nations System (2017), Leaving No One Behind: Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Heart of Sustainable Development. A Shared United Nations System Framework for Action Link

  OECD

  • OECD (2019), International Conference on Addressing the Hidden Dimensions of Poverty, 10 May 2019 Link
  • OECD (2018), Development Co-Operation Report: Joining Forces to Leave No One Behind. Video statement by Ida Mc Donnell, Senior Policy Analyst and Team Lead Development Co-operation Report, OECD Link
  • OECD (2018), Development Co-Operation Report: Joining Forces to Leave No One Behind Link
  • OCDE (2018), Coopération pour le développement: Agir ensemble pour n'oublier personne Link

  Development Initiatives

  • Development Initiatives, Tracking the progress of the poorest people Link
  • Development Initiatives (2016), The P20: methods for tracking the status of people in the poorest 20%. [Background Paper] Link
  • Development Initiatives (2020), The P20 in Benin: From consultation to consensus. [Report] Link
  • Development Initiatives (2018), How the P20 are doing in your country. [Factsheet] Link

  ODI Global

  • ODI (2021), ‘Leave no one behind’ - Five years into Agenda 2030: guidelines for turning the concept into action. [Research Report] Link
  • ODI and SDC (2020), ‘Leave No One Behind in Practice: Migration’ Thematic Working Aid Link
  • ODI (2019), ‘Leave No One Behind’ index 2019. [Briefing Paper] Link
  • ODI (2019), Leave No One Behind: Various Resources and Latest Publications Link
  • ODI (2017), Defining ‘leave no one behind Link

  Geneva Academy

  • Geneva Academy (2018), No One Will Be Left Behind: The Role of United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms in Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals that Seek to Realize Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Academy Briefing N°11, Christophe Golay Link

  GIZ

  • GIZ (2021), Indicators Matter to LNOB: An indicator toolbox to leave no one behind in fighting poverty and inequality - A practical guide for project designers and implementers Link
  • GIZ (2021), L’importance des indicateurs pour le principe LNOB: Des indicateurs comme outils visant à ne laisser personne de côté dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et les inégalités - Guide pratique pour les concepteurs de projets et les responsables de leur mise en œuvre Link
  • GIZ (2021), Indikatoren für das LNOB-Prinzip: Eine Indikatoren-Toolbox, um im Kampf gegen Armut und Ungleichheit niemanden zurückzulassen - Praktischer Leitfaden für Projektentwickler*innen und Projektdurchführende Link
  • GIZ (2020), Poverty-Inequality. Dedicated website on poverty, inequality and leave no one behind Link
  • GIZ (2020), Leave No One Behind. Guidelines for Project Planners and Practitioners Link
  • GIZ (2017), The 2030 Agenda: How it Being Implemented at GIZ Link

• Good Practices on Leave No One Behind

  

  Community Leave No One Behind: Handbook for Practitioners
  
  Community Leave No One Behind (CLNOB) is an empowering approach in which communities are convened and facilitated to conduct their own analysis of who has been left out and to encourage community members to take corrective action. Implementing a CLNOB helps to understand the different LNOB categories and gaps at the grass roots level. This people-centred and gender-sensitive approach provides information on who is left out of development projects.
  
  The CLNOB was designed to ensure a participatory method to enable sustained access to safely managed sanitation facilities for people who have been ‹left behind› or left out of the first phase of India's national sanitation campaign. A CLNOB pilot was implemented by the Sanitation Learning Hub in collaboration with UNOPS India. This handbook gives practical insights in the process of a CLNOB including different challenges and how to address them. Read more

  

  Changed lives, safe homes: Leaving No One Behind
  
  Nepal's 2015 earthquake left well over 8,000 people dead and destroyed the homes and livelihoods of many, many more. In the early humanitarian response, the emphasis was of course on reaching every affected person. However, in the longer-term reconstruction effort, some individuals were in a better position than others to access financial assistance and to draw on family resources to rebuild their lives. The SDC project Employment Fund – Skills for Reconstruction (EF-SR) focused on training individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds in earthquake-resilient construction techniques – skills they learned through hands-on experience. This gave the men and women concerned both the chance to rebuild their own homes, and a source of future livelihood in the construction sector. Nevertheless, as the project progressed, it became increasingly obvious that some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged households were being left behind in the reconstruction effort. They needed targeted support. This blog outlines how this was done and provides a link to stories of specific individuals whose lives were changed through project interventions. Read more

  

  Lived experience of persons with disabilities
  
  Worldwide about one billion people, or 15% of the world's population, live with a disability. 80 percent of them in countries of the Global South. Persons with disabilities belong to the most marginalised groups, still facing severe inequalities in all matters of life. Ensuring their rights and inclusion in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is crucial in achieving the 2030 Agenda with its core principle of Leave No One Behind. End the Cycle is an initiative of CBM promoting the human rights and lived experience of persons with disabilities in low and middle income countries. The stories are collected through a human rights method (CRPD principles are applied during the collection process), i.e. people are in control of their story and review and approve all content before publishing. Read more

  

  BRAC Graduation programmes
  
  BRAC's Graduation approach is a comprehensive, timebound, integrated and sequenced set of interventions that enable extreme and ultra-poor households to achieve socioeconomic resilience in order to progress along a pathway out of extreme poverty. Participants become the agents of their own development and make sustainable progress in overcoming extreme poverty.
  
  Through the Graduation programme, BRAC builds the capacity of the poorest, known as the ultra-poor, to move beyond extreme poverty. The programme includes training in life and technical skills, knowledge and leadership needed to be self-reliant so they can meet their own basic needs, improve their communities and build better futures for themselves and their children. Read more

  

  How to fix a leaky bucket: Fastenopfer's Solidarity Groups approaches
  
  Solidarity Groups are an approach for community empowerment that is supported by the Swiss NGO Fastenopfer. Unlike other group-based savings schemes, in which groups are only vehicles for delivering financial services, Solidarity Groups focus on building strong cohesive communities. They use internal savings and lending as starting point for a community-led empowerment process that leave
  s no one behind. Working together in a spirit of solidarity enables extremely poor and marginalised people to build more resilient livelihoods, reduce their structural vulnerability to debt and exploitation, and gain greater control over their own destiny.
  
  Programmes in Madagascar and Senegal were evaluated with a focus on understanding Solidarity Groups' Impacts using a rigorous mixed methods approach; India was evaluated separately focusing on understanding the importance of certain programme elements. Read more

  

  Q&A to «Leave No One Behind» - Experiences from Burkina Faso
  
  How can those left behind be identified? And which barriers must be overcome to reach certain target groups? The German development cooperation GIZ analyses potential approaches for integrating LNOB more effectively into ongoing projects in Burkina Faso and identifies opportunities for systematically reaching the poorest and most vulnerable groups. Find out more in the document «Questions and Answers to ‹Leave no one behind› – Experiences from Burkina Faso». Read more

  

  Leaving No One Behind: How to Make a Labor Market System Work for Everyone
  
  The SDGs contain the principal pledge to ‹leave no one behind›. Translating this bold global commitment into an action-oriented mindset and result is a tall order. Yet, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation believes that action starts locally. In this blog post, Helvetas shares their experience from Kosovo about how a local initiative supports inclusion of disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in the labour markets. Read more

  

  Making SDG implementation more inclusive and accountable towards marginalised groups
  
  Find out about pilot actions in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nepal and Vietnam by the International Civil Society Center's 'Leave No One Behind Partnership.' Read more

  

  Social Care Services for Children with Disabilities – Lushnje Development Centre
  
  Services for people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups in Albania account for 25% of overall social services. However, only 17% of people with disabilities have access to social services throughout the country. The Development Center for children with disabilities in Lushnje was established in 2016 by the Municipality in partnership with UNDP and with funding support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC). The collaboration with the Municipality for its establishment is part of UNDP support to various municipalities in Albania to design new models of community-based social services for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, aiming to provide inclusion to the furthest left behind. The intervention ultimately contributed in supporting the Municipality to provide 52 children with disabilities and their families with access to quality social care services.
  
  Find out more about Leave No One Behind in Albania and learn more about the Lushnje Development Centre in this video.