UN General Assembly
2014

to meet the other four goals, namely, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal access to education; ensuring gender equality and the empowerment of women; and improving maternal health. Malawi will therefore be proceeding to the post- 2015 development agenda with unfinished business from the MDGs. One reason why developing countries like Malawi have failed to achieve all of the Millennium Development Goals is inadequate resources. Commitments made by development partners have been unpredictable and have often gone unfulfilled. To achieve delivery of the post-2015 development agenda, the global community should not repeat that mistake. More importantly, accountability and transparency, as well as monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, should be promoted. It is therefore imperative that, as we move closer to welcoming the new global development agenda, we should all be mindful of the importance of global partnership for effective development cooperation. That would ensure the agenda’s successful implementation in developing countries. The post-2015 development agenda should not be seen as a one-size-fits-all global development framework. Malawi is looking forward to a framework that is shared, but differentiated enough, where