UN survey results point way for Panama politicians

The latest results from the UN My World survey should become mandatory reading for local politicians building up their election coffers and plastering the city with vote-for-me posters.

More than 200,000 people, many of them in very remote places, completed the survey – some online, some by SMS, and around half in the traditional way, using paper and pen says a Guardian report
From a total of 16 options, they were asked to choose six that they felt would make the most difference to their lives.
The results should prompt governments, including our own, to take a long, hard look at themselves. One of the top three priorities – in the world as a whole, for both men and women, for people of all ages, and in all types of country – is "an honest and responsive government". People don't seem to think that politicians are doing a great job – or at the very least, they believe there's plenty of room for improvement.
How and if governance is included in a post-2015 UN agreement remains a big issue for ahigh-level panel meeting in Bali this week. A lot of technical issues are being debated. How can governance be measured? Should it be the subject of a separate goal, or would it be more of an "enabler", helping to achieve other outcomes in a new framework? These are good questions that need to be resolvedsays The Guardian. What the survey tells us, however, is that if people feel a new agreement doesn't help them to hold their governments to account, it won't fully have met their aspirations for a roadmap to a better future.
The other two priorities consistently in the top three for most groups are a good education and better healthcare. It's a timely reminder that, while the post-2015 conversation is, unsurprisingly, focused on the new – things missing from the millennium development goals (MDGs) – there's a lot that the existing targets got right, too. People still care about the MDG staples – not just health and education, but food and water too, which are consistently high up the My World agenda. Clearly there's a lot still to be done in these areas.