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SDG17, on strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development is the only Sustainable Development Goal that is reviewed annually by the HLPF (A/RES/70/299).
This session will focus on two critical elements of SDG 17, namely capacity building, and multi-stakeholder partnerships as key building blocks in an enhanced global partnership for sustainable development.
Participants will reflect on capacity development to realize the SDGs, including in the area of science and technology and evidence and knowledge-based policy and law making.
They will highlight lessons learned, challenges and emerging issues and explore ways to maximize benefits of multistakeholder partnerships, and capacity building -- including through using science, technology and innovation -- as the world is slowly emerging from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic amidst a new global crisis in the area of food, energy and finance.
Proposed guiding questions:
- How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected global solidarity and capacity building activities in areas related to sustainable development and the elaboration of related policies and legislation?
- What type of capacity building and partnerships work best according to acquired experience for mobilizing evidence, data, technologies and knowledge to realize the SDGs?
- How can multistakeholder partnerships be mobilized or re-energized towards achieving other goals under review at the 2022 HLPF (on education, gender, life on land and life under water) and ensure developing countries’ access to science, technology, and innovation in a post-Covid setting?
- How can the private sector be encouraged to increase its engagement in partnerships?
Chair:
- Vice President of ECOSOC (Bulgaria)
Fireside chat
Moderator:
- Ms. Jan Beagle , Director-General of the International Development Law Organization
Speakers:
- H.E. Mr. Rustam Karimjonov, Deputy Minister of Public Education of Uzbekistan
- Mr. Raymond Saner, Titular Professor at Economics Department of Basle University and on environmental sciences at Lüneburg University, Germany
- Mr. Patrick Wood Uribe, CEO of Util ( A financial tech company that uses machine learning and massive evidence to measure how companies contribute to the SDGs )
- Mr. Alexander Buck, Executive Director of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations
- Ms Wezzie Chimwala, Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) (MGoS)
