Welcome to the United Nations
Huairou Commission
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In the face of the COVID-19, the climate crisis and escalating conflict, communities are innovating, organizing and devising strategies for sustainable development yet rarely do they have a voice in the decisions that most affect them or access to financial resources needed to scale-up results.
Effective solutions to ‘building back better’ need to be about more than Covid-19 response and recovery: they must address the need for resilient, sustainable, gender-just, and pro-poor development that provides communities with meaningful opportunities to work with government and other stakeholders to address issues such as adaptation to climate change, secure tenure, housing, food security, livelihood opportunities, and basic services, as well as the need for accurate community data to drive timely and effective government recovery. Partnership between grassroots women-led organizations, local governments, financial institutions and other civil society actors can unlock flexible finance and the technical and political resources that are essential for scaling-up and accelerating local implementation of national policies and the 2030 Agenda. Through various forms of partnership, resources have been driven to the local level and pathways to more inclusive access to public decision making have been opened, particularly for poor women. Collaboration (SDG 17) is the key to transformative changes needed to achieve other SDGs and make cities and communities resilient.
In this session different actors will share their experiences and lessons learned during the pandemic in understanding the key role of partnerships for building back better and achieving SDGs, with a particular focus on SDG5.
