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Awaz Centre for Development Services
The Voluntary National Reviews provide a crucial opportunity to evaluate and assess progress in the delivery of the SDGs and the wider 2030 Agenda. However the COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive disruption, impacting on health, education, gender equality and access to finance, leading to significantly widening gaps of inequality. One of the fundamental principles of the 2030 Agenda is to leave no one behind, this session will explore ways to ensure the VNRs truly enable diverse voices to be heard from across all parts of society. The session will include key case studies of ‘whole of society’ engagement in the VNR process from key VNR countries including: Switzerland, Ghana, Pakistan, Cameroon, Montenegro, the Philippines and Jamaica. The session will include insights from governments and also civil society coalitions active on developing civil society spotlight reports to shine a light on diverse views on the critical steps needed for transformative change in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Key civil society reports will demonstrate independent views on the progress on the SDGs and enable sharing of best practice between a number of national contexts.
