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IBON’s Strategic Plan for 2016 to 2020 broadly aims to develop people’s capacity for independent action and engagement through building leadership, organization, and sustaining mobilization of civil society organizations (CSOs) and social movements to exercise their sovereign will, and through enabling meaningful interface and engagement toward an enabling state and economic democracy. In the course of implementing its strategic plan, IBON International has contributed towards the achievement of sustainable and people-centered economies.
The fundamental importance of people’s participation in decision-making for sustainable development was recognized in the UNGA Resolution 66/288 (The Future We Want). Likewise, civil society’s participation in sustainable development was also reaffirmed several times in the same document.
As the implementation of the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hits its fifth-year mark, IBON International emphasizes that people’s democratic participation still remains central to the achievement of sustainable development, and is essential in any effort towards acceleration in the next 10 years.
