Accountability during COVID and its impacts
Breakout Session | Stage 2 Host: Connected Development During such unprecedented times such as COVID-19, many African countries were forced to look to their leaders in the hope that they would lead and guide their nations through and onwards out of the pandemic. With large sums of donations pledged towards the fight against COVID-19, this […]
PROTECTING THE FUTURE: Transformative action for a green, inclusive and gender-equal recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic: Innovations and solutions from the regions
Breakout Sessions | Stage 2 Host: UN Regional Economic Commissions During the SDG Moment, the Regional Commissions will present the state of progress on the SDGs in the regions from the three prisms of poverty and inequality, climate action and gender equality. They will unpack the reality that progress on many of the SDGs has […]
Women Rise for All – “Together we are stronger”
Breakout Session | Stage 1 Host: Women Rise for All In April 2020, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed launched Women Rise for All to bring together influential women leaders from around the globe to share how their leadership is shaping the COVID-19 response and what it will take to build back better. […]
Islands Supporting Islands: Catalyzing Partnerships for the Decade of Action to 2030
Breakout Session Host: Local 2030 Islands Network Impacts of COVID-19 and the prospects for SDG realization are hitting islands hardest, affecting tourism economies, food systems and food supplies. At the same time, island communities are the engines of solutions, innovations, and culture. This event will showcase how islands, in coming together and working within and […]
Creative philanthropy: Communicating for impact
Breakout session | Stage 2 Host: Talenthouse Creativity sits at the heart of the engaging content that is needed to inform, unite, challenge and inspire people into changing behaviours and taking positive action. Creativity can transcend borders, cultures, languages and be used as a powerful tool to support the SDG’s. Scalable creative solutions are needed […]
COMPANIES AND THE UN FIGHTING COVID-19 TOGETHER: Public-Private Partnerships Respond to a Global Emergency
Breakout session | Stage 2 Host:Global Humanitarian Action Executive Alliance (GHAEA) Companies have come out in full force to support the UN and governments in the global response to the magnitude of COVID-19. The private sector has played crucial roles in helping to mend broken supply chains, develop new fundraising platforms, and utilise technology to […]
A New Generation of Impact for the Global Goals
Breakout Session | Stage 3 Host: Youtube We are looking forward to convening a global range of influencers to discuss how the role of creators has changed in recent years in response to the way in which activism has evolved and the expectation of those with a channel, to also have a cause. With the […]
Mobilization and Action: Mobilizing the Masses
Breakout session | Stage 3 Host: The Big 6 Youth Organizations Big 6 Youth Organizations will host a youth-led discussion considering what it takes to mobilize young people at scale in the context of the Decade of Action. A mistake made by the development community is designing campaigns aimed at young people without actually engaging […]
Data and Action: Factivism through Timely Data
Breakout session | Stage 2 Host: Project Everyone + GPSDD + SDSN To ensure we achieve the Global Goals, we need to know how much or how little progress we have made towards achieving them, what the state of the world is and identify the gaps in data available. SDGs Today is a new timely […]
Past, Present, Futures: Intergenerational Resilience Across Beijing+25
Breakout session | Stage 1 Host: Restless Development Tangible successes from the women’s rights movement, feminist leadership from Member States, as well as meaningful youth-led movements and innovations have significantly supported SDG5 and the Beijing+25 platform. This dialogue was conceived to bridge knowledge between earlier feminists from Beijing 1995, government stakeholders, and new and emerging […]