Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

There is a need for systems thinking and systems working that recognises the different areas of development such as health, food, environment, poverty reduction, etc; stakeholders such as businesses; and partnerships which are all captured in the Sustainable Development Goals. They are all interconnected and have to be dealt with together at the local and national levels, and all of these need to be placed within the power gradients that exist in society and government.

Presented by: Professor David Nabarro, Strategic Director, 4SD, and WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19

We have to find ways to combine the political and technical processes in our ways of working. We need to ensure that government, civil society, businesses, universities, community-based organisations and similar groups have the space to come together and work together in systems of governance that are far broader and more inclusive.

Presented by: Professor David Nabarro, Strategic Director, 4SD, and WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19

Delivering a far more just economic order that really provides a basic minimum social protection for every human being.

Presented by: Dr. Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, CEO, Oxfam GB

CIVICUS is an international non-profit that created a CIVICUS Monitor where they track what is happening to civic freedoms around the world such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, etc that are fundamental to citizen's participation.

Presented by: Dr. Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, CEO, Oxfam GB

CIVICUS Civil Society Index