Peace is the cure: How SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19
Virtual event: Wednesday 4 November, 3-4pm GMT
At the start of 2020, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development entered a ‘Decade of Action’ meant to accelerate progress towards sustainable development that would ‘leave no one behind’.
Yet the 2030 Agenda is already in jeopardy, partly due to the lacklustre performance globally on SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions. SDG16 is critical to the achievement of the SDGs, yet it is consistently siloed and overlooked. COVID-19 has now increased the urgency to respond to this deficit, with the pandemic compounding existing conflict and violence, while threatening the erosion of fragile development gains, making achieving the SDGs even less likely.
Join us to hear from International Alert on the main findings from their report ‘Peace is the cure: How SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19’. These findings will be used to prompt a discussion with a representative from the United Nations and International Alert's Nigeria Country Director around how it might be possible to correct the course of the 2030 Agenda so that it helps ensure those living in fragile and conflict-affected contexts are not left behind, dampens down the potential for far greater and more durable violent conflict, and reinforces responses and longer-term resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will use Nigeria as a case study to discuss the realities of how the SDGs are tracking on the ground.
Speakers:
Julian Egan, Head of Advocacy and Communications, International Alert
Samuel Rizk, Head of Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Responsive Institutions, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Wangari Wanjau, Nigeria Country Director, International Alert
Christine Wilson, Head of Research, British Council
Chaired by Rt. Hon. Lord Jack McConnell, Co-Chair, APPG on the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
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