The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. As the most comprehensive global policy agenda, their implementation requires partnership and pragmatism to make the right choices now to improve life, in a sustainable way, for future generations and “leave no one behind”. Understanding their political framework and the implications for national governments’ policies is key for the HKS community, since these 17 goals provide the public policy benchmarks to all UN Member States until 2030.
Our guest speaker, Rosemary Kalapurakal, will provide an overall framework of the sustainable agenda, some of the political challenges inherited from the negotiations and ideas on what this could imply from the policy makers’ community at large. Rosemary is UNDP’s Lead Advisor on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She has twenty years of experience working on development issues with the United Nations and civil society around the world. She leads the coordination efforts of multiple UN partners and external stakeholders in terms of the SDGs.
Rosemary will present the overall SDG framework, along with the major challenges of the SDG agenda setting and its implementation. She will also address how governments are positioning themselves in the international scene and talk about how UNDP is approaching its policy advisory responsibilities vis-à-vis national governments.
Please join us for coffee and some candid exchange.
