speech-mr-walid-badawi-g20-8feaa8d0a7e28182.pdf

Speaking notes from Walid Badawi, Country Director of UNDP in Pretoria, detailing the strategic partnership between the United Nations and the G20 in advancing the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their application within the African context.

• The G20 is described as a pivotal global leader with significant economic influence, accounting for approximately 85% of global GDP, 60% of world trade, and 65% of the world's population.
• The United Nations and G20 are pursuing a symbiotic relationship where the G20 provides a platform for policy dialogues that translate into national priorities, while the UN serves as the only legitimate formal inter-governmental body.
• The proposed post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the General Assembly on 10 September 2014, consist of 17 goals and 169 targets. These goals expand on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by adding dimensions of economic sustainability (jobs, infrastructure, industrialization) and environmental sustainability (climate change, oceans, and land-based ecosystems).
• G20 leaders have identified four priority areas to support the post-2015 agenda: financial inclusion and remittances (via the Financial Inclusion Action Plan), food security and nutrition (via an FAO and OECD framework), domestic resource mobilization and tax cooperation (via the OECD BEPS Action Plan), and trade through the multilateral trading system.
• The G20's Global Infrastructure Initiative and the Global Infrastructure Hub, which has a four-year mandate, aim to close the global infrastructure gap by facilitating long-term financing from institutional investors and multilateral development banks (MDBs).
• The African Union has established a Common African Position (CAP) to unify the continent's voice in post-2015 negotiations. The CAP is based on six pillars: Structural Economic Transformation and Inclusive Growth; Science, Technology and Innovation; People-Centred Development; Environmental Sustainability, Natural Resource Management and Disaster Risk Management; Peace and Security; and Finance and Partnerships.
• The Common African Position (CAP) serves as a milestone for the African Union's Agenda 2063, a 50-year roadmap intended to create a peaceful, integrated, and prosperous Africa by prioritizing economic transformation and inclusive growth.

APA

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Chicago

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