G20 Support for SDGs and Development Cooperation

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G20 Support for SDGs and Development Cooperation

POLICY BRIEFS

Policy Briefs contain recommendations or visions and cover policy areas that are of interest to G20 policymakers.

The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding T20 Task Force. For more information on the relevant Task Force please visit T20 Japan.

T20 Recommendations Reports tie related policy proposals made under different G20 Presidencies into a common policy advice framework. They aim to leverage connections between T20 research organizations as well as other stakeholders to address well-defined global problems, in order to support G20 policymakers and to aid business and civil society organizations in complementing G20 policy efforts.

  • Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany: The UN’s Sustainability Goals could fail

    The UN’s Sustainability Goals could fail, argues Christian Kroll, a senior expert on sustainability at the Bertelsmann Foundation. In September, the heads of state and government will meet again for the first time in New York to take stock of the Agenda 2030, but current SDG report shows that the world community talks a lot about sustainability goals but invests too little in their implementation.

    Many words, few actions – Why the Agenda 2030 could fail

  • G20 Japan: Women at Work in G20 countries – Progress and policy action

    Considerable policy action has occurred in G20 countries to boost women’s participation in the labour market and reduce gender gaps in job quality. Nevertheless, G20 members and stakeholders may wish to consider further action.

    G20 Japan Women at Work Progress and Policy Action

  • G20 Japan: Update on G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

    In 2019, the G20 is delivering on this commitment through the Osaka Update in highlighting 2019 priorities and new collective actions put forward by the Japanese G20 Presidency, strengthening the multistakeholder dialogue on the 2030 Agenda through engagements and partnerships, and continuing the peer learning mechanism on the implementation of the Action Plan. In this regard, we take note of the analysis in the OECD-UNDP independent report “G20 CONTRIBUTION TO THE 2030 AGENDA – PROGRESS AND WAY FORWARD –“.

    Update on G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

  • G20 Japan: Comprehensive Accountability Report on G20 Development Commitments

    The Osaka Comprehensive Accountability Report on G20 Development Commitments takes stock the progress on the G20 Development Agenda since the last Comprehensive Accountability Report (CAR) in 2016. Accountability processes support leaning from the implementation of previous commitments and serve the G20’s transparency and credibility.

    Osaka Comprehensive Accountability Report on G20 Development Commitments

  • G20 Japan: Shared Understanding on the Importance of UHC Financing in Developing Countries

    Universal Health Coverage (UHC) builds an essential basis for sustainable and inclusive growth. Progress towards UHC, which ensures that all people can access the quality health services they need without experiencing financial hardship, enhances health outcomes, thus helping develop human capital. It promotes job creation, increases financial protection and reduces poverty, promotes economic inclusion, and strengthens health security and thus macro-stability. However, significant challenges remain.

    G20 Japan UHC Financing in Developing Countries

  • G20 Japan: Initiative on Human Capital Investment for Sustainable Development

    Based on the G20’s past achievements in education and in close coordination with other G20 working groups and workstreams in areas such as health, food security and nutrition, human resource development, employment, women’s empowerment and digital economy, the G20 supports concrete actions to invest in quality education, with a particular emphasis on developing and low and middle-income countries, focusing on the following three pillars; (1) quality education for achieving sustainable development and inclusive growth, (2) education for creating innovation, and (3) education for a resilient and inclusive future.

    G20 Initiative on Human Capital Investment for Sustainable Development

  • G20 Governance of Africa-Related Issues

    This report analyzes the focus of the G20 on Africa and its support for Africa-related issues, including its deliberations and decisions made and delivered in the years 2008-2016. Although G20 performance on Africa-related issues between 2008 and 2015 only showed slow, incremental increases, there was a significant rise in performance in deliberation, direction setting and development of global governance at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou in 2016, the report says.

    Research Report: The G20’s Governance of Africa-Related Issues, 2008-2016; by Courtney Hallink

  • Learning to Love a Multipolar World

    The only sane way forward for the US is vigorous global cooperation to realize the potential of twenty-first-century science and technology to slash poverty, disease, and environmental threats. Jeffrey D. Sachs argues that the rise of regional powers is not a threat to the US, but an opportunity for a new era of prosperity and constructive problem solving.

    Learning to Love a Multipolar World, by Jeffrey D. Sachs