Policy Area
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.
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G20 Japan
Socially Responsible Production in Global Value Chains: A Roadmap
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G20 Japan
Scaling Up Business Impact on the SDGs
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G20 Japan
Fiscal and Debt Sustainability in Africa
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G20 Japan
G20 Compact with Africa
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G20 Japan
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Strengthening Public and Private Sector Impact through Accountability and Measurement (SDG 5)
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G20 Japan
A Gendered Perspective on Changing Demographics: Implications for Labour, Financial and Digital Equity
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G20 Japan
Leveraging Science, Technology and Innovation for Implementing the 2030 Agenda
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G20 Japan
Sustainable Financing for Development
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G20 Japan
Teacher professional skills: key strategies to advance in better learning opportunities
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G20 Japan
Measuring Transformational Pedagogies Across G20 Countries to Achieve Breakthrough Learning: The Case for Collaboration
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G20 Japan
Developing National Agendas in Order to Achieve Gender Equality in Education (SDG 4)
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G20 Japan
Early childhood development education and care: the future is what we build today
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G20 Japan
Transforming education towards equitable quality education to achieve the SDGs
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G20 Japan
Deliberate Next Steps Toward a New Globalism for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
T20 Africa, G20 and Africa: Assessing Our Impact and Influence
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
ALIGNING FINANCIAL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND INNOVATION WITH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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G20 Argentina
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Poor
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G20 Argentina
Improving the G20’s coordination on the delivery and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda
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G20 Argentina
Transforming education financing for inclusive, equitable and quality learning outcomes for the 2030/SDG4 Agenda
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Advancing the G20’s Commitment to the 2030 Agenda
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
What Priorities for G20 – Africa Cooperation? Synthesizing T20 Africa Recommendations
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Assessing and Improving Poverty and Inequality Mitigation Policies -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 and Africa – Ready for a Steady Partnership? -
The Ocean Dimension of the 2030 Agenda: Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Ocean, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
Reforming international cooperation towards transformative change -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
Coherent G20 policies towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
Implementation of the 2030 Agenda by G20 members: how to address the transformative and integrated character of the SDGs by individual and collective action -
Making cities part of the global solution – Overcoming obstacles, Exploring opportunities -
Sustainable Ocean Economy, Innovation and Growth: A G20 Initiative for the 7th Largest Economy in the World -
Nanowaste: Need for Disposal and Recycling Standards -
Consolidated G20 synthetic biology policies and their role in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
Fostering the Sustainability of Global Value Chains (GVCs) -
Accounting for the End of Poverty
- Health is more than Medicine
- Health is the most important value for the individual person and for society
- A Long-Term Transformation Pathways Initiative (LTTPI) for the G20
- SDGs and health: A vision for public policy
- A Multi-Religious Consensus on the Ethics of Sustainable Development: Reflections of the Ethics in Action Initiative
- Development and justice through transformation: The Four Big ‘I’s
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.