TF-6: Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New Pathways to the 2030 Agenda

Policies for the SDGs need to be designed keeping in mind how to reach the last individual in line, so that the most vulnerable are also the most sought after. These policies must be implemented with humane principles at their core. To deepen sustainability efforts, issues such as climate smart agriculture, biodiversity conservation and sustainable blue economy, and water conservation need to be addressed. For issues ranging from food and nutrition for all to universal digital access to inclusive healthcare to broad-based financial products, how can the G20 countries create/strengthen institutions and collaborations? There challenges may also include providing health infrastructure and holistic healthcare leveraging traditional systems of medicine. While gender outcomes remain a cause for concern, women-led development processes require significant policy support to promote entrepreneurship and allied fields so as to increase female labour force participation. Recent reversals in SDG achievement caused by the pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis have brought the focus back on societal resilience. Science, technology, and innovation, and technology facilitation for SDGs remain key means of implementation as outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) and the Agenda 2030. Hence, revitalising the modalities of development cooperation in its various forms remains critical to the attainment of the SDGs by 2030.

Workstreams

Food security, Nutrition, and Climate Smart Agriculture
Water Security and Conservation
Promoting Holistic Outcomes in Health
Preserving Biodiversity and Blue Economy
Gender-sensitive SDG programmes and Investing in Children
Agenda 2030, AAAA and Partnerships

CHAIRS:

G. A. Tadas

Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi

Visiting Fellow at RIS for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, in the areas of finance and development. Formerly, Executive Director at IDBI Bank at Mumbai.

Kalpana Sastry Regulagedda

Ag-Hub Foundation, Hyderabad

Managing Director, AgHub Foundation, Centre for Innovation and Agri-entrepreneurship at Prof Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University, (PJTSAU), Hyderabad. Formerly, Joint Director, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM)

Co-CHAIRS:

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

South African Institute of International Affairs, South Africa

Chief executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of International Affairs, Member of the board of the Network of Southern Think Tanks and Co-convenor of the Think 20 Africa Standing Group

Fabio Soares

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brazil

Fahmida Khatun

Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh

Executive Director at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh. Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Member of the High-level Advisory Board on Productive Capacities Index (PCI) of the UNCTAD.

Lukovi Seke

African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, South Africa

Programme Officer, Science & Technology (ASTII Phase 4 Project Lead), part of the core AU-EU technical team coordinating the development of the 10-year AU-EU collaborative Innovation Agenda

Nagesh Kumar

Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, India

Director and Chief Executive of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Centre (BU/GDPC), Boston, Mass. USA.

Nitya Mohan Khemka

Director, Global Alliances at PATH

Pamla Gopaul

African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, South Africa

Renana Jhabvala

Self-Employed Women’s Association, India

Chairperson, SEWA, member of UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment, Padma Shri Awardee

Riatu Mariatul Qibthiyyah

Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

Director of LPEM FEB UI (Institute for Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia). Public finance expert in various research and consultations for development and multilateral organizations

Shailesh Nayak

National Institute of Advanced Studies, India

Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, Chancellor, TERI Institute of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing and Life Trustee, India International Centre, New Delhi.

Shambhavi Naik

The Takshashila Institution, India

Head of Research at Takshashila and chairperson of the Advanced Biology programme. Covers India’s policies in areas of emerging technologies, with a focus on healthcare and higher education.

Shamika Ravi

Observer Research Foundation, India

Vice President, Economic Policy, at ORF., Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C, Former member Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

Uttam Sinha

Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India

Senior Fellow and Centre Coordinator of the Non-traditional Security Centre, Manohar Parrikar-IDSA, Managing Editor of the Routledge-published Strategic Analysis