Conference of NGOs (CoNGO and Agenda 2030

Second CoNGO Global Thematic Webinar–Pursuing Global Justice and Solidarity: Realizing Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Action

 

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June 5, 2023 Monday

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT New York | 15:30 – 18:00 CEST Geneva

16:30 – 19:00 EAT Nairobi | 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM ICT Bangkok

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THE WEBINAR WILL BE INTERPRETED IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH AND ARABIC

 

Provisional Program Ver. 3.5

9:30     Anniversary Remarks by CoNGO 75th-Anniversary Honorary Co-Chairs

  • Gillian Sorensen (Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations)
  • Patrick Rea (Grand Master Emeritus, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, OSMTH)

9:34     Opening Remarks

  • Liberato Bautista (President of CoNGO and Assistant General Secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of The United Methodist Church—General Board of Church and Society)

9:40     Framing Remarks

  • Samuel Rizk (Head of Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Responsive Institutions {CPPRI}, Crisis Bureau, United Nations Development Programme {UNDP})

9:45     Panel 1: Framing the Intersections of Sustainable Development, Peace and Humanitarian Action

Moderator: Liberato Bautista, President of CoNGO and Main Representative to the UN, United Methodist Church-General Board of Church and Society)

UN Agenda 2030 and the WSIS Action Lines: Convergences for the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Tomas Lamanauskas (Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union)

Gender Justice and the Achievement of Sustainable Development and Sustainable Peace: No Development Without Peace, No Peace Without Development

  • Catherine Renee Andela (Chief of Gender Unit, UN Department of Peace Operations, and Senior Gender Adviser)

Achieving Global Justice and Solidarity in Times of Intersecting Global Pandemics and Crises

  • ·Lidy Nacpil (Coordinator, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, Philippines)

International Financial Institutions and Trade: Their Impacts on Development

  •  Kinda Mohamadieh (Senior Researcher and Legal Advisor, Third World Network)

10:18    Q & A

10:25   Panel 2: Sustainable Development and Peace in a Time of Intersecting Global Development and Humanitarian Crises

Moderator: Jan Lönn (Chair of CoNGO Board Standing Committee on Agenda 2030, Secretary General of ISMUN)

Reducing Inequalities Within and Among Countries: Challenges and Prospects in Implementing the Right to Development

  • Mihir Kanade (Independent Expert, UN Human Rights Council Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development; Professor and Director of Human Rights Centre at University of Peace, Costa Rica)

Pursuing Global Justice and Solidarity: Achieving Just and Equitable Access to Global Public Goods

  • Ana María Suárez-Franco (Executive Coordination Team in Geneva—FIAN International; Colombia)

Full Funding of the UN and Financing for Sustainable Development

  • Anita Thomas (Chair, NGO Committee on Financing for Development; Representative to the UN of Women First International)

10:53   Q&A

11:00    Panel 3: Sustainable Development In a Time of Intersecting Global Development and Humanitarian Crises

Moderator: Priska Fleischlin (Vice Chair of CoNGO Board Standing Committee on Agenda 2030 and Commissioner to the UN for the International Federation of Social Workers)

Humanitarian Action in a Time of Intersecting Global Pandemics and Crises

  • Rudelmar Bueno de Faria (General Secretary of ACT Alliance)

Humanitarianism and Sustainable Development: Dilemmas and Transformations

  • Ignacio Packer (Executive Director of Initiatives of Change {IofC} and former Executive Director of ICVA {global consortium of humanitarian NGOs})

Achieving Global Justice and Sustainability in a World of Uneven Economic Development and Common but Differentiated Responsibilities

  • Maria Mercedes Rossi (Main Representative to the UN, Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII APG23)

11:35    Q&A

11:42    Break for Rapporteurs

11:50    Rapporteur’s Report in View of an Outcome Document

Rapporteur’s Team: Cyril Ritchie (Lead Rapporteur, CoNGO First Vice President) Margo LaZaro (NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/New York), Ingeborg Geyer (NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/Vienna; Zonta International), and Nina Wendling/Norm Coleman (International Cancer Expert Corps, tbc)

11:57    Closing Remarks by Liberato Bautista (President of CoNGO)

 

CONCEPT NOTE Ver. 4.0

Background to the theme

1. We live in a time beyond warning. Global inequities are widening. The ambitious UN Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is far from its realization. A climate emergency time bomb is ticking and already causing disasters for many millions of people. Action to cope with humanitarian crises is meeting increasing challenges, not least a decline in public attention to some of the most serious and long-lasting, accompanied by a decrease in funding.

2. Food insecurity and a cost-of-living crisis are leaving millions of people behind. Today, 828 million people are undernourished—this has risen by 150 million over the last three years. The debt crisis is alarming, with 60% of low-income countries and 30% of emerging market economies in or near debt distress, pushing nations to the brink where governments cannot provide their citizens adequate health, education, social protection, and other human resources rights.

3. Pursuing Global Justice—to ensure the right to development for all the citizens and nations of the earth and address the systemic root causes of a divided world—is a fundamental issue of our time. It must stand at the center of realizing the aims of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose 75th anniversary is commemorated this year.

4. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a deep-rooted relationship to peace and stability. Without peace, all other goals—from focusing on youth, women and gender justice (SDG5) rights to addressing climate change (SDG13) and water (SDG6), energy (SDG7) and food security (SDG2), sustainable cities (SDG11) and sustainable industrialization (SDG9)—will be impossible to achieve. The connection between peace and development is so intrinsic that bridging the gap between humanitarian and sustainable development responses is critical and urgent to addressing lingering and protracted polycrisis. In the same vein, implementing Women Peace and Security (WPS) priorities—a political commitment in the Secretary General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative—will be reaffirmed, recognizing women’s equal participation in peace processes and achieving global development goals.

5. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a deep-rooted relationship to peace and stability. Without peace, all other goals—from focusing on youth, women and gender justice (SDG5) rights to addressing climate change (SDG13) and water (SDG6), energy (SZDG7) and food security (SDG2), sustainable cities (SDG11) and sustainable industrialization (SDG9)—will be impossible to achieve. The connection between peace and development is so intrinsic that bridging the gap between humanitarian and sustainable development responses is critical and urgent to addressing lingering and protracted polycrisis. Similarly, implementing Women’s Peace and Security (WPS) priorities—a political commitment in the Secretary General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative—will be reaffirmed, recognizing women’s equal participation in peace processes and achieving global development goals.

6. The United Nations agenda of 2023 is marked by the preparations for and holding of the September SDG Summit, the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development, and preparations for the 2024 UN Summit of the Future. At the SDG Summit, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The preparatory process for the SDG Summit has stressed the urgency of action and commitment to focus on reversing negative trends, the immediate acceleration of SDG implementation and breakthroughs that steer towards transformative and systemic change. (GA Co-Facilitators’ elements paper for the consultations on the Political Declaration of the SDG Summit).

7. The 2024 UN Summit of the Future, organized on the proposal of the UN Secretary-General, will have a Ministerial meeting in September 2023 to set the stage for the Summit. To prepare for the Summit of the Future, the UN Secretary-General appointed a High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (HLAB), which published its extensive report in April 2023: ”A Breakthrough for People and Planet: Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future.” The Report includes proposals on reconstituting our global financial system to provide fairer representation, sustainable financial resources for all, and adoption by the UN of a Pact for People and the Planet. The report stresses that ”On our current trajectory, we face a collective breakdown. We are putting the existence of future generations at risk”.

8. At the UN General Assembly, a vital consultation process for the adoption by the 2024 Summit of a Declaration on Future Generations has started. These are ongoing UN processes that this second 75th Anniversary CoNGO webinar will seek to contribute to.

CoNGO and the webinar

9. The Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues, “Shaping the Future: The UN We Need for the World We Want,” organized by CoNGO on 8 October 2021, highlighted global justice among all humanity’s significant global critical concerns.

10. The Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues brought together over 1,000 participants worldwide to contribute experience and competencies, share doubts about our current world, and collectively articulate aspirations and proposals for the world we want and must achieve. The Civil Society Summit was rich in outlining concepts and actions needed to shape the future.

11. As a direct outcome, the CoNGO General Assembly resolved to use the outcome of the Summit—the Synthesis Report—as a substantive basis for CoNGO’s programmatic direction, especially highlighting it in 2023, CoNGO’s 75th anniversary year. It agreed to convene a series of six high-level global thematic webinars throughout 2023 to highlight and engage the global constituency on the critical themes articulated at the Summit and to elaborate on the agenda, responses, and actions necessary to shape a future of human rights, global justice, social justice, non-discrimination, peace, sustainable development, human and environmental security, and gender justice and inter-generational solidarity for all.

12. The Syntheses report stressed that “The UN and Civil Society must raise solidarity as an essential universal standard, proclaiming it a global public good. We need a new social contract that is not about economic recovery alone, but an approach based on broad consensus and not on special deals, and brings to the fore the voices of civil society and impoverished and marginalized communities.” “The CoVID-19 situation further illustrates the interests of the few taking precedence over the needs of the many. A cardinal principle should be prioritizing people and the planet over profit.” ”Climate change is a crucial driver of poverty and an inhibitor of sustainable development, exacerbating population displacement and conflicts. Action today, not promises today, are what the world needs.” The report stated that ”the UN and Civil Society must also work more closely together on disaster risk reduction, strengthening community resilience, livelihoods” As a critical element to enable progress the Synthesis report stressed that ”The budgets of the United Nations System are minuscule in relation to the tasks assigned to it in the UN Charter and by governments. Member States must substantially increase unrestricted funding for the UN, especially its core budget, on a predictable and timely basis.”

Emphases of the Second Webinar

13. At this CoNGO webinar, we will be able to highlight and discuss the following:
a. Review of the UN and expert conclusions on the implementation of agreed goals and the severity of the current climate, environment and development crises and discussing how better to make people around the world informed on the realities of the crises which require action for their existence, and that of future generations.

b. Reaffirmation of the fundamental UN development principles of global solidarity, right to development, peace and security, and common but different responsibilities, including strengthening “the global architecture for peace, security and finance; for ensuring more equity and fairness in global decision-making; for placing gender equality at the heart of a reinvigorated multilateral architecture; for rebuilding trust in multilateralism through inclusion and accountability” as recommended by the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (HLAB).

c. Reiteration of the treaty obligations on social and economic rights and the critical role of and strengthening of the public sector for their implementation and building social protection systems, health, education and other social services to co-design preventative and responsive support systems that fulfill the rights and meet the needs of people and adequately integrate human rights obligations and standards into budgetary decisions.

d. Recognition that present and future water scarcity is and will be at the basis of increasing conflict, the webinar (in the context of SDG 6) will touch upon equitable water rights and community leadership. Moreover (in the context of SDG 11), the webinar will explore the centrality of achieving sustainable cities, including safe, adequate, affordable food, housing, water and energy services, health services, sustainable transportation, and decent work and a living wage.

e. Emphasis on SDG Goal 10, called an Orphan goal by the ECOSOC President at the CoNGO Assembly in 2021, while deepening inequality remains a key obstacle to achieving globally agreed ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the promise to leave no one behind.

f. Underlining of the UN Charter, which mandates the specialized agencies and related international organizations like the World Bank and IMF within the UN System to be under UN policy guidance and to review broadly supported reform proposals to enhance UN policy guidance and democratize those institutions, and strengthen the role of developing countries in the international financial institutions. It can be recalled that the NGO Millennium Forum at the UN in 2000 made strong calls for such reforms.

g. Recognition of the critical role of current financing for development processes and financing commitments within the climate change negotiations, but also acknowledging that the global needs call for enormous, far larger, many trillions more of dollars, financial resources to be raised and the need for a broad global public mobilization to generate such funds, which possibly could include convening a UN world conference.

h. Awareness-raising on the complexity of the current humanitarian crises caused by disasters and conflicts, including the increasing concern by humanitarian and faith-based bodies over suffering caused by sanctions and unilateral coercive measures.

i. Further stress on the need for a global information campaign to support drastically increased and total funding for the United Nations to fulfill its Charter role and implement its agreed programmes.

14. A webinar outcome document will reflect the strong points raised in the presentations and discussions. Among others, it will address concerns raised in the CoNGO Civil Society Summit of Substantive Issues (2021) and issues raised in the Secretary-General’s Advisory Report on Effective Multilateralism, which is that “our global governance system be redesigned around equitable access to global public goods, allowing all people, everywhere to benefit from our collective resources, knowledge, and security.”

15. The Outcome Document must reflect the urgency of ensuring the human species’ viability and the planet’s sustainability. This can only happen with radically new financial resources, profuse political courage at all levels of governance, and abundant political will among all people. Such resources must ensure the total funding of the core budget of the UN, including all internationally agreed development goals. To reach the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, including reducing inequality within and among countries, an unprecedented mobilization of resources is imperative, reflecting the just and equal distribution of common global public goods. It must also reflect our resolve to address global economic governance based on principles of the UN Charter—so that the UN we need steps up to the demands of the world we want.

Background Information
a) CoNGO Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues. http://ngocongo.org/27th-general-assembly/pre-assembly-civil-society-summit-on-substantive-issues
b) Synthesis Report of the CoNGO Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues. http://ngocongo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Synthesis_Report_Civil_Society_Summit_2021.Final_.pdf
c) CoNGO Declaration on the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations. http://ngocongo.org/declaration-of-the-conference-of-non-governmental-organizations-in-consultative-relationship-with-the-united-nations-congo-on-the-occasion-of-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations
d) High-Level Political Forum 2023 https://hlpf.un.org/2023
e) Our Common Agenda (UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s vision for the future of global cooperation) https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda
f) The SDG Summit (Sept. 18-19, 2023) https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023
g) Summit of the Future (Sept. 22-23, 2024) https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future
h) Invitation to the 75th Anniversary Celebrations of CoNGO in 2023 https://ngocongo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sorensen_Rea_Joint_Anniversary_Letter.pdf

Second CoNGO Global Thematic Webinar–Pursuing Global Justice and Solidarity: Realizing Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Action

 

Click to register for webinar online participation.

June 5, 2023 Monday

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT New York | 15:30 – 18:00 CEST Geneva

16:30 – 19:00 EAT Nairobi | 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM ICT Bangkok

Time Zone Calculator

THE WEBINAR WILL BE INTERPRETED IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH AND ARABIC

 

Provisional Program Ver. 3.5

9:30     Anniversary Remarks by CoNGO 75th-Anniversary Honorary Co-Chairs

  • Gillian Sorensen (Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations)
  • Patrick Rea (Grand Master Emeritus, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, OSMTH)

9:34     Opening Remarks

  • Liberato Bautista (President of CoNGO and Assistant General Secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of The United Methodist Church—General Board of Church and Society)

9:40     Framing Remarks

  • Samuel Rizk (Head of Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Responsive Institutions {CPPRI}, Crisis Bureau, United Nations Development Programme {UNDP})

9:45     Panel 1: Framing the Intersections of Sustainable Development, Peace and Humanitarian Action

Moderator: Liberato Bautista, President of CoNGO and Main Representative to the UN, United Methodist Church-General Board of Church and Society)

UN Agenda 2030 and the WSIS Action Lines: Convergences for the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Tomas Lamanauskas (Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union)

Gender Justice and the Achievement of Sustainable Development and Sustainable Peace: No Development Without Peace, No Peace Without Development

  • Catherine Renee Andela (Chief of Gender Unit, UN Department of Peace Operations, and Senior Gender Adviser)

Achieving Global Justice and Solidarity in Times of Intersecting Global Pandemics and Crises

  • ·Lidy Nacpil (Coordinator, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, Philippines)

International Financial Institutions and Trade: Their Impacts on Development

  •  Kinda Mohamadieh (Senior Researcher and Legal Advisor, Third World Network)

10:18    Q & A

10:25   Panel 2: Sustainable Development and Peace in a Time of Intersecting Global Development and Humanitarian Crises

Moderator: Jan Lönn (Chair of CoNGO Board Standing Committee on Agenda 2030, Secretary General of ISMUN)

Reducing Inequalities Within and Among Countries: Challenges and Prospects in Implementing the Right to Development

  • Mihir Kanade (Independent Expert, UN Human Rights Council Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development; Professor and Director of Human Rights Centre at University of Peace, Costa Rica)

Pursuing Global Justice and Solidarity: Achieving Just and Equitable Access to Global Public Goods

  • Ana María Suárez-Franco (Executive Coordination Team in Geneva—FIAN International; Colombia)

Full Funding of the UN and Financing for Sustainable Development

  • Anita Thomas (Chair, NGO Committee on Financing for Development; Representative to the UN of Women First International)

10:53   Q&A

11:00    Panel 3: Sustainable Development In a Time of Intersecting Global Development and Humanitarian Crises

Moderator: Priska Fleischlin (Vice Chair of CoNGO Board Standing Committee on Agenda 2030 and Commissioner to the UN for the International Federation of Social Workers)

Humanitarian Action in a Time of Intersecting Global Pandemics and Crises

  • Rudelmar Bueno de Faria (General Secretary of ACT Alliance)

Humanitarianism and Sustainable Development: Dilemmas and Transformations

  • Ignacio Packer (Executive Director of Initiatives of Change {IofC} and former Executive Director of ICVA {global consortium of humanitarian NGOs})

Achieving Global Justice and Sustainability in a World of Uneven Economic Development and Common but Differentiated Responsibilities

  • Maria Mercedes Rossi (Main Representative to the UN, Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII APG23)

11:35    Q&A

11:42    Break for Rapporteurs

11:50    Rapporteur’s Report in View of an Outcome Document

Rapporteur’s Team: Cyril Ritchie (Lead Rapporteur, CoNGO First Vice President) Margo LaZaro (NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/New York), Ingeborg Geyer (NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/Vienna; Zonta International), and Nina Wendling/Norm Coleman (International Cancer Expert Corps, tbc)

11:57    Closing Remarks by Liberato Bautista (President of CoNGO)

 

CONCEPT NOTE Ver. 4.0

Background to the theme

1. We live in a time beyond warning. Global inequities are widening. The ambitious UN Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is far from its realization. A climate emergency time bomb is ticking and already causing disasters for many millions of people. Action to cope with humanitarian crises is meeting increasing challenges, not least a decline in public attention to some of the most serious and long-lasting, accompanied by a decrease in funding.

2. Food insecurity and a cost-of-living crisis are leaving millions of people behind. Today, 828 million people are undernourished—this has risen by 150 million over the last three years. The debt crisis is alarming, with 60% of low-income countries and 30% of emerging market economies in or near debt distress, pushing nations to the brink where governments cannot provide their citizens adequate health, education, social protection, and other human resources rights.

3. Pursuing Global Justice—to ensure the right to development for all the citizens and nations of the earth and address the systemic root causes of a divided world—is a fundamental issue of our time. It must stand at the center of realizing the aims of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose 75th anniversary is commemorated this year.

4. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a deep-rooted relationship to peace and stability. Without peace, all other goals—from focusing on youth, women and gender justice (SDG5) rights to addressing climate change (SDG13) and water (SDG6), energy (SDG7) and food security (SDG2), sustainable cities (SDG11) and sustainable industrialization (SDG9)—will be impossible to achieve. The connection between peace and development is so intrinsic that bridging the gap between humanitarian and sustainable development responses is critical and urgent to addressing lingering and protracted polycrisis. In the same vein, implementing Women Peace and Security (WPS) priorities—a political commitment in the Secretary General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative—will be reaffirmed, recognizing women’s equal participation in peace processes and achieving global development goals.

5. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a deep-rooted relationship to peace and stability. Without peace, all other goals—from focusing on youth, women and gender justice (SDG5) rights to addressing climate change (SDG13) and water (SDG6), energy (SZDG7) and food security (SDG2), sustainable cities (SDG11) and sustainable industrialization (SDG9)—will be impossible to achieve. The connection between peace and development is so intrinsic that bridging the gap between humanitarian and sustainable development responses is critical and urgent to addressing lingering and protracted polycrisis. Similarly, implementing Women’s Peace and Security (WPS) priorities—a political commitment in the Secretary General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative—will be reaffirmed, recognizing women’s equal participation in peace processes and achieving global development goals.

6. The United Nations agenda of 2023 is marked by the preparations for and holding of the September SDG Summit, the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development, and preparations for the 2024 UN Summit of the Future. At the SDG Summit, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The preparatory process for the SDG Summit has stressed the urgency of action and commitment to focus on reversing negative trends, the immediate acceleration of SDG implementation and breakthroughs that steer towards transformative and systemic change. (GA Co-Facilitators’ elements paper for the consultations on the Political Declaration of the SDG Summit).

7. The 2024 UN Summit of the Future, organized on the proposal of the UN Secretary-General, will have a Ministerial meeting in September 2023 to set the stage for the Summit. To prepare for the Summit of the Future, the UN Secretary-General appointed a High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (HLAB), which published its extensive report in April 2023: ”A Breakthrough for People and Planet: Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future.” The Report includes proposals on reconstituting our global financial system to provide fairer representation, sustainable financial resources for all, and adoption by the UN of a Pact for People and the Planet. The report stresses that ”On our current trajectory, we face a collective breakdown. We are putting the existence of future generations at risk”.

8. At the UN General Assembly, a vital consultation process for the adoption by the 2024 Summit of a Declaration on Future Generations has started. These are ongoing UN processes that this second 75th Anniversary CoNGO webinar will seek to contribute to.

CoNGO and the webinar

9. The Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues, “Shaping the Future: The UN We Need for the World We Want,” organized by CoNGO on 8 October 2021, highlighted global justice among all humanity’s significant global critical concerns.

10. The Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues brought together over 1,000 participants worldwide to contribute experience and competencies, share doubts about our current world, and collectively articulate aspirations and proposals for the world we want and must achieve. The Civil Society Summit was rich in outlining concepts and actions needed to shape the future.

11. As a direct outcome, the CoNGO General Assembly resolved to use the outcome of the Summit—the Synthesis Report—as a substantive basis for CoNGO’s programmatic direction, especially highlighting it in 2023, CoNGO’s 75th anniversary year. It agreed to convene a series of six high-level global thematic webinars throughout 2023 to highlight and engage the global constituency on the critical themes articulated at the Summit and to elaborate on the agenda, responses, and actions necessary to shape a future of human rights, global justice, social justice, non-discrimination, peace, sustainable development, human and environmental security, and gender justice and inter-generational solidarity for all.

12. The Syntheses report stressed that “The UN and Civil Society must raise solidarity as an essential universal standard, proclaiming it a global public good. We need a new social contract that is not about economic recovery alone, but an approach based on broad consensus and not on special deals, and brings to the fore the voices of civil society and impoverished and marginalized communities.” “The CoVID-19 situation further illustrates the interests of the few taking precedence over the needs of the many. A cardinal principle should be prioritizing people and the planet over profit.” ”Climate change is a crucial driver of poverty and an inhibitor of sustainable development, exacerbating population displacement and conflicts. Action today, not promises today, are what the world needs.” The report stated that ”the UN and Civil Society must also work more closely together on disaster risk reduction, strengthening community resilience, livelihoods” As a critical element to enable progress the Synthesis report stressed that ”The budgets of the United Nations System are minuscule in relation to the tasks assigned to it in the UN Charter and by governments. Member States must substantially increase unrestricted funding for the UN, especially its core budget, on a predictable and timely basis.”

Emphases of the Second Webinar

13. At this CoNGO webinar, we will be able to highlight and discuss the following:
a. Review of the UN and expert conclusions on the implementation of agreed goals and the severity of the current climate, environment and development crises and discussing how better to make people around the world informed on the realities of the crises which require action for their existence, and that of future generations.

b. Reaffirmation of the fundamental UN development principles of global solidarity, right to development, peace and security, and common but different responsibilities, including strengthening “the global architecture for peace, security and finance; for ensuring more equity and fairness in global decision-making; for placing gender equality at the heart of a reinvigorated multilateral architecture; for rebuilding trust in multilateralism through inclusion and accountability” as recommended by the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (HLAB).

c. Reiteration of the treaty obligations on social and economic rights and the critical role of and strengthening of the public sector for their implementation and building social protection systems, health, education and other social services to co-design preventative and responsive support systems that fulfill the rights and meet the needs of people and adequately integrate human rights obligations and standards into budgetary decisions.

d. Recognition that present and future water scarcity is and will be at the basis of increasing conflict, the webinar (in the context of SDG 6) will touch upon equitable water rights and community leadership. Moreover (in the context of SDG 11), the webinar will explore the centrality of achieving sustainable cities, including safe, adequate, affordable food, housing, water and energy services, health services, sustainable transportation, and decent work and a living wage.

e. Emphasis on SDG Goal 10, called an Orphan goal by the ECOSOC President at the CoNGO Assembly in 2021, while deepening inequality remains a key obstacle to achieving globally agreed ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the promise to leave no one behind.

f. Underlining of the UN Charter, which mandates the specialized agencies and related international organizations like the World Bank and IMF within the UN System to be under UN policy guidance and to review broadly supported reform proposals to enhance UN policy guidance and democratize those institutions, and strengthen the role of developing countries in the international financial institutions. It can be recalled that the NGO Millennium Forum at the UN in 2000 made strong calls for such reforms.

g. Recognition of the critical role of current financing for development processes and financing commitments within the climate change negotiations, but also acknowledging that the global needs call for enormous, far larger, many trillions more of dollars, financial resources to be raised and the need for a broad global public mobilization to generate such funds, which possibly could include convening a UN world conference.

h. Awareness-raising on the complexity of the current humanitarian crises caused by disasters and conflicts, including the increasing concern by humanitarian and faith-based bodies over suffering caused by sanctions and unilateral coercive measures.

i. Further stress on the need for a global information campaign to support drastically increased and total funding for the United Nations to fulfill its Charter role and implement its agreed programmes.

14. A webinar outcome document will reflect the strong points raised in the presentations and discussions. Among others, it will address concerns raised in the CoNGO Civil Society Summit of Substantive Issues (2021) and issues raised in the Secretary-General’s Advisory Report on Effective Multilateralism, which is that “our global governance system be redesigned around equitable access to global public goods, allowing all people, everywhere to benefit from our collective resources, knowledge, and security.”

15. The Outcome Document must reflect the urgency of ensuring the human species’ viability and the planet’s sustainability. This can only happen with radically new financial resources, profuse political courage at all levels of governance, and abundant political will among all people. Such resources must ensure the total funding of the core budget of the UN, including all internationally agreed development goals. To reach the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, including reducing inequality within and among countries, an unprecedented mobilization of resources is imperative, reflecting the just and equal distribution of common global public goods. It must also reflect our resolve to address global economic governance based on principles of the UN Charter—so that the UN we need steps up to the demands of the world we want.

Background Information
a) CoNGO Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues. http://ngocongo.org/27th-general-assembly/pre-assembly-civil-society-summit-on-substantive-issues
b) Synthesis Report of the CoNGO Civil Society Summit on Substantive Issues. http://ngocongo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Synthesis_Report_Civil_Society_Summit_2021.Final_.pdf
c) CoNGO Declaration on the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations. http://ngocongo.org/declaration-of-the-conference-of-non-governmental-organizations-in-consultative-relationship-with-the-united-nations-congo-on-the-occasion-of-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations
d) High-Level Political Forum 2023 https://hlpf.un.org/2023
e) Our Common Agenda (UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s vision for the future of global cooperation) https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda
f) The SDG Summit (Sept. 18-19, 2023) https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023
g) Summit of the Future (Sept. 22-23, 2024) https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/summit-of-the-future
h) Invitation to the 75th Anniversary Celebrations of CoNGO in 2023 https://ngocongo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sorensen_Rea_Joint_Anniversary_Letter.pdf

WSIS and NGOs–Indispensable Cooperation (In Implementing the WSIS Action Lines)

WSIS and NGOs–Indispensable Cooperation

(In Implementing the WSIS Action Lines)


A Thematic Workshop Organized by the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)

Session 375:

ICTs, Civil Society and Sustainable Development as Co-Constitutive Global Public Goods: Promise, Perils and Possibilities

Monday, 30 May 2022

09:00–10:45 CET (UTC+02:00)
03:00AM-04:45AM New York EST
03:00PM-04:45PM Hong Kong and Manila
02:00PM-03:45PM Bangkok
Physical Venue: Room C1, ITU Tower Building, Geneva, Switzerland

This thematic session focuses on the role and responsibilities of civil society, in particular non-governmental organizations, in the development of policy and the prospering of “information society” and “knowledge society”. The session will highlight the collaboration between WSIS and NGOs–in particular, that of the focal role of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)–in the implementation and achievement of the WSIS Action Lines and themes derived from Geneva Action Plan.

The thematic workshop recommits CoNGO and NGOs to the achievement of the WSIS Action Lines, including the continuation of WSIS Beyond 2025 in the context of the UN Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop will spotlight the need for a just, inclusive, sustainable and peaceable knowledge, information and digital society built on values including human dignity and human rights, and digital and communication justice.

MODERATOR


Liberato C. Bautista
Liberato C. Bautista, President
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) | USA | Philippines

Liberato Bautista is President of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). He is also Assistant General Secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church. Bautista attended both the Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005) phases of the World Summit on Information Society.


PANELLISTS
Cyril Ritchie
Cyril Ritchie, First Vice President
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)  Switzerland

Cyril Ritchie is currently the First Vice President of the Conference of Non-Governmental organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). He was former President of CoNGO between 2011 and 2018. He is also President of the Union of International Associations (2017-2023) and its former Vice President (1998-2017).


Ruth Marlyn Grace Sidabutar
Ruth Marlyn Grace Sidabutar, Project Officer
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) International Telecommunication Union | Switzerland

Ms. Ruth Sidabutar is a Project Officer at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies. She leads the facilitation and coordination of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process and its alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with multistakeholders.  She has dedicated her career in the field of international cooperation, which spans in international organisations, regional organisation, and Non-Governmental Organisations. Before joining ITU, she worked as a Political Officer at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a Master’s degree in Cooperation and Development and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (International Development).


Manjit Dosanjh
Manjit Dosanjh, Representative at UNOG
International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC) | Switzerland

Dr. Manjit Dosanjh is the former senior advisor for medical applications and now an honorary staff at CERN and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the UK and has held positions in various academic and research institutions in Europe and the U.S., including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) in Italy. Dr. Dosanjh is actively involved in helping non-profit science and technology education gender related organizations in Geneva, such as the Committee on Status of Women (NGO CSW Geneva) and represents the International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC)–an NGO in Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC–and a board member of CoNGO (Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.


Piero Domenici
Piero Dominici, Fellow
World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) | Italy

Professor Piero Dominici (PhD) is sociologist and philosopher, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, UN expert and invited speaker, is Scientific Director of the International Research and Education Programme CHAOS and Director (Scientific Listening) at the Global Listening Center. Dominici is Vice President of the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA) and Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Prof. Dominici teaches Public Communication, Sociology of Social Complexity, Global Networks, and Security and Intelligence, Complex Systems and Networks, at the University of Perugia. As scientific researcher, educator, author, and international speaker, his main areas of expertise and interest encompass (hyper)complexity, complex systems, transdisciplinarity and knowledge sharing in the fields of education, systems theory, technology, intelligence, security, citizenship and communication. Dominici is a member of the MUIR Register of Revisers (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research) and Fellow of the European Complex Systems Society. He is also a standing member of several of the most prestigious national and international scientific committees. He is author of numerous essays, scientific articles and books.


Eni Lestari
Eni Lestari, Chairperson
International Migrants Alliance (IMA) | Indonesia | Hong Kong SAR

Eni Lestari is an Indonesian migrant domestic worker in Hong Kong SAR for over 20 years. As a migrant rights activist, she is the current Chairperson of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), a first-ever global alliance of grassroots migrants, immigrants, refugees, and other people in situations of forced movement and displacement. In 2016, she was the only grassroots migrant chosen to speak at the opening of the UN High-Level Summit on Large Movement of Migrants and Refugees at the UN Headquarters in New York. Lestari is a recipient of several awards, including the “Non-Profit Leader Award” from the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, the “BBC 100 Women” award, and “Changemaker” award from Cathay Pacific.


Abramo Chabib
Abramo Chabib, Executive Director
Italian Diplomatic Academy (IDA) | Italy

Dr. Abramo Chabib is Executive Director of the Italian Diplomatic Academy and NGO Representative to the United Nations in New York, and since 2018 he is the Chairman of the World Council for Youth and Diplomacy, a New York-based Global NGO. Dr. Chabib is a Member of the NGO Committee on Language and Languages amd the NGO Committee on Financing for Development–both substantive committees of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). Dr. Chabib also serves as Adviser for companies in the domain of international trade. Further, he is Professor in Economic Diplomacy at the University of Verona and is part of several advisory boards of academic institutions and NGOs operating in the realm of youth empowerment, international financing for development, and public diplomacy. Dr. Chabib is the recipient of the PhD Honoris Causa awarded in 2019 by the Constructivist University of Mexico. He was also awarded as Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy by the President of Italy.


Humphrey Tonkin
Humphrey Tonkin, Vice Chair
NGO Committee on Language and Languages (A Substantive Committee of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations) | USA

Humphrey Tonkin has been active at the UN since the 1960s. A former professor (University of Pennsylvania) and university president (University of Hartford), he has at various times chaired the boards of the Canadian Fulbright Commission, the Center for Applied Linguistics, the American Forum for Global Education, the International partnership for Service Learning, and the Universal Esperanto Association. He has published widely on language policy (an edited volume on Language and Sustainability is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan), on international education, and on literature and translation, and has served as editor of the journal Language Problems and Language Planning.


Franklin Shaffer
Franklin Shaffer, President and Chief Executive Officer
CGFNS International | USA

Dr. Franklin A. Shaffer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CGFNS International, Inc., an internationally recognized authority on credentials evaluation and verification pertaining to the education, registration,, and licensure of nurses and healthcare professionals worldwide. Dr. Shaffer earned his doctorate in nursing administration and education at Columbia University and has 50 years of progressive and varied nursing experience which includes administration, education, clinical practice, and research. He is a frequent speaker and consultant at meetings and conferences around the world and is an NGO representative at the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and International Council of Nurses (ICN). Dr. Shaffer serves as the Secretariat of the International Centre on Nurse Migration (ICNM), a strategic partnership between ICN and CGFNS International. On behalf of CGFNS International, Dr. Shaffer sits on the Board of CoNGO as its secretary. See also Franklin Shaffer’s bio./


Topics: Cultural Diversity | Digital Divide | Digital Inclusion | Education | Ethics

WSIS Action Lines


  • AL C3 logoC3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4 logoC4. Capacity building
  • AL C7 E–HEA logoC7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
  • AL C8 logoC8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C10 logoC10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society

Sustainable Development Goals


  • Goal 1 logoGoal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 3 logoGoal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 4 logoGoal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5 logoGoal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 16 logoGoal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17 logo

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CoNGO Notes: For more information about the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO), please visit www.ngocongo.org.

WSIS and NGOs–Indispensable Cooperation (In Implementing the WSIS Action Lines)

WSIS and NGOs–Indispensable Cooperation

(In Implementing the WSIS Action Lines)


A Thematic Workshop Organized by the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)

Session 375:

ICTs, Civil Society and Sustainable Development as Co-Constitutive Global Public Goods: Promise, Perils and Possibilities

Monday, 30 May 2022

09:00–10:45 CET (UTC+02:00)
03:00AM-04:45AM New York EST
03:00PM-04:45PM Hong Kong and Manila
02:00PM-03:45PM Bangkok
Physical Venue: Room C1, ITU Tower Building, Geneva, Switzerland

This thematic session focuses on the role and responsibilities of civil society, in particular non-governmental organizations, in the development of policy and the prospering of “information society” and “knowledge society”. The session will highlight the collaboration between WSIS and NGOs–in particular, that of the focal role of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)–in the implementation and achievement of the WSIS Action Lines and themes derived from Geneva Action Plan.

The thematic workshop recommits CoNGO and NGOs to the achievement of the WSIS Action Lines, including the continuation of WSIS Beyond 2025 in the context of the UN Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop will spotlight the need for a just, inclusive, sustainable and peaceable knowledge, information and digital society built on values including human dignity and human rights, and digital and communication justice.

MODERATOR


Liberato C. Bautista
Liberato C. Bautista, President
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) | USA | Philippines

Liberato Bautista is President of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). He is also Assistant General Secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church. Bautista attended both the Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005) phases of the World Summit on Information Society.


PANELLISTS
Cyril Ritchie
Cyril Ritchie, First Vice President
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO)  Switzerland

Cyril Ritchie is currently the First Vice President of the Conference of Non-Governmental organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). He was former President of CoNGO between 2011 and 2018. He is also President of the Union of International Associations (2017-2023) and its former Vice President (1998-2017).


Ruth Marlyn Grace Sidabutar
Ruth Marlyn Grace Sidabutar, Project Officer
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) International Telecommunication Union | Switzerland

Ms. Ruth Sidabutar is a Project Officer at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies. She leads the facilitation and coordination of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process and its alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with multistakeholders.  She has dedicated her career in the field of international cooperation, which spans in international organisations, regional organisation, and Non-Governmental Organisations. Before joining ITU, she worked as a Political Officer at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a Master’s degree in Cooperation and Development and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (International Development).


Manjit Dosanjh
Manjit Dosanjh, Representative at UNOG
International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC) | Switzerland

Dr. Manjit Dosanjh is the former senior advisor for medical applications and now an honorary staff at CERN and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the UK and has held positions in various academic and research institutions in Europe and the U.S., including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) in Italy. Dr. Dosanjh is actively involved in helping non-profit science and technology education gender related organizations in Geneva, such as the Committee on Status of Women (NGO CSW Geneva) and represents the International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC)–an NGO in Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC–and a board member of CoNGO (Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.


Piero Domenici
Piero Dominici, Fellow
World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) | Italy

Professor Piero Dominici (PhD) is sociologist and philosopher, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, UN expert and invited speaker, is Scientific Director of the International Research and Education Programme CHAOS and Director (Scientific Listening) at the Global Listening Center. Dominici is Vice President of the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA) and Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Prof. Dominici teaches Public Communication, Sociology of Social Complexity, Global Networks, and Security and Intelligence, Complex Systems and Networks, at the University of Perugia. As scientific researcher, educator, author, and international speaker, his main areas of expertise and interest encompass (hyper)complexity, complex systems, transdisciplinarity and knowledge sharing in the fields of education, systems theory, technology, intelligence, security, citizenship and communication. Dominici is a member of the MUIR Register of Revisers (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research) and Fellow of the European Complex Systems Society. He is also a standing member of several of the most prestigious national and international scientific committees. He is author of numerous essays, scientific articles and books.


Eni Lestari
Eni Lestari, Chairperson
International Migrants Alliance (IMA) | Indonesia | Hong Kong SAR

Eni Lestari is an Indonesian migrant domestic worker in Hong Kong SAR for over 20 years. As a migrant rights activist, she is the current Chairperson of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), a first-ever global alliance of grassroots migrants, immigrants, refugees, and other people in situations of forced movement and displacement. In 2016, she was the only grassroots migrant chosen to speak at the opening of the UN High-Level Summit on Large Movement of Migrants and Refugees at the UN Headquarters in New York. Lestari is a recipient of several awards, including the “Non-Profit Leader Award” from the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, the “BBC 100 Women” award, and “Changemaker” award from Cathay Pacific.


Abramo Chabib
Abramo Chabib, Executive Director
Italian Diplomatic Academy (IDA) | Italy

Dr. Abramo Chabib is Executive Director of the Italian Diplomatic Academy and NGO Representative to the United Nations in New York, and since 2018 he is the Chairman of the World Council for Youth and Diplomacy, a New York-based Global NGO. Dr. Chabib is a Member of the NGO Committee on Language and Languages amd the NGO Committee on Financing for Development–both substantive committees of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO). Dr. Chabib also serves as Adviser for companies in the domain of international trade. Further, he is Professor in Economic Diplomacy at the University of Verona and is part of several advisory boards of academic institutions and NGOs operating in the realm of youth empowerment, international financing for development, and public diplomacy. Dr. Chabib is the recipient of the PhD Honoris Causa awarded in 2019 by the Constructivist University of Mexico. He was also awarded as Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy by the President of Italy.


Humphrey Tonkin
Humphrey Tonkin, Vice Chair
NGO Committee on Language and Languages (A Substantive Committee of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations) | USA

Humphrey Tonkin has been active at the UN since the 1960s. A former professor (University of Pennsylvania) and university president (University of Hartford), he has at various times chaired the boards of the Canadian Fulbright Commission, the Center for Applied Linguistics, the American Forum for Global Education, the International partnership for Service Learning, and the Universal Esperanto Association. He has published widely on language policy (an edited volume on Language and Sustainability is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan), on international education, and on literature and translation, and has served as editor of the journal Language Problems and Language Planning.


Franklin Shaffer
Franklin Shaffer, President and Chief Executive Officer
CGFNS International | USA

Dr. Franklin A. Shaffer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CGFNS International, Inc., an internationally recognized authority on credentials evaluation and verification pertaining to the education, registration,, and licensure of nurses and healthcare professionals worldwide. Dr. Shaffer earned his doctorate in nursing administration and education at Columbia University and has 50 years of progressive and varied nursing experience which includes administration, education, clinical practice, and research. He is a frequent speaker and consultant at meetings and conferences around the world and is an NGO representative at the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and International Council of Nurses (ICN). Dr. Shaffer serves as the Secretariat of the International Centre on Nurse Migration (ICNM), a strategic partnership between ICN and CGFNS International. On behalf of CGFNS International, Dr. Shaffer sits on the Board of CoNGO as its secretary. See also Franklin Shaffer’s bio./


Topics: Cultural Diversity | Digital Divide | Digital Inclusion | Education | Ethics

WSIS Action Lines


  • AL C3 logoC3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4 logoC4. Capacity building
  • AL C7 E–HEA logoC7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-health
  • AL C8 logoC8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C10 logoC10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society

Sustainable Development Goals


  • Goal 1 logoGoal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 3 logoGoal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 4 logoGoal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5 logoGoal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 16 logoGoal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17 logo

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CoNGO Notes: For more information about the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO), please visit www.ngocongo.org.