[2021-22] Executive Training Course for Policymakers on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Documents

CONCEPT NOTE (updated as of 7 April 2022)

AGENDA (updated as of 18 April 2022)

SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES (updated as of 18 April 2022)

TRAINING REPORT (updated as of 24 August 2022)

Recordings

Day 1: Recording

Day 2: Recording

Day 3: Recording

Day 4: Recording

Background

The Executive Training Course for Policymakers on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development regularly takes pace in Incheon City, where it gathers around 70 participants every year. For the second year in a row, however, this flagship activity of the UNOSD cannot take place in person due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Therefore, this edition of the Executive Training Course for Policymakers will take place in the form of a series of two-and-a-half-hour online sessions over four days between 11-14 April 2022 (8:00pm - 10:30pm, Korea Standard Time). 

The international training course targeting senior government officials from developing countries to strengthen policy coherence for sustainable development integrating the social, economic, environmental and governance dimensions of policy making and implementation will be structured around the 2022 HLPF that will be held from 5 to 15 July 2022. Guided by the 2022 HLPF, which has for overarching theme, Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Training will also explore the five SDGs that will be the focus of attention during the 2022 HLPF, namely SDGs 4 on quality education, 5 on gender equality, 14 on life below water, 15 on life on land, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals. In addition, the course will also examine some of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on SDGs 4, 5, 14, 15, 17 and, as far as possible, on the other SDGs in line with the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the Goals.

Objectives

The Executive Training Course for Policymakers on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has the general objective of building the knowledge, skills, mindsets, and general capacities of Member States for implementing sustainable development planning, policy making and policy shaping through an integrated approach. This year, the training course aims to focus on SDG 4 on quality education, SDG 5 on gender equality, SDG 14 on life below water, SDG 15 on life on land, and SDG 17 on partnerships for the Goals. The discussions on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SDGs will serve as a means to identify challenges and potential solutions regarding the prompt recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

Format, Date and Time

The Executive Training Course for Policymakers on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will take place through a series of 2.5-hour online sessions over four days from April 11 to 14 2022 (inclusive), 8:00pm to 10:30pm, Korea Standard Time (KST).

Language

The Training Course will be conducted in English

Programme and Agenda

Day 1 (11 April 2022)

Theme: Quality Education – Advancing the 2030 Agenda through Education, Vocational Training and Capacity Building

Moderator: Mr. Jean D'Aragon, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD

Opening Remarks:  

• Mr. Alexander Trepelkov, Officer-in-Charge, Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG), UN DESA - delivered by Jean D'Aragon, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD
• Mr. Chun Kyoo Park, Head of Office, UNOSD

Moderator: Lichia Saner-Yiu, Professor, Organization Development & Institutional Learning, UNOSD consultant

Speakers:

• Mr. Andreas Schleicher, Director, Directorate of Education, OECD (video)
• Mr. Manos Antoninis, Director of Team, Global Education Monitoring Report Team, UNESCO
  • GLOBAL EDUCATION MONITORING REPORT SDG 4: Education
• Mr. Raymond Saner, Professor Titular, Organization and International Management, University of Basel
  • Presentation Slides

Country Experiences:

• Mr. Erik Swars, Head for International Affairs, Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET
  • The Swiss Dual System of Vocational Education and Training - Economic and Social Permeability
• Mr. Paul Comyn, Senior Skills and Employability Specialist, Skills and Employability Branch, International Labour Organization (ILO)
  • Presentation Slides
• Mr. Joshua Alade, Executive Director, Nigeria Youth SDGs Network, Nigeria
  • The School to Work Transition
• Mr. Stevie Leonard Harison, Master's student, School of Environmental Science-Universitas Indonesia (UI); Founder of Inspirator Muda Nusantara – a youth empowerment organization based in Bandung, Indonesia
  • Digital Transformation on Education as a Catalyst for Agenda 2030: A Reflection from Indonesia

Day 2 (12 April 2022)

Theme: Gender Equality – A Gender Perspective on Building Back Better from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Moderator:

• Ms. Lichia Saner-Yiu, Professor, Organization Development & Institutional Learning, UNOSD Consultant

Speakers:

• H.E. Ms. Young-Sook Cho, Ambassador for Gender Equality, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea; Chair of International Solidarity Centre, Korean Women’s Association (Keynote speech)
  • Achieving Gender Equality: Economic Empowerment of Women, Policy Gaps and Blind Spot
• Ms. Amanda Elam, Fellow at Babson College & Lead Author of the Women Entrepreneurship Report 2020-2021
  • Women Entrepreneurs: A Force for Innovation & Impact
• Ms. Gitanjali Sah, Strategy and Policy Coordinator International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
  • WSIS Special Initiatives: ICTs and Gender Mainstreaming special track

Country Experiences:

• Ms. Fatouma Abdallah, Project Coordinator, Ministry of Environment, Comoros
  • Gender equality and empowerment through access to land, inheritance and natural resources in the Comoros
• Ms. Nurgul Djanaeva, President, Forum of women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan
  • Partnerships for Women’s Empowerment and Participation: Experiences from Kyrgyzstan
• Ms. Kaisu Tuominiemi, Mondragon Team Academy
  • Economic empowerment of women through team learning & coaching — The story of Mondragon Team Academy
• Dr. Soma Kishore Parthasarathy, Policy analyst/specialist gender and development/ evaluator/advisor; Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM), Women Farmers Rights Forum - forest agroecology common rights, India
  • WOMEN’S COLLECTIVES FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Related Event:
Side Event on Tracking and Monitoring Financing for Gender Equality at the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region. Please click HERE for more information about the event.

Day 3 (13 April 2022)

Theme: Life Below Water – How the Oceans can help us fight against, and recover from COVID-19 and deliver the SDGs

Moderator:

• Ms. Lichia Saner-Yiu, Professor, Organization Development & Institutional Learning, UNOSD Consultant

Speakers:

• Mr. Andrew Birchenough, Technical Advisor, Office for the London Convention/Protocol and Ocean Affairs, International Maritime Organisation, London
  • Ocean economy: sustainability and enabling policies for human security
• Ms. Fabienne McLellan, Managing Director, OceanCare, Switzerland
  • State of the SDG 14: Interconnectedness and Policy Coherence
• Mr. David C. Smith, Professor, Director, Centre for Environmental Management, Coordinator, Institute for Sustainable Development, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
  • Disaster Risk Reduction & Ocean Sustainability Challenges
• Mr. Peter McIntyre, Associate Professor of Natural Resources & the Environment, Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow co-Director of the Adirondack Fishery Research Program, Cornell University
  • Global Analysis of Riverine Fisheries and Ecosystems: Challenges and Policy Recommendations

Country Experiences:

• Mr. Deukhoon (Peter) Han, Esq. Director General; Associate Research Fellow; Juris Doctor (International Public and Private Law), LLM, LLB; Attorney at Law (New York); Center for International Development Cooperation, Korea Maritime Institute (KMI)
  • Korea's Efforts on Combating IUU Fishing Activities
• Ms. Erica Reyes, Chief Operation Officer, The Plastic Flamingo, The Philippines
  • Compensate your plastic footprint with the Plastic Flamingo
• Ms. Thaw Thaw Han, Deputy Director, Environmental Conservation Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar
  • Addressing the Marine Plastic Pollution in the Context of Myanmar

Day 4 (14 April 2022)

Theme: Life on Land – How COVID-19 recovery and 2030 Agenda can only be fully achieved through addressing SDG 15

Moderator:

• Mr. Raymond Saner, Professor Titular, Organization and International Management, University of Basel

Speakers:

• Mr. Feras Ziadat, Land and Water Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Chair of the UN Coalition on Combating Sand and Dust Storms
  • The state of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture
• Ms. Neelkamal Darbari, IAS/Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium
  • Sustainable Agriculture Development in India through Aggregation of Smallholder Farmers
• Mr. Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Senior Adviser, Stakeholder Forum, London UK, and PURE Consulting, Oslo, Norway
  • A focus on partnerships for environmental protection and life on land

Country Experiences:

• Mr. Claude Heimo, Senior Adviser, Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND)
  • Research on Ecological Security for Food Security in China's Main Grain Production Areas
• Mr. Jin Tanaka, Branch Manager, UNISC International, a youth-led non-governmental organization with special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  • Recovery for biodiversity conservation from COVID-19 with youth engagement

Conclusion of the Training Course:

• Ms. Lichia Saner-Yiu, Professor, Organization Development & Institutional Learning, UNOSD Consultant

Closing Remarks:

• Mr. Jean D'Aragon, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD

Organizers

The 2021-22 Executive Training Course for Policymakers on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is organized by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) of UN DESA.

Target audience

The international training course is targeting senior government officials and experts from developing countries who are responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at national and subnational levels. Given the online format of the training course, it will enable the participation of academia, youth, and other stakeholders having a particular interest in the swift and sustainable recovery from COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development or the selected SDGs. 

International experts, scholars, practitioners, and actors, representatives of regional and international organizations, including the United Nations, and of civil society and private sector may be invited to act as resource persons, presenters, speakers and discussants.

Contact Information

For any questions or comments about the progarmme, please contact Mr. Jean D’Aragon, Senior Sustainable Development Expert, UNOSD at daragon@un.org.

For any technical issues, for instance, difficulties to register to the different sessions, please contact Mr. JinHyun Lee, Team Assistant, UNOSD at jinhyun.lee@un.org.

Disclaimer: 

For the purpose of this event, UNOSD procures the services of Cisco Webex, an external service provider. Registration for this webinar is supported by the Webex Events registration mechanism and does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities