{"id":54597,"date":"2016-04-21T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/70\/?p=54597"},"modified":"2016-04-21T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:46:29","slug":"lunch-on-partnerships-for-sdg-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/70\/2016\/04\/21\/lunch-on-partnerships-for-sdg-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch on Partnerships for SDG implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening remarks by H.E. Mr Mogens Lykketoft, <\/strong>President of the 70th<\/sup> session of the General Assembly, at\u00a0<\/strong>High-level Thematic Debate on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Lunch on Partnerships for SDG implementation<\/strong><\/h2>\n

21 April 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome.<\/p>\n

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I am delighted to see that so many of you could join us for today\u2019s Debate and for this lunch, in particular.<\/p>\n

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We are, I believe, on the threshold of a global transformation.<\/p>\n

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A sustainable and just world is possible. We must make it inevitable.<\/p>\n

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The time has come for us to roll up our sleeves and get to work \u2013 to deliver on commitments made in 2015.<\/p>\n

Over the next 2 hours, we will focus on a key tool for doing just that \u2013 collaboration and multi-stakeholder partnerships.<\/p>\n

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Many of you will have seen, first-hand, how partnerships brought a surge of finance, technology, innovation, expertise to achieve the MDGs.<\/p>\n

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Others of you are steeped in the climate arena, partnering with each other and thousands of others outside these walls.<\/p>\n

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You have delivered truly inspiring initiatives in recent years.<\/p>\n

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Partnerships and initiatives on health, energy, agriculture, education and cities etc, provide us with many lessons.<\/p>\n

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They show us how we can work better together and reach farther, faster.<\/p>\n

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They demonstrate how actors across sectors and boundaries can unite around a common vision for economic and social advancement.<\/p>\n

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They help to raise standards, increase ambition levels and, most importantly, deliver some truly outstanding improvements in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

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Effective partnerships can create coalitions of willing actors that can share and diffuse knowledge, costs and expertise.<\/p>\n

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And they can open new markets and prepare the ground for innovative and strategic developments.<\/p>\n

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The transformation demanded by the 2030 Agenda, requires all this at scale.<\/p>\n

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It requires partnerships that work together and respond to the integrated, indivisible and universal nature of the SDGs.<\/p>\n

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Partnerships that deliver catalytic change to address deeply rooted problems like poverty, inequality, injustice and environmental degradation.<\/p>\n

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Partnerships that insist on the highest possible standards of transparency, accountability, inclusivity, and governance.<\/p>\n

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Much of this, however, depends on the engagement of a diverse range of actors, which requires, amongst others, that we overcome challenges relating to trust and understanding between those actors.<\/p>\n

Finally, it will require leaders and early movers.<\/p>\n

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Each of you \u2013 representing Member States, business, civil society, UN system, financial institutions, academia and other stakeholders \u2013 are leaders in your own fields.<\/p>\n

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You have the experience to make partnerships work and you have immense capacity to move the SDGs forward.<\/p>\n

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But, together, you can move them even further.<\/p>\n

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Our excellent moderator, former Al Jazeera news anchor Ms Ghida Fakhry, will guide our discussion over the next two hours.<\/p>\n

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She will help you to identify the essential elements of partnerships, as well as the actions that must be taken to create a new wave of truly ground-breaking SDG partnerships.<\/p>\n

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I look forward to frank discussion, fresh ideas and, hopefully, the seeds for\u00a0 future collaborative actions.<\/p>\n

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Thank you and Bon Appetit.<\/p>\n

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