Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to share with you this Special Edition of the CoP Poverty and Inequality Snapshot, highlighting the key events, publications, and conversations of relevance to this community taking place during the 2021 High Level Political Forum. This year's theme is “sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19, with an in-depth focus on SDGs 1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 and 17."
The HLPF is traditionally comprised of official events broadcast on UN Web TV (no registration needed) and hundreds of side events, many of which are hosted by UN agencies in partnership with CSOs, governments, and academia, among others. Find the complete list of UNDP-supported HLPF events here - we hope to see you at the UNDP and BRAC Side Event on SDG 1!
Wishing you a happy HLPF season!
Ricardo, Samantha, Rishi, and Renata
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Ending Poverty by 2030: Transformations Needed to Achieve SDG 1
HLPF SIDE EVENT - 13 JULY 2021- REGISTER HERE
Join BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative, the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN, and UNDP on Tuesday, 13 July 2021 at 13:00 EDT for an official Side Event at the 2021 High Level Political Forum, Ending poverty by 2030: Transformations Needed to Achieve SDG 1. The event, featuring keynote speakers from UNDP, BRAC, CSOs, grassroots organizations, academia, and government, will focus on the transformative actions needed to deliver durable solutions for achieving SDG 1: No Poverty. This event is organized by the UNDP Community of Practice on Poverty and Inequality. Join us!
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UNDP Main Side Event: Examining "What Works and What Doesn't?" in Reducing Poverty and Inequality in the Pandemic
RECORDING - 6 JULY - WATCH HERE
To mark the opening of the 2021 High Level Political Forum, UNDP hosted its main side event, "What works and what doesn't: Reversing poverty and inequality in the midst of a global pandemic," featuring remarks from Administrator Achim Steiner and other high-level speakers from government, civil society, and academia. The event emphasized the power of policy choices that avoided deeper development reversals during the COVID-19 pandemic, using country examples and new UNDP data. The speakers reflected upon their specific experience in implementing the 2030 Agenda and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, concrete challenges posed by the pandemic, their vision for the future of social protection, and practical steps to turn the crisis into an opportunity for a concerted push towards a sustainable, inclusive and resilient future. Watch the recording here!
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Where are the Women?
This HLPF side event, co-hosted by the Government of Iceland, UNDP, and the University of Pittsburgh, will spotlight the latest trends and analysis on gender equality in public institutions with the launch the latest global Gender Equality in Public Administration (GEPA) report, a comprehensive report on by UNDP and University of Pittsburgh. The event will focus on gender equality and inclusive, participatory and representative institutions and SDG 16, highlighting new data on women’s leadership in the COVID-19 response. It will also explore recommendations for how to build forward better with more resilient and inclusive policy responses and to help shift the balance of power and shatter these glass ceilings and glass walls. Join the event!
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COVID-19 Recovery in Urban Areas: Building Inclusive, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities
You are invited to join this 2021 HLPF Side Event, "Covid-19 Recovery in Urban Areas: Building Inclusive, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities", co-organized by Habitat for Humanity International and UNDP. This virtual event will highlight innovative practices from cities, local governments, and communities to ensure a robust COVID-19 recovery that addresses the urban challenges of growing inequalities, urban poverty, and resilience. Join us here!
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Who benefits from economic growth and recovery plans? Entering a new era of economic inequality data
The World Inequality Lab (WIL), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and UNDP jointly organized this online conference on distributional national accounts. The conference included both statistical and policy segments to on the emerging integrated methodology for distributional accounts of consumption, income, and wealth, as well as discussed the policy relevance of entering a new age of inequality statistics. Watch the conference recording and find the programme of the event here.
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Featured UN Agency Side Events
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Green Recoveries for a Job Rich Future
HLPF SIDE EVENT - 9 JULY 2021 - REGISTER HERE
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) invites you to the side event on Green Recoveries for a Job Rich Future, being held on 9 July from 8:00am EST/2.00 pm CEST. The event will have simultaneous translation in English, French, Spanish and Russian and will focus on green jobs and just transition, building a climate and nature positive economy and filling the green finance gap, with concluding remarks given by UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. Learn more and register here!
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Going Local: SDGs From Cities' Perspectives in Latin America
In this event, 6 Mayors of Ibero-American cities (Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Madrid, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro) will share their perspective regarding the implementation of the SDGs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. By examining Local Voluntary Reviews, the event identification of inclusive solutions, promoting development processes with a citizen-centered vision and how cities have faced the crisis in public health, economy and society, leaving no one behind.
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How can localization of SDGs contribute to Leaving no one behind?
HLPF SIDE EVENT - 8 JULY
REGISTER HERE
This side event, organized Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MPED) of Egypt, featuring speakers from with the Permanent Missions of the Republic of India, the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Kenya to the UN and UNFPA Egypt’s Country Office, will examine many of the different challenges hindering the process of localizing and implementing the SDGs at the sub-national level and provide best practices and lessons learned for leaving no one behind in the decade ahead.
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Amplifying COVID-19 Recovery in LDC: Effective Partnerships for Leaving No One Behind
HLPF SIDE EVENT - 15 JULY 2021 - REGISTER HERE
This Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation HLPF Side Event examines how effective, inclusive ‘whole-of-society’ partnerships can amplify COVID-19 response and recovery in LDCs during the ‘Decade of Action’ to ensure that no one is left behind. The discussion, held as a part of HLPF in advance of the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), will provide an opportunity for countries to discuss concrete steps they’ve taken towards more effective development cooperation partnerships and actions to urgently scale up effective partnerships to maximize development impact for SDG implementation. Register here!
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Financing a Sustainable Recovery: The role of debt-Relief Instruments
HLPF SIDE EVENT - 15 JULY 2021 - REGISTER HERE
The provision of debt relief through different financial instruments is a powerful tool to create the fiscal space needed for countries to invest in a sustainable, inclusive, and green recovery from COVID-19. This session, co-organized by UN DESA, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA), United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), will explore efforts to develop these instruments to facilitate efforts on debt relief, in order for countries in need to get back on track towards achieving the SDGs. Register here.
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Mitigating Poverty: Global Estimates of the Impact of Income Support during the Pandemic
UNDP PUBLICATION - 1 JULY 2021 - READ HERE
This report, co-authored by BPPS SPE team members Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, María Montoya-Aguirre, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, and GPN Chief Economist George Gray Molina, provides insights on not only how the pandemic impacted poor and vulnerable households in developing countries, but also how important policy choices were to mitigate poverty increases. Some poorer countries were effective in thwarting the rise in poverty, indicating that there is room for action even under significant constraints and uncertainty. The paper asserts that despite the power of social protection, many of these programmes were out of reach for low-income countries, setting the stage for a two-track recovery from the pandemic. Read the press release and the publication here.
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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021
UN REPORT - JULY 2021 - READ HERE
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021 attempts to make sense of the latest available data and estimates to reveal the devastating impacts of the crisis on the SDGs. It aims to point out areas that require urgent and coordinated action in order to achieve Agenda 2030 and recover with inclusivity. The report was prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with more than 50 international agencies. Read insights by each SDG here and read the publication here,
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An Unprecedented Opportunity to Boost Finance for Development: Special Drawing Rights
UNDP POLICY BRIEF - 24 JUNE 2021 - READ HERE
Fears that the world may emerge from the pandemic more unequal than ever have prompted significant efforts to close the gap between rich and poor countries. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering plans to issue $650 billion worth of reserve funds -- or Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) -- money that countries in crisis could use to purchase vaccines, finance healthcare and pay debt. Administrator, Achim Steiner notes that this could be the “largest capital allocation since the end of World War II,” but without additional steps, its impact could fall short. Read this analysis of the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights plan by BPPS' Lars Jensen here, as part of UNDP’s Development Futures Series.
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UNDP Annual Report 2020
REPORT - JUNE 2021 - READ HERE
The UNDP 2020 Annual Report highlights the organization's work across 170 countries in terms of impact and results for people and planet. This engaging report features UNDP’s global ideas and research on building forward better over the course of 2020, including the introduction of a temporary basic income for all people living in poverty and the launching of a new, planetary pressures-adjusted HDI, among others. Read more on the monumental year for UNDP and the impact of the organization's work here.
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Your CoP team would love to hear from you! Contact us at cop-poverty@undp.org to send feedback or share content and events to be featured in our CoP Communications.
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