Representatives from companies with a history of mismanagement of public contracts and renowned tax-dodging practices will meet in Geneva this week to lobby for business-friendly UN standards on Public- Private Partnerships. The UN Economic Commission for Europe is currently meeting to establish International Standards on PPPs. PPPs, which rarely fail to deliver in the public interest, are essentially…
#TenYearsOn #ChangeFinance One decade ago, on 15th September 2008, the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, marking the start of the financial crisis. Banks crashed and got bailed out with billions of taxpayer’s money. Today, 10 years after the financial crisis, the financial system remains strongly unregulated and dangerous to people, market, and society. The…
Conversation with authors of the Civil Society Report: Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018 | 12 July 2018, H 6:15 PM, Church Center, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York The world is off-track in terms of achieving sustainable development. Fundamental policy changes are necessary to unleash the transformative potential of the SDGs. In particular, there is…
HLPF 2018 Side Event – Wednesday, July 11, 2018 H 18:30-20:00 – UNHQ Conference Room 4 The combine MoI and FfD agendas should tackle the removal of many of the structural barriers to the socio-economic transformation and advance systemic reforms of global economic frameworks to realign them with the imperatives of human rights, gender justice,…
United Nations, New York City – Members and experts from the Civil Society Financing for Development Group release statements at the conclusion of the 2018 Financing for Development Forum. Commenting on forum discussions around debt relief processes for Caribbean and small islands, Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA, said: “During the Financing for Development Forum we saw growing…
April 26, 2018–1:15pm | Conference Room A | UNHQ, New York Dowload flyer The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) has defined the follow-up process for the Financing for Development process as well as the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This includes assessing progress, obstacles, challenges as well as new and…
Time: 8 – 9.30 am, Place: CR-7, UNHQ, New York, Date: April 25, 2018 Download Flyer Organised by the CS FfD Group (including the Women’s WG on FfD); Facilitating organizations: SID, TWN and OWINFS The recent years have seen some major game changers in international trade policymaking. While for some time trade policy-making has become…
