Global challenges which require a global response. by Southern Voice Network & SDPI

1. Engaging
the global community:
addressing the impact
of global challenges
#SVSS2019
Vaqar Ahmed
March 4, 2020
Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

2. Need to understand how global systemic concerns could
impact formulation and implementation of policies for SDGs
Conceptualise the transmission mechanisms through
which GSCs could impact developing economies
A case for global partnerships to understand and address GSCs
PROBLEM STATEMENT

3. Framework of analysis based on in-depth literature review,
focus groups at past meetings hosted by SVSS and key
informant interviews
Insights from country studies
Feedback from meetings in Geneva and Bangkok.
METHODOLOGY

4. Global
governance
FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS
Global
systemic
concerns
Transmission
mechanisms
National
implementation
of the
2030 Agenda

5. TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS
Growth channel
Technology channel
Institutional channel
Information channel
Vulnerability channel

6. TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS IN ACTION
Country Global Systemic Concern Transmission Mechanism Impact on SDG Implementation
Sri Lanka & India
Automation has implications for female
workforce
Growth & technology channel
Transitory unemployment;
increase in labour market
gender gaps
Peru, Nigeria &
Bolivia
Changes in development priorities could
affect education outcomes; Lack of new
technologies in learning could widen
education and skills gaps
Institutional, technology, and
information
Lack of concessionary financing
can put pressures on scarce
resources available for human
resource development
Nigeria
Arms proliferation and illicit financial flows
could affect education outcomes and other
SDGs
Vulnerability & Institutional
channel
Arms proliferation backed by
private illicit financing could
threaten education outcomes
Ghana
Weak access to cleaner forms of fuel and
technology impacts SDG 7
Technological & institutional
channel
Lack of access to clean energy
will also impact goal 3 outcomes

7. DESIGNING A POLICY RESPONSE
CASE OF CHANGING NATURE OF WORK
Changing skills
New business
models
Public policy; manage the direction and effects of change
Invest in
human
capital
Strengthen
social
protection
Mobilize
revenue
Effective service provision, fair taxation regulation, voice
Prepared people, competitive markets, new social
contracts
Effects of
technology
Policy
Social
inclusion
Goal

8. DESIRED COUNTRY RESPONSES
Embracing technological change
Sustained investment in skills & labour standards
Need for a gender-responsive lens to respond to GSCs
Developing countries need to demand a global response

9. DESIRED GLOBAL RESPONSE
Dealing with arms proliferation & illicit financial flows
Easing restrictions to access of knowledge through liberal
IPR regime
Capacity building in issues of global governance
Mobilizing resources for developing economies
SOME EXAMPLES FROM COUNTRY STUDIES

10. CONCLUSION
National efforts
need to be
complemented by
regional platforms
Advanced countries
should invest in
understanding of
GSC + assess impact
of their AI policies on
the rest of the world
Global governance
platforms should
promote better
understanding of
GSCs + involve CSOs,
think tanks and
private sector

11. Vaqar Ahmed: vaqar@sdpi.org