15.00 – 15.10
Setting the scene
| ILO
Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Green Jobs Programme Coordinator
What do just transitions entail and how are just transition policies, including social dialogue and transparency, enablers for ensuring that green economies deliver for all?
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15.10 – 15.40
Panel discussion | UNRISD
Isabell Kempf, Head of Bonn Office, and Dunja Krause, Research Officer
What does a just transition mean for a broad policy framework? How can the wider political economy framework be integrated into a development model that delivers a triple bottom-line of prosperity, planet and people in light of the COVID-19 crisis?
UN Global Compact
TBD
What are a few key examples of business practice contributing to COVID-19 responses and the SDGs with a long-term impact on sustainable and just economies? Why is corporate reporting essential?
IWRAW Asia Pacific and WMG
Constanza Pauchulo, IWRAW Asia Pacific Programme Officer, and Sehnaz Kiymaz Bahçeci, WMG, Coordinator
(i) What are some of the systemic barriers, in relation to the macroeconomic agenda, facing the implementation of Agenda 2030? (ii) What are the accountability gaps within the SDG framework and the role of CEDAW in achieving Agenda 2030? (iii) How can capacity be strengthened to make links between macroeconomic policy, the human rights framework, and the SDGs to enable states to achieve gender equality?
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15.40 – 16.10
Presentation of tools | WBA
Dan Neale, Lead for Social Transformation
- SDG2000: a listing of 2,000 companies from the global north and south that will play a key role in whether the SDGs can be achieved
- WBA Corporate Human Rights benchmark: assesses company responses to COVID-19 in terms of rights and sustainability
- WBA Social Transformation initiative: assesses influential companies against a common set of core special expectations connected to human rights, equality, and empowerment
UNCTAD
Tatiana Krylova, Head of Enterprise Branch
- GCI: Guidance on core indicators for entity reporting on contribution towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
- GCI Training Manual
IWRAW Asia Pacific and WMG
Constanza Pauchulo, IWRAW Asia Pacific Programme Officer, and Sehnaz Kiymaz Bahçeci, WMG, Coordinator
- IWRAW Asia Pacific’s CEDAW-SDG Tool: identifies practical ways of linking the CEDAW framework to the sustainable development framework
- WMG’s Guide on Engaging with the VNR Process: how to use the voluntary national review (VNR) process to support existing advocacy priorities and engage with their government’s SDG reporting and monitoring processes
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16.10 – 16.30
Q&A and concluding remarks | Participants can pose questions directly or via the chatbox |