Volunteers and COVID-19: How Volunteers Help Build Back Better during the Pandemic to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 06Jul
COVID-19 has highlighted how the one-billion volunteers globally are helping communities respond to the pandemic. How has volunteering changed during the pandemic? What were volunteers’ experiences and motivations during these times? How can volunteers contribute to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and building forward better to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals?
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Generation Equality Forum concludes in Paris with Announcement of Revolutionary Commitments and Global Acceleration Plan to Advance Gender Equality by 2026

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 05Jul
Paris, France, 2 July 2021 – The Generation Equality Forum Paris concluded today with the announcement of bold gender equality commitments and launch of a global 5-year action journey to accelerate gender equality by 2026. The Forum’s bold, action-oriented agenda will be under-written by nearly USD 40 Billion of confirmed investments as well as ambitious policy and programme commitments...
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Applications Open: 2021 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 05Jul
We are pleased to announce that the 2021 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme will be held from 14th – 24th September, 2021, in a virtual format, hosted by UNU-IAS and Social Innovation Japan. The theme of this year’s Leadership Programme is ‘Climate Change: Global issues, local actions and transdisciplinary solutions’
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Carbon Neutrality & Social Transformation: Are We on Track to Arrive at a Justice-based Transition?

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 05Jul
DATE / TIME: 2021•07•06 07:30 - 09:00 LOCATION: Online (EDT). This online side event of the 2021 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will explore the policies needed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and the deep transformations required in our economic and social systems.
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UNDP and Nesta launch new publication series on collective intelligence for sustainable development

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 05Jul
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Nesta’s Center for Collective Intelligence Design launched the first two reports of its new publication series Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development: Getting Smarter Together, a comprehensive research over 277 case studies that presents how diverse collective intelligence approaches are being used to speedp progress on the SDGs.
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Global Leadership Training Programme for Sustainable Development in Africa (UNU-IAS)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 05Jul
UNU-IAS has implemented the Global Leadership Training Programme for Sustainable Development in Africa (GLTP) since 2013 with generous support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). The main objective of the programme is to train future global leaders who can contribute to solving various challenges toward the achievement of Sustainable Development
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Heads of State, leaders and activists take bold action to accelerate gender equality and address the consequences of Covid-19 for women and girls

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 02Jul
Generation Equality Forum to drive major policy reforms and generate over USD 40 billion in new investments
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Belgium’s experiment in permanent forms of deliberative democracy (IDEA)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 02Jul
The Brussels Region of Belgium has followed in the footsteps of the small German-speaking Community in establishing a permanent procedure to engage randomly selected citizens in policy making alongside parliamentarians, who will sit together in deliberative committees. The process creates significant opportunities for popular influence on policy.
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Asia Gender Network (AVPN)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 02Jul
The first pan-Asia Network that moves capital to causes that empower women and girls in Asia to drive gender equality across the region.
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The Mittal Institute’s 2021 Seed for Change Winners

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 02Jul
With a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in India and Pakistan, the Mittal Institute’s annual Seed for Change (SFC) competition aims to award Harvard students with grant prizes for interdisciplinary student projects that positively impact societal, economic, and environmental issues.
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