Building Forward Together: Towards an Inclusive and Resilient Asia and the Pacific | Side Event to the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

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Join us for a discussion on how the SDGs can be used to navigate challenging times and ensure no one is left behind, drawing on our 2022 report "Building Forward Together - Towards an inclusive and resilient Asia and the Pacific”, which considers pandemic impacts on achieving the SDGs in the region.

Description

Efforts to contain the pandemic have exposed—and magnified—deeply rooted vulnerabilities and inequalities in the region. There are signs of a ‘K-shaped’ recovery marked by increasing divergence in economic and social outcomes within and between countries. When environmental degradation, increasing natural hazards and accelerating climate change are added to the mix, the risks to developing countries and poor and vulnerable populations are even greater. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has further disrupted supply chains and raised food and fuel prices.

These compounded crises of health, climate change, energy and security pose new challenges to our efforts to achieve the SDGs but may also create new opportunities to accelerate much needed change.

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This event will bring together a diverse panel of leaders from civil society, business, and government in Asia and the Pacific to reflect on the insights from the ESCAP ADB UNDP 2022 Asia Pacific SDG Partnership Report and consider how the SDGs can help us navigate these challenging times to ensure no one is left behind.

Objectives

The event will bring together a diverse panel of leaders in Asia and the Pacific to reflect on the insights from the annual ESCAP ADB UNDP 2022 Asia Pacific SDG Partnership Report and consider how the SDGs can help us navigate these challenging times to ensure no one is left behind.

Target participants

Policy makers in Asia and the Pacific; private sector investors; researchers in academia and think tanks; members of the international development community; ADB Board, Management, and staff.

SPEAKERS:

ARMIDA ALISJAHBANA

Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and
Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific

WOOCHONG UM

Managing Director General, Asian Development Bank

CLAIRE VAN DER VAEREN

Chief, Country Office Liaison and Coordination Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme

BEVERLEY POSTMA
Executive Director, Grow Asia

JOYASHREE ROY

Bangabandhu Chair Professor, AIT, Thailand

Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 5, IPCC WGIII Sixth Assessment Report

ALKESH WADHWANI
Director, Poverty Alleviation, India,

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

MAHINDA SIRIWARDANA
Chair of the Sustainable Development Council and Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Sri Lanka

MODERATOR

BERNARD WOODS

Principal Director, Department of Communications,

Asian Development Bank