Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

The five United Nations Regional Commissions to work together to make PPP ‘fit for purpose’ for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development I have argued for well over a year that NGOs and other stakeholders should be engaging in the People First PPP work that has been undertaken in the UNECE. As I have said in previous blogs the push for a global agreement on Principles for PPPs as was envisioned in the Addis Agreement through something I supported should not stop an approach that was developing at the European UN Regional Commission. I took the view to be a positive critic and offer suggestions on what those Principles should be and their accompanying support material. I have found the process open and frank. The more I became involved the more I felt we would a better set of principles might be developed through each UN Regional Commission developing their own more regional sensitive and regionally informed set of Principles. A bottom-up approach --- one that does not preclude th...

Thanks for inviting me to join this panel on the UNECE  proposed   Impact Assessment Tool to Score PPP Projects  and I am so sorry I can’t be there in person but I’m at another UN workshop in New York on the Lessons Learnt from the 1 st cycle of the High-Level Political Forum. I will draw some of this presentation from my soon to published new book (June 2019) Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear written with an-Gustav Strandenaes, Carolina Duque Chopitea, Minu Hemmati, Susanne Salz, Bernd Lakemeier, Laura Schmitz, and Jana Borkenhagen. Advance orders here. This year will be critical to re-adjusting our activities in light of the first Heads of State review of the 2030 Agenda forSustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda for Financing forDevelopment. There is no question we are behind the curve as far as delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals . The key outcome in September must be to give a roadmap to the mi...