Kazuki Kitaoka, the head of strategic planning at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, speaks April 10 at an event organized by the Center for Strategic & International Studies on how to engage the private sector at the nexus of food, jobs and technology. Photo by: CSIS / CC BY-NC-SA
Corporate leaders have at times complained about their difficulties in influencing global development priorities — especially as negotiations on a new post-2015 agenda heat up — but a new set of consultations which began Thursday could provide companies a platform to share their thoughts.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the U.N. Global Compact have launched the first in a series of local, regional and online consultations to gather private sector input on the emerging post-2015 agenda and how it can be implemented.
An event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., last week, which brought together representatives from the private sector, government and civil society to discuss to the role of public-private partnerships in the post-2015 development agenda, served as the consultations’ soft launch.The first round of the online discussion launched Thursday.
“We need to move away from isolated, small development pilot activities to a much more transformative and broad agenda that really includes a transformative process for all of us, for all our societies, to fully eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development in the long term,” Kazuki Kitaoka, the head of strategic planning for UNIDO, said at the CSIS event.
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By Adva Saldinger 17 April 201 4
with Devex, Media Partner of the Convergences World Forum
