Participants from more than 50 countries including policy makers, industry experts, academics, and investors are meeting in Kigali to deliberate and devise solutions of sustainable development challenges facing the global community today.
The Rwanda Convention Bureau and Observer Research Foundation, ORF America organized the three-day conference. It will be held from August 10-12.
Dubbed the ‘Kigali Global Dialogue’, the platform, officials facilitate the cross pollination of ideas between established and emerging actors and make available solutions, policies and processes gleaned from around the world.
This comes at a time when the African continent has intensified efforts to play a central role in shaping emerging development narratives and creating both institutions and ideas for the new global governance architecture.
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More than 350 people came from 50 different countries to participate in the first edition of the dialogue.
“As the decade of action progresses, it is critical to share experiences and solutions and forge new partnerships. Many of our development and economic orthodoxies – especially those propagated by high-income countries – have failed to deliver sustainable and equitable development for most of the world,” reads part of a statement released prior to the conference.
Officials claim that new financial arrangements, development institutions, and paradigms are needed urgently and are already emerging.
“It is clear that African nations will create and lead new models for development and growth over the coming decades,” the statement added.
It said that these successes will be used as models for other regions of the world in their efforts to develop more sensitive development pathways to climate constraints and other economic, social, and environmental imperatives.
The platform aims to share the experiences and stories of African countries, communities and peoples to the world.
“The platform, therefore, holds the potential to not only influence current norms, institutions, and arrangements but also to define new norms, priorities, and approaches for the decade of action.”
Participants will discuss topics such as building resilient societies, lessons learned from the pandemic and health inequalities between countries.
Climate corollaries and digital technologies and innovations for developing countries are also on the agenda.
“The imperative of reducing emissions is matched by the twin challenge of ensuring that developing and emerging economies have the space to grow. This pillar will explore how efforts to accelerate the decarbonization process can be prioritized while ensuring a just and fair transition process.”
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Source: rnewtimes
