Global Focus invites you to the event SDG Summit - a global rescue plan? 

2023 marks the midpoint of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) towards 2030. During the UN General Assembly in September, Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres has invited heads of state and governments to follow up and review the implementation of the 17 SDG’s. But the settings in which the SDG’s were adopted has undeniably changed. 
 
A pandemic, increased inequality, an accelerated climate crisis, geopolitical tension and a war on European soil have changed the priorities of the international community towards 2030. Now the world's heads of state are meeting in New York to accelerate and commit to action, but with diverging priorities between countries can the SDG Summit lead to a global rescue plan that can accomplish the SDG’s - and what implications will it have for development policies in the coming future?  

We ask those questions when we invite DIIS, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and civil society actors from Uganda and Kenya to give their take on what the SDG Summit can and should lead to. 

The program is as follows 

14.00 Welcome with moderator Mette Müller Kristensen, director, Global Focus

14.05 Opening speech by Caroline Rossmeisl, SDG Ambassador, Verdens Bedste Nyheder

14.15 Development policies midway to 2030 with Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Head of unit and senior researcher Sustainable development and governance, DIIS 

14.35 Danish priorities at the SDG Summit with Casper Stenger Jensen, Deputy Director, Department for Africa, Policy and Development, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

15.00 Summit from the South with

• Richard Mugenyi, Advocacy and Communications Manager, Reproductive Health Uganda
• Calvin Shikuku Odhiambo, Co-founder and CEO Motobrix Limited, Kenya

15.30 Thank you for today 

The event is in English and takes place on 24 August at 14.00-15.30 in Undergrunden at Global Focus at Rysensteensgade 3. 

A Zoom link for online participation will be send to registred participants prior to the event.