WEBINAR | IPPN Knowledge Café: Capacity Development as a Lever to Accelerate Transformation for the 2030 Agenda

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Join us for the next IPPN Knowledge Café, a webinar series focused on building the IPPN members’ capacity to better understand a systems perspective on policy integration and acceleration; and integrated policy solutions, including curation of tools and resources that support the design and implementation of cross-cutting policy solutions.

About this webinar

"Times of Crisis, Times of Change: Science for Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Development", the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) is an invitation to embrace transformations with the urgency needed to accelerate progress towards the SDGs. This report outlines the roles of different levers in facilitating various stages of transformation through a systematic and structured approach and, for the first time, highlights the crucial role of capacity development as a lever to accelerate transformation across the entry points, which the GSDR 2019 report had initially identified. 

Eminent voices on this critical topic – the co-authors of the report and members of the Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) – will summarize key findings and outline the report’s relevance to shift the narrative and ability to concretely work towards sustainable development, considering the interests and influences at play, and a distinguished speaker from the National School of Public Administration in Brazil will share insights from his efforts in upskilling civil servants to become agents of change. 

Agenda

Join this session to learn about the importance and distinctive role of capacity development as the fifth lever in accelerating sustainable development transformations, and to discuss the various skillsets required in supporting the transformation process to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The session will be moderated by Simona Costanzo Sow, Chief, Academic Partnerships, UN System Staff College (UNSSC). Keynote speakers for this session include:

• Dr. Imme Scholz, Co-President, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Germany 

• Dr. Ambuj Sagar, Deputy Director, Strategy & Planning and Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 

• João Vitor Domingues, Head of the Institutional Relations Office, National School of Public Administration, Brazil 

Session materials

Watch the session recording, and find the PPT presentation and all relevant links shared during the session in the comments section below.

Connection details

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Time: 8:00 AM New York/ Panama | 3:00 PM Addis Ababa/ Amman/ Istanbul | 7:00 PM Bangkok

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About the speakers

Dr. Imme Scholz serves as Co-President of the Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Foundation since April 2022. Imme is responsible for the Foundation’s work in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and for the Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy.

Between 2019 and 2023, Imme has been the Co-Chair of the Independent Group of Scientists, which had been commissioned by the United Nations to prepare the second Global Sustainable Development Report which was launched in September 2023 at the SDG Summit. She is a member of the supervisory board of Bread for the World (since 2012). Between 2009 and 2022, she was a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development, and between 2019 and 2022 of the German Committee on Sustainability Research. 

Between 2009 and 2022, she had been Deputy Director of the German Development Institute (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, DIE, now IDOS). Her research focused on climate change and other issues at the environment-development interface. Between 2002 and 2009 she was in charge of the newly created division for Environmental Policy and the Management of Natural Resources. She is a sociologist and earned her PhD in 1999 at the Free University of Berlin. 

Dr. Ambuj Sagar is the Deputy Director (Strategy & Planning) and the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD).  He was the founding Head of the School of Public Policy at IITD.  

His interests broadly lie at the intersection of science, technology and development. His recent work has focused on innovation policy for meeting sustainability and inclusivity challenges, energy innovation policy and strategies (in areas such as biofuels, clean cookstoves, coal power, automobiles, and institutional mechanisms such as climate innovation centers), climate change policy and politics, capacity development, and higher education policy. 

Ambuj has been on numerous national and international expert groups and also has been consultant/advisor to various Indian Govt. agencies as well as many multilateral and bilateral agencies.  Most recently, he was a Lead Author in WGIII of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and a member of the Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General to prepare the Global Sustainable Development Report 2023. He currently is a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (which is the group that sets the hands of the Doomsday Clock).

He holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi, an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the Univ of Michigan and an MS in Materials Science, a PhD in Polymer Science, and an MS in Technology and Policy from MIT.

João Vitor Domingues is the Head of the Institutional Relations Office, National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Brazil. He is a federal civil servant and lawyer. Responsible for the national and international partnerships at the Brazilian National School of Public Administration - Enap. Specialist in Innovation and Educational Technologies by Enap and in Global Governance of Sustainable Development by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Professor of the course Celebration of Public Sector Partnerships with International Organizations. Curiosities about me: I have worked in the U.S as a football coach and with internationalization of sports brands for 3 years. 

The Integrated Policy Practitioners' Network (IPPN) is a one-stop-shop for integrated policy practitioners, operating as a knowledge hub for the global community. IPPN aims to link existing efforts on SDG integration across UN agencies and beyond, and enabling cross-pollination and learning to enhance the UN System-wide capability to practice and deliver high-quality integrated policy support. IPPN is a joint effort under the auspices of the UNSDG Task Team on Integrated Policy Support.

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