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| Table of contents |
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Download the full report here (pdf version), for chapters see below.
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| Preface |
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| Part I – Overview |
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| Reclaiming the public (policy) space for the SDGs |
| Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum |
| on behalf of the Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development |
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| Stalled implementation at national level |
| Roberto Bissio, Social Watch |
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| Implementing the 2030 Agenda requires acknowledging extraterritorial obligations |
| Barbara Adams and Karen Judd, Global Policy Forum |
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| Part II – Spotlights on the SDGs |
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| Pro-poor or pro-corporations? |
| Roberto Bissio, Social Watch |
| Box: Measuring extreme poverty: who decides what? |
| Xavier Godinot, International Movement ATD Fourth World |
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| Facilitating corporate capture or investing in small-scale sustainable agriculture and agroecology? |
| Stefano Prato, Society for International Development |
| Box: Agribusiness mega-mergers expose need for UN Competition Convention |
| ETC Group |
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| Corporate influence on the global health agenda |
| K M Gopakumar, Third World Network (TWN) |
| Box: Healthcare is not a commodity but a public good |
| Sandra Vermuyten, Public Services International (PSI) |
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| Cashing in on SDG 4 |
| Antonia Wulff, Education International (EI) |
| Box: The primary education conundrum in Africa: between corporate capture and public challenges |
| Aidan Eyakuze, Twaweza East Africa |
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| Corporate power: a risky threat looming over the fulfilment of women‘s human rights |
| Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) |
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| Ensuring just and sustainable water infrastructure |
| Meera Karunananthan, Blue Planet Project and Susan Sponk, University of Ottawa |
| Box: Water in the MENA region: privatization amid scarcity |
| Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition (Cairo) |
| Box: Remunicipalization: putting water back into public hands |
| Satoko Kishimoto |
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| Peoples’ power or how to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all |
| Hans JH Verolme, Climate Advisers Network |
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| Decent work requires decent public policies |
| Sandra Massiah and Sandra Vermuyten, Public Services International (PSI) |
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| Industrialization, inequality and sustainability: what kind of industry policy do we need? (en español) |
| Manuel F. Montes, South Centre |
| Box: The new generation of PPPs in infrastructure – meeting the needs of institutional investors |
| David Boys, Public Service International |
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| Squeezing the State: corporate influence over tax policy and the repercussions for national and global inequality |
| Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) |
Box: Consolidating misery or catalyzing opportunity?
The political economy of inequalities in East Africa |
| Arthur Muliro Wapakala, Deputy Managing Director, Society for International Development |
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| Commodification over community: financialization of the housing sector and its threat to SDG 11 and the right to housing |
| Leilani Farha, Canada Without Poverty, and Bruce Porter, Social Rights Advocacy Centre |
| Box: Reclaiming OUR public transport |
| Alana Dave, International Transport Federation (ITF) |
| Box: Four critical steps to operationalize the New Urban Agenda’s transformative commitment to decent work and inclusive and sustainable cities (SDG 11) |
| Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI) |
| Box: The “Aerotropolis” phenomenon – high risk development thwarting SDGs |
| Anita Pleumarom, Tourism Investigation and Monitoring Team |
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| Binding rules on business and human rights –a critical prerequisite to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns |
| Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz, Global Policy Forum |
| Box: Can the (interlinked) SDGs curtail the extractive industries? |
| Volker Lehmann and Lennart Inklaar, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office |
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| The pivot point: realizing Sustainable Development Goals ending corporate capture of climate policy |
| Tamar Lawrence-Samuel with Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability International, and Nathan Thanki, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice |
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| The role of transnational corporations and extractive industries in seabed mining, and the impacts on oceans health and food security |
| Maureen Penjueli, Pacific Network on Globalization |
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| Trends in the privatization and corporate capture of biodiversity |
| Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition and Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, University of Amsterdam |
| Box: Corporate capture of agricultural biodiversity threatens the future we want |
| Lim Li Ching, Third World Network (TWN) |
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| Progressive implementation of the 2030 Agenda depends on achieving sustainable peace |
| Ziad Abdel Samad, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) |
| Box: Private Military and Security Companies – obstacle to the realization of SDG 16 |
| Lou Pingeot, Global Policy Forum |
| Box: Whistleblower protection – how serious are governments to address corruption |
| Camilo Rubiano, Public Services International (PSI) |
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| Means of implementation or means of appropriation? |
| Stefano Prato, Society for International Development |
| Box: Leveraging corruption: how World Bank funds ended up destabilizing young democracies in Latin America |
| Roberto Bissio, Social Watch |
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| Part III – NATIONAL REPORTS |
| National reports are being published weekly. |
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| ARMENIA |
| BANGLADESH |
| BRAZIL (en español) |
| BULGARIA |
| COLOMBIA (en español) |
| CYPRUS |
| CZECH REPUBLIC |
| EGYPT |
| EL SALVADOR (en español) |
| FINLAND |
| FRANCE |
| GERMANY |
| GUATEMALA (en español) |
| HUNGARY |
| JORDAN |
| KENYA |
| LEBANON |
| MALTA |
| MEXICO (en español) |
| NEPAL |
| PERU (en español) |
| THAILAND |
| TUNISIA |
| UNITED KINGDOM |
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Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017
Reclaiming policies for the public
Privatization, partnerships, corporate capture and their impact on sustainability and inequality - assessments and alternatives
Report of the Civil Society Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Published by:
Social Watch, Third World Network (TWN), Global Policy Forum (GPF), Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Society for International Development (SID), Public Services International (PSI), Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
ISBN 978-3-943126-33-4
Beirut/Bonn/Ferney-Voltaire/Montevideo/New York/Penang/Rome/Suva, July 2017
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