TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation SUPPORTING SMES IN SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT POST-COVID-19: CHALLENGES AND POLICY AGENDA FOR THE G20 ABSTRACT SMEs contribute substantially to global employment and economic growth. Yet constraints such as lack of capital, human resources and knowledge capability have rendered [...]

TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation SDG16: AN ENABLER FOR ACCELERATED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2030 AGENDA AMID COVID-19 ABSTRACT It is important that G20 leaders lend their powerful voices to acknowledge that fragility and violence, and the failure to invest in democracy, good governance [...]

TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation REPURPOSING AGRICULTURAL POLICY SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION ABSTRACT Agricultural production is both strongly affected by climate change and a major contributor to climate change, with agriculture and land use change accounting for about one fifth of [...]

TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO POVERTY THAT STRENGTHENS THE HUMANITARIAN-DEVELOPMENT NEXUS ABSTRACT The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the expected increase in global crises threaten to push millions into poverty. Enhanced collaboration between humanitarian and development actors is critical to [...]

TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation ALIGNING COVID-19 RECOVERY EFFORTS WITH THE SDGS - TOOLBOX AND PRINCIPLES ABSTRACT COVID-19 has complicated plans to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. As we are witnessing a proliferation of recovery initiatives by governments and international financial [...]

TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation ESG20: STANDARDISATION TO FOSTER PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION TOWARDS THE 2030 AGENDA ABSTRACT The post-COVID stage represents a unique window of opportunity to accelerate the transition towards sustainable development. Public investment will be essential to achieve such a goal; yet, [...]

TF5 - 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation CREATIVE ECONOMY 2030: INCLUSIVE AND RESILIENT CREATIVE ECONOMY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RECOVERY ABSTRACT Before the pandemic, the creative economy was growing rapidly and generating new jobs in every region of the world, predicted to account up to [...]

TF7 - Infrastructure Investment and Financing MAINTAINING RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ABSTRACT Improving maintenance management and increasing investment in infrastructure maintenance makes it possible to boost the resilience of infrastructure against a variety of threats. This has a positive financial return for developed as well as developing [...]

TF7 - Infrastructure Investment and Financing G20 SUPPORT FOR IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT CYCLES IN AFRICA ABSTRACT This policy brief argues that new, African-led infrastructure models are needed to support Africa’s economic transformation. We argue that the G20, including the Compact with Africa initiative, should support [...]