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CWS Virtual Side Event (Zoom) 

The Necessity of Inner Development for the Full Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 

February 7, 2023

1:15 - 2:30 PM EST

CSocD 61 Priority Theme

Creating full and productive employment and decent work for all as a way of overcoming inequalities to accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic & the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

 

Event Concept Note

At a point approximately halfway through the 15 year time period to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is critical that all actors strategize around full implementation and achievement of the 2030 Agenda. Leveraging highly effective partnerships and applying lessons learned from the first seven years of the SDGs are necessary, and community-level engagement and leadership will continue to be critical. The role of the individual, and their personal journey toward their sustainable development will also be a critical lens for program design and implementation over the second half, and throughout the final years leading up to 2030.

 

The interconnectivity of the goals is also inextricably linked to the complexities of each person and their own capacities, interests, goals and lived experience - to name a few. This session will look at the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) as a key means to help the world achieve the SDGs. 

 

The IDGs (https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/) concern each humans’ 1) being; 2) thinking; 3) relating; 4) collaborating, and; 5) acting. These five areas of the individual will be the lynchpin to help sustainably shift toward sustainable interests, habits, efforts, and unleash creativity and innovation. 

Panelists will discuss how program models and approaches have shifted since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in 2015 and how the role of program participants - as individuals - has shifted, including their roles in program design, community leadership and their personal goal setting and action. This will take into consideration inequity in access to basic services and disproportionate consequences - especially for marginalized and displaced people.

This will be explored through several perspectives of our speakers with different backgrounds.

 

Speakers

 

• Maurice A. Bloem, Chief Sustainability and Impact Officer, Church World Service (moderator)
• Dr. Michael Trice, Director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement, Spehar-Haliligan Associate Professor, Seattle University
• Ntombentsha “Portia” Tengani, RDP Project Manager, Church World Service Africa 
• Sophia Robele, Foresight Specialist Consultant, UNDP
• Wardah Khalid - Foreign Affairs Officer at the US Department of State, but during this event she (re)presented: Founder and Board President, Poligon Education Fund