2021 Conference Agenda
The theme for the Development2030 2021 conference was:
‘The impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals – how has the global pandemic affected delivery of the SDGs leading up to 2030; and has it distracted us from the much bigger threat of climate change?’
Reports show that institutions are struggling to keep pace with an unparalleled global crisis and the economic consequences of COVID-19 could linger until 2030. Should more debt relief be given to less developed countries and how can their healthcare systems be made more resilient to future pandemics? Yet, in order to address the short term challenges of COVID-19, are we in danger of taking our global eye off the much larger threat posed by climate change?
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Wednesday 17th November
10:45
Introduction to Development2030 by Nicholas Rutherford, Event Director, AidEx and Development2030
Opening Keynote - Perfect Storm - coronavirus and climate change
10:45 – 11:30 Wednesday 17th November
How great has the impact of COVID-19 been on climate change policy?
10:50 – 11:00: Bettina Stix,
Founder
Disaster Relief by Amazon
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11:00 – 11:15: Sinead Walsh,
Climate Envoy & Deputy Director General of Irish Aid and Africa
Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs
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11:15 – 11:30: Flemming Møller Mortensen, Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation of Denmark
11:45
Should Development be merged with foreign policy and trade?
How far is it realistic to separate development from a country’s foreign policy?
MODERATOR: Nigel Peters, Secretary, All Party Parliamentary Group on Uzbekistan
SPEAKER: Torben Holm Larsen, Technical Director, Real Relief
13:45
Shrinking Aid and Rising Debt - how can the world fund sustainable development?
Will funding levels ever return to the halcyon days of 2019 and if they don’t, what are the alternatives?
MODERATOR: Emmanuel Moyart, Team leader, TPSD Facility DAI
SPEAKERS: Kathleen Anne Charles, Senior Investment Promotion Expert and SME finance Advisor
Chris Meyer Zu Natrup, Founder and Managing Director MZN
15:15
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Civil Society Organisations - What does this mean for mission and method in achieving developmental goals?
15:15-16:15 Wednesday 17th November
This seminar will present some of the COVID-19 impact data now available and examine its implications for the civil society sector, in order to set the scene, for a discussion amongst large and small civil society organisations of what impact the pandemic has had on them as organisations and on the relevance of their missions and methods.
The panellists will also consider how the future should look for the continuance of various civil society organisations as achievers of developmental missions; whether their missions can, or should, be achieved in the immediate post-pandemic World by reverting to the earlier methods; and how best to meet the needs of the beneficiaries, and the expectations of their donors, in reaching developmental targets through more direct engagement in solutions.
MODERATOR: Georgina Angus, Development2030
SPEAKERS: Richard Hill, CEO, Ocean Generation, U.K
Lucia Selios, Political Science Professor, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Thursday 18th November
10:30
Management consulting v investment banking?
Are large development consultants going to team up with investment banks to offer a one-stop-shop?
MODERATOR: Nigel Peters, Secretary, All Party Parliamentary Group on Uzbekistan
SPEAKERS: Professor Paul Watchman, Senior ESG/Environmental lawyer
T. Edward Williams, Partner, Williams LLP
12:00
Keynote - How is COVID impacting Africa?
Recovering from COVID what are the development opportunities for Africa?
SPEAKER: Mike Foster, Head of Economic Development and Climate Change, British High Commission in Nairobi
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13:30
Charcoal, Trees and SDGs
SPEAKERS:
Tim Buckley, Chief Operating Office, Alcis
Alison Hall MBE, Founder,Seeds for Development
15:00
What role can business foundations play?
How can Foundations help to achieve the SDGs?
MODERATOR: Carly Althoff, Managing Director, Journeyman International
SPEAKER: Bremley Lyngdoh, Ph.D. president and founder, Worldview Impact Foundation
Cliff Schmidt, Founder and Executive Director, Amplio