Agenda 2030 exposed11/20/2022 ![]() ![]() Significant strides have been taken to launch and support ‘ responsible’ recovery plans however, ensuring that this re-imagining yields concrete change will require ambitious, holistic, forward-looking and coordinated action from all key stakeholders, that is, a shared framework. ![]() It means using post-COVID-19 new ‘normals’, digital disruption and innovation as an opportunity for charting new pathways, that are greener, more inclusive and just, and for expanding and accelerating development impact. Building forward better means looking beyond recovery and doing more than getting economies and livelihoods quickly back on their feet. They are also looking for new partnerships and strategic alliances for building forward better. COVID-19 is exposing the frailties and inequalities of our societies.”īeyond recovery: charting new pathways for developmentĪs states, societies and businesses are beginning to formulate their COVID-19 recovery strategies, many are assessing their “business-as-usual” practices, selecting what is worth returning to, and what will require radical transformation for reducing vulnerabilities and increasing resilience of societies and businesses to future shocks. These emergencies are compounding existing inequalities. As the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General put it to UN News on 3 May: “We have a health emergency, a humanitarian emergency and now a development emergency. The pandemic is also acting as a multiplier of vulnerabilities and inequalities. On some dimensions of human development, conditions today are equivalent to levels of deprivation last seen in the mid-1980s”. The challenges in developing countries are manifestly more acute and are likely to become more apparent as this crisis rolls on. The UNDP 2020 Human Development Perspectives COVID-19 noted that “ The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a human development crisis. However, the pandemic has revealed serious weaknesses in health and social protection systems. Many businesses have similarly proven their social purpose through corporate social responsibility or through pivoting their manufacturing to produce face masks, hand sanitizer, PPEs and other much needed equipment. These included growing mutual aid groups, crowdfunding and social innovation. ![]() There are also heartening examples on all-of society responses to the pandemic from around the world, and a lot to tell from Tunisia. The latter is mostly aimed at providing essential liquidity and protecting livelihoods to mitigate the consequences of abrupt losses of income. Health emergency and rapid economic rescue measures were put in place. The first priorities in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic have been, and rightly so, to overcome the short-term impacts. The pandemic: a multiplier of fragility and exclusion Besides similarities, all pandemics teach us valuable lessons of adaptation and resilience – a word to the “wise”! Its socio-economic impacts seem perhaps more pronounced due to global inter-dependence, namely of capitals, goods, services and commodities, as well as human mobility and unprecedented information flows. Like the black death (1347) and the Spanish flu (1918), the COVID-19 pandemic brought about fundamental and irreversible changes to our lives and societies. Pandemics have played a major role in shaping human history throughout the ages. What we are experiencing today, though devastating, is nothing unusual. ![]()
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