Let's reinforce and foster stronger partnerships and alliances to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. ~ ActionAid Ghana
ActionAid Ghana hosts Partners for a Strategic Partners Forum in Accra.
Partnerships are the glue for SDG implementation and is essential for making the 2030Agenda a reality. Available statistics shows that Multistakeholder partnerships is crucial to leverage the inter-linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals to enhance their effectiveness and impact.
While this may look cumbersome especially due to the many economic shocks across Africa, governments, civil society, the corporate sector, the UN system, and other players are now more than ever, designing and creating means to work together in a renewed and strengthened global partnership to mobilise all available resources in order to meet the SD goals of the 2030 Agenda. In a bid to strategically quantify and prioritise the SDGs and their impact on sustainable development. ActionAid Ghana held its first Strategic Partners Forum in Accra to promote its purpose, leverage resources, and make a positive effect.
Held on October 9, the forum was timely held to mobilise support from organisations to adequately integrate the SDGs into local and international planning to provide a framework for local development policy and collaborate to finance development.
The AAG Strategic forum was held to reinforce and foster stronger partnerships and alliances with current and potential donor partners, as well as state and non-state developmental players. Furthermore, the forum was organised to assess gaps and opportunities for effectively improving interventions to strengthen people's and communities' resilience to climate change shocks through sustainable agriculture and alternative livelihood opportunities, improve access to gender-responsive public services, and create an equal-opportunity society.
Speaking at the forum, the Country Director of ActionAid Ghana, John Nkaw, reiterated the goal of the new Country Strategy Paper VII and its aim of offering strategic support to state institutions and organisations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Mr. Nkaw also stressed that the new country strategy seeks to increase advocacy on gender-related issues and agroecology, calling on donors and partners to collaborate and support AAG-led projects and programs.
The forum brought together key partners and donors to appreciate their immense contribution to the great initiatives championed by ActionAid Ghana to better the lot of women and girls as well as promote agroecology.
The forum also chartered a path forward in ActionAid’s quest to deliver more in Ghana. Sharing AAG's key interventions and impacts, the Head of Programmes, Justin Bayor also reiterated the need for stronger partnerships and collaborations.
The Strategic Partners Forum attracted stakeholders from Government Institutions like the Forestry Commission, Gender Ministry, TVET commission, private and government banks, academia, development organisations and other international communities in Ghana. In attendance was the EU Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Irchad Ramiandrasoa Razaaly ,representatives from UNESCO, FAO, the Danish and Dutch Embassy among others.
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