Watch the Norad Conference 2017

Agenda 2030 marks the watershed for international aid. The Sustainable Development Goals encompass the many dimensions of development and help us rethink what growth and prosperity mean.

At the conference we ask ourselves the following question: How do we shape our aid architecture, development institutions and rethink current financial flows in order to ensure a truly sustainable development, eradicating extreme poverty while protecting planetary boundaries?

See again the speeches and debates from the Norad Conference 2017: Aid in the age of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):  

Paula Caballero, Global Director, Climate Program of the World Resources Institute

- Private sector is much more energised towards the Sustainable Development Goals than the Millennium Development Goals, says Paula Caballero, widely recognized as the lead proponent of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Paula Caballero, Jon Lomøy and Homi Kharas discuss the global goals and Agenda2030

Two years into the Agenda2030, the world is a different place. What do you see as the main challenge – or risks - for completing the Agenda? The question is directed at Paula Caballero, Global Director, Climate Program of the World Resources Institute, Homi Kharas, interim vice president and director at The Brookings Institution and Norad's Director General Jon Lomøy. Eva Bratholm, director of communications, moderates the conversation.

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Homi Kharas, interim vice president and director at The Brookings Institution

Homi Kharas presents the work of Brookings Insitute on Leave No Country Behind. Ending Poverty in the Toughest Places. Which places should we focus on in order to end poverty and achieve the SDGs, he asks in his presentation at the Norad Conference 2017.

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Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO of Plan International

- Long term commercial growth can only come with sustainability, says Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO of Plan International.

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Anuradha Gupta, Deputy CEO of GAVI – The Norad Conference 2017

The Vaccine Alliance GAVI is behind some of the big advances in our time with immunisations saving millions of childrens lives. 4 out of 5 children are vaccinated. How to reach - and vaccinate - the fifth child? It is a challenge that Gavi has embraced, said Anuradha Gupta, Deputy CEO of GAVI at the Norad Conference where she participated in a conversation with Eva Bratholm, Norad's director for communications in conversation.

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Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso, the Executive Director at African Monitor

- I think, by and large, that African governments are taking the sustainable development agenda quite seriously, says Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso at the Norad Conference 2017. African Monitor is a Pan-African Organisation that seeks to unlock the grassroots potential to be the drivers of Africa’s economic rejuvenation.

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Anuradha Gupta, Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso and Anne-Marie Helland discuss different perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

How to turn the vision into action? What is the most important prerequvisite for practical implementation of the SDGs on the ground is the question directed at Anuradha Gupta, Deputy CEO of GAVI, Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso, Executive Director at African Monitor and Anne-Marie Helland, General Secretary of Norwegian Church Aid as they participate in a discussion on the topic moderated by Eva Bratholm at the Norad Conference 2017.

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