Event Date: 2022-11-23
Event Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Community-driven data as a tool to drive change: Supporting local civil society to foster a more inclusive and participatory development
Democracy and its underlying principles of equal rights and non-discrimination are strengthened with the representation of people from all communities. However, means to actively engage marginalised groups in the public policy discourse often remain inadequate. Also, many governments fail to collect highly granular data, impairing themselves to fully capture the realities of hard-to reach populations and hence to take them into account. This poses a considerable risk to the successful delivery of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and its underlying goal to ‘leave no one behind’.
Against this backdrop, civil society organisations (CSOs) and grassroots community-based organisations (CBOs) are playing a pivotal role in communicating development priorities to local communities and voicing community members’ concerns and needs to the decision makers. Yet, the space for such civic engagement is limited or shrinking in many countries. The Leave No One Behind Partnership, a coalition of nearly 100 CSOs that works in seven countries and at the global level, aims to create an enabling environment for civil society actors to engage in democratic spaces and policy dialogues, with a focus on the SDG process.
This event will showcase insights and best practices from the partnership’s work at the global, national and local level, including case studies from its programmes in India and Vietnam. Together with our audience, we want to discuss the potentials and limitations of inclusive data for reaching the SDGs and fostering equity in development.
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