SDG, Alm.del - 2020-21 - Bilag 24: Invitation til webinar fra Parliamentary Leadership for the 2030 Agenda Webinar Series - "Designing National Budgets: Translating Global Commitments into Realities", mandag den 19/4-2021

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Parliamentary Leadership for the 2030 Agenda Webinar Series

Designing National Budgets:

Translating Global Commitments into Realities

April 19, 2021 | 8:00 am to 10:00 am EDT | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm CEST |

Other Time Zones

Every year, parliamentarians undertake the crucial responsibility of determining the allocation of public

resources through the approval of national budgets. As a decision with wide-ranging and lasting impacts

on the course of action to be taken by governments, budgeting entails a complex challenge that often

demands intricate familiarity and knowledge of specific policy areas. The COVID-19 pandemic, for

instance, has shown that parliaments must be up to the task of designing national budgets that can

provide the necessary resources to strengthen their public health systems, to ensure that their

economic recovery has a firm basis on the SDGs set out in the 2030 Agenda, and to address the specific

needs of groups who are facing conditions of vulnerability.

Budgets are a tool with the potential to deliver the transformative policies that will be needed as we

begin to build back better. However, parliamentarians must also find the means to influence the way in

which the budget is allocated, to prepare the bills and proposals relating to them and even to build new

majorities. In that view, the final webinar of the

Parliamentary Leadership for the 2030 Agenda Series

will be centered on

Designing National Budgets: Translating Global Commitments into Realities.

that end, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Parliamentarians for the Global Goals

(PfGG), and the International Health Partnership for UHC 2030 (UHC2030) will bring together a group of

experts and parliamentarians with the purpose of providing practical guidance on relevant issues that

are within the budgetary purview of parliaments.

How can the framework of the SDGs help parliamentarians in ensuring that budgets address the varying

needs of constituents and foster a sustainable economic recovery? What are the means at the disposal

of parliamentarians to strengthen national health systems through budgets and make them more

inclusive, particularly for women and girls? How can resources be effectively allocated to counteract the

serious setbacks in education brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic? How can budgets be linked

with accountability, particularly through the design and evaluation of results-based budgets? Can

parliamentarians navigate fiscal restrictions, particularly in developing countries, to provide relief to

those who have endured through considerable economic hardship over the past year?

To address these and other questions of a similar nature, this virtual event itself will be discussion-

oriented and structured to give participants actionable items that can serve to guide their work around

budgets in their own parliaments. A general overview on how to design budgets with gender and

sustainability perspectives as cross-cutting elements will be provided as a framework. Afterwards, the

SDG, Alm.del - 2020-21 - Bilag 24: Invitation til webinar fra Parliamentary Leadership for the 2030 Agenda Webinar Series - "Designing National Budgets: Translating Global Commitments into Realities", mandag den 19/4-2021

discussion will then move on to breakout sessions on budgeting for health; for a sustainable economic

recovery; and for education.

Please register here to attend online and indicate your preferred breakout session.

About the organizers:

The SDSN is a network of over 1,200 universities in 160+ countries working to

support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Parliamentarians for the Global Goals is a new

initiative by and for parliamentarians to promote the SDGs through parliamentary actions around the

world. UHC2030 is a global movement that seeks to strengthen health systems for universal health

coverage through a multi-stakeholder platform promoting collaborative work at both global and country

levels.

Draft Agenda

7:45 am EDT

8:00 am EDT

Virtual meeting room opens

Opening Remarks

•

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, President, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

Overview. Designing National Budgets

Moderation: Ms. Gabriela Cuevas Barron, Co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee

•

Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director of WHO EMRO

•

Dr. Ernesto Cordero, Former Minister of Finance and Speaker of the Mexican Senate

(TBC)

•

Dr. Elisabeth Hege, Research Fellow, Sustainable Development Governance

Programme, IDDRI

Breakout Sessions

Participants will proceed to a breakout session to discuss one of the three topics that

they have chosen during their registration.

•

Breakout session on budgeting for health, led by Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba, Africa

Health Budget Network

•

Breakout session on budgeting for a sustainable economic recovery, led by Dr.

Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business; Fellow at the

World Academy of Art and Science; President-elect of the European Association of

Environmental and Resource Economists

•

Breakout session on budgeting for education, led by UNESCO (TBC)

Sessions will begin with short (10 minute) presentations from the session leaders.

Parliamentarians may comment on their own initiatives or field questions relating to the

topic of the breakout session of their choosing.

Closing Remarks

•

Kirsten Brosbøl, Founder, Parliamentarians for the Global Goals

8:10 am EDT

8:40 am EDT

9:45 am EDT

10:00 am EDT Adjourn

Speaker Biographies

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, President, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and

global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to

address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to

market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty,

and the battle against human-induced climate change. Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for

Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the

u i ersity’s

highest academic rank. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions

Network, a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and an SDG Advocate for

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN

Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). Sachs

has authored and edited numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of

Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization

(2011). Sachs was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for

environmental leadership. He was twice named among

Time

agazi e’s

100 most influential world

leaders and

The New York Times

called Sachs

pro a ly

the most important economist in the

orld.

survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the three most influential living economists.

Ms. Gabriela Cuevas Barron, Co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee

Gabriela Cuevas Barron studied Political Science at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico

(ITAM), in addition to having participated in numerous programs and diplomas related to public

administration. She was elected Federal Member of Parliament for the first time when she was 21 years

old. Since then, she has been three times Federal Member of Parliament (2001

–

2003, 2009

–

2012,

2018

–

currently), as well as Local Member of Parliament (2003

–2006),

and a Constituent Member of

Parliament in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City (2016

–

2017) where she presided the

Commission of Mayors. Additionally, she was elected Mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo Delegation (2006

–

2009) becoming the only woman in charge of a demarcation during that period. She also chaired the

Foreign Relations Commission when she served as Senator of the Republic (2012

–

2018). Ms. Cuevas

has also collaborated in the Euro-Lat Parliamentary Assembly proposing resolutions about migration,

development, and economic crisis. In 2017 Gabriela Cuevas Barron became the youngest and the second

woman President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). As IPU President, she, along with a consortium

with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and Women Political Leaders (WPL), is part of a

Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist movements and leadership. Ms. Cuevas is also a

member of the UHC Movement Political Advisory Panel to UHC2030. In addition, she is a Member of the

High-Level Steering Group of Every Woman, Every Child.

Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director of WHO EMRO

Dr. Ahmed Al-Mandhari was appointed as World Health Organization

WHO ’s

Regional Director for the

Eastern Mediterranean by

WHO’s

Executive Board at its 143rd session and assumed office on 1 June

2018. A native of Oman, Dr. Al-Mandhari has made a substantial, positive contribution to the

development and modernization of

O a ’s

health system, which has witnessed qualitative

improvements in recent years, particularly in areas such as patient safety. A specialist in family and

community medicine, Dr. Al Mandhari was Head of Quality Management and Development at Sultan

Qaboos University Hospital from 2005 to 2006, followed by Deputy Director-General for Clinical Affairs

until 2010. In 2013, he was appointed Director-General of Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, later

becoming Director-General of the Quality Assurance Centre at the Ministry of Health. Dr. Al-Mandhari

has also worked as a senior consultant in family medicine and public health in Oman since 2009.

Dr. Ernesto Cordero, Former Minister of Finance and Speaker of the Mexican Senate (TBC)

Dr. Cordero has served as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Secretary of Social Development, and

President of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Senate. He has also been a professor of International

Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, of Economics and Statistics at ITAM, and of Econometrics

at CIDE and at the Universidad Panamericana.

Dr. Elisabeth Hege, Research Fellow, Sustainable Development Governance Programme, IDDRI

Elisabeth Hege is a senior research fellow in the Governance program. Her work focuses on the

implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a whole. She is

particularly interested in the integration of SDGs in national budgets and recovery plans; in the

comparison of national governance and dialogue frameworks; in the international follow-up at the High

Level Political Forum and in the Europe-Africa dialogue. She also followed the negotiations around the

Global Pact for the environment. Elisabeth graduated from SciencesPo Paris with a degree in

international development and previously studied political and economic sciences at the University of

Heidelberg in Germany. Her master thesis is on the following topic:"Scaling up Social Innovation for

Sustainable Development? The allocation of roles in community-corporate partnerships for renewable

energy projects in the EU ". During her studies, she did several internships abroad (India and Morocco),

followed by a post-graduate internship in Paris with Tilia, a consulting firm specializing in energy, water

and environment. Elisabeth is a member of the board of EPE.

Mr. Aminu Magashi Garba, Africa Health Budget Network (TBC)

Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba is the founder and coordinator of the Africa Health Budget Network, a

regional group that uses budget advocacy to influence adequate health spending and improved

transparency and accountability. He is the Global Co-convener of the Community of Practitioners on

Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH). He is a member of the Global Action Plan (GAP)

for SDG 3 (Health for All) Civil Society Advocacy Group, the immediate past civil society representative to

the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investors Group (2017/18), and currently a member of the steering

committee of the Global Civil Society Coordinating Group for the GFF. In 2018, he served on the WHO

Civil Society Advisory Group for its Health Financing Campaign. In Nigeria, he is a founding member of

the National Advocates for Health, a policy and advocacy think-tank engaging in high level advocacy on

health care financing reforms. In his voluntary capacity he has been a weekly health columnist with the

Nigerian Newspaper

Daily Trust

for over 17 years and publishes an online newspaper

Health Reporters

that reports on

Afri a’s

Health. He holds an MBBS degree from University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, and a

MSc in Public Health and Post Graduate Diploma from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine. During his undergraduate studies he was the Vice President of Nigerian Medical Students

Association (1997/98).

Dr. Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business; Fellow at the World Academy of

Art and Science; President-elect of the European Association of Environmental and Resource

Economists

Professor Phoebe Koundouri holds a PhD and MPhil in Economics and Econometrics from the University

of Cambridge (UK). She is Professor (Chair) of Sustainable Development (Economics and Econometrics)

at the School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and she is the elected

President of the European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (EAERE) (with

more than 1,200 scientific member institutions, from more than 75 different countries). Prof. Koundouri

is listed in the 1% of most-cited women economists in the world, with 15 published books and more

than 250 published scientific papers. Professor Koundouri is also the Founder and Scientific Director of

the Research laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES) at the Athens

University of Economics and Business and an affiliated Professor at the ATHENA Research and

Innovation Center (Greece) where she directs EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece of the European Institute of

Innovation and Technology. She is also the co-chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development

Network Greece (UN SDSN Greece), chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Centre for

Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8) and chair of the scientific advisory board of the

European Forest Institute. Notably she is currently member of the drafting Priministerial Committee for

10-year development plan for Greece, as well as in the Climate Change Committee of the Greek Ministry

of Environment and Energy. She holds a global leadership role in the UN SDSN for European Green Deal

(EGD) implementation, Sustainable Shipping and Ports, 4-seas Blue Growth Initiative and is leader

(together with Prof. Jeff Sachs) of the Senior Working Group on Transformation Pathways for the

implementation of EGD.

Representative from UNESCO (TBC)

Kirsten Brosbøl, Founder, Parliamentarians for the Global Goals

Kirsten Brosbøl is the founder of Parliamentarians for the Global Goals

–

a new global initiative for

parliamentarians who work on the 2030 agenda. Kirsten was an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia

University in 2019/2020. She is a former MP and Minister of Environment of Denmark, and she founded

and chaired the Danish

Parlia e t’s

All-Party Group on the Sustainable Development Goals.