Dear Colleagues,
This is part two related to UNGA81. In case you missed the first part (from Wednesday), see UNGA81 – part one.
As we’re slowly heading for the end of the UNGA81 High-level week in New York, with later today the global health highlight of the week, the UN HL meeting on PPPR, let me just flag some issues that caught my attention this week, more or less chronologically.
On SDGs, a lot has already been said, but David Miliband’s poignant Foreign Policy viewpoint, “It’s Time to Update the U.N. SDGs”, in which he argues that the SDGs were not made for the current time of ‘forever wars’, still struck a chord with me. Sad but very true.
On Monday, the long awaited Accra Reset High-level Panel recommendations were launched, “A Sovereign Future for Health”. As mentioned last week by Kumanan Rasanathan, this time could (and should) be different indeed. Informally labeled the Accra Reset ‘ten Commandments’ by Devex, let’s just hope all actors that need to...
