First Global Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Dialogue

First Global Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Dialogue

Ms Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, FAO, UNGA, 22 September 2016, 8:00-9:30 GA Building, West Terrace, 4th floor

 

Ladies and gentlemen,

The Sustainable development Goals and the S.A.M.O.A Pathway create a common language to base the dialogue needed for an effective partnership.

The aspirational slogan “Leaving no one behind” connotes togetherness in action to, for instance, eliminate hunger and extreme poverty.

The17 Sustainable Development Goals are intrinsically linked and can only be achieved through global partnership between multiple actors across a broad range of areas.  

Ladies and gentlemen,

For the Small Island developing States (SIDS) the SAMOA pathway clearly distinguishes Accelerated Action.

This calls for business un-usual. This is because, as we know too well, Partnerships are often easy to propose, troublesome to negotiate and require humility to implement; yet they are immensely powerful when they work well. 

As partnerships are immensely powerful, the on-going attempts to respond to S.A.M.O.A paragraph 61 that calls on FAO to facilitate the development of an Action Programme for Food and Nutrition over the last one year, offers some lessons.  

In the interest of time, I will share just two with you:

 i.            Focus on implementation: This calls for well-elaborated action plans based on field level activities. We must focus on implementation, implementation, implementation!

 ii.            Dialogue on the type of partnerships and factors considered critical for success. This calls on mechanisms that are innovative and go against business as usual. We may need to even re-engineer the way institutions and stakeholders are set up.

 

Ladies and gentlemen,

Partnership has emerged asthe single-most element towards Accelerated Action for food and nutritional security in SIDS.

FAO, DESA, OHRLLL and the countries invite you to partner with us to finalize and implement the action program.

An expert meeting will be held on 30 October-2 November in Fiji and the final programme launch is scheduled during the Biennial Forum on SIDS in June 2017.

Thanks for inviting FAO to be part of the momentum to build this Partnership.

Thank you.