Whether you are Geneva-based or producing knowledge in partnership with International Geneva partners, you are invited to submit evidence corresponding to one of three entry points, which group the SDGs to be reviewed at the U.N. High Level Political Forum (HLPF) in 2021:
- Human well-being and capabilities
- Sustainable and just economies
- Food systems and nutrition patterns
Geneva is a thriving ecosystem home to a world-class concentration of academic institutes, think tanks, NGOs and international organizations conducting groundbreaking policy-relevant research. Following a series of events exploring how science can be translated into policy and action, a consortium of Geneva-based institutions is creating a new channel through which research and knowledge from International Geneva can amplify its impact on global policy making. By participating in this project, the evidence you create can directly reach governments and policy makers at the HLPF in New York (the main UN body reviewing progress on the SDGs), influencing critical political decision-making processes.
In addition to receiving your evidence in these thematic areas, share how the science in this area influences or interacts with policy and practice. How do you share your evidence with policy and practice actors? Which tools or networks do you use? Is it effective? Why or why not? Sharing your insights on those questions will help improve the understanding of how to better bridge science and policy and remedy challenges that are inherent to that interface.
All submitted evidence will be synthesized in three papers that assess new information against currently understood state-of-the-art knowledge, to be presented and discussed at a meeting in Geneva in early 2021, and subsequently at the HLPF in New York later in 2021.