New Delhi
PRADAN organized the third annual event Samagam for 2022. The event also marked the completion of 40 years of existence of PRADAN.
This year’s event had eminent speakers like Shoka Nodo UNDP Resident Representative, India, Anoop Nautiyal Founder, Social Development for Communities Foundation, Reshma Anand, CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation, Sonali Srivastava, Head, Anode Governance Lab, and Foundation, Saurabh Garg, IAS, CEO, UIDAI, and, Bhim Singh, IAS, Collector, District of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, to name a few.
The focus for this year has been partnerships and winning coalitions for achieving our Sustainable Development Goals. Speakers from UNDP, Government sector, and private organizations came together to discuss the changing environment in coalitions and funding. Today’s donors are seeking co-funds and government partnerships and helping deliver a greater impact on the economy.
Shoko Noda, UNDP Resident Representative, India said, “Achieving SDGs require a truly joint approach. Different sectors, especially the civil society organizations, private sectors, academia, communities and media; we all must work together in an integrated manner by pulling resources, ideas, knowledge, expertise, listening, understanding of what’s happening at the community level. Building these coalitions are integral part to SDGs and this is why we have specific goal SPG 17 for partnership. UNDP globally and in India has encouraged and promoted effective public private sector partnership, civil society partnerships to push for social goals collectively and at our end we are making our efforts to be an integrator of SDGs.”
