This month we heard from Lilei Chow, Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser on the Sustainable Development Goals at Save the Children, who is also a Co-Chair of the BOND SDG Group, which helps coordinate the different NGOs’ work on the SDGs. She explained how progress in international development has been massively set back by the COVID-19 pandemic; but that the SDGs provide us the only credible road map we have to achieving a fairer world by 2030. You can watch the recording of the call here. Take the October monthly action here.

Resources referred to in the discussion:

Information on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): https://www.globalgoals.org/

Blog post: ‘Spotlighting Health and Education on the Journey to 2030’: https://www.results.org.uk/blog/global-goals-day-spotlighting-health-and-education-journey-2030

2020 Goalkeepers Report: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2020-report/#GlobalPerspective

The Prime Minister’s recent statement on international cooperation on COVID-19: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speech-to-un-general-assembly-26-september-2020

Recordings of the sessions at the RESULTS National Conference 2020: https://www.results.org.uk/blog/results-national-conference-2020-hopeful-campaigning-challenging-times

‘Gentle Protest’ letter writing guide: https://www.results.org.uk/guides/gentle-protest-letter-writing-guide-craftivist-collective

Lilei Chow’s blog post ‘The SDGs must guide the future of UK aid in recovery from COVID-19’: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2020/the-sustainable-development-goals-must-guide-the-future-of-uk-ai

Tips on media/social media actions in this month’s background sheet at https://www.results.org.uk/news/fairer-world-2030