partnerships

A street in Seoul, South Korea
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UN chief calls for a global partnership to address COVID, climate change and achieve SDG’s

30 May 2021
Climate and Environment

Speaking in a key international partnerships summit, António Guterres said that if governments embrace together the goals of phasing out coal, enhancing climate commitments, and investing in the Global Goals, there is an opportunity to rise to 'the biggest challenge of our lives'.

An scientist studies virus samples (file)
CDC

Follow the science: UN plans for a stronger pandemic recovery

29 January 2021
Economic Development

Funders responsible for more than $100 million of annual global research investments joined the deputy UN chief Amina Mohammed on Friday to discuss how to unify research efforts, and use science to recover effectively from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three-month-old Monluck Saesong is among 128,000 children in Thailand who benefit from a UNICEF-promoted child support grant. (file 2016)
© UNICEF/Metee Thuentap

Strawberries and child support; a Thai partnership

1 July 2019
SDGs

Mother of three, Mhee Saesong, a strawberry farmer from Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, has always struggled alongside her husband to provide for her family. She describes how, in the past, when her two older children became sick, she was unable to afford to take them to hospital.

Deidre Boyd, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Thailand. (May 2019)
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

Partnerships at ‘core’ of sustainable development

18 June 2019
Interviews

Partnerships are at the “core” of efforts to reach the sustainable development goals, the poverty and environmental targets agreed by world leaders in 2015.

The partnerships Sustainable Development Goal seeks to bring the UN together with governments, civil society, the corporate world and individuals.

Daniel Dickinson spoke to Deidre Boyd, UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, and asked her what partnerships mean to her.

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Kofi Annan

Hopes that business partners would bring UN new funding mostly unfulfilled – report

13 September 2005
Early hopes that private sector partnerships would bring new funding to the United Nations have largely gone unfulfilled, but business relationships have brought new networks, experiences and skills from which the organization has benefited, such as harnessing markets for development, according to a new report from Secretary-General Kofi Annan.