The Business for Inclusive Growth platform aims to advance the international inclusive growth agenda and enhance the corporate impact on inclusiveness and sustainability. It will do this by identifying complimentary business actions and public policies that promote inclusive growth; understand the “business case” and which factors influence adoption rates of such actions; encourage additional companies … Continued
The participation of NeST in the Paris Peace Forum is based on its firm conviction that sustainable development in Global South is significantly contributing to the generation of shared peace and prosperity. Being a platform populated by important think tanks in the Global South that work closely with CSOs and policy makers, NeST is contributing … Continued
Ranking Digital Rights produces the annual Corporate Accountability Index: an annual benchmark that evaluates the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on disclosed commitments and policies affecting users’ expression and privacy. The Index informs the work of civil society, policymakers, and responsible investors. It produces comparative data across countries and jurisdictions, helping to … Continued
« UNITLIFE is the first innovative financing instrument dedicated to the fight against chronic childhood malnutrition (stunting). The root causes of chronic malnutrtion are complex and contributing factors include maternal undernutrition; unequal access to information on nutrition, feeding, and caregiving practices; lack of access to health care and sanitation services; insufficient supply of high-quality and … Continued
The world today does not define digital conflict, allowing actors that engage in it to remain in the grey zone between peace and war. Digital conflict is disruptive, dangerous, and must be stopped. Tipping the scale towards peace will require the cooperation of stakeholders across the digital domain and beyond. For this reason, participants of … Continued
The Global Citizens’ Debate is both a new governance framework and a testfield. Topic chosen for the test in 18-20 is the future of Internet which aligns perfectly with the agenda of Paris Peace Forum, Internet Governance Forum and Govtech summit. It has 4 pillars: (1) Coalition building, meaning that the debate is co-designed and … Continued
Migration has become a central governance issue with the demonstrated capacity to disrupt or shape public policies at local, national or regional levels. The project Ending Violence Against Migrants (EVAM) was born from the observation that despite numerous initiatives trying to cope with migrations, contributors often ended up in a stalemate where human rights defenders … Continued
The Paris-based Secretariat of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network facilitates a global policy process between key stakeholders to enable transnational cooperation and foster policy coherence. Participants in the Policy Network work together to preserve the cross-border nature of the Internet, protect human rights, fight abuses, and enable the global digital economy. Since 2012, the … Continued
Building on the momentum that appeared in the wake of the conclusion of the 2015 Paris Agreement and the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in March 2018, the ISA aims at pooling efforts, investments and knowledge in order to reduce the cost of solar technology as well as accompanying the development and … Continued
The Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI) is a multi-government policy forum dedicated to accelerating the introduction and adoption of electric vehicles worldwide. In 2010, EVI was one of several initiatives launched under the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a high-level dialogue among Energy Ministers from the world’s major economies. In 2018, EVI counts 16 member countries from … Continued
