Sustainable development

Aiming to support the Millennium Development Goals, this programme focuses on economic development, aid effectiveness and poverty eradication in the poorest communities, especially Sub-Saharan Africa.  

Meetings have been convened for issues such as global health, including most recently, on scaling up international responses to HIV/AIDs and shrinking the areas affected by malaria.  In addition recent conferences focused on Infant and Maternal Mortality and the public-private investment partnerships in health.

A series of dialogues are held every year to discuss disaster prevention and humanitarian response, covering a wide range of topics from responses to flooding, the use of military assets to reducing urban risk.

Over the next three years this series of meetings will include Global food security, land use and agriculture. In partnership with Professor Michael Winter and Exeter University these will explore how to reduce volatility in global markets, managing land use, science and technology and diets and nutrition.

Our partners

Sponsors and intellectual partners include Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre and the Asia Pacific Civil Military of Excellence, Associated British Foods plc, Cargill, ExxonMobil Corporation, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery – World Bank, Global Fund, Institute for Global Health at the University of California, International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, North-South Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, Small Foundation, UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank.

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Recent meetings

• 7th British-German Environment Forum The crisis of growth: threat or opportunity for sustainable development?
  
  
• Financing continued scale-up in HIV treatment: more money for years gained and more years gained for the money
  
  
• Urban risks: moving from humanitarian responses to disaster prevention
  
  
• Public-Private Investment Partnerships: Innovations for Quality and Efficiency in Health Systems
  
  
• Environmental emergencies: strengthening the multilateral humanitarian and environmental response

Podcasts

Recorded during each meeting, key specialists are gathered together to take part in a discussion which acts as a general overview of the issues being examined at the meeting. Aimed as an introduction to a topic, our podcasts are published on our website and Mixcloud.

Listen to podcasts on sustainable development