In 2015, the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted the 2030 Global Transformation Agenda, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to shape international efforts to promote a sustainable, peaceful and equitable world. Six years later, the UN and the European Union (EU) in particular remain committed to the 2030 Agenda, regarding it as critical not only to global recovery, but to rebuilding a greener and more equal world for all.

The global nature of the Transformation Agenda has raised issues of decontextualization, that is the possibility of inappropriate development activity due to not adequately tailoring development policy and practice to the local context and community needs.

This workshop aims to introduce participants to a different conceptual lens, moving past development as a one-way or top-down process, to a dynamic and reciprocal framework to achieve the transformations envisaged by the ambitious agenda of the Global Goals, a framework that takes into account that place-based realities equally influence development actors and the essence of these Global Goals.
 

Workshop Date

Wednesday 10 MARCH 2021
10am - 2pm (Melbourne time)
Online

 

This workshop is open to all graduate students and early career researchers (broadly defined).

* Please feel free to share this invitation as widely as possible to those you feel would be interested and benefit from this workshop *
 

Those who wish to participate should email their name, a short biography and description of their research interests to Dr Maren Klein ([email protected]) by Friday 5 March.

Participants are asked to undertake a small amount of preparation, which will enable them to maximise the usefulness of the workshop. Some pre-reading and a worksheet will be sent on registration.

For those unable to attend, the presentations will be recorded.