Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, is one of ten prominent global advocates for the new United Nations roadmap to post-COVID-19 recovery.
The Secretary-General’s report, Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, calls for action to suppress the virus and overcome the pandemic, safeguard livelihoods, and learn the lessons of this crisis to “build back better”. International cooperation and partnerships at every level are critical to the plan’s success, and to the recovery of societies and economies along a more inclusive, sustainable path. The framework was launched today, 27 April, by Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed and UNDP Administrator, Achim Steiner.
At today’s launch, the Deputy Secretary-General also introduced the Rise for All initiative, which brings together women leaders to mobilise support for the recovery framework and for the UN Recovery Trust Fund, which is designed to support the most vulnerable (including Small Island Developing States) in confronting the impacts of the pandemic. “Women are on the frontlines of COVID-19 and bearing the brunt of this human crisis,” says Ms. Mohammed. “It is time for us to rise as women leaders to conquer the pandemic and come out stronger so as … to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.”
Prime Minister Mottley is calling for a renewed commitment to confront the COVID-19 challenge: “Let us repurpose, because this is perhaps the most apt reminder of what we must fight for in the multilateral system, in the global community of nations.” We can do it, she says, “but we need to respect each other, to see each other, to hear each other and to work together.”
In addition to the Prime Minister of Barbados, this first Rise for All cohort includes the President of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde; the Prime Minister of Norway and SDG Advocate, Erna Solberg; SDG Advocate, Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar; SDG Advocate, Dia Mirza; and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador of Pakistan, Muniba Mazari; along with the Executive Directors of UNICEF, Henrietta Fore; of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; and of UNFPA, Natalia Kanem.
Please see the attached press releases.
The transcript of this morning’s Rise for All press conference is below.
The Framework document is available here: https://bit.ly/2W6Rges
View the Rise for All video: https://bit.ly/358GLve
UN Response and Recovery Fund fact sheet: https://bit.ly/357BLqW
Website: www.un.org/riseforall
UNICPoS/08/2020
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