GETSPA

We must re-establish the link between finance and holistic development to drive sustainable development. For Africa, this means using our natural, human, and financial resources, not just to generate wealth, but to reinvest in the future of our people and communities. Botswana…

"In many African countries what we find increasingly these days is self-adoption of the key components of structural adjustment." - @jotadesina

Thank you all for joining us! We will be uploading videos of the full webinar in the coming week! #socialsummit2025 #GETSPAwebinar #transformativesocialpolicy

Question time! 1. What should be a reasonable expectation of what we can get out of this summit in terms of commitment or a shift in the conversation? 2. As the GETSPA project, what would be the most useful thing for us to try and inject into that conversation to make people…

Question time! To what extent do you think donor-driven reforms, especially in low-income countries continue to widen this mismatch between social development and economic development that has lasted for the longest? - J. Wilfred Zeon #socialsummit2025 #GETSPAwebinar…

Question time! To what extent is the wearing away of collective responsibility especially in Africa societies contribute to the disconnect between economic and social policy? - Isaac Frimpong #GETSPAwebinar #socialsummit2025 #Africa #economicpolicy

Question time! With a diversity of regional high priority areas emanating from pressing socio-economic and political challenges, what is the potential for consensus in the Second World Summit for Social Development? Does that point to a return of policy making from the global…

Check out the UNRISD activities and publications on the social summit here: unrisd.org/en/research/pr… - @KatjaHujo @DzodziTsikata @NAnyidoho @kpessawhyte @NewmanTekwa #GETSPAwebinar #socialsummit2025

Question time! It appears that social development ideals at the global level are more popular and therefore have more coalitions from national governments, CSO, NGOs, etc. However, economic policy goals are more or less national agendas, and may be different from one country to…

The declaration lacks mixes some issues and civil societies have difficulties engaging with it. While past agendas focused more on health, education, and gender they often mirrored donor priorities without questioning deeper models of growth, governance, or justice. It's time to…

Question time! "To what extent does the expansion in scope from a strict social welfare lens to a multidimensional model clarify or muddy responsibilities (something that's arguably important to civil society seeking to monitor progress)?" - Amy Niang #GETSPAwebinar…

Africa’s debt crisis is tangled in private lenders, making real solutions nearly impossible. Some countries even walk away from deals to protect their own fiscal space. And let’s not forget illicit flows draining resources. - @jotadesina #AfricaEconomy #CopenhagenDeclaration…

Crucial issues like migration and just transition are inadequately addressed in the declaration. Migration gets just 4 lines in the declaration but it’s a major social issue. A transition to a low-carbon economy must be socially and globally just; especially for Africa and the…

The Copenhagen Declaration did not acknowledge the role of the rural economy in driving large-scale poverty and lacks an integrated approach that links social policy with economic policy. As a result, the proposed solutions cannot be considered as considerate of transformative…

You cannot pursue a social policy agenda that's grounded in solidarity and pursue an economic agenda that is grounded individualism. - @jotadesina #GETSPAwebinar #socialsummit2025 #economicagenda

There are three components of the to the Copenhagen Declaration; poverty reduction, full employment and social integration. This was the only point in the document where there is a concerted effort to see the connection between economic policy and social policy, because labor…

The 1990s were still seeing some kind of growth but very unequal. From the 1990s until 2015, many countries and sub-regions in the Global South had fairly high growth rates with very unequal social outcomes. And I think one of the big issues that we are facing now is the growth…

For a continent with the largest share of young people, gainful employment and decent work remain elusive for many of our young people. Even though there's an expansion in higher education access on the continent, so has the crisis of graduate unemployment deepened. In many…

The World Bank report estimated that between 1990 and to 2024, the number of people in extreme poverty in Africa increased from 282 million to 464 million people. That is a very grieve situation; inequality, in many cases, has deepened. - @jotadesina #socialsummit2025…

The environment at the moment one of precarity, but ultimately, global agenda-setting issues are driven at the national level and reflect national commitment. That's where the rubber hits the road. - @jotadesina #SDGs #GETSPAwebinar #socialsummit2025