We were at the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development!

Members of SDG Watch Europe Steering Group Ingo Ritz and Leida Rijnhout participated in the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development on 1-3 March 2017 in Bonn. The Global Festival of Ideas is the first in a series of annual forums, hosted by the UN SDG Action Campaign and supported by the Federal Government of Germany. The Festival brings together leading thinkers, policy-makers and civil society, together with gaming experts and policy simulators, to deliver the world’s first playable policy conference.

Here the panel on policy coherence and  Uchita De Zoysa – Sri Lanka, explaining the need for a format for country progress reporting, which should strengthen the governmental accountability.