Workshop on Sustainability and Social Innovation for Managers and Executives

It will be followed by a one-day business and social tour of Paris.

Mobilizing sufficient financing remains a major challenge in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite signs of progress, investments that are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Cartagena, Colombia, 28 October 2016 – Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) GDP will shrink by between 0.9% and 1% in 2016, according to the latest estimates, the second consecutive year of negative growth and a rate of contraction the region has not seen since the early 1980s. According to the Latin American Economic Outlook 2017, the region should recover in 2017, but with modest GDP growth of between 1.5% and 2%, below expected growth in advanced economies.

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM), or extremely low weight-for-height, is estimated to affect 500,000-1,000,000 children under age five in Nigeria every year, contributing to as many as 100,000 deaths per year. Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), a proven intervention for treating SAM, has been launched in 11 northern states of Nigeria, but the treatment is estimated to cover only 15-25% of the national burden of SAM each year

HOW TO MAKE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A REALITY – As the world advances into the age of sustainable development, there is a dire need to bridge the gap of understanding the basic elements concerned with sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental benefits.