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Mar 05 2019
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Good Health & Wellbeing (Budapest)

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Event Background

As part of the GEF transnational project Sustainable Development Goals, this event held with GEF partner Ökopolisz Alapitvany will look specifically at Goal 3: ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being of all ages, which is essential for sustainable development.

About the Event

This conference will focus on the Hungarian perspective of Goal 3 and how it can be achieved in the country.

Programme

  • 17:30 – 17:50 Sándor Fülöp PhD: The UN’s 2030 Sustainability Objectives (SDG) system and Target 3 in the system
  • 17 :50 – 18:10 Péter Balázs: Problems of public financing of health care and the possibility of solution
  • 18:10 – 18:30 Gábor Kapócs: institutional system of health care, social security; health training, labor situation
  • 18:30 – 18:50 Debate and Q&A
  • 18:50 – 19:10 COFFEE BREAK
  • 19:10 – 19:30 János Sándor: Impact of poverty, low socio-economic status on health in Hungary
  • 19:30 – 19:50 Zoltán Brys: Alcohol and smoking in the context of sustainable development
  • 19:50 – 20:10 Tamás Szigeti: Reducing the burden of environmental disease in the light of SDGs
  • 20:10 – 20:30 Debate and Q&A
  • 20:30 – 20:50 Szilvia Lengyel: Reflections – Possible elements of a green party health program

Registration

Entrance is free, but registration is required.

Please register via the website here. 

You can join the Facebook event page for this event here. 

Feb 26 2019
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Eco Podium Gender Equality (Budapest)

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Event Background

This seminar in Hungary is part of a series of events and studies on the implementation of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, started by our project partner Ecopolis who previously looked at the SDGs 1 (Eradicating poverty), 2 (Ending hunger) and 4 (Ensuring inclusive and equitable education).

This upcoming event will focus particularly on SDG 5 – Achieving gender equality and empowering all girls and women.

About the Event

This seminar will bring together experts on gender equality policies and sustainable development, as well as NGO representatives, policy-makers and academics.

Discussions will focus on the following aspects in the context of the upcoming Eco Podium:

  • Recognising and assessing unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services and infrastructure, through social protection policies and by promoting shared responsibility within the household and the family, in line with national specificities.
  • Ensuring full and effective participation and equal opportunities for women at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life at all levels of decision-making.
  • Adopting and reinforcing sound policies and enforceable legislation to promote gender equality and strengthen the social role of all women and girls at all levels.

Programme

17:30 – 17:45: Introduction – Gender Equality in the SDG:

  • Dr. János Zlinszky, associate professor

17:00 – 17:45: Ending All Discrimination Against Women & Girls Everywhere

  • Borbála Juhász, former president of the Women’s Confederation

18:00-18:15: We ensure full and effective participation of women, as well as equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in politics, economics and public life.

  • Kata Keveházi

18:15-18:30:  We enhance the use of technologies that increase capabilities and relationships, especially information and communication technology to strengthen the position of women.

  • Anna Réz

18:30 – 19:10: Debate & Q&A

  • Moderation: Krisztina Bombera, journalist

19:10 – 19:30: Coffee Break 

19:30 – 19:45: We will eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private sectors, including trafficking, sexual and other forms of exploitation.

  • Sára Halász

19:45 – 20:00: We recognize and appreciate unpaid caring and housework by providing public services, infrastructure and social networks, and promoting shared responsibility within the household and family.

  • Anikó Gregor

20:00 – 20:15: We provide full access to sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights with the International Conference on Population and Development Action Program.

  • Sarolta Kremmer

20:15 – 20:55: Debate & Q&A

  • Moderation: Krisztina Bombera, journalist

Registration

Entrance is free but registration is required.

Please register for the event via the form found here. 

This event is organised with the support of Ecopolis.

You can join the Facebook event for this seminar here. 

Feb 26 2019
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Sustainable Development Goals

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Project Background

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people can enjoy peace and prosperity. The goals and targets are interdependent, acknowledging that only a systemic approach can help us to transform our world and societies. as they can only succeed when approached in an interconnected manner. SDGs are therefore the heralds of a new age, in which governance models move away from solving problems in silos – something the Green movement has already been calling for for many years.

SDGs set out ambitious and crucial systemic objectives for Europe, which can only be achieved through the cooperation of actors at all levels, from civil society and grassroots movements, to industries and policy-makers. However, SDG awareness among politicians, let alone citizens, is extremely limited. By acting to inform Green stakeholders, we can work towards achieving the SGDs.

Project Objectives & Activities

This GEF project aims to activate Green actors in the field of SDGs by connecting them with experts within the fields of system-thinking and SGDs and highlighting synergies between these parties.

In doing so, the project will increase awareness about the values and goals that the Green movement shares with the SDG agenda. It will also highlight the crucial role SDGs play in deciding future priorities for the EU and its member states.

The project included the development of an online course on the SDGs as part of the GEF Green Learning platform. The course is free and features interactive content, to make the topic accessible to a wider audience. The project will also see the publication of two larger books on SDG 3 and SDG 5, produced with the support of Ecopolis Foundation,  that takes the implementation of those two goals in a Hungarian context in the focus. The publications are the result of conferences held in Budapest which brought together leading SDGs experts to share their vision on those particular goals, how they are interconnected with other goals and to look at the progress towards achieving them.

As a next step, the work done so far on SDGs 1 to 5 will be summarised in a compendium in English which aims to disseminate the findings of the Hungarian case study to a broader public and aims to feed into the wider debate across the EU and hopefully contribute to secure commitment to the implementation of SDGs amongst Green actors across Europe.