UNDP Sri Lanka launched the 2023/24 Global Human Development Report, ‘Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World’. Presented to SDC's DG, Chamindry Saparamadu by UNDP’s Azusa Kubota

The UNDP Sri Lanka recently launched the 2023/24 Global Human Development Report themed ‘Breaking the Gridlock: Reimaging Cooperation in a Polarized World’. The Report was presented to the DG of the Sustainable Development Council (SDC), Ms. Chamindry Saparamadu by the Resident Representative of UNDP Sri Lanka, Ms. Azusa Kubota in the presence of representatives from government, private sector, development partner and civil society agencies at an event held in Colombo. .

The Report highlights the urgent need to address uneven development, rising inequality, and political polarization. It underscores the importance of building a 21st century architecture for global public goods, dialing down temperatures and pushing back polarization and narrowing agency gaps to address the contemporary development challenges and to accelerate progress on human development and sustainable development. It reconfigures global interdependence and emphasizes the pivotal role of multilateralism in moving forward.

Speaking at the event, DG-SDC, Chamindry Saparamadu, stressed the importance of reimagining solutions as the time to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is running out. She emphasized the importance of embedding equitable and sustainable development in political and institutional cultures, establishing effective, inclusive, and accountable institutions with new mindsets and capacities, coherent policies and a fairer and more equitable international financial system to deliver on the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and to improve the quality of life of all people.

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