Sharing Economic Benefits: Social Protection as a tool for Building Back Better after COVID-19

The virtual HLPF 2020 event, held on 7 July 2020, showcased some of the best examples of innovative approaches to action and delivery on social protection that have been implemented recently and offered lessons for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, building back better and accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The roundtable discussion included government representatives sharing country experiences and representatives of the World Bank’s Global Social Development Unit and OECD’s Inclusive Growth Unit sharing their respective findings.

Co-sponsors included: Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Tunisia to the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations, The World Bank – Social Development Global Practice.

Speakers included:

Sarah Cliffe, Director, NYU Center on International Cooperation (Moderator); H.E. Mr. Taye Atske Selassie Amde, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations; Ibu Diani Sadiawati, Deputy Minister of National Development Planning; H.E. Mr. Luis Bermudez, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative to United Nations; Ms. Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Dr. Rola Dashti, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; Romina Boarini, Acting Director of the OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE); Ingo Wiederhofer, Acting Global Director and Lead Social Development Specialist at The World Bank Social Development Global Practice; Professor Attiya Waris