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Demanding justice beyond rhetoric

Reclaiming policies for the public

Reclaiming policies for the public
Preface
Overview 1: Reclaiming the public (policy) space for the SDGs
Overview 2: Stalled implementation at national level
Overview 3: Implementing the 2030 Agenda requires acknowledging extraterritorial obligations
1. Pro-poor or pro-corporations?
Box: Measuring extreme poverty: who decides what?
2. Facilitating corporate capture or investing in small-scale sustainable agriculture and agroecology?
Box: Agribusiness mega-mergers expose need for UN Competition Convention
3. Corporate influence on the global health agenda
Box: Healthcare is not a commodity but a public good
4. Cashing in on SDG 4
Box: The primary education conundrum in Africa
5. Corporate power: a risky threat looming over the fulfilment of women’s human rights
6. Ensuring just and sustainable water infrastructure
Box: Water in the MENA region: privatization amid scarcity
Box: Remunicipalization: putting water back into public hands
7. Peoples’ power or how to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Decent work requires decent public policies
9. Industrialization, inequality and sustainability
Box: The new generation of PPPs in infrastructure – meeting the needs of institutional investors
10. Squeezing the State: corporate influence over tax policy and the repercussions for national and global inequality
Box: Consolidating misery or catalyzing opportunity?
11. Commodification over community: financialization of the housing sector and its threat to SDG 11 and the right to housing
Box: Reclaiming OUR public transport
Box: Four critical steps to operationalize the New Urban Agenda’s transformative commitment to decent work and inclusive and sustainable cities (SDG 11)
Box: The “Aerotropolis” phenomenon – high risk development thwarting SDGs
12. Binding rules on business and human rights – a critical prerequisite to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Box: Can the (interlinked) SDGs curtail the extractive industries?
13. The pivot point: realizing Sustainable Development Goals by ending corporate capture of climate policy
14. The role of transnational corporations and extractive industries in seabed mining, and the impacts on oceans health and food security
15. Trends in the privatization and corporate capture of biodiversity
Box: Corporate capture of agricultural biodiversity threatens the future we want
16. Progressive implementation of the 2030 Agenda depends on achieving sustainable peace
Box: Private Military and Security Companies – obstacle to the realization of SDG 16
Box: Whistleblower protection – how serious are governments to address corruption
17. Means of implementation or means of appropriation?
Box: Leveraging corruption – how World Bank funds ended up destabilizing young democracies in Latin America

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Arab NGO Network for Development
P.O.Box: 5792/14
Mazraa 1105 – 2070
Beirut, Lebanon
info@annd.org
www.annd.org

Center for Economic and Social Rights
86 Chambers St, Suite 704
New York - NY 10007
USA
info@cesr.org
www.cesr.org

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
Level 2 JP Bayly Trust Building,
193 Rodwell Road,
Suva,Fiji
info@dawnnet.org
www.dawnnet.org

Global Policy Forum
20th Floor | 205 E. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10017, USA
gpf@globalpolicy.org
www.globalpolicy.org

Public Services International
45 avenue Voltaire
BP 9
01211 Ferney-Voltaire Cedex
France
psi@world-psi.org
www.world-psi.org

Society for International Development
Via Ardeatina, 802
Rome, 00178
Italy
info@sidint.org
www.sidint.net

Social Watch
Avda. 18 de Julio 2095/301
Montevideo 11200, Uruguay
socwatch@socialwatch.org
www.socialwatch.org

Third World Network
131 Jalan Macalister,
10400 Penang, Malaysia
twn@twnetwork.org
www.twn.my

With support from

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Global Policy and Development
Hiroshimastr. 28
10785 Berlin, Germany
www.fes.de