The conference aimed to mobilise commitment in participants from the Global South and North to: rebalance power asymmetries within the global development community; enhance participants’ visions of change and create more informed views on the nuances involved in guaranteeing truly 1 sustainable development; develop strategies to inform the objectives of the Southern Voice network in the upcoming y. [...] The network engages and collabrates Quality of life and the needs of the poor more with regional think tank networks become central objectives in global in the Global South, as well as with think discourse and more focus is placed on tanks in the Global North. [...] 6 7 Southern Voice and the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE, Peru), in partnership with three leading Global South think tanks– Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA, Nigeria), the Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (SUMMA, Chile) and the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS, Sri Lanka)—collaborated in a research project. [...] Key observations • The ongoing run of the G20 presidency being held by a nation of the Global South and the Shifting priorities through Brazil and African Union’s recent admission presents South Africa’s G20 presidencies: an opportunity to strengthen the caucus of developing countries within the G20. [...] Increasing the influence of the • The more developed countries in the Global T20 in G20 processes will help further South which are represented in the G20 legitimise the work of the G20 and its impact should do more to strengthen the standing of on UN processes.
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