If you’re conscious about the state of the world and curious how cross-sector partnerships can make a difference, I encourage you to look at New York City over the next two weeks. Because yesterday, the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened at the UN headquarters: the largest gathering of world leaders, and a prolific environment for truly global conversations.
For a lot of reasons, UNGA is especially important this year: It’s the first in-person assembly since the outbreak of COVID-19, which makes it the first true in-person gathering from a multi sector perspective, with heads of government, heads of business and heads of civil society. And what they are going to be discussing is the health of the world. We’re coming out of the acute stage of the pandemic, but COVID hasn’t gone anywhere: In many African countries, the numbers are just as high as they always
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