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#Agile Leadership - What Does it Mean and Why is it Important?
GLAC Network member João Vitor Domingues shared the call for application for the upcoming Leadership Course at ENAP the Brazilian National School of Public Administration (25th-29th July 2022).
Agile leadership: You may have heard of it, but you may not know the principles, benefits, and application areas that lie behind this concept. The agile leadership course offered by ENAP is exclusive to senior executives in the public sector (please identify in your application) and will be held in English with translation into Portuguese.
Several international GLAC Network members will pariticipate in the upcoming program, which might be a pilot for future events.
Co-Creating Change: The GSDR Community of Practice at Work
Since 2021 a group of highly motivated professionals from the Latin American and Caribbean Region are forming the GSDR Community of Practice (CoP) , striving to maximize co-benefits and minimize trade-offs to drive faster implementation of the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). Breaking down silos between sectors and stakeholder groups they started to generate solutions for policy coherence that enable a smoother implementation and foster a culture of working collaboration.
Co-hosted by UNDESA and GIZ the group has grown to 39 members from 16 countries that currently work on 14 different project ideas for translating the global to the local in the region and thereby contributing to the implementation of the SDGs.
Shaping the Digital Future of Work - An Innovation Lab for German Policy Coherence
Based on scenarios exploring what the future of work in India and Rwanda might look like, as a result of the digital transformation, this Lab explores suitable options for action in the two partner countries.
By bringing together policy experts and different perspectives for an open discourse, the aim of the online Lab which started in May 2022 is to strengthen policy coherence between different German ministries and to promote the inclusion of perspectives of the Global South, by mainstreaming the results into the national and international policy dialogue on the future of work.
Revised and Updated Regional GLAC Community Pages #4
We started 2022 updating the information on our regional GLAC communities, including more facts and figures, the results of our identity process and the creation of governance structures in the four different regions of our global GLAC Network. We also introduced special pages for the regions, starting with GLAC Africa and GLAC Asia & the Pacific, followed by GLAC Americas & Caribbean and last but not least by GLAC Europe & MENA now. Please check out, what has been created by these amazing change agents, be inspired and feel free to connect.
For all GLAC Network members: bear in mind that you can connect and interact even better via your regional virtual collaboration spaces!
Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues on Global Solutions Summit 2022
In the scope of a green technologies dissemination initiative implemented by GIZ in cooperation with the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI), the global circular economy agenda is being advanced through a series of Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD). They aim to inspire a conducive circular economy (CE) narrative feeding into the G/T20 process, building on the momentum of commitments on the circular economy and focusing on both analyzing mechanisms scaling-up circularity and devising context-sensitive strategies for their broad implementation.
Many GLAC Network members especially from the Solutions Lab Community are participating.
The CESD hosted two multi-stakeholder panels at the hybrid Global Solutions Summit 2022:
- "Circular economy and global value chains" on March 28th.
- "The growing imperative for a circular economy" on March 29th.
#Future Diplomacy: Global Diplomacy Lab Publication
You always wanted to know more about the Global Diplomacy Lab (GDL) - its underlying Strategy, Labs, Activities, Members and Partners? Then the five-part publication is just the right read for you!
Through AR elements strewn in across the publication you can gain insights into the GDL's ideas and processes directly from the members. Download the individual modules by clicking on
activities, partners, members, labs, and strategy.
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