GCF Co-Hosted Global Resilience Conference in New Delhi, India

By On April 28, 2019 · Leave a Comment
In the meeting, held in New Delhi, India on 3 October 2018 on the special occasion of the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth, the Global Challenges Forum Foundation (GCF) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) co-convened the “Global Resilience Conference on Integrated Learning and Leader Development,” hosted by the ACTS Group of Institutions in collaboration with Orient Black Swan. The Conference was part of the “Global Knowledge Networking” (GKN) series - an initiative to help address global resilience challenges by fostering innovative partnerships in training and education. The Global Knowledge Networking initiative promotes a cooperative framework at different levels and in different capacities for innovative learning and interactive events for action worldwide. The Conference built upon on a series of previous workshops and strategic dialogues in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East that have identified key challenges and pointed toward collectively owned opportunities. The Conference saw a distinguished and diverse group of experts from around the world come together in an attempt to guide the way ahead in education and leadership. There was an overarching agreement of the role Global Knowledge Networking should play in empowering future leaders, their organizations, and institutions to address global challenges through integrated approaches that make knowledge manageable and actionable.  The Conference workshop recommendations were subsequently incorporated into the development of the Delhi Proclamation, in the spirit of the Geneva Declaration and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.  It issued a call to raise by 2030, through integrated learning and leader development, ‘One Million Youth Leaders for Global Sustainable Development’ whose purpose shall be to carry forward the U.N. SDGs beyond 2030 to foster global resilience in response to the emerging challenges of the 21st Century.  Please visit www.1m2030.org to learn more. Download the report here.
 
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