As an accredited organisation to the UN, the association is required to submit a brief annual report on our work. The format is a questionnaire that largely focusses upon the amount of work we have been doing to support the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030, which we have agreed will be the association’s policy into practice priority. We are asked to illuminate this with examples of our work and for 2017 we have highlighted the Auckland conference – Sustainably Yours, about which you can find the conference proceedings report on the Conferences page of the website; the two special SDG issues of Practice Insights which presented case studies and commentary from around the world on CD and the SDGs; and the establishment of the Global Community Development Exchange, which uses the SDGs themes as core to its indexing.
IACD currently has four active representatives who try to attend events and consultation meetings at the UN in New York or Geneva. These are Anastasia Crickley who is the current chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Tony Kimbowa who also works for UN Women, Randy Adams Past Vice President and Esther Farmer, New York based member. During the year our reps attended the following meetings at the UN:
1. Africa-Decade for People of Africa Descent;
2. Intergenerational Dialogues on SDGs;
3.. Education for Global Citizenship Conference;
4.. Rethinking Social Development in light of SDGs;
5. CSW 2017 – Malawi and UN Women;
6. 20th UN Youth Assembly August 2017 chairing a panel with a focus on the role of Youth as ChangeMakers in their communities.
In her role as CERD chair, Anastasia attended many UN related events and spoke at the assembly.
