ADB: 5 things civil society and the SDGs can do for each other - Opinion

"The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not be driven primarily by governments, but by evolving partnerships between governments, civil society, and the private sector," writes Suzanne Nazal from ADB in an opinion piece.

According to the author, one of the ways that civil society organizations can contribute meaningfully to SDGs is by including civil society in emergency response: "The SDGs acknowledge that more frequent and intense natural disasters threaten to reverse much of the development progress made in recent decades. After Typhoon Haiyan in 2014, civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Philippines realized their enormous responsibility in helping communities reduce their vulnerability to future natural disasters, and they have started to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in their interventions", writes Nazal.