Can MSMEs Serve as the Best Partners for the UN to Reach it’s Goals?
Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In my speech at this Forum last year, I highlighted the critical importance of the United Nations working together with outside stakeholders, especially the private sector, including entrepreneurs and MSMEs. As emphasized in the UN Secretary-General’s SDG Progress Report and the Global Sustainable Development Report, sustainable development cannot be achieved by the United Nations alone. Unless we join forces with each and every stakeholder and scale-up our joint efforts, we will continue to struggle to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
Today, I wish to highlight three points that I believe are important in terms of relations between MSMEs and SDGs at the global level (Read more…).
