Inam Ahmed

Editor, The Business Standard

Since SDG is a global collective commitment to make life better
free of poverty, hunger, and to establish equality, access to
resources and a better environment. The effort to achieve this is quite a lofty task, especially in the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

The pandemic has changed the world, perhaps for a very long time.
And it will need special attention and global support to achieve the
SDG. For some of the countries, it may be a daunting task
altogether.

This is where the need for a collective effort is all the more
necessary to make up the losses that the pandemic might have
caused on the actions for SDG.

A collective knowledge sharing is also of utmost importance at this juncture so that the best practices are known to all, so that a short circuiting the long process is known to all so that despite the pandemic’s chipping effect, the goals remain unchanged with the set deadline.

Democracy needs accountability and the sharing of knowledge will lead to the democratization of SDG knowledge, the combination of which will lead to making possible a word free of poverty and hunger.

Keywords: collective knowledge sharing, pandemics, accountability, democratization