Delivering Beyond 2030:

The SDGs succeeded in building a universal platform and unified vocabulary for development, yet the focus beyond 2030 must shift from ambitious new targets to systematizing delivery and establishing durable institutional and fiscal mechanisms that lock in accountability. This session examines what worked within the SDG framework, the concrete policy choices and implementation models that drove poverty reduction and integration across climate, development, and peace. It also asks how to scale and replicate those mechanics. Beyond this, it examines what paradigm shift is required: moving away from the neoliberal orthodoxies that guided the SDG era toward frameworks centered on domestic resource mobilization, public investment, and strategic state capacity.

Participants will address the structural blockages that impede implementation: reforming global financial architecture to reflect country priorities rather than external conditionality, embedding accountability and civil society participation, and ensuring country-led strategies for domestic resource mobilization and technology transfer that are genuinely owned by the Global South.

Guiding Questions

• What changes to the international financial architecture are non-negotiable for a Beyond-2030 agenda?
• How do we ensure that developing countries' priorities - rather than external prescriptions – are driving financing decisions?
• How do we reconcile climate finance obligations with the debt constraints facing the Global South's most vulnerable countries?
• Which sectors or investments should be shielded from privatization logic and de-risking?
• How do we move from measuring progress to guaranteeing implementation and accountability?