📮🌎 Time to share your story...

It has been an exciting month for Southern Voice, from our engagements with the office of the United Nations Secretary General, to our presence at the On Think Tanks Conference in Barcelona. But that's not all - we're inviting you to contribute your stories for reshaping power dynamics in the research landscape. Let’s get started! 🏁

🇺🇳 Southern Voice joins the United Nations Network of Scientific Institutions

We’re thrilled to announce that Southern Voice has joined theUnited Nations Network of Scientific Institutions hosted by the Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board. The institutions in this hub represent diverse voices from all geographic, linguistic, and age groups with a particular focus on developing countries. We will be associated and collaborate with the Board to provide independent insights on trends at the intersection of science, technology, ethics, governance and sustainable development to support UN System organisations.

This news comes on the heels of our contributions at theUN Secretary-General's Senior Management Meeting.

On June 6, our Executive Director Margarita Gómez gave a presentation at the United Nations Secretary-General's Senior Management Meeting, focused on how to apply Behavioural Science to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Her contributions centered around her experience designing and implementing behavioural interventions in the Global South. For a closer look at the key takeaways from her interventions, click here.

✍️ Be a part of our call for inputs

We are excited to invite you to contribute your stories and strategies aimed at reshaping power dynamics within the knowledge and research landscape. 

This storytelling project aims to understand and explore how imbalances in Global North and South power relations within research partnerships and collaborations can be meaningfully addressed. You can read the initiative’s synthesis report here. The project is spearheaded by Southern Voice, in collaboration with the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).  

Your insights will be shared with a broader community of stakeholders and may serve as a source of guidance during the ideation and recommendations phases of the project. For more information on how to submit your story, click here.

🇪🇸 Southern Voice at the On Think Tanks Conference 2024

On May 21, Margarita Gómez joined a panel of speakers at a precursor event to the On Think Tanks Conference in Barcelona, Spain. The session unpacked the challenges that rapid changes in technology present to our societies and how think tanks can better respond to them.

As for the conference? Well, the Southern Voice team showed up in numbers and led a few sessions!

Our Director of Programs and Research, Estefanía Charvet, facilitated an impromptu “Unconference” session on the Post-2030 Agenda and what it could look like for think tanks.

Similarly, our Director of Global Public Affairs, Gabriela Keseberg Dávalos, co-facilitated the session “Are we facing a leadership crisis?”. Participants discussed the polycrisis and how current leadership structures in the think tank space may have failed to meet the needs of this era. This thought-provoking question sparked a lively and insightful discussion that looked for alternative models that could be adopted. Cool, right? But that’s not all!

Lastly, our Steering Committee was also in town and met to plan the next two years for the network.

Stay tuned for more exciting opportunities and news from Southern Voice! 

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