Strategic role of Diaspora in the management of pandemic and achieve Agenda 2030

Despite the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the entire world, today more than ever before in human history, there is an urgent need for wake-up call for all countries across the world to find a path to SD. The coronavirus pandemic has turned the entire world into ghost new world disrupting everything in our daily life and shutting the entire countries and cities across the globe. Although still early but many people and international organisations already predicting that the coronavirus pandemic will have more severe impact than all previous outbreaks including SARS and other deadly health epidemics.

The deadly consequences of coronavirus pandemic, will of no doubt send shocking warnings for all governments to realise, accept and accomplish their  natural and ascribed duties to continue their progress to achieve the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda. All governments must confront new realities rapidly manifesting themselves in the large number of people loosing their lives due to the coronavirus. Business as usual will not suffice and therefore governments need to be expansively re-focused in order to overcome the many steps back as a result of the coronavirus. More importantly, all governments need to undertake robust national and international fast-track polices and strategies to achieve the 2030 Agenda. It is now clearly recognised that innovation and knowledge, as well as being a central driver of economic growth, are also recognised as very important tools to help achieve SD.

In 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs. The conference will critically address the question of how countries can achieve the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda and to provoke forward thinking on developing new methods and approaches to suit the challenges and opportunities of this new era of digital revolution. These new approaches call for actions to create different appropriate ways of doing things and of doing new things that will be essential to solve our future problems and help in the implementation of the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda. Systematic search for opportunities is important for helping to ameliorate the many problems facing countries. We must therefore produce, consume and organise ourselves differently.