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The Sustainable Development Goals and requesting assistance under the BWC

Daniel Feakes Chief, BWC Implementation Support Unit United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (Geneva Branch)

Regional Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean: Implications of developments in science and technology for the Biological Weapons Convention

16-17 April 2018 Mexico City, Mexico

SDG 3 – Good health and well-being

• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Target 3D - Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular

developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks

• Indicator 3.D.1 - International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity and health

emergency preparedness

• “The Conference recognizes capacity building at the national and

international levels as the most immediate imperative for enhancing and strengthening the capacity of the States Parties to promptly and effectively detect and respond to the alleged use or threat of use of biological weapons”

• “States Parties recognize that in this regard health and security issues are

interrelated at both the national and international levels.”

SDG 4 – Quality education

• Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
• pportunities for all
• 4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to

promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

• 4B - By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available

to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and

• ther developing countries

SDG 9 – Industry, innovation & infrastructure

• Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable

industrialization and foster innovation

• 9.5 - Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological

capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending

SDG 16 – Peace, justice and strong institutions

• Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,

provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• 16.1 - Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates

everywhere

• 16.3 - Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and

ensure equal access to justice for all

• 16.8 - Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in

the institutions of global governance

• 16.A - Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through

international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime

SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals

• Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global

partnership for sustainable development

• 17.6 - Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and

international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

https://www.unog.ch/bwc/database

BWC Sponsorship Programme

Deadline for applications is 31 May 2018 for Meetings of Experts in August – see www.unog.ch/bwc/sponsorship

• Additional meetings from 2018-2020 make need for broader participation

even more necessary

• MSP 2017 called for “maximum use” of the Sponsorship Programme
• Funds to cover travel costs and DSA for national experts from developing

countries

• As at MSP 2017 the ISU will organize a structured programme for

sponsored participants to encourage active participation and sustainability

• Planning to use MX or MSP (or both) to host a “match-making event”

where assistance providers could meet requesting States Parties

WHO Joint External Evaluations

• Aims of the International Health Regulations are

compatible with the BWC

• BWC is relevant to JEE Prevent-6 and Respond-3
• BWC also relevant to GHSA Action Package

Prevent-3 and Action Package Respond-2

• In a survey of 39 JEE reports:
• 74% of the assessed countries demonstrated

limited or no capacity for a whole-of-government national biosafety and biosecurity system

• 64% of the assessed countries demonstrated

limited or no capacity for biosafety and biosecurity training and practices

• 41% of the assessed countries demonstrated

limited or no capacity for linking their public health and security authorities during a suspected

• r confirmed biological event

“Smaller, developing states parties have worked to connect the dots between bioweapons, biosecurity, infectious disease, nonproliferation, science, and technology, and they are looking to the ISU for guidance. This outreach shows that despite the lack of activity in Geneva, the BWC is not an isolated instrument— rather, it is related to other ongoing global initiatives of international security, such as on global health security and nonproliferation. When global initiatives interconnect like this, it reinforces all of the initiatives.”

Bonnie Jenkins, Brookings Institution