Coalition Proffer Ways To Achieve SDGs, Address Global Challenges

A group known as ReadyTo Lead Africa comprising of PROMAD Foundation, set up with the aim of raising new voices, and also connecting with the Development of Delta State Leaders Alliance, has advocated for meaningful research among major countries of the world to ensure the effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Media and Communication Lead, Ready to Lead Africa, RLA, Princess Attah n a press statement made available to journalists yesterday in Abuja, emphasized the need for knowledge driven economy.

According to the statement, Ready To Lead Africa president in his address at the United Nations, UN 8th Annual Multi-Stakeholders Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation on how to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals, SDG’s in New York, United State of America had called for synergy among countries of the world.

According to the statement, the Global President, ReadyTo Lead Africa, Godbless Otubure had also observed that
his firm in callaboration with the Nigeria Youth Future Funds, NYFF, Which are Global research cooperation were in search of adequate funding to be utilized to ensuring crucial research adding that advancing scientific, social, democratic, economic knowledge is needed to address major global challenges such as climate Change.

Our sources said, the President who is also a United State Department Mandela Washington Fellow, also doubles as the Global president of Ready to Lead Africa.

“We believe Collaboration allows researchers and funders to pool resources, share expertise, and access a wider range of data and research subjects” he explained.

According to the Coalition, research can lead to a breakthroughs in areas such as medicine, energy, agriculture, social engineering, democracy as well as address climate change’.

Meanwhile, the group has also advocated for a cordial mutual collaboration with other organizations, stressing that such could help bridge knowledge gab and that of infrastructure, especially between developed and developing countries.

“Research and collaboration in our new multi-polar world clearly can no longer be about science, technology and innovation alone. The social sciences and the work of activists working on promoting democracy, inclusive economic growth models, and new sources of livelihoods for millions of people remains critical’.

In addition, they group also raised concern about funding noting that such aspect is an essential component of global research cooperation.

“Funding agencies can support collaborative research projects that involve multiple institutions and countries irrespective of their differences in religion, ethnicity or race”.

The group maintained that such funding can help to ensure that resources are available for researchers to conduct their work, travel to meetings and conferences, and communicate their findings to the broader scientific, social community and the public.

According to him, “funding strategy adopted by the Nigeria Youth Future Funds (NYFF) can serves as a veritable strategy that we believe should be replicated globally as we work to improve our world”.

Consequently, the group also observed that by sharing knowledge as well as cooperating with global scale as a group, many positive outcome could happen traveling that such endeavors are very crucial for advancing scientific and social knowledge which are desperately needed to address global challenges.

The coalition maintained further that by working together and sharing resources, researchers and practitioners can accelerate the pace of discovery, improve the quality of research as well as find solutions to complex modern problems.