The G20 & G7 Health and Development Partnership

The G20 & G7 Health & Development Partnership (G20HDP) is an advocacy organisation that aims to ensure that G20 countries coordinate their health innovation strategies to tackle the growing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases globally, to promote the delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on SDG 3 “health and well-being for all”. The G20HDP emerged as an informal coalition of like-minded organisations during the G20 Presidency in Germany in 2017, building on the objectives of SDG 17, “strengthening partnerships”. Our 22 partner organisations from across different sectors include product development. The G20HDP, run by over 25 global health partners and Sovereign Sustainability and Development (SSD), was created as a response to the growing need to embed people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships into all facets of organizational strategy. Developing multi-sector partnerships, sharing knowledge, harnessing technology, and developing a strong commitment to cooperation – all enshrined in SDG 17 – present a multitude of challenges and opportunities that requires multi-dimensional expertise in addition to political acumen. SSD’s consultancy hub and broader knowledge platform of collaborators are able to bring focus and clarity to a complex organizational terrain. SSD was created in late 2017 to act as the convener and secretariat of the G20 Health and Development Partnership. Following consultation with a number of key stakeholders and confirmation from the Government of Argentina that health would remain a focus of the G20 under its Presidency in 2018, Sovereign Strategy - the organization that had provided secretarial pro-bono support to the Partnership in 2017 - created a related entity to provide comprehensive management of the Partnership during its consequential phase and to reflect the increasing focus of its mandate and expertise in the sustainable development field.