Religious Action as Part of the Global Alliance to End Hunger and Poverty

1. October 2024
A Berkley Center webinar moderated by Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall highlighted Brazil's G20 leadership in addressing hunger and poverty, religious teachings on the issue, and the upcoming launch of the ...

WCC co-sponsored side event at UN General Assembly tackles faith, ethics, and AI

30. September 2024
WCC reports: A hybrid event in September aimed at enhancing understanding among religious communities, civil society, and policymakers regarding the ethical dimensions of AI. ...

Summit of the
Future 2024

30. September 2024
IISD reports on Summit of the Future 22-23 (September 22-23, 2024): Acknowledging the multilateral system is broken, many speakers said with slow progress or regression on the Sustainable Development Goals, the ...

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EVENT HIGHLIGHT THIS YEAR

External Event

COP 29 – UN Climate Change Conference 2024

11/11/2024
 – 22/11/2024
The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) will convene in November 2024 in Baku, Abseron, Azerbaijan.

Mission

The International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) convenes governments, multilateral entities, academia, religious and other civil society actors on a long-term basis to amplify contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and make them visible at a global level. PaRD facilitates Workstreams and Taskforces and offers a safe space that provides continuity for global dialogue, learning, sharing of good practices and evidence, and collaboration to better inform policy and practices through recommendations and practitioners guidelines.

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Foundation, Priorities & Principles

The SDGs set the foundation of PaRD’s work. With the SDGs, 193 countries have set 17 goals to ensure a better life for all, end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and well-being for everyone. PaRD currently concentrates on Health (SDG 3), Gender Equality (SDG 5), Environment, Water and Climate Action (SDGs 6, 13, 14, 15), Sustaining Peace (SDG 16) and Food Security (SDG 2). The basis of PaRD are the fundamental principles of human rights as well as freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief (FoRB), as both are preconditions for sustainable development. 

Through PaRD’s workstreams and taskforces, members and interested partners collaborate and gather evidence about the positive role of faith actors in sustainable development. Together, concepts are created for conferences, seminars, guidelines, briefing materials, and learning resources.

Interested parties can find more information about PaRD in our official flyer and in PaRD’s strategic plan 2022-2026.

Food Security
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Health Workstream
Gender Equality and
Empowerment
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WECARE Workstream
Sustaining Peace Workstream
FoRB Workstream

Knowledge centre

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religion and development.