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The topic of collaboration for
SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) goals

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is quite an interesting one

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and when I get into conversations
about SDGs in general, particularly

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within the African context, I think about

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a very popular proverb

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or saying that we have, which is,
“If you want to go fast,

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go alone, if you want to go far, go together.”

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But when you think about the SDGs

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and the progress that we need to make,
we are more than halfway

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to the 2030 target, and we've not achieved half of the targets.

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And so that reality suggests
that we need to go both fast and far.

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So how do you do that?

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I think collaboration,

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in-country with all the relevant

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stakeholders, I think
is one of the ways that we can do that.

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And I think collaboration
allows two things:

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it allows
efficiency and effectiveness.

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So from an effectiveness standpoint,
think about situations where you bring

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in the private sector, the public sector,
the social sector together,

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are you able to bring the best ideas
from each of these different sectors

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and innovate effectively?

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And that innovation leads to
effectiveness, essentially going farther.

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From an efficiency standpoint,

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sometimes when we each try
to solve these problems in silos,

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we don't realize we're trying to solve
the same thing and doing the same thing.

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And so there's a lot of inefficiency
and a lot of waste.

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And in fact, in environment,
in our context where we don't have

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a lot of resources,
you don't want to be wasting.

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Every single resource
needs to achieve the highest impact.

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And so that's another opportunity.

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Bringing everyone together;
collaborating allows us to ensure

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that there's very limited waste.

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So in reality, collaboration

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actually allows us
to go both fast and far.