This Public Workshop “Multistakeholderism and the UN 2.0: Challenges and Alternatives for Developing Countries” will question this idea by discussing from a new report commissioned jointly by South Centre and The Transnational Institute (TNI) and elaborated by Harris Gleckman, Senior Fellow, Center for Governance and Sustainability. The report, which will be presented at this Forum, shows that multistakeholderism limits the role of developing countries in global governance. It also undermines multilateralism by outsourcing global governance and leads to a decline in trust in the international community through the erosion of sovereignty. The workshop will also serve as an opportunity to identify and discuss the recommendations on how to deal with “Multistakeholderism.”
In view of these developments, the South Centre and the Transnational Institute, are co-organizing this public workshop with developing countries’ representatives in Geneva and New York and civil society organizations to discuss the new challenges arising from multistakeholderism and the alternatives that developing countries have in order to face them.
Objectives:
- Examine, in dialogue with G77 and China member states and CSOs, the impact and challenges posed by the contemporary trend towards multistakeholderism in the context of the intergovernmental process.
- Identify and discuss the recommendations on how to deal with Multistakeholderism in the United Nations.