AIPJ invited to join talks on Sustainable Development Targets
AIPJ invited to join talks on Sustainable Development Targets
In late September, Government leaders met at the UN General Assembly and endorsed the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that will guide development initiatives through to 2030. Sustainable Development Goal 16 is: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies and includes a Target 16.9: By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and the Civil Registration Centre for Development (CRC4D) convened a meeting in New York from 14-16 October on: Legal Identity for All: What will it take? bringing together a diverse group of individuals drawn from international organisations, global financing institutions, civil society organisations (CSOs), national planning and civil registration agencies, international lawyers and academics.
The work of AIPJ Program was highlighted during the meeting. Cate Sumner, Lead Adviser for the Legal Identity and Family Law Assistance Program, presented the key findings of the AIPJ Baseline Study on Legal Identity: Indonesia's Missing Millions and Santi Kusumaningrum, Co-Director of AIPJ’s partner PUSKAPA UI now based at Columbia University New York, contributed a civil society perspective on barriers to obtaining a legal identity in Indonesia and ways to overcome this.
The meeting engaged on several key issues concerning the implementation of SDG target 16.9 concerning:
- understanding and workable definition of legal identity,
- national-level implementation,
- civil society role,
- funding and
- measurement.
The Open Society Justice Initiative will draw on the meeting results as part of their advocacy on a clear set of indicators for the SDG Target 16.9: By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
