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Commenter urges action to meet Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, cites need for fiscal space for health and education
Summary
At a meeting, an unidentified commenter urged renewed effort to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and said creating "fiscal space" is needed to fund health, education and school meals, linking those investments to safer births and maternal health.
Speaker 1, identified in the meeting record only as a commenter, urged renewed effort to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and said governments and the financial sector must create fiscal space to fund health and education.
The commenter said meeting the goals requires both leadership commitments and more public resources. "We created opportunities for fiscal space. That means more money to go to health, to go to education, which is about safer births and deliveries, saving our mothers," Speaker 1 said. The speaker added that activists and officials "still have to go out there and and fight the good fight."
According to the commenter, increased fiscal space would allow governments to invest in school meals and strengthen health and education systems that otherwise are constrained by debt service. The record does not specify which governments, financial institutions or programs the speaker had in mind, nor does it note any formal proposal discussed at the meeting.
No formal action, vote or directive appears in the transcript related to these remarks. The record contains two short statements by the same speaker; there is no listed affiliation or further identifying information.
