 Good morning and good afternoon everyone. Welcome to this issue briefing on resetting inclusion beyond COVID-19. My name is Amanda Russo. I'm the head of media content here at the World Economic Forum and I have the pleasure and the privilege trying to combine two words there of moderating this panel of two co-chairs and one friend of the forum. So thank you so much for joining. We have a lot to cover in 30 minutes so I'm going to jump right in. So first off, just to get up to give everyone on the on the line some background for the next 30 minutes, we're going to spend a bit of time diving deep into the issues and try to get beyond the headlines. For those watching this live stream, if you want to ask questions you please do so, highly encouraged. You want to go to the Slido link that's going to appear at the bottom of the screen. That's how we're going to try to get as many questions as possible into the next 30 minutes because today's issue briefing is on a very important topic equity and inclusion and from digital accessibility to dependence on the informal economy, we all know that COVID-19 has really highlighted the role that every individual can play. But how do we leverage the great reset to make sure that this is as inclusive as possible? So joining me today to help talk about these issues, we have Pierre Havard from the he's the general secretary of the trade union advisory committee to the OECD. He's dialing in from Paris. Pierre, thank you for joining us today. I'm also joined by two co-chairs of this year's sustainable development impact summit, Hindu Omru Ibrahim. She is the president of the Association for Indigenous Women and the people of Chad. She's also joining us from Paris. Hindu, thank you. And we also have from San Francisco, a very early bird. Tiffany Yu, who's the CEO and founder of diversity. Thank you so much for waking up so early today to join us. I'm going to jump right into my first question by privilege as a moderator. Tiffany, I'd like to come to you first. What are the headlines missing when it comes to inclusion and the SDGs, the sustainable development goals? Thanks, Amanda. And thanks so much for having me. And I'm really excited to see equity and inclusion represented on this agenda. I think I'll just raise three points. The first is that I think oftentimes when we think about the sustainable development goals, we're thinking about climate change in the environment. And there was a speaker in the last session who talked about how climate change isn't just about the environment. It's about highlighting inequities. And so I just wanted to highlight that for me, the SDGs are really centered on how can we incorporate equity and inclusion in every single aspect of how we're thinking about recovery efforts, how we're thinking about moving forward. The second issue I want to bring up is intersectionality. So oftentimes we talk about the SDGs, like which SDG are you working toward or which SDG are you tackling? But the thing is, is that all of these SDGs, they're so comprehensive. So I'm proud to be a champion for goal number three, which is good health and well-being. But my work also tackles number one, goal one, no poverty, goal 10, reducing inequalities. And so even on that point of intersectionality, I think it's really important to, at least for me, and what I would encourage everyone to do to have a disability lens on every single issue. Every single SDG is a disability issue. I'm looking forward, you know, Hindu is going to talk about her work with indigenous communities. What's the disability lens on that? Pierre is going to talk about trade unions. What's the disability lens on that? So just, I have it in my notes here, but I'm tired of being seen as an afterthought. And oftentimes with the disability community, we're just kind of forgotten and then we're tacked on to support in the end. And even if I look at COVID response, the disability community has been so disproportionately impacted by everything that's happening right now. So I really am hopeful and optimistic that we can view this great reset as really bringing the disability community into every single conversation that were happening, which leads to my third point, which is I've often heard a lot of people talk about how we really need to look at who's at the margins. And to be honest, I actually don't think, I think we need to reframe our thinking around who is at the margin, because the people who are at the margins are actually at the center. And so I guess my third point is that I would really oftentimes, I think when we look at the disability community, we're only seen as a beneficiary or recipient of charity, but how can we really center and see disabled people as leaders and as co-creators of whatever future we're trying to create together? Tiffany, thanks for starting us off. You kind of pre-intro, intro code, Hindu for me. So, Hindu, I'd like to post you the same question. Like, what are we missing in the headlines? Or what are the headlines missing? Thank you very much, Amanda. It's really a great pleasure to be on this panel, and especially with Tiffany and Pierre. So, Amanda, I say, what is missing? It's the people that left behind. They're always the same people that left behind. When now, we are seeing all the media on all the coverage are around COVID, but they are talking more about, okay, there are those kinds of infections just from developed countries. We don't have hospital or whatever. They come a little bit in flash about maybe what's happening to the developing countries, and they forgot completely what is happening in the most impacted peoples, who are the frontline, the already existing crisis as climate change, as loss of biodiversity, as inequity, injustice, marginalizations, and in the top of it, we got also the COVID. So, we are really left behind, and that's why the headlines are not expressing the SDG as well as global 17 goals that are coming on. They just selected what is coming in. So, the second is the inclusiveness can make a country much stronger. If they include everyone, if they let us speak by ourselves, it will really make them more stronger and give them the realities of what is happening, because the majority of the world population are women, are youths, are indigenous peoples, are people with disabilities, as children. So, those communities who are forgotten completely need to be in the middle, because when we talked about it, maybe we just limited to wearing the mask or having the social distances, but there is no mask for us. There is no mask that making you out from the marginalization or the discriminations, and if you lose all in the top, Pierre will come on it. Your job, we are not talking only about the money. Indigenous peoples are losing their homes. We are losing our land, our territories, our resources, and that is not considered in this time of speaking right now. So, that thing needs to be in the middle of all the headlines coming out. Pierre, let's go to you with the same question. What are you seeing you advise the OECD on these policies? What else are you hoping for? Thanks, Amanda, and thanks for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this. I'll just actually pick up, follow on Hindu's point, which is as we know, this COVID-19 crisis pines over a number of unresolved issues, unresolved crisis, and Tiffany as well mentioned that, and also the point that Tiffany mentioned, which is that we should not see this ability, those who are most affected just as beneficiaries, and that means that when we have to see these people as people we have to invest in, unexpectedly from a trading point of view, it is indeed there is a climate urgency, but there is this in looming inequality crisis has been there for many years between countries, as Hindu has mentioned, but also within countries, both for the industrialized countries, a bit less actually as we know, but clearly for the global sales. So what is not necessarily missing, but what is perhaps needs to be highlighted further from a trading perspective is a reset, but also perhaps rebuilding the labor market institutions that are needed for workers to have some minimum bargaining power for wages, for occupational health and safety, but also for social protection. There was a previous web panel where CEO came up with this contradiction, he said, I'm paying competitive wages. My company is competitive, but when we do internal survey, we find out that 60% of our staff have difficulty to have ends meet in the end of the month. And that's not, there is an issue behind that. So perhaps in the past 10, 15, 20 years, we moved a bit too much towards individualization of risk in society and in labor markets, and we should perhaps shift back the spectrum. So to finish there, perhaps two points, and in a way, if I may, I'm picking up a bit on what Tiffany has been saying is one is to consider what we call social dialogue between employer and union as an investment. When you engage a conversation with local communities or when you engage a conversation, collective conversation on the labor market, business should see that as an investment to reduce transaction costs, to reduce risk, but also see social protection, solidarity as an investment. These mechanisms should not be seen as ways just to compensate the losers of globalization. They should be seen as a mechanism to invest in people, to invest in the future, and reduce risk on the long term. Thank you all. Just as a reminder to the people watching on live stream on the forum website, if you go to slido.com to select this session, resetting inclusion, to ask a question, it's hashtag S-D-I-S. Thank you all for sharing these very important perspectives. I'd like to kind of narrow this down a bit and talk about actions. This is the impact summit. Let's talk about what are the impacts that you want to see or maybe that you have seen already, that we need to really scale up to make this the decade to deliver. Who wants to jump in first? I can go ahead. So I'm going to echo something that Pierre said and he said solidarity is an investment and I know he's talking about that in the context of trade unions, but I really love that sentiment. So my action item is if I think that work, dignified work, is the solution for a lot of things. At least here in the U.S., it is still legal to pay disabled people below minimum wage. And even after 30 years of having our rights protected through the Americans with Disabilities Act, unemployment before the pandemic was still hovering above 60%. So what I would like to see in terms of action is I need any private sector, even public sector, I need anyone and everyone to hire disabled people and to pay us well, because that is our pathway to economic sustainability, to adding value in society, and really I think collective and in this whole spirit of solidarity and collective, it's like if we are able to achieve disability, equity, justice, and liberation, we unleash so many other opportunities for other people as well. And Tiffany, is there any company or country out there that you've seen maybe starting to make the moves to do this well? I think that's that that you gave about in the U.S., being able to pay workers. If you center on disability inclusion, if you hire more disabled people, your company will be more profitable, your company will have higher profit margins. So the data is out there. I think we just need people to take action and to see disabled people, to see people with disabilities as a valuable asset within all levels of any organization and society. Technical difficulties happen everywhere in the world, even here at the SDI summit HQ. Thanks for, thanks for Bill again. Pierre, Hindu, concrete actions, what would you like to see or maybe what have you seen that is working? Hindu, you want to come first, Hindu? Okay, yes. Yeah, I mean, I wanted to see a lot of action because we talk a lot. We already read a lot of reports. There are a lot of evidence that coming out. But what is missing is the real action. And that's what we are calling for long time as indigenous peoples. So we need the action to rebuild our connection as human being with the nature. This one is completely missed out. So it is not like nature here and humanity here. Humanity are part of the nature. We are one species as tree, as insect, as bird, as all. So all of us are nature. So how we can rebuild this connection and we can protect each other. And we all know one message that I'm keeping saying, if we damage our nature, we damage our health. If we protect our nature, we protect our health. Most than 70% of all the molecules that come in to create the vaccine or the medicine that we are taking for treatment coming from the nature. They are not all 100% chemicals. So that's why the nature is very important for us. And then the food that we are eating, the water we are drinking or the clean air that we are fighting for it going to the street and cleaning or the fire in California where my sister Tiffany is there now. All this is coming from the nature. If we rebuild our relationship, we protect the nature. We know that we are protecting ourselves. I wanted to see this action right now but happening. And second, I wanted to see the respect of indigenous people right. We are keeping the 80% of the world by diversity. We are not taking the decisions. We are just seeing like, yes, you are doing a good work. We don't want people just to say like, yes, we are doing a good work but look at the exotic indigenous peoples, how they are wearing, how they are doing that in their old life. It's not that we wanted to play our roles. Also, we do not want it to be a beneficiary. We want it to be a partner because we have a lot to bring in this world through our traditional knowledge. We can help fighting all the climate and biodiversity. But if our rights are not respected or recognized, we cannot do that anymore. So we need those actions to become really concrete. And, Hinda, we've got a question that kind of came in on the Slido chat. I mean, and you've spoken about this at the United Nations. What is the best way to bring in the indigenous community? Is it through specific projects? Is it on a regional level? Is it on a national level? What's that step look like? So indigenous peoples need to be seen as partners. That's what I say. So partners cannot be bring only in a specific teams. It's have to be in all the process. So from the local level, indigenous peoples know better than land than even a satellite map who can be very intelligent. But indigenous intelligence are very important there. At the national level, if indigenous peoples' rights are respected or they are included in the decision making, we are seeing immediately how this country's economy can grow up and then peoples can live in harmony without conflict. At the international level where the decisions are taken in the behalf of the peoples, that's what is happening. That's why the youth are coming out to the street or all of us are claiming our government are not deciding. So if we come at the international level, sitting in the tables, deciding with all of them what we want, how we can design better our future, I think that's the participation can be full and effective in all the different limits. Okay, thank you. Pierre, let's go to you. Let's talk action. What do you want to see? I would sum up in three words, trust, money and cooperation. Trust and Hindu mentioned we need to consider indigenous community as partners. Well, guess what? Many unions would hope would want business to consider trade union as partners. Let's be frank, in some countries, including in the United States, there is a good dose of hostility between unions. So we need to have a positive dynamic here and move away from a lack of trust between perhaps some business and unions to create a positive dynamic around that. Secondly, money. Concretely, there are negotiations at the UECD in Paris on tax. If we talk about funding, if we talk about social protection for developing countries, we are actually talking about where the money is coming from and how. And you will know there is perhaps an issue of under taxation of some businesses out there. There are ongoing negotiations. Concrete deliverable would be by the end of this year to have an agreement on a reform of the international tax system. And third, cooperation. Within the labor movement, we are campaigning for the creation of a global social protection fund. We did it when it comes to climate change. It is politically within reach. The issue is how can we raise money not only nationally but globally to help support so strong universal social safety nets in the developing countries and have all the rights expertise. It is within reach. It is a matter of political willingness and to move away from perhaps where we have seen a couple of the past three years, a retrenchment of countries, rebuilds, resets, the legitimacy of multilateral organizations. So trust, money, and cooperation. That's how I would frame these, how we move ahead. I mean, trust is a really big issue. And Hindu, Tiffany, I'd love to get your thoughts on how do we rebuild this trust that is probably very much broken across the board. What is your advice? I don't know. Maybe Tiffany, can we start with you on that one? Sure. I was actually just taking a pause to taking that question because I think about there was an initiative that was launched here in the U.S. So if you are reliant on disability benefits, you can only have $2,000 in assets. And so there was something, and that's total assets, including everything that you own, and what's in your bank account and if you have a car. So there was an initiative that was launched during the Obama administration called the ABLE Act, which would operate similar to a college savings plan and would allow you to have up to $100,000 saved. And then that was unlocked state by state. And when it was announced that it was launching in California, there was a big event that happened here in the Bay Area. I went to it and there were so many questions from members of the disability community who were just unsure what was going to happen with their money if they put it into the savings account. Who was investing it? What's the return? How can I even trust this? And so trust, it's going to take time. And I think this is, you know, to your last question, Amanda, this is where action, I think, really matters. And Hindu talked about how we just talk, we talk all the time. And I will acknowledge even during this summit, I've seen a lot of corporations talk about the great things that they're doing, but I want to see action, right? I want you to show me, at least if you're a corporation, I want you to show me what your disability hiring numbers are. Show me how you're retaining that talent. And the last thing I'll say there is on this point of trust is it's even during this pandemic, I think, looking at the delay of government response and how mutual aid efforts have emerged and how important those have become. And so I talk a lot about mutual aid efforts, even one of the projects that the forum highlighted was I'm shipping out windowed face masks to anyone in the disability community who needs them, right? This isn't something to make me look good. I'm just trying to make sure that our community survives out of this pandemic so that we can thrive like so many other people. Thank you. And we have one question that's also come in very much linked to trust is about accountability. And Tiffany, I think it comes to your points about how do we hold companies accountable for what they say they're going to do. But before we get to that, Hindu, I just want to come to you about this issue of trust. It's probably the starting foundation of where we need to go. Right. I mean, the word trust is really very, very important, especially if you are an indigenous person, because indigenous communities lose the trust from many other nations who come colonize us, who come like kill indigenous peoples, take our land, take our territories, resources kicked us out. So it's really very hard to rebuild trust if there is no action. So we wanted to see the action that following the trust. And if I say that, so for us, it is not just like making a declaration or making a paper saying, okay, we will come and do this and do that. No, we already saw that. We already saw many, I mean, like research communities who come to our peoples and who can stay like maximum 10 years and go back and write a document and say like, I'm a PhD because I'm expert of Bororo peoples or I'm expert of this one. And tomorrow they say they wanted to come back. We are like, no, we do not trust you anymore. You are coming stealing what we have, but you are not coming helping or supporting us. It is the same the relationship we have with some governments and with many of the companies who come there. So how we can rebuild the trust, this is the most important question for me. So to rebuild the trust, we need to make it also as a process. We need to implement the free, pure and informed consent of each communities. If we agree or we do not agree, they respect our decisions and then we move to the next step. What do we want to consider as peoples? We have also the word to say, if we say no, it is a real no, there is no negotiation. If we say yes, we move it in the way that we wanted to move and we see the action and we build up step by step having all this trust. And of course, I mean, let me just come to your last questions about accountability. If you don't have the trust, so we need to see the accountability and then many of the government are not accountable at all. And that's why we are also asking, we are standing up, we say like, we wanted to see what you are doing. If your Congress voted, if your government have to adopt it. So we wanted to see how our role are respected there, how you play it. So it's have to be the transparency and accountability. It is not the issue of coming with the numbers. The numbers can come, but it's not saying anything. But if we do not see it in the transparency way and inclusive way, it will not have any other sense. And Pierre, you work a lot with governments, you advise international organization. How do we build in this, the transparency and the accountability? That's a very good question, if I may. I think sadly enough, the first step is to give, to have our government, the current administrations, and hopefully the upcoming ones, to rebuild, to give back legitimacy to multilateralism. And we are sadly very far away. There is, we are towards, you will know, towards regional conflicts, including in areas, in countries, we would not expect it. So the pre-conditions is to give back some legitimacy to international cooperation. And we are not there. The question we see is, what can business do, as always, to help support this positive dynamic? And I listen very carefully to what Tiffany and Hindu said. If I may, Hindu come up with point that the labor movement would also, but you would just need to replace free prior and consent, informed consent with freedom of association. So I think what business can do is, I don't have obviously all the answers, but to create a positive dynamic around trust. Recognize the key stakeholders of the firm. There are a number of them, the local communities, workers, the tax collector, the environment, and be serious about that. Be serious about that within business coalitions, but with multilateral organizations. And that, I think, is really key. Organization like the United Nations is a bit in the none, has been questioned somewhere, you know. So that would be really the first step. Nothing is perhaps perfect with international organization, but the very principle of multilateralism, very principle of international cooperation is something we should cherish. And I can see it's even in organizations like the OECD, where you have national retrenchment. Nationalism and protectionism, this is the main threat that we are facing right now. It is that one that will prevent us from building this discussion, trust, and the discussion we are having right now. Thank you. Thanks, Pierre. And I think we only have time for one more comment. So I think Tiffany, very briefly, as a global shaper, are there any shaper programs that you can highlight or you wanted to flag for the group in terms of this transparency and action and accountability stream? Sure. One, I guess I'll make two points. One is that there is a staff that the Ford Foundation came out with that said only 2% of international funding is going to disability advocacy. That means 2%, that's nothing. And so if we talk about accountability, all of it is coming through in the data. We have 2% of international funding coming to disability advocacy. Unemployment rates, 60% before the pandemic, we really need to close in on those numbers. In terms of global shapers, there is an equity and inclusion steering committee. I am the global lead for disability inclusion projects. And we will be launching, stay tuned in December, the first shaping disability summit. Well, I mean, I think I'm going to be watching all three of you because I think there's going to be a lot of opportunities for increased dialogue and action. And I know the three of you are going to help us keep us on track for the transparency and the accountability and those action points that we need to really make this the decade to deliver. So many thank yous, Pierre, to my two co-chairs, Hindu, Tiffany, and to everyone who submitted those questions online and watched on live stream. Thank you very much. And I hope you enjoy the rest of your day. Thanks for joining us today.