On Stakeholders, Rightsholder and Conflicts of Interests in Agenda2030
2 Nov 2016

By Simone Lovera* Agenda2030 uses the term civil society and other stakeholders but there is no clear definition of either civil society, or stakeholders. Sometimes, the private sector is included in the definition of “civil society”, but in processes like the Committee on Food Security, they are considered separate, which means in practice they are given equal space to all other groups and sectors of civil society. Agenda 21 was more specific and distinguished 9 major groups: NGOs, business and …