Towards 2030: COLEAD and its partners unite to define the strategy of the association that will accelerate impact on the SDGs

Towards 2030: COLEAD and its partners unite to define the strategy of the association that will accelerate impact on the SDGs

On the 4^th of December 2024, COLEAD’s board of directors, management and financial partners gathered in a Consultative Committee (CC) meeting to lay the foundations for the definition of COLEAD’s strategy for 2030, the date that will serve as the global reference point for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Building on its experience and strengths, COLEAD’s ambition is to define a clear trajectory for the next five years, reaffirming its commitment to make a significant contribution to sustainable agri-food systems, which are essential to achieving the SDGs.

Defining this ‘COLEAD 2030 strategy’ will mean prioritising and strengthening the actions that have the greatest impact on the sustainability of partner countries, and then broadening their scope and scaling them by looking for useful relays in the interventions of other support organisations. To this end, COLEAD outlined the process for defining the strategy to its partners, emphasizing its participatory, inclusive, transparent, and iterative nature.

In the aftermath of COP 29, the CC 2024 was an opportunity to remind why a holistic and systemic approach was needed, taking into account the global and local sustainability challenges facing the agri-food sector in the countries where COLEAD and its partners operate.

The main objective of the CC 2024 was therefore to launch a collaborative process to co-construct the COLEAD 2030 strategy, considering the priorities and expectations of all relevant stakeholders. The aim is to confirm by end of 2025 a strategic plan that fully exploits COLEAD’s potential to contribute to the SDGs.