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C20 2018 | Newsletter Nº2 Dear all,

Since the Newsletter Nº1 many things have happened and we want to share with

you all this information, as well as share news that you will find of particular

interest. We are also including an entire section about C20 Working Groups!

We are excited and ready for all the challenges and opportunities this year will

bring us. C20 must be a space for true change and cross-country collaboration: let’s

work together towards that goal.

CONTENTS

C20 KICK OFF EVENT ………………………………………………………….2

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE………………………………………3

C20 WORKING GROUPS…………………………………………………….4

TIMELINE……………………………………………………………………………….12

COMMUNICATION AND STAYING IN TOUCH………………13

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C20 KICK OFF EVENT

For the first time in history, the C20 had its kick off event!

The event, which counted the attendance of more than 120 people, the G20 Sherpa,

Deputy of the Finance Track and Sous Sherpa took place on December 12th in

Buenos Aires and was the official hand-over of C20 2017 to C20 2018. In addition,

it had a high level panel in which representatives of civil society, G20, UNDP and

OECD debated around the challenges and opportunities that the G20 presents for

the global agenda.

During the hand-over ceremony, C20 2018 Chair, Pablo Secchi, remarked that

"The voice of civil society around the world must be heard so that public policies

are developed for citizens themselves."

Likewise, Jurgen Maier, Co-Chair of C20 2017, stated that "We are here to discuss

alternatives to the globalization model we have seen so far, we know that the best

ideas do not come from politicians, but from civil society”

Regarding the High Level Panel, for more than an hour, Mauricio Alice (G20 Sous

Sherpa), Laura Jaitman (Deputy Representative Finance Track G20), René

Mauricio Valdez (UN System Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident

Representative), Anthony Gooch (Director of Public Affairs and Communications

OECD) and Stephen Paul Price-Thomas (Director of Advocacy and Campaigns,

Oxfam International) discussed the challenges and opportunities that the G20

presents so that countries can move forward in a sustained and effective way in the

search for solutions to the main global challenges.

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Thank you very much to everyone who participated in the event. Below

you will find some photos!

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The organizational structure under which the C20 will work in 2018 has been

created based on the experiences and learnt lessons of previous C20 gatherings.

It will consist of a Steering Committee (SC), and International Advisory Committee

(IAC), a Sherpa, a Secretariat and different working groups (WG). The SC will

work in tandem with the IAC and shall be the main governing body of the C20.

With the support of the Sherpa, the SC will be in constant communication with,

and getting input from, the working groups. The WG will be the locus for all the

thematic discussions that will happen. Each WG will be co-chaired by an Argentine

organization and an international one.We will share the name of the members of

the SC and IAC soon!

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C20 WORKING GROUPS

Taking into account the work continuity of the C20, the priorities of the G20 2018

and the survey that we launched some months ago, during 2018 the C20 will have

eight working groups. Agenda 2030 and digitalization will be cross-cutting issues.

It is important to take into account that the themes worked by each of the Working

Groups are built by all the participating organizations. Be part of the conversation!

If you have not registered yet, you can do it now through this link: https://civil-

20.org/registration/

Below, you can find the description and coordinators of each of them.

Working Group Description Local Coordinator International

Coordinator

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Anti -Corruption Corruption is a scourge that can be found

in different forms all around the world. It

is a major barrier to prosperity and

equality, erodes trust in government,

affects economic and financial stability,

threatens investment and curtails the

basic rights of citizens.

In a context in which large-scale, cross-

border corruption cases are becoming

increasingly frequent, national level

efforts to combat corruption often fall

short. International spaces such as the

G20 are essential to allow governments to

coordinate their anti-corruption policies.

The C20’s Anti-corruption Working Group

aims to make anti-corruption one of the

key priorities for the Argentine G20

presidency, including anti-corruption

measures in all G20 workstreams with a

particular focus on:

State-owned enterprises

Infrastructure

Public integrity and ethics

Transparency in beneficial

ownership.

M. Emilia

Berazategui

(PoderCiudadano)

meberazategui@civi

l-20.org

Max Heywood

(Transparency

International)

anticorruptioni@civil-

20.org

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International

FinancialSystem

Architecture

The current international financial and

taxation systems, established in the 1920s

and controlled mostly by developed

countries, are in part responsible

for growing inequality among both people

and countries (many of which lack the

resources to guarantee basic

human rights). Paradoxically,

international financial and taxation

systems, which started benefiting

developed countries over developing ones,

are now being abused mostly by certain

multinational entities and the top

0.1% of individual taxpayers,

to enable these taxpayers not to

contribute their fair share of taxes or to

abuse debt restructuring

processes, thus increasing inequality with

a mutually reinforcing effect. For

example, alarming levels of financial and

tax secrecy are facilitating the growth of

illicit financial flows, including money

laundering and tax evasion.

The International Financial Architecture

(IFA) working group will focus on the

international financial and taxation

systems and their relationship to five

elements: 1) global inequality, 2)

sustainable development, 3) resource

mobilization, 4) harmful competition

among countries and 5) the fight against

illicit financial flows.

The IFA working group will address the

new transparency developments,

including automatic exchange of bank

account information and beneficial

ownership registration, as well as the

identification and countermeasures

against tax havens. In relation to

taxation, we will discuss the new

measures to tackle tax avoidance by

multinational entities (e.g., the G20

OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting

(BEPS) Action Points) and the challenges

posed by the digital economy as well as

the consequences of imposing arbitration

on developing countries as a way to solve

tax conflicts. Technological innovation

will be considered to identify new tools to

Eduardo

Baistrocchi

aifsl@civil-20.org

Andrés Knobel

(Tax Justice Network)

aifsi@civil-20.org

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help towards achieving our goals of

enhancing financial and tax transparency

(e.g., big data and artificial intelligence)

as well as new risks created by crypto-

currencies. The challenges of debt

restructuring processes for vulnerable

countries will also be addressed. In

addition, we will consider whether the

current international framework and

institutions that govern and set

international rules regarding these issues

are fit for purpose, and how to ensure that

all voices, including those of developing

countries and civil society, are heard in a

meaningful way.

Gender The C20 Gender Working Group is

dedicated to promoting an intersectional

and multidisciplinary approach to gender

in the G20 agenda that fully guarantees

the promotion and protection of human

rights, especially of women, girls and

LGBTI people.

The group will work with diverse actors

and will seek to bring them together on a

common platform, focusing on identifying

the main obstacles, and carrying out

proposals to eliminate inequalities and

combat discrimination based on gender

and sexual orientation; and guarantee

access to rights and full economic, social,

and political participation of all people in

an equitable manner. It will hold G20

accountable to its gender commitments.

Mabel Bianco

(FEIM/

Observatorio de

Defensoras de los

Derechos Humanos

de las Mujeres)

genderl@civil-

20.org

Yamini Mishra

(Amnisty

International

Secretariat)

genderi@civil-20.org

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Education,

Employment

and Inclusion

The recognition of education as a human

right -universal, indivisible and

enforceable- has different sides, which

belong to the field of economic, social and

cultural rights, and to civil and political

rights. In all cases, the State is the main

guarantor, which allocates the necessary

resources and adapts its legal framework,

and its political planning for that purpose.

Thus, education is "the right of rights", a

fundamental way to get access to other

rights such as work and social security.

In such a way, in this work group, we will

approach education from the perspective

of the individual, taking into account their

paths, with comprehensive,

complementary, and quality proposals

that reinforce each other, that promote

citizen participation and a safe transitions

towards the world of work, and with

possibilities of choice from inclusive public

policies and guarantors of an equitable

income distribution. From this

perspective, the recognition, social

legitimization and strengthening of the

teaching career as a major and relevant

social agent is essential. It is also

important the financial resources which

guarantee educational justice and social

inclusion in an increasingly complex

world.

Marcela Browne

(Fundación SES)

eeil@civil-20.org

Valdinei Valerio

(Red Pro Aprendiz)

eeii@civil-20.org

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Local2Global One of the most relevant elements for the

full development of Social Organizations

is to be able to act within an enabling

environment that facilitates their daily

work and that allows generating the

necessary conditions to make substantial

contributions to the problems of the

communities in which they work and face

the current times and scenarios.

Having this premise as a guide, this group

aims to generate a space for debate

around the enabling environment of

Social Organizations in the world, seeking

to strengthen the environment of action

and influence of them within the context

in which they operate.

Furthermore, this group seeks to generate

greater knowledge and involvement of

Social Organizations around the world in

the participation and advocacy

mechanisms of the G20; to be able to

democratize the access to this type of key

spaces of incidence in public policies and

strengthen the CSOs from all over the

world to achieve a continuous

participation in all the next G20.

As part of the exchange process that will

take part in this group, the following lines

of debate are proposed:

• Status of the enabling

environment for CSOs in the

world.

• Elements to build a proper

environment that leads to the full

functioning of CSOs.

• Networking and the creation of

regional / global coalitions.

• Tools and mechanisms for

advocacy in Public Policies.

• Regional CSOs involvement in

global issues.

• G20 impact in Latin America.

Guillermo Correa

(RACI)

l2gl@civil-20.org

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Investment and

Infraestructure

Currently, many people do not have

access to basic goods and services, which

results in the exercises of their rights

being limited. In this context,

infrastructure work acquires a

transcendental relevance. In order to

guarantee a response to the needs and

interests of people and global challenges,

it is important to prioritize participation,

transparency in decision-making and

anti-corruption measures throughout the

life cycle of the infrastructure work.

As part of the exchange process that will

take part in this group, the following lines

of debate are suggested:

Infrastructure and PPPs: role of

infrastructure financing in the

global economy. It will focus on

infrastructure’s implications as a

class asset and the promotion of

PPPs as a central tool for

financing. It will debate on the

several problems associated with

the widespread promotion of PPPs

including its fiscal risks, hidden

costs, environmental and human

rights impacts.

Business and Human Rights: role

of corporate and its human rights

impact focusing on how to hold

companies and private actors

accountable for their violations of

rights in their operations across

the supply chain considering both

legal and non-legal avenues.

Gonzalo Roza

(FUNDEPS)

iil@civil-20.org

María José Romero

(EURODAD)

iii@civil-20.org

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Global Health As part of the commitment reached by the

UN with the 2030 agenda for Sustainable

Development, universal health coverage is

a global priority. Global development is

linked in all its parts and universal access

to health crosses the SDGs in their

entirety. From a human rights

perspective, comprehensive health

includes access to reasonable services,

sexual and reproductive health, family

planning, free and systematic vaccination,

plus prevention and treatment of

communicable and non-communicable

diseases. In this sense, access to universal

health and individual welfare will only be

achieved through governments and

communities involvement in the

strengthening of health systems and

substantial financial support.

Through the C20 2018 GLobal Health

Working Group we have a good

opportunity to continue the previous work

done by other actors, in regard to Global

Health and Antimicrobial Resistance

(focused on TBC), while adding other

global topics as HIV/AIDS, a pandemia

with a global commitment by health

systems that could be controlled by 2030

through proved evidence based strategies.

As well as Vaccines, a fundamental tool

for public health established by the World

Health Organization in the 2011-2020

global immunization vision and vaccine

action plan

Within the framework of the C20 civil

society there is an opportunity to make

these issues visible, the freedom to escape

the restrictions of the public health sector

and discuss, for example, regulation of

advertising, promotion of healthy

environments, tax regulations for

products harmful, interventions on the

environment, etc.

Kurt Frieder

(Fundación

Huésped)

globalhealthl@civil-

20.org

TBC

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Environment,

Climate and

Energy

The goal of the Environment, Climate and

Energy Working Group is to coordinate

global civil society around promoting

policies for implementing sustainable

development within the G20. The group

aims to ensure policy coherence across the

G20 agenda, guided by the Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs), in particular

SDG 7 on ensuring affordable, reliable,

sustainable and modern energy for all,

and the Paris Agreement's goal of

avoiding the most harmful impacts of

climate change by limiting the global

temperature increase to 1.5ºC above pre-

industrial levels. The Working Group

aims to ensure that G20 countries take

concrete steps to implement the Paris

Agreement and step up the ambition

contained in their national climate plans

by 2020.

Towards this end, the Working Group will

consider issues such as long term

decarbonization strategies, energy

efficiency and renewable energy

investments, fossil fuel subsidies phase-

out, low-carbon and climate-resilient

infrastructure, resilience for vulnerable

communities and ecosystems, and climate

finance for an environmentally-sound

transition to low carbon economies in the

context of poverty eradication."

Enrique Maurtua

Konstantinidis

(FARN)

ecel@civil-20.org

Gillian Nelson

(Climate Action

Network)

ecei@civil-20.org

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TIMELINE

December 2017: During the first month, we set up and defined the working

structure of the C-20, defining the members of both the Steering Committee and

the International Advisory Committee, as well as the chairs and co-chairs of the

different working groups.

February 2018: In the week of February 12, the work of the eight Working Groups

of the C20 will begin! Remember that to participate in the Working Groups you

have to register. If you have not already register you can do it through this link:

https://civil-20.org/registration/

April 2018: In person meeting of the Working Groups in Buenos Aires will take

place on the 4th and 5th of April. This will be an open space, but with limited

capacity so you will need to register. Invitations and agenda will be sent soon!

August 2018:The C20 Summit will be held in Buenos Aires on the 6th and 7th of

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August, this is the main event: the moment when the C 20 will present its

position (Communiqué) to the Argentine Presidency.

COMMUNICATION AND STAYING IN TOUCH

The C20 website has been launched. Through the website we will be uploading the

most important news of the C20 and will be the channel through which the C20

Working Groups will perform their work.

To help ensure the continuity of C20 2017 to C20 2018, the domain of the website

remains the same as last year. If you have not visited the website yet, you can do it

through the following link: https://civil-20.org

The C20 also has an official Twitter and Facebook account through which we

disseminate all the relevant information. If you still do not follow us, you can do it

through the following links:

We encourage you to share this information through your networks, asking

interested colleagues and organizations to formally register so they can stay

informed of events and news.

We conceive the C20 as an open space that integrates different views and

understandings of the principal problems affecting our global economic system. The

space aims to bring together experts and advocates in order to bring the concerns

and voices of the Global Civil Society to the G20. In this line, we are working to

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improve the number of spaces available for civil society in the G20

meetings, to secure funding so that organizations from Argentina, the region and

especially the Global South can take part in these discussions and express their

views, and to last but not least, ensure that there are no unilateral government

decisions limiting civil society´s participation in this space.

C20 Chair and Co-Chair