My name is Naome Chakanya from the Southern African Trade Union Coordination Council - SATUCC, speaking for the Workers and Trade Unions Major Group.
We thank the government of Botswana for their presentation and we would like to ask you the following:

1. It is a fact that it is only possible to achieve sustainable development with meaningful involvement of all rights holder groups, including marginalized social, economic and caste based groups, women, older and young people, workers and trade unions, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, LGBT+ people, migrants and refugees.

Given this background and the very well documented context of shrinking space, what steps have you taken to secure designated, accessible and well-resourced spaces for civil society and trade unions in the co-design, implementation and monitoring of national policies, including through people-led data collection?

2. We find that there is an inherent disconnect between the ambition in this agenda and the actions of governments at national level. For example, we see many countries have imposed austerity policies to curb fiscal problems, which has had an adverse impact on human rights, social welfare and decent work, and in essence contradicts the spirit of the SDGs.