"Inequality around the world causes all forms of vulnerability".
Why does widening inequality around the world concern you?
Inequality around the world causes all forms of vulnerability. Vulnerable people are always at higher risk in the frontline. The sustainable development goals may face a critical challenge to unless and until all forms of inequality are addressed. 
What is the most important contribution that multilateral institutions could make to tackle widening inequality?
The multilateral institutions are in a good position to facilitate the new paradigm of partnerships; to engage different stakeholders, giving them defined roles and responsibilities and making them accountable; to support national institutions with adequate advocacy and capacity-building mechanisms to empower the people at risk from widening inequality.
Mr. Akhteruzzaman Sano will speak at the plenary session From best policy practices to global transformation on 19 June.
He works for the Equity and Sustainability Field Hearings coordinated by Initiative for Equality. Initiative for Equality is a network of organizations, researchers and communities working towards more equitable and sustainable development, and the Field Hearings are designed to ensure that disadvantaged and marginalized communities are heard in the global dialogue on sustainable development.
Mr. Sano works on institutional capacity building, advocacy and engaging businesses, foundations, and civil society on climate risk analysis and reduction and development. This includes partnering with UN agencies, intergovernmental organisations and government ministries.
Mr. Sano has been a consultant to projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Climate Investment Fund etc. His doctoral research is on climate risk financing.
He is a Bangladeshi national and has lived in Cambodia since 2002.
