Thank you! Summit Communications

To: The What Works? SBCC Summit Communications Group

cc: Summit Steering Committee and Secretariat

Best wishes. My apologies that this note has been delayed due to post-Summit priorities on other themes and a personal injury (am fully OK now!). 

I wanted to express my fulsome thanks for the work of everyone on the Communications Group for the Summit.

The fruits of your extensive work were plain to see in Nusa Dua. One of the highest priorities for the Communications group was to ensure that we attracted both a large number of people to Nusa Dua and a significant number of abstracts submissions in order that there was high quality content. Through our collective efforts the Communications group was an important reason for 1,200 people attending (significantly up on both Addis Ababa and Rome) and 1,266 abstract submissioms - from which the the 300 Summit presentations were chosen. This was also reflected in the social media posts and dialogue - here is a selection from Twitter. As you will see the dialogue continues. 

Thank you for all of your extremely important efforts. I did joke at one stage that with such high levels of registered participants and such a large number of abstract submissions we could probably call the Summit off and still call it a success given that level of engagement, which you played such a crucial part in creating and supporting. But of course the Summit itself was really important. 

The communications process has not ceased! We are very close to having the final Summit Declaration. A draft was presented in Nusa Dua. This was shared with all participants virtually and comments were requested. At this thread the draft Summit Declaration is shared, with about 50 comments on that draft submitted by participants post-Summit. When the final Summit Declaration is available we would be much obliged if you could communicate it widely to your memberships, networks and media contacts that would be great.

Thanks again - fantastic to work with everyone - more soon - Warren