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A new official Engagement Outcome Document and Chair
Group, Startup20, was Summary (FMM ODCS). It is
established under India’s G20 during India’s Presidency that
Presidency, that shall act as a an ‘Independent Expert Group’
dialogue forum with the G20 was established to provide
nations’ startup ecosystem recommendations for bolstering
and aspires to create a global Multilateral Development Banks
narrative for supporting startups. and improving their efficiency
st
The Disaster Risk Reduction in confronting 21 -century
Working Group, established challenges.
under India’s G20 Presidency, Women-led development,
aims to integrate disaster risk counter narcotics, and
reduction across the work of traditional medicine emerged as
the G20 and in its support to new focus areas. In a significant
developing countries. The newly- stride towards global healthcare
launched ‘G20-Chief Science innovation, the World Health
Adviser’s Roundtable (G20- Organization (WHO) and India’s
CSAR)’ aims to create a space G20 presidency jointly unveiled
for voluntary knowledge and the ‘Global Initiative on Digital
resource sharing, and exchange Health’ (GIDH), recognising the
of best practices in the science need of a common framework
advice process. to integrate all initiatives by
India took the lead in the consolidating efforts and
annual G20 Foreign Ministers investments made in the digital
Meeting by being the first to health space and creating a
deliver a fully negotiated and comprehensive digital health
embraced G20 Foreign Ministers ecosystem.

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