Counting down to the UN General Assembly Special Event on the MDGs

The deadline has passed for civil society organizations to contribute to the UN Non-Governmental Organization Liaison Service (NGLS) consultation. The report based on these inputs will be presented to the UN Secretary-General and Heads of State and Governments at the UN General Assembly Special Event on the MDGs on 25 September 2013, for which the co-facilitators are the Permanent Representatives of Ireland and the Republic of South Africa. At the present time the Report of the UN Secretary-General is also being finalized.

Closed negotiations are now taking place on the draft Outcome Document for the Special Event. (We included the original zero draft on the website, but we have not seen an up-to-date version.) This negotiating group is small and probably has representatives from all UN regions. As there is no access for CSOs to these negotiations, it is important that we inform our Governments about the issues that we would wish to see included in such an outcome document. As further information is available we will post it on the website.

Meanwhile, we are aware that there will be a Day of Dialogue between CSOs and Member States on the Post-2015 Development Agenda on 22 September and that the Roundtables during the Special Event will include some members of Civil Society.