Forthcoming meetings in connection with post-2015 and sustainable development goals (SDGs) process

Sessions of UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals, March to July 2014

Sessions of the OWG will be held on the following dates:

• Ninth session: 3–5 March
• Tenth session: 31March–4 Apr
• Eleventh session: 5–9 May
• Twelfth session: 16–20 June
• Thirteenth session: 14–18 July

OWG ninth session

The agenda for the ninth session is available at http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/3253pow9th2.pdf

On 5 March there will be a joint meeting with the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Financing for Sustainable Development in the morning and a meeting with Major Groups and other Stakeholders to receive their comments in the afternoon.

Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing

The third session (which will be a closed meeting) will be held from 3 – 7 March at UN Headquarters (New York)

An interactive multistakeholder dialogue will be organized on Monday, 3 March 2014, from 15:00 to 18:00, and will be open to all. It will be divided into two parts: 

1. A briefing from the Co-chairs and thematic co-facilitators on the work of the Committee from 3pm to 3.30pm.
2. Presentations from a panel composed of three to five representatives from NGOs, the private sector other Major Groups engaged in the Rio+20 Conference and the Financing for Development process, followed by an open interactive dialogue around strategic questions related the Committee's work on thematic cluster 2 ("mobilization of resources and their effective use") and cluster 3 ("Institutional arrangements, policy coherence, synergies and governance issues"), with the Committee experts, Member States, International organizations and non-state actors from 3.30pm to 6pm.  

For further information see http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1686

Regional meetings for post-2015 and sustainable development goals (SDGs)

• Asia and Pacific, in Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 May, preceded by a CSO forum
• Latin America and Caribbean, in Lima, Peru, first week in April (by invitation)
• Arab States and North Africa, in Amman, Jordon, 2-4 April (by invitation)