UN General Assembly President releases concept note on post-2015 stocktaking event

The Office of the President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has released a concept note for the High-level Stocktaking Event on the post-2015 development agenda, which will take place at the UN, 8-9 September 2014. 

According to the note, participants will have the opportunity to: 

1. Reflect on the key messages from all the high-level events/ thematic debates, and interactive dialogue/briefing, convened by the President of the General Assembly
2. Discuss the outcomes of the various Rio+20 processes including the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG), the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF), the Structured Dialogues on a Technology Facilitation Mechanism and the updates on the High-Level Political Forum
3. Highlight critical internal processes and events that have an impact on the design of the post-2015 development agenda, such as the 2014 substantive session of ECOSOC, including the Annual Ministerial Review and the Development Cooperation Forum, the 2014 High-level Political Forum under the auspices of ECOSOC, as well as the first session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly.
4. Highlight critical external processes and events that have an impact on the design and implementation of the post-2015 development agenda

The meeting will be held over a two-day period and will consist of consecutive, interactive, multi-stakeholder presentations and roundtables. These  will be reflected in the outcome of the event, a President’s Summary, that will presented to the Secretary-General as an input to his synthesis report to be transmitted to the President of the 69th session of the General Assembly.

Member States and Observers are invited to participate at the highest possible level, as well as representatives of UN Agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders.

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