President of General Assembly’s (PGA) two-day High-level Stocktaking Event

A two-day High-level Stocktaking Event on the post-2015 development agenda will be convened by the Office of the President of the UN General Assembly in New York on 11-12 September. This will provide an opportunity to gauge Member States’ reactions to the SDGs and how they should be positioned in relation to the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda.

As stated in the concept note, the stocktaking event has four key aims:

• 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


• 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


• 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.


• Highlight critical external processes and events that have an impact on the design and implementation of the post-2015 development agenda.

The two-day event is expected to include interactive multi-stakeholder presentations and roundtables. The provisional programme is available here. The outcome of the event is expected to be a President¹s Summary, which will feed into Secretary-General¹s Synthesis Report, to be submitted to the General Assembly before the end of 2014.

The Interactive Meeting with Civil Society in Advance of the High-level Stocktaking Event on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, hosted by the President of the General Assembly, as announced earlier will beheld the previous afternoon from 1.15 to 2.45 pm.