To UN DESA NGO Major Group & Other Stakeholders -- Please RSVP Below

Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 3:20PM
Richard in HLPF

We have received the following from Division for Sustainable Development | DESA 

We invite you to participate in a webinar on partnerships to help major groups and other stakeholders to prepare for the ECOSOC Partnership Forum “From commitments to results: Leveraging partnerships for the 2030 Agenda” on 31 March. The webinar will feature presentations made at a retreat on 5-6 February in preparation for the Partnership Forum organized by the DESA Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday,  2 March, 9:30 am - 1 1 :30 am EST, featuring an interactive discussion with the authors of the following background papers (see attached): 

• "Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Making them work for the Post-2015 Development Agenda" by Mr. Felix Dodds, Global Research Institute, UNC at Chapel Hill
• "Multi-stakeholder partnerships: The way forward" by Dr. Marianne Beisheim, Global Issues Division, SWP

Participants will discuss ways in which major groups and others stakeholders may participate and make contributions to ECOSOC Partnership Forum on 31 March that will feed into the HLPF in July 2016. Additional information on the ECOSOC Partnership Forum may be found here: https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/node/355639

•  RSVP here 
•  Background papers are attached. 
•  The webex link may be found below.

9:30 am  |  Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)  |  2 hrs

Join WebEx meeting

Meeting number: 799 257 699

Meeting password: Meet1234

Documents:

• Background note
• Multi-stakeholder partnerships for implementing the 2030 Agenda: Improving accountability and transparency (First Draft)

Article originally appeared on NGOs Beyond 2014 (http://ngosbeyond2014.org/).