The dates and deadlines for the forums and HLPF, which has the theme Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality are set out below. The SDGs under review this year are education (SDG4), decent work (SDG8), inequality (SDG10), climate change (SDG13), peace (SDG16), and Means of Implementation (SDG17).
Forums and HLPF:
Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region (ECERFSD), Geneva, 21-22 March 2019
ECE CSO Forum, Geneva, 20 March
DEADLINE: 3 Feb 2019, 9 PM EST
http://www.unece.org/sustainable-development/rfsd2019.html
Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD), Bangkok, 27-29 March 2019
Asia Pacific Peoples Forum on Sustainable Development, Bangkok, 24-26 March 2019
DEADLINE: 4 March 2019, 9 PM EST
https://www.unescap.org/intergovernmental-meetings/apfsd6
Arab Forum on Sustainable Development (AFSD), Beirut, 16-18 April 2019
DEADLINE: 16 March 2019, 9 PM EST
https://www.unescwa.org/events/upcoming
Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD), Morocco, 16-18 April 2019
DEADLINE: 16 March 2019, 9 PM EST
https://www.uneca.org/arfsd2019
Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development (LACRFSD), Santiago, 22-26 April 2019
DEADLINE: 19 March 2019, 9 PM EST
https://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2019/en
High Level Political Forum (HLPF), New York City, 9-18 July 2019
DEADLINE: 25 May 2019, 9 PM EST