HLPF 2020 Programme & Lead Discussants

HLPF Programme

The 2020 HLPF Programme has been released and is available for you download from the 'Latest' column of the HLPF 2020 website. As stated in the MGoS CM weekly email the format will most likely be virtual and so there will not be funding to bring participants to New York.

Lead Discussants

UN DESA will be requesting 11 Lead Discussants from the Major Groups and other Stakeholders to participate in the following official thematic sessions of the 2020 HLPF: 

Tuesday, 7 July

• Protecting and advancing human wellbeing and ending poverty. [Most closely related SDGs: SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 6, SDG 16, and SDG 17]

• Ending hunger and achieving food security. [Most closely related SDGs: SDG 2,SDG 3 and SDG 17]

Wednesday, 8 July

• Responding to the economic shock, relaunching growth and sharing economic benefits and addressing developing countries’ financing challenges [Most closely related SDGs: SDG 5, SDG 7, SDG 8, SDG 10, and SDG 17]

• Mobilizing international solidarity, accelerating action and embarking on new pathways to realize the 2030 Agenda and the Samoa Pathway [SIDS]

• Protecting the planet and building resilience [Most closely related SDGs: SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 14, SDG 15, and SDG 17]

• Sustaining efforts to ensure access to sustainable energy [Most closely related SDG: SDG 7, SDG 12, SDG 13, and SDG 17]

Thursday, 9 July

• Bolstering local action to control the pandemic and accelerate implementation [Most closely related SDGs: SDG 9, SDG 11, and SDG 17]

• Are we leaving no one behind in eradicating poverty and working towards the 2030 Agenda (including what COVID-19 is telling us about inequalities and the weaknesses in our social systems)

• Mobilizing international solidarity, accelerating action and embarking on new pathways to realize the 2030 Agenda and respond to COVID-19 [African countries, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries]

Friday, 10 July

• Mobilizing well directed financing

• Science, technology, innovation

 Each of the Major Groups and Stakeholder Groups (MGoS) will conduct its own process to nominate Lead Discussants. These nominations will then be reviewed by the Steering Group of the MGoS Coordination Mechanism. A slate of nominations will then be submitted by the Steering Group to ECOSOC for review. Please do not contact UN DESA directly to submit a nomination, await instruction from your Major Group and/or Stakeholder Group about its own nomination process.

The deadline to submit the slate of nominations to ECOSOC will be on Monday, 22 June at 12pm (New York time). Please note that the deadlines for the MGoS' own nomination processes will conclude much earlier than the date above and may differ between each Group.