Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 6:12AM The deadline for recommendations and feedback on the ‘Promoting Equality, including Social Equity” issues brief of the Open Working Group’s Technical Support Team is 10 January 2014
As included in this earlier posting, please read the
Monday, January 6, 2014 at 4:15PM The Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future has conducted an analysis of proposals currently housed within the SDGs e-Inventory which relate to the thematic areas of OWG-7: Sustainable cities and human settlements and sustainable transport; sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste); and climate change and disaster risk reduction in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) e-Inventory to inform the deliberations of the session.
Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 4:03PM UNFPA has developed briefing notes is to highlight the linkages between the themes and the issues of gender equality, women and young people’s rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights. Please see attached briefing notes on population dynamics and climate change; sustainable consumption and production and sustainable cities.
Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 3:53PM The 7th Session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals takes place between 6-10 January 2014.
It will consider sustainable cities and human settlements, sustainable transport. (2 days) Sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste), (1.5 days) and climate change and disaster risk reduction (1.5 days)
For draft programme of work click here.
The Technical Support Team (TST) can be found here.
Friday, December 20, 2013 at 9:23PM The following information for nominations for the Regional Meeting for Latin America and Caribbean for Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing has been received from Anita Nayar, UN-NGLS:
The Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) will be holding a regional meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile, on 14-15 January 2014. The meeting is organized by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and will be in two parts:
ICESDF, Latin America Friday, December 20, 2013 at 8:15PM As reported by the iisd Reporting Services, the UN's One Secretariat on Post-2015 has announced a new round of consultations on the post-2015 development agenda. These will take place from January to December 2014 and will include national, regional and global discussions, and place emphasis on "how to make the agenda work."
As stated in the concept note, the continuation of the dialogue around the post-2015 development agenda will serve to “deepen consultation over the course of UNGA68 (September 2013 – September 2014) and the 69th Session by sponsoring,
Friday, December 20, 2013 at 6:16PM The discussion on Friday, 13 December 2013, at the sixth session of the Open Working Group (OWG-6) on Sustainable Development Goals discussed “Human rights, the right to development, global governance.”
At the conclusion of the meeting, Co-Chair Körösi presented the Co-Chairs’ summary of the session. As reported by the iisd Reporting Services he highlighted that:
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 8:40AM As reported on Post-2015 Policy and Practice, the UN Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Sustainable Development Financing (ICSDF) held an interactive multi-stakeholder dialogue during its second session in New York from 2-6 December 2013.
In reporting on the work of the Committee, Co-Chair Pertti Majanen said that the Committee had begun to address substantive issues. He also announced that a joint meeting is planned with the Open Working Group in early March. The Committee would, however, continue to hold closed sessions.
Monday, December 16, 2013 at 6:03PM In anticipation of the Eighth Session of the UN Open Working Group (3 - 7 February 2014), the Addressing Inequalities Networked Alliance (AINA) has announced a consultation from 13 December 2013 – 10 January 2014 on the ‘Promoting Equality, including Social Equity’ issue brief of the Open Working Group’s Technical Support Team. This brief will be at the centre of the upcoming deliberations and debates.
You are asked to provide your feedback on the document and your recommendations for the Open Working Group.
To participate, please read the short
Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 10:15PM As was announced by the President of the UN General Assembly during its Special Event in September, six meetings will be held in 2014 to operationalize the theme for the 68th session UN General Assembly: The post-2015 development agenda: setting the stage!
There will be three thematic debates and three high level events to enable Member States to begin the elaboration of the priority areas for the post-2015 development agenda, as well as a final high level “Stock-Taking” event.
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