Regional Meeting for Latin America and Caribbean for Inter-Governmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing — deadline for nominations 27 December 2013

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: 

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UNDG Announces Second Round of Post-2015 Consultations

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,

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Closing of Sixth Session of the UNGA Open Working Group (OWG)

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:

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Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Sustainable Development Financing Briefs Stakeholders and hears Civil Society Proposals

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.

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AINA Global Consultation on the Open Working Group Issue Brief on Inequality, 16 December, 2013 – 10 January, 2014

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

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General Assembly meetings in 2014 for post-2015 development agenda: announcement of arrangements

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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Post-2015 parliamentarians meeting

Sixty parliamentarians from 32 countries met at the Houses of Parliament in London from 26-28 November 2013. The purposes of the meeting were to:

• Express their commitment as parliamentarians from across the world to accelerate the process towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
• Exchange information, knowledge and examples of good practice with peers and international development experts;
• Build their capacity to ensure that good governance is at the core of the post-2015 development agenda; and
• Commit to holding governments to account to ensure that international commitments to development are implemented at local, national and regional levels

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Looking back at the Addis Conference on Family Planning in the context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda

It is just under a month since the International Conference on Family Planning took place in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

One of the important issues discussed at the Conference was the Demographic Dividend. Tewodros Melesse, Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) chaired a High Level Ministerial Discussion on this topic, in which several ministers participated. Click here for further information. 

During the Conference ActionAid,

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Sixth Session of the Open Working Group (OWG-6) begins in New York

The Sixth Session of the Open Working Group (OWG-6) takes place this week at the United Nations in New York.

The OWG will have before it three major items for discussion: Science, technology and innovation; the needs of  countries in special situations, African countries, LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS, as well as

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Call for endorsements: Human Rights for All Post-2015 — Deadline Tuesday 10 December 2013

The time is now to amplify our voice to ensure human rights are made real in the post-2015 sustainable development framework to succeed the MDGs! We are making headway, but the next few months before the September 2014 UN General Assembly will determine whether governments heed this call, or instead found the 21st century sustainable development framework on 'bracketed rights’ and broken promises.

In advance of the 6th Session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, a group of 70 governments charged with developing the SDGs, civil society organizations worldwide participating in an informal post-2015 human rights caucus have developed a joint statement (below) to urge governments to move beyond rhetoric and effectively align the post-2015 sustainable development framework with human rights norms.

We call on you endorse this joint statement by Tuesday 10 December by indicating your organization’s full name, acronym and country by clicking here.  Please also send your logo if you have one to lholland@cesr.org. 

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