Strategies for moving forward towards the UN General Assembly Special Event, 25 September 2013

Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Government of Sweden, and member of High Level Panel (HLP) and Paul Ladd, United Nations Development Programme were the two main speakers at a meeting to launch the report of the COMPASS 2015 report Setting the post-2015 development compass: Voices from the ground, which was hosted by the Commonwealth Foundation in London on 30 July 2013. 

In her Keynote response, Minister Carlsson said that being on the HLP had been a rewarding experience, but that we had had the best of times in working to end poverty in our times. We will now have to move to address the needs of the most marginalized that have no voice. The time has now come to “lean forward to be more outspoken”. We need to update what we know about people who live in poverty: they are not poor, nor are they without aspirations, and they have the right to be part of processes such as globalization, digitalization etc. Their voices must be heard more loudly than before. She also emphasized the needs for practical changes.

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Stakeholder Forum's new interactive timeline.

The Stakeholder Forum has created an interactive timeline of key milestones for three of the primary post-Rio+20 processes: the Expert Committee on a Sustainable Development Financing Strategy; the high level political forum; and sustainable development goals. It also outlines key milestones for the post-MDG process, which, along with the SDGs form the central components of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Stakeholder Forum will continue to update the timeline as these processes progress. 

Confirmation of dates and venue for African Regional ICPD Conference

The UN Economic Commission for Africa has announced that the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) for the Africa Region will be held on 30 September 2013 to 4 October 2013 at the UN Conference Centre, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of the conference will be Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: The future we want for Africa.  This conference seeks to emphasize the need for state and non-state actors to recommit themselves at the highest level to implementing fully the ICPD Plan of Action at national and regional levels.

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IPPF small grants facility: Taking the ICPD beyond 2014, to position SRHR and the priorities of the ICPD in the next development framework

We have received the following from the International Planned Parenthood Federation:

Call for Proposals 

2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). 2015 is the year the successor to the Millennium Development Goals will be negotiated and adopted. The outcome of these processes will greatly impact future Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) policy, funding and programming priorities at global level and at national level.

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United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC)

The following is a report on the preparations for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) Regional Conference:

The Regional Population Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean in Montevideo, Uruguay, 12- 15 August will focus on key issues in population and development in the context of the Beyond 2014 Review of the ICPD Programme of Action. Various agencies and organizations will come together to discuss the evidence gathered in the ICPD global surveys, which was summarized into a regional report. The Regional Population Conference will be a space for participants to discuss future policy directions based on findings in the regional report.

A Caribbean Regional Forum was held in Guyana on 9 - 10 July, the outcome of that meeting will formulate the Caribbean position to input into the ECLAC conference.

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Telecon: Caribbean dialogue on the Post-2015 Agenda

Date: 25 July, Thursday

Time: 10am to 11.15am EDT

Speakers: 

• Ambassador Patricia Espinosa, Government of Mexico and member of the former HLP
• Diane Quarless, Director of the Sub-regional Headquarters of ECLAC in the Caribbean 
• Dona da Costa Martinez, Executive Director of the Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago

Moderated by: 

• Dr. Carmen Barroso, Regional Director – IPPF

The report of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda recommends five major ‘transformations’ that can inform the global development agenda in 2015.  This includes a commitment to end extreme poverty; to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights; to integrate social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and to ensure that peace and effective governance are at the heart of all development efforts.

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Call for self-funded organizations: ICPD Africa Youth Pre-Conference

We have received the following from the International Planned Parenthood Federation:

As part of the on-going review of the ICPD Programme of Action for 2014 and beyond, the Regional Population Conference is being planned by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa together with other partners to be held in September 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Following the success of the Global Youth Forum and the resounding outcome of that process, it is important that young people from across Africa have an opportunity to discuss in greater details the issues and recommendations that are most relevant to them in relation to the ICPD and Post 2015 development agenda. 

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Caribbean Forum: the Road Map for Population, Migration and Development beyond 2014

The Recommendations of the Caribbean Forum on Population, Migration and Development are in the form of a Road Map, which will provide inputs from the Caribbean to the First Regional Conference on Population and Development and the High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.

Preamble

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ICPD Beyond 2014 Caribbean Forum on Population, Migration and Development

Civil Society Statement, presented by Dona Da Costa Martinez, Trinidad and Tobago Family Planning Association

In the statement presented by Dona Da Costa Martinez of the Trinidad and Tobago Family Planning Association on Georgetown, Guyana on 9 July 2014, civil society organizations (CSOs) and networks highlighted a number key issues related to the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action that should also strengthen the linkages between the ICPD objectives, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 development agenda.

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Counting down to the UN General Assembly Special Event on the MDGs

The deadline has passed for civil society organizations to contribute to the UN Non-Governmental Organization Liaison Service (NGLS) consultation. The report based on these inputs will be presented to the UN Secretary General and Heads of State and Governments at the UN General Assembly Special Event on the MDGs on 25 September 2013, for which the co-facilitators are the Permanent Representatives of Ireland and the Republic of South Africa. At the present time the Report of the UN Secretary-General is also being finalized.

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