Nominations to receive travel funding for the 2018 HLPF now accepted

DESA-OISC, with thanks to a generous grant from the European Commission, will be funding a number of representatives of Major Groups and Other Stakeholders from developing VNR countries to participate in the 2018 session of the HLPF taking place from 10-18 July in New York. The selection will be done by OISC in collaboration with the MGoS HLPF Coordination Mechanism Steering Group. The selected colleagues will receive funding to support airplane tickets, two days of daily subsistence allowances and terminal expenses during the HLPF. They will be responsible for arranging their own accommodation during the Forum. 

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2018 HLPF: Registration by MGoS now open (deadline 15 June 2018)

DESA/OISC is pleased to launch the registration process for the high-level political forum on sustainable development (HLPF) in 2018, convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. The meeting will be held from Monday, 9 July, to Wednesday, 18 July 2018; including the three-day ministerial meeting of the forum from Monday, 16 July, to Wednesday, 18 July 2018…

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President of the General Assembly's High-level Meeting "Financing for SDGs--Breaking the Bottlenecks of Investment, from Policy to Impact"

Stakeholders: Apply to speak, attend, or for Selection Committee 

On 11 June 2018, the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a one-day high-level meeting to address the challenges and bottlenecks that block the private investment towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) sectors and elaborate the role of the UN in strengthening public-private partnerships. It will also provide an opportunity for relevant actors to showcase and share best practices of scaling up investment in SDG sectors…

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Inscribe to the General Debate speakers' list: 2018 ECOSOC Integration Segment (deadline 27 April)

We have received the following from the Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development:

There will be a general debate of the ECOSOC Integration Segment held on 1 and 2 May, from 16:30 to 18:00, on the theme "Innovative communities: leveraging technology and innovation to build sustainable and resilient societies" (for more details please see:…

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Survey on HLPF Voluntary National Reviews

We have received the following from the Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development:

As part of the effort to set up a participatory process for the VNR Q&As during the 2018 HLPF, a very short survey was created to assess your national experiences in the context of the VNRs.

We strongly encourage you to take less than five minutes and complete the survey, no later than May 13.

Survey link: http://bit.ly/2jciYUf

(Webinar on May 2nd) Apply for ECOSOC consultative status now in order to be considered by the 2019 NGO Committee

We have received the following information from the Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development:

Please note that UN DESA is organizing a webinar for those NGOs interested in applying for ECOSOC consultative status:

Date: 2 May 2018

Time: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (New York Time)

Venue: online

Register here…

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(Important) Information on Indico, the 2018 HLPF registration platform

We have received the following:

Please note that from 2018 onwards, NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC and NGOs on the CSD roster will register to the HLPF using Indico, which replaces the CSO Net registration system. A key difference to note is that in the Indico platform each participant must create their own personal account in order to register to events, as opposed to using a single account per NGO as was done in CSO Net. 

Registration to the 2018 HLPF will open in the coming days, and we strongly recommend those who have yet to create an Indico account to visit https://reg.unog.ch/ Please see the quick guide for instructions on how to create your account in Indico…

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Outcome document from the Nexus Conference

Here is the copy of the outcome document from the Nexus Conference held at University of North Carolina, USA, last week. At the front is the shorter Nexus Key Messages and the longer document which people input to. 

I hope you will share with your networks and promote the inclusion of some of the recommendations in the Ministerial Declaration for the HLPF…

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Inscribe to the General Debate speakers' list: 2018 ECOSOC Integration Segment (deadline 27 April)

We have received the following from Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development:

There will be a general debate of the ECOSOC Integration Segment held on 1 and 2 May, from 16:30 to 18:00, on the theme "Innovative communities: leveraging technology and innovation to build sustainable and resilient societies" (for more details please see: https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/node/3613435…

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7th meeting of the IAEG-SDGs: UPDATE 5

Data disaggregation 

Presentation and review of the work plan on data disaggregation

By decision 47/101 of the 47th session of the Statistics Commission the IAEG was asked to “develop the necessary statistical standards and tools, including establishing a working group to work on data disaggregation as a subgroup of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group.” Subsequently the 49th session asked the IAEG-SDGs to “clearly determine the dimensions and categories of data disaggregation.., keeping in mind the resources neededand the key principle of the 2030 agenda of no one left behind.”…

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