Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain: Update 2

During the sixth session, updates were given on the working groups on Geospatial Information; Interlinkages; SDMX; and the Joint subgroup of the IAEG-SDGs and HLG-PCCB.

The Geo-spatial Information Group, which is co-chaired by Mexico and Sweden, held its third meeting in May 2017, working in four different task groups. Their…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain: Update 1

The Sixth Meeting of the IAEG-SDGs was opened by Enrique Ordaz, Co-Chair, with remarks from Dr Ahmed Hashim Alyushaa, General Director of Research, Coordination and Follow-up at the Royal Court, Kingdom of Bahrain ad Member of Board of Trustees, DERASAT and Francesca Perucci, Chief of Statistical Services Branch, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)…

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Urgent Deadline 19 November for Global Consultation on Interlinkages for SDG Indicators

Global Consultation on Interlinkages for SDG Indicators

The Interlinkages Working Group of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) is holding a global consultation to identify interlinkages, integrated analyses, and areas and frameworks that can facilitate the monitoring of the SDGs…

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Review of 68/1 - Meeting of Ambassador Rosenthal with ECOSOC Stakeholders - Wednesday, 15 November, 8:30-10:00am

Dear Distinguished ECOSOC Stakeholders,

As part of preparations for the forthcoming review by the General Assembly of its resolution 68/1 (attached) on the ECOSOC functions and architecture, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal, former Permanent Representative of Guatemala and former President of ECOSOC, is acting as a consultant to prepare an informal paper for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).…

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Save the Date: HLPF CM General Meeting - 16 Nov 10 AM NY time

Please save the date of the next MGoS HLPF General Meeting: Thursday 16 November, 10am (NYC time). The call in details can be found below. We will be sharing the agenda shortly. For those attending in person, the meeting will take place in room S-26MM2…

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Nexus 2018: Water, Food, Energy, and Climate

The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until November 15, 2017. 

Registration is now open, with "early bird" discounts available until November 15, 2017.

The Water Institute is reconvening the Nexus conference in 2018. This will be the second Nexus Conference that we have organized. The first, in 2014, made a significant input to the negotiations for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017

The Resolution, as adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017 on the work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (71/313) completes the adoption of the global indicator framework for the SDGs and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Developed by the IAEG-SDGs, the global indicators are included in an annex.  It is “a voluntary and country-led instrument that includes the initial set of indicators to be refined annually and reviewed comprehensively by the Commission at its fifty-first session,…

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Update: Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain

The UN Statistics Division (UNSD) has provided further information on the plenary session of the sixth IAEG meeting, including ways in which stakeholders will be able to participate in the discussions taking place.

1. Agenda – a new, detailed agenda is attached. This agenda is also available on the meeting website (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/meetings/iaeg-sdgs-meeting-06/)
2. Meeting documents – as the meeting gets closer, discussion and background documents for the meeting will be uploaded to the website. (No paper copies of these documents will be available at the meeting.)…

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Sixth meeting of the IAEG-SDGs, 11-14 November, Bahrain

The sixth meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs will be held in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, 11-14 November 2017, with the Plenary Session which is open to observers on 13-14 November. 

During the first part of the Agenda, participants will be updated on the new membership of the IAEG-SDGs*; the outcomes of the ECOSOC, HLPF and General Assembly on indicators and follow-up and review; and on the work if the three working groups of the IAEGs-SDGs,…

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INVITATION - UNGA72 Third Committee Side Event: Presentation of the Youth Progress Index - Weds 18 October, 13:15

For those of you who are based in New York, you are cordially invited to attend the Third Committee Side Event, Presentation of the Youth Progress Index: Towards measuring young people’s progress globally. The event will be held on Wednesday 18 October at 13:15 in Conference Room 7.

The future of our societies as a whole and the success of global attempts to reach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are dependent on the progress and future of young people; yet, in many countries worldwide, young people are not as integrated into their society,…

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