Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 7:39AM An invitation has been extended to join the Virtual UN World Data Forum in this letter from the UN Statistics Division:
Dear Participants of the first UN World Data Forum
We are pleased to announce the launch today of the "Virtual UN World Data Forum" at to…
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 5:30PM In the closing session of the World Data Forum, the Cape Town Global Action Plan CTGAP) for Sustainable Development was introduced. Prepared by the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG-PCCB), it will be submitted for endorsement to the March 2017 session of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC)…
Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 12:18PM Please join the interactive dialogue with the President of the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly
Upon taking his oath of office in September 2016, HE Peter Thomson made a firm commitment to push forward meaningful progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). During this session, he will discuss these efforts as well as reform processes regarding revitalization of the UN…
2030 Agenda, PGA Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 12:15PM We have received the following:
For latest information on meeting with the President of ECOSOC on 14 February 2017:
Dear all,
The meeting with the President of ECOSOC that was announced in previous emails will take place on Tuesday, 14 February at 10 am. The meeting will be held on the 27th floor of the UN Secretariat Building. An access through WEBEX for those who are not based in New York will be provided...
Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 2:57PM At the request of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA), UN-NGLS facilitated a process to identify two civil society speakers for the 24 January 2017 High-level Dialogue on "Building Sustainable Peace for All: Synergies between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustaining Peace Agenda," taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. UN-NGLS facilitated a Civil Society Selection Committee to review applications for the speaking roles and create a regionally and gender balanced short-list of candidates for the President of the General Assembly to consider...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 12:55PM The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a new lens for looking at the world and the challenges that we are facing. Leaving no one behind provides a commitment that signals a paradigm shift in the development agenda.
The first plenary session provided an opportunity for two panel sessions on harnessing the power of data for sustainable development. the first laid the ground work on the theme, including the changing data landscape and the second looked at specific objectives to get out of Forum. Presentations included the following:...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 10:09AM The Opening Ceremony of the World Data Forum took place on Sunday 15 January 2017 at the Cape Town International Conference Centre, against the backdrop of the iconic Table Mountain. Speakers included the Hon Jeff Radebe, South African Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and chairperson of the National Planning Commission of South Africa; Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs; Stefan Schweinfest, Director UN Statistics Division; and Dr Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General for South Africa. Called for in the report of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, A World that Counts, the forum is one of many steps being taken by the statistics and data community to rise to the challenge of putting systems in place to gather and analyse the data needed to inform of the 169 targets and 230 indicators for the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda...
PGA, UNGA, World Data Forum Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 6:24AM We have received the following from DESA:
Dear All,
We wanted to draw your attention to 2 new documents that are now available on our website:
1. A synthesis of the 2016 VNRs: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/126002016_VNR_Synthesis_Report.pdf
2. A summary of a meeting held from 15-16 December in New York for the 40 countries that have volunteered to make VNRs at the 2017 HLPF: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/12604Summary%20of%20VNR%20meeting%2015-16%20Dec_FINAL.pdf
More information on the 2017 HLPF is available at:
2030 Agenda, HLPF Monday, January 16, 2017 at 8:05AM The ECOSOC President is holding a two-day retreat on 20-21 January on “Advancing implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through policy integration”. Its objectives are:
2030 Agenda, ECOSOC, HLPF Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 10:18AM We have received the following press release on the World Data Forum: http://undataforum.org/WorldDataForum/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Press-Release-UN-WDF-10-Jan-FINAL.pdf
The programme is available here: http://undataforum.org/WorldDataForum/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/UNWDF-Programme-20170107.pdf