The adoption of the 2030 Agenda in 2015 marked a watershed year for sustainable development. Its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets are expected to stimulate action over the upcoming years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet. The High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the new agenda. Led by two renowned thinkers, this opening panel will kick off the 2016 HLPF’s overall assessment of progress and challenges with intellectual inquiries around where we stand at year one. The discussions will be informed also by the Secretary-General’s SDG progress report.

Inclusion is at the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the inclusive world envisioned in the 2030 Agenda will require innovation in the way policy in all areas, institutions, and technological and financial solutions are conceived and implemented. This, in turn, will depend on the capacity to draw into decision-making processes at all levels the groups that are typically marginalized from these processes and left behind in the outcomes.

This session will discuss solutions to the challenge of inclusion in both outcome and procedures, through innovation in policy formulation and implementation. Perspectives from the three pillars of sustainable development – social, economic and environmental – will be presented.

In today’s world, billions of people continue to lack basic needs: food, water and energy as well as access to health services and education. Building the capacity to meet these basic needs will create jobs, economic opportunity and well-being while helping to ensure no one is left behind. The session will identify how meeting the basic needs of food, water and energy as well as access to health services and education can enable rapid social, economic and environmental progress. These objectives should be pursued in order to capitalize on potential synergies and reduce potential trade-offs.

The session has the objective to stimulate discussion on ways to foster economic growth, prosperity and sustainability to implement the 2030 Agenda and ensure that no one is left behind. The session will present different perspectives on the economic dimension of sustainable development and the way that economic growth relates to prosperity and sustainability including sustainable consumption and production. The discussion will cut across different economic perspectives intrinsic to diverse world views to identify consensus and provide policy guidance on the implementation of the Agenda.

In this interactive dialogue, panelists will discuss the intersection of the human right to water and sanitation and water justice with poverty eradication, gender equality, hunger eradication, good health, climate action, and sustainable communities. The speakers will address the cross-cutting and multidimensional nature of this vital life source and its foundational role in the realization of all human rights. Their diverse perspectives will offer an opportunity to envisage a just, rights-based implementation of SDG 6 and its implications for sustainable development as a whole.  Additionally, panelists will identify and analyze several development implementation pitfalls that are currently threatening the viability of the 2030 Agenda, the well-being of the world’s peoples, and the habitability of the planet.

The event will feature high-level speakers from COPAC’s membership and Permanent Representations to the UN, who will discuss how cooperatives are concretely implementing the 2030 Agenda, how progress is being tracked and what cooperatives need to ramp up their efforts. Participants will be invited to engage in an interactive discussion on this final point and respond to speakers’ interventions

The Agenda 2030 calls for global thematic reviews to be conducted under the High Level Political Forum. Thematic reviews can allow for a crosscutting review of the goals and targets in order to achieve the 2030 Agenda as a package, rather than by looking at progress on individual goals only. To conduct a thematic review in that sense, will require the cooperation of many actors, including between UN Agencies and non-UN actors, in ways that allow for an exchange and an effective integration of different sources of knowledge and expertise. Including civil-society stakeholders in this process can help ensure that thematic reviews will go beyond purely quantitative and scientific assessments towards integrating context related and localized perspectives and knowledge. Including localized knowledge in the general review and follow up of the 2030 Agenda will be essential to safeguard that no one is left behind. This Side Event will invite representatives from Member States, UN Organisations, ministries, science and academia, civil society and the private sector to discuss the potential framing and set-up of an integrated, inclusive and participatory thematic review in support of the HLPF. Drawing onto the mandates and expertise of the hosting organisations and our speakers the event will take on a natural resources framing. Concrete examples, will be presented to better define the specific set-up and feasibility of such reviews and their potential contribution to the HLPF. The options presented can be further developed and applied to other thematic and cross-cutting areas of the 2030 Agenda. In the course of the discussion the outcomes of a High Level Event on ‘Thematic Reviews for an integrated, inclusive and participatory Follow-Up & Review of the 2030 Agenda’ 7-8 July in New York City, US will be presented

This event will discuss the structural changes and public policies needed to promote equity, inclusion and to overcome multiple forms of discrimination in and through education, and its impact on the achievement of other human rights and SDGs. Shortfalls and possible drawbacks will be discussed, to raise awareness of the challenges which must be addressed. We will focus on the inter-sectoral approaches needed to promote dialogue and coordination, recognising the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights that are reflected across the 17 SDGs. We will pay special attention to inclusive education policies that guarantee gender equality and the fulfillment of the right to education for children, youth and adults living with disabilities.

It is recognized that most countries are already putting in place national development plan and strategies aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals to facilitate their implementation, monitoring and reporting on progress. These systems can be updated to incorporate any new or revised indicators that are identified in the process of tailoring the SDGs to national contexts. This short course will focus on the process of mainstreaming the SDGs into country planning processes and the localization of targets and indicators to fit a country’s needs.

Organizers: UNDP

Organizers:

Mission of Spain, the Department of Public Information and the World Health Organization

Can the 2030 Agenda be achieved without a global approach to taxes? Can it be assessed without promoting human rights and addressing the responsibilities of the rich and powerful? Can it be reviewed without looking at climate change, illicit financial flows, conflicts, and trade and investment agreements? Can it be measured with a single number? with 300 of them? or we need a new kind of dashboard to monitor sustainability?

These and other questions have been tackled by a global alliance of civil society organizations and networks in their first “Spotlight Report.” The report also focuses on the fulfilment of the 17 goals, with civil society reports from around the world, focusing on inequalities, means of implementation and systemic issues.

Key findings and recommendations will be presented in this launch of the global Spotlight Report.

Organizers:
UNDP and French Development Agency (AFD)

Organizers:
Internet Society (ISOC)

In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development responsibilities are differentiated, with richer and more powerful countries asked to take the lead in implementing many of the goals and targets; but the responsibilities are also common, requiring all governments to act domestically and multilaterally / as members of the global community.

A number of CSOs from all continents are contributing shadow or spotlight reports to follow-up on their governments efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda. The main focus of the first-year reports has been to devise and discuss methodologies, to monitor governments’ efforts on drafting national implementation plans or strategies and to identify the major obstacles, national and global, that the SDGs will face.

Food security and nutrition are essential for sustainable development. Achieving food security is hereby strongly linked to the presence of sustainable agriculture, adequate climate action and sustainable oceans and terrestrial ecosystems.

The session will identify important inter-linkages among the different nexus areas and enumerate possible threats to agriculture, the climate and the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems which are at the same time negatively affecting food security. The session will elaborate on the necessity of using an integrated approach when dealing with this nexus at the sub-national, national, regional and global level.

The inclusion of a sustainable development goal to promote peaceful and more inclusive societies in the 2030 Agenda marked a significant commitment of the international community that peace, justice and inclusiveness will be critical for the eradication of poverty and the achievement of sustainable development. Inclusiveness is the key word. Mounting evidence has indicated that women and girls are disproportionally affected by poverty. We need to strive for a world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. Their empowerment to become productive members of society will have a significant impact in the success of the 2030 Agenda and in the pursuit of the three pillars of sustainable development. Practical experiences will be shared and discussed with the aim to replicate and/or scale up impactful efforts, and start to identify lasting solutions.

The session is organised in support of the function of the high-level political forum on sustainable development to strengthen the science-policy interface. The roundtable will bring together eminent natural and social scientists, government officials, and civil society representatives. It will identify new ideas, scientific insights and technological solutions, including findings of recent international scientific assessments, for consideration by the forum. The pilot Global Sustainable Development Report 2016 will be presented and lessons drawn from the GSDR process since Rio+20. The session will conclude with a discussion of ideas on how scientific and technological communities could be more effectively mobilised by the high-level political forum in support of achievement of the SDGs.

The training session will combine inputs from subject matter experts in the field of capacity development for Agenda 2030 with interactive peer discussions, leveraging the expertise and experience of participants in the room. The SDSN Handbook “Getting started with SDG implementation” will be introduced as a core resource by one of its authors.

(UNSSC Centre for Sustainable Development (UNSSC), UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN))

This event aims to familiarize participants of the High Level Political Forum with the inaugural report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, present information on the Task Force’s work programme for 2017, and seek feedback from Member States and other stakeholders. The meeting will also present ideas from Task Force members for inter-agency coordination under the umbrella of the Task Force, comprising over 50 UN agencies, programmes and offices and other relevant international institutions and entities. The event will be opened by Mr. Wu Hongbo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.

Organizers:
Women in Europe for a Common Future, Women’s Environment and Development Organization, Equidad de Genero, Women Environmental Programme, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Forum of Women’s NGOs of Krygyzstan, Global Forest Coalition, International Women’s Health Coalition, the Women’s Major Group + Reporting Member States to be confirmed
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Gender Equality: Citizenship, Work and Family (Equidad de Genero): Sathi All for Partnerships, Habitat International Coalition; The Women’s Major Group + Reporting Member States to be confirmed

Innovative ideas and promising pilot projects are needed to sustain the momentum created by the new sustainable development agenda, particularly in the field of agriculture and food systems, which is still considerably left behind in spite of its fundamental importance for the world’s development. This side event will showcase two promising initiatives to support the 2030 agenda: the agricultural Transformation Pathways Initiative and the Changing Course in global Agriculture Project.

Organizers:
Center for Reproductive Rights
Amnesty International
PM of Finland to the UN
PM of Chile to the UN
OHCHR, IDA, HRW and CESR

This session will draw on the experiences of Small Island developing States and Least Developed countries. The session will showcase examples and leadership where LDCs have advanced integrated policy frameworks for addressing development, disaster and climate risks, for instance; or where small island developing states have forged regional strategies that show how disaster risk, climate and development can be approached through a coherent and integrated manner.

(UNISDR, UN-OHRLLS, UNDESA (DSD))

Organizers:

CIVICUS along with Co-Sponsors Asia Development Alliance, GCAP, Stakeholder Forum-UK and Asia Dalit Rights Forum

The side event present the experience of women's NGOs and groups in some of the 22 countries 
    in the process to prepare /discuss the National Report with stakeholders particularly Civil Society 

Organizers:
Permanent Mission of the Philippines and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

This session will explore the process of bringing the SDGs to the national level—of adapting the 2030 Agenda to pre-existing national strategies and plans and also, concurrently, of adapting national strategies and plans to the Agenda. This process will take a variety of shapes. Developing countries that can build on their MDG experience will be in a different position from the developed countries for whom domestic implementation of the SDGs means breaking new ground and adopting a new mind set. An open, frank dialogue on the challenges faced, the early wins and the plans for the future will be useful for all Member States. The session will draw on the expertise of the Member States that undertook a voluntary national review and on the views of UN system leaders and other stakeholders.

For the SDGs to succeed, it is crucial that the goals and targets will be integrated in national policies and plans. This session looks at how the countries have started to implement the SDGs, identifies useful tools and mechanisms for national integration, and discusses challenges faced in coordination within national governments and also how to enhance the role of parliaments and other institutions and include all stakeholders in the process.

Issues discussed in this session are essential for successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Translating national plans and intermediate targets into policy interventions, reflecting synergies and achieving the development results at the local level is vital. For the 2030 Agenda to become a reality, success will depend on effective local action. This will need the active role of local governments/authorities and communities at the grass-root level among others. The challenge is not how to localise the Agenda, but how to ‘glocalise’ the Agenda.

The session will discuss main challenges in mobilizing means of implementation at the national level. It will highlight the areas of financing for development, science, technology and innovation (STI) and capacity building. Through sharing of experiences and lessons learned, the session will try to identify key strategies to overcome the perceived challenges. A co-chair of the 10 Member Group in support of the Technology facilitation Mechanism will report on the outcomes of the multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs.

The iSDG model is a unique integrated tool covering all of the 17 SDG areas, and that allows simulating combinations of a broad variety of policies to assess their impact and synergies.

Organizers: Millennium Institute

Organizers:
Permanent Mission of Denmark and Chile
Danish Institute for Human Rights,
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Organizers:
United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), UN Women, EvalGender+, in partnership with the Government of Sri Lanka, Government of Tunisia, Mexican’s National Council for the evaluation of Public Policies (CONEVAL), EvalSDG, EvalPartners, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA

Organizers:
SOS Children’s Villages International

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ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, SOS Children’s Villages, Save the Children, World Vision International (and others NGOs/CSOS)

Organizers:
International Presentation Association
NGO Committee on Social development
NGO committee on Financing for Development
International Association of Schools of Social Work
Daughters of Charity
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary

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CAFOD & CARITAS Internationalis

Organizers:
UNDP/BPPS/Gender Division

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Save the Children are pleased to invite you a joint panel discussion on How can the private sector support Universal Health Coverage to help deliver on the promise to leave no one behind? The fact that the private sector, in particular healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, can play a role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals targets by supporting and delivering UHC is often expressed but rarely examined at a practical level. The exact role that the private sector can play is still unclear. All stakeholders must work together to understand the role that they must play in delivering UHC. For many, this will be a significant change in business as usual.

This timely event will bring these stakeholders together for an open and inclusive discussion of the current barriers to progress in UHC and how the private sector can work with others to overcome them.

This side event will share country experience of how to implement the SDGs to achieve zero extreme poverty, zero net greenhouse emissions and zero net loss of natural capital (“Getting to Zero”). This will bring together experiences of countries in Global South and North on how to leave no one behind while taking into account environmental sustainability and climate resilience. The session focuses on empowerment, institutional and finance reforms, new metrics and the launch of this policy framework in a new report by the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) on “Getting to Zero”.

Organizers:

Co-organized by Dag Hammarskjold Foundation in Partnership with the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (UNDP)

Gender mainstreaming and advocacy at the UN requires knowledge about how the UN works with governments and civil society concerning policy formulation and implementation. This advocacy training focuses on how to accomplish gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment to ensure coherence in all of the SDG goals. It provides an introduction to the UN, SDGs, and political processes as well as a gender perspective on implementation at the national level. It especially emphasizes the interlinkages between Goal 5 and all of the other goals, including those on cities, climate change, and partnerships.

(NGO Committee on the Status of Women/NY/CSW, International Alliance for Women – WEDO)

Organizers:

UNDP

This side event will provide an opportunity for governments, institutions, stakeholders and partners to exchange experiences and discuss practical examples and approaches for integration of the environmental, social and economic dimensions of the 2030 Agenda. The session will focus on integrated approaches that will lead to transformation ensuring that no one is left behind. Experiences from countries and regions will be shared to highlight that successful implementation of the Agenda will require full commitment and participation of the diverse players involved recognizing that a cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder, multi-level and interdisciplinary approach is crucial.

Organizers:

International Agri-Food Network

Organizers:

Peace Boat US

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Dutch Youth Council

Communities living in protracted conflict and crises are some of the most marginalized in terms of service from the international community, facing distinct challenges and highly vulnerable to falling into self-perpetuating cycles. In response, the Rome-based UN Committee on World Food Security endorsed the Framework for Action for Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises (FFA) in October, 2015. This event seeks to find a pathway for implementation of the FFA, to address the specific needs of communities in protracted crises in relation to their ability to realize the SDGs.

Each year, 1.25 million people are killed on our roads, and each day, we lose 500 children. 3.7 million people die each year as a result of outdoor air pollution. The side event discuss key issues, solutions, and steps to reduce the toll of road traffic injuries and air pollution, and to promote low carbon transport. We will bring together representatives of governments and experts from the World Health Organization, NGOs, and the Global Initiative for Child Health and Mobility. The event will open with the FIA Foundation and the Permanent Representative of Georgia. The first panel will consist of Mission representatives, moderated by the World Health Organization, and the second panel will consist of other representatives.

This event will feature a discussion among a diverse group of negotiators, academics, and NGO delegates on how to integrate climate change and sustainable development planning successfully by looking at both Agenda2030 and the UNFCCC outcomes and provisions.

The 2030 Agenda stressed that Governments have the primary responsibility for follow-up and review. The session will focus on systematic follow-up and review of the SDGs at the national level, with identifying challenges and ways in strengthening national institutions, mechanisms, and statistical capacities to effectively monitor progress, collect reliable disaggregated data and report on the implementation for the achievement of SDGs at the national level, sharing experiences, best practices and lessons learned, and fostering cooperation and partnerships as well as exploring ways to increase capacity building for developing countries.

Building on the SAMOA Pathway, the 2030 Agenda called for special attention to SIDS, as they face unique challenges in their sustainable development. It is important to ensure the synergies between the SAMOA Pathway and the 2030 Agenda, focusing on strengthening the resilience of SIDS, in order to achieve their sustainable development and to eradicate poverty.

This session will focus on country-level efforts among LDC and LLDC countries to align their existing national priorities and plans to the 2030 Agenda. It will also address how LDCs and LLDC are aligning their efforts to implement the IPoA, VPoA and Africa’s Agenda 2063 with the 2030 Agenda. The session will also discuss challenges of countries in conflict and post-conflict situations as well as challenges of middle income countries (MICs).

The objective of the session is to discuss the features of the new types of integrated planning required to reflect key commitments coming out of long-term and midterm national priority-setting exercises. It will help identify areas that offer opportunities for promoting such an integrated approach to planning and policy-making. Finally, the session will provide space for sharing experiences and good practices from a number of countries that started addressing key inter-linkages between different commitments. Experience sharing will emphasize the importance of accounting for the specificities of the national settings in any priority-setting and planning exercise. At the closing of the programme, UNITAR will hold a 30-minute B.Y.O.P.C.: (Bring Your Own PC) learning session to showcase learning products and tools that can support the harmonization of global, regional and national commitments at the country level.

(UNITAR)

Finland and Colombia are among the first voluntary countries to report at the HLPF 2016 on their plans, mechanisms and measures to implement the 2030 Agenda. Both countries have some institutional mechanisms already in place for its effective implementation, yet the universal and transformative agenda sets new challenges for capacity building, ensuring coherence and coordination and inclusive participation leading to effective delivery of action at all levels.

Organizers:

UNCDF, UNDP and UN Women
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• Network of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment (NWMLE);
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP);
• UN Women;
• Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF International);

Organizers:

International Disability Alliance (IDA) and the International Disability, Development Consortium (IDDC), Stakeholder Group on Ageing (SGA), and Member States (TBC)
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CARE International, World Vision, Kwantu Ltd, Member States (TBC)

Organizers:

Civil Society Platform For Peacebuilding And Statebuilding (CSPPS)
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CSPPS – Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding

Organizers:
Division for Sustainable Development/DESA

Human-Centered Design is a great way of engaging citizens in innovative processes to produce solutions to development challenges.

UNDP Egypt and the Engagement Lab will facilitate a hands-on session where participants learn about global best practices in the use of innovative methodologies to solve local development challenges, including Human-Centered and Game Design Thinking. There will also be a practical workshop to understand the basics of Human Centred Design and Game Design Thinking.

Participants will explore the use of Game Design Thinking as a tool for advancing social change. Games and playful interventions have proven to be successful in motivating positive social change by altering the incentive structure for civic participation and social mobilization all over the world. If designed purposively, the outcomes of games can go well beyond content learning and actually help facilitate personal behaviour change and advocacy.

Organizers: UNDP EGYPT and the Engagement Lab at Emerson College, Boston

A pilot approach to supporting countries as they deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals will be introduced. This innovative framework combines strategic foresight methods, integrated policy analysis, capacity building and stakeholder engagement to develop or adapt a national strategy towards achieving the SDGs. Not only the framework is innovative but also the process; the country works in partnership with the OECD experts in different stages: from strategic direction setting, through planning and measurement, to implementation and monitoring.

Organizers: Government of Slovenia, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Organizers:

SDG 16 Data Initiative:” International IDEA, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Namati, Open Society Foundations (OSF), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Saferworld, Results for Development (R4D), Small Arms Survey (SAS), Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Transparency, Accountability & Participation (TAP) Network, Transparency International, and World Justice Project (WJP)

Organizers:

Korea NGO Council for Overseas Development Cooperation (KCOC)

Over the past 10 years, UNDESA has built capacities in the use of quantitative modelling tools to inform policy makers, with an emphasis on policy options to achieve human development goals, including the MDGs. In doing so, a suite of models has been transferred to a number of Member States from all developing regions. Building on this experience and to meet the challenges posed by the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, UNDESA is strengthening countries’ capacities to address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development through the use of a suite of modelling tools accessible in the web-based platform “Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development”.

The website, powered by UNITE Ideas of UN OICT, and developed by UNDESA in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden (KTH), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-Brazil), showcases a set of modelling tools and visualizations that illustrate and assist the analysis of policy strategies and the interlinkages, trade-offs and synergies that characterise sustainable development. The event will present the latest updates to the modelling tools platform and focus will be provided to four tools: 1) Fuel Tax and Development; 2) the Growth and Social Inclusion, 3) Universal Access to Electricity, and 4) the Climate, Land use, Energy and Water strategies. Mr. Lenni Montiel, ASG for Economic Development will provide opening remarks and announce the winner of the #Electricity4All Python Challenge that DESA, in collaboration with OICT, launched to optimise the Universal Access to Electrification tool.

In the 2030 Agenda, Member States have decided that the reviews of its implementation would be open, inclusive, participatory and transparent for all people and would support reporting by all relevant stakeholders. This session will be an opportunity to highlight how Major Groups and Other Stakeholders are contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. It will be organized in collaboration with the Major Groups and Other Stakeholder HLPF coordinating mechanism and it will feature a number of MGoS speakers. Representatives of Member States will be invited to intervene as respondents.

A multi-level architecture is required to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development: With the national level as the lynchpin of the framework to take action on and review the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, through the regions to the global level where commitments are made and overseen. The regional level serves as an important nexus where feedback loops from bottom to top, and vice versa. This session will feature chairs of the regional forums on sustainable development and the executive secretaries of the regional commissions who will report the main recommendations from these forums and will engage with participants in the regional experiences to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

Remarks by President of ECOSOC

The Partnership, with the support of its members, will host a participatory and consultative multistakeholder training event featuring representatives from governments, civil society, international organizations and the private sector. The training will provide a platform for learning and sharing about country level processes, experiences, lessons and needs. It will also seek to advance the development of the toolbox to further support the development of SDG Data Revolution Roadmaps that enable action at the national and subnational levels to harness the data revolution for sustainable development around the world.

Organizers: Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

Organizers:

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Organizers:

Royal Thai Government, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and WHO

Organizers:

Committee on World Food Security (CFS); Switzerland

Organizers:

Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (SPFII, DSPD, DESA) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations

Organizers:

Childfund Alliance, Save The Children, SOS Children’s Villages And World Vision
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Save the Children

Organizers:
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) & Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)

Organizers:

League of Arab States
UNDP, ESCWA and AWO

The 2030 Agenda will only be meaningful if it is relevant to and owned by the people who are most often left behind. This side event will demonstrate how volunteers can play an important role in facilitating active engagement of communities, in partnership with their governments, in the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda.

Organizers:
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance IDEA
Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the UN
International Development Law Organization (IDLO)

Venue: Uganda House Conference Room, 336 E 45th Street (between 1st/2nd Avenues)

The objective of this session is to discuss the challenges of building mechanisms to ensure regular and inclusive reviews of progress at national and sub-national levels. It will also cover in more detail processes that will need to be put in place to strengthen national data systems and ensure effective monitoring of the SDGs at the national level, including the challenges of promoting data disaggregation and reflecting the linkages between different goals and targets. The third component to be addressed is the strengthening of evaluation for the implementation of the SDGs and critical challenges in this area.

Organizers: UNITAR

Organizers:

International Council for Science (ICSU)- lead; Partners: SEI, IIASA, UNU-IIGH, IRD (tbc), UNDESA (tbc)

Organizers:

World Meteorological Organization (WMO), UNESCO-International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

Organizers:

UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report
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BE2 Education in Emergencies and Crises Working Group: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), International Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), United Nations, High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), UNICEF

Combined with:

Leaving No One Behind- What Does This Mean For People Left Furthest Behind In Realising Gender-Equality And Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights In The Regions Of The Global South?

Organizers:

Asian-Pacific Research & Resource Center For Women (ARROW)
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Asian-Pacific Resource And Research Centre For Women (ARROW)

Organizers:

Stockholm Environment Institute
Independent Research Forum
Government of Sweden
Government of Colombia (to be confirmed)

Organizers:

Together 2030 and Partners

NOVUS Summit aims to unite the science, technology and innovation community around the world and channel their brain power towards the much-needed actionable changes and scalable solutions. NOVUS 2016 will showcase 17 voices of positive change at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. It will be a highly immersive experience, an intergenerational platform to inspire all to unite in action and be the change the world needs to see.

Opening by the President of ECOSOC
Remarks by PGA
Remarks by DSG

In working towards the objective of leaving no one behind, the 2030 Agenda affirms the importance of reaching “the furthest behind first”. This calls for addressing poverty, and particularly extreme poverty, as well as groups that are vulnerable, including, children, youth, persons with disabilities (of whom more than 80% live in poverty), people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons, indigenous peoples, refugees and internally displaced persons and migrants as well as people living in areas affected by complex humanitarian emergencies.
This session will bring together different perspectives on how to overcome the challenges of the most vulnerable in order to ensure their inclusion in the benefits of economic growth, advances in social development and environmental protection. It will provide an opportunity for government representatives to discuss experiences and strategies for reaching the most vulnerable and for experts and representatives of vulnerable groups to provide insights from their own perspectives.

This session will highlight the particular challenges faced by small islands developing States, landlocked developing States and Least Developed Countries as well as countries in conflict and post-conflict and particular challenges of the middle-income countries as they undertake implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Panellists will address a range of sustainable development issues including multidimensional poverty; climate change; entrepreneurship and trade; and education and discuss areas for partnership and support from the international community. Building on the discussion from sessions of week one, this Ministerial level session will focus on action-oriented policies to ensure that no one—and no group of countries—is left behind.

The session will follow-up on the commitment to mobilize the means required to implement the 2030 Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development and as identified in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. It will highlight the efforts made since the adoption of the Agenda to unlock the means for implementation, particularly in the areas of finance, private business engagement, and science, technology and innovation. The session will also discuss related lessons learned, prospects and challenges aiming to provide guidance and recommendations to support the full implementation of the Agenda ensuring that no one is left behind and will be informed by the agreed conclusions from the ECOSOC forum on financing for development.

The theme of the General debate is the theme of the HLPF "Ensuring that No One is Left Behind"

Organizers:

Transparency International, Publish What You Fund, IATI Secretariat, Bangladesh, Sweden, Canada and Colombia

The Partnership Exchange, organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP), is scheduled to be held on 18 July 2016, Conference Room 1, UNHQ, during the 2016 session of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). The event will serve as a forum to enhance the global partnership for sustainable development and will be open to all participants of the High-level Political Forum.

Orginzers:

United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, OECD, and the Mexican Agency for International Development Co-operation

Organizers:

The Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities

Venue: Ford Foundation, East River Room, 11th Floor, 320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017 (between 1st and 2nd Aves)

Organizers:

Office of the SG’s Envoy on Youth, UNDP and the Major Group for Children and Youth on behalf of the Interagency Working Group on Youth and SDGs

Organizers:

The Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the UN,
Permanent Mission of to the UN
Permanent Mission of Kenya to the UN

Organziers:

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Organizers:

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Transport (GPST)
International Road Transport Union (IRU)
The United Nations Global Compact
The Global Business Alliance for 2030

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals are a global commitment to “transforming our world” and eradicating poverty in all its forms everywhere. The challenge now is to put this vision into action. How can this be achieved?

The event will take place in the margins of the ministerial segment and it will be hosted by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), in cooperation with UN-Energy. Drawing on national voluntary reviews that will be presented this year, the event will focus on how countries are approaching SDG7 implementation at the national level. The event is also meant to share thoughts and lessons on the role of national voluntary reviews as a tool for highlighting progress, challenges and opportunities towards advancing SDG7.

Organizers:

European Commission / EU Delegation to the United Nations

Organizers:

Government of Kenya, Government of Switzerland and the UN Global Compact

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China, Egypt, Germany, Uganda, the UNDP and the World Bank

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Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (New York) in cooperation with WHO

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Government of Malawi as the Co-Chair of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Planning and Coordinating Agency

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France, Japan, Sierra Leone, Thailand, The International Health Partnership for UHC2030 and WHO

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•The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
•Stichting Rutgers WPF (ECOSOC), in collaboration with ARROW (ECOSOC), CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, dance4life (ECOSOC), LACWHN (ECOSOC), Hivos (ECOSOC), International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region (ECOSOC)

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The International Tax Compact (ITC), in its role as Secretariat of the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI), along with Canada, the European Commission, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States

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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

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United Nations Development Programme and Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, on behalf of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Youth and 2030

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Association of German Development and Humanitarian Aid NGO (VENRO)
Organising Partners:
Government of Sweden
Government of Germany

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UNEP

The first High Level Political Forum (HLPF) since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will meet at UN HQ from 11 – 20 July to review initial progress on implementation. This year, the SDG Business Forum will coincide with the high-level ministerial segment of the HLPF. The 2030 Agenda recognizes the critical role of business in delivering on the promise of sustainable and inclusive development. The business case for sustainable development is based on the understanding that business and social values are inextricably linked and business efforts to improve lives and strengthen local communities can also have long term bottom line benefits. The private sector has been invited to share its support for the new Agenda during the HLPF at the SDG Business Forum.

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Permanent Missions of the Caribbean Community and the NCD Alliance)

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Government of United Kingdom, Government of Uganda, CIVICUS, Development Initiatives, and Project Everyone

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Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)

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Organized by the Permanent Mission of Mexico and UNISDR

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Germany, Colombia, Republic of Korea (TBC), UNDP and the World Bank Group

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European Economic and Social Committee and the EU Delegation to the UN

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Government of Uganda - Office of the Prime Minister
Government of Germany - Federal Ministry of Food And Agriculture

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Permanent Mission of Gabon; Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP); Zero Hunger Challenge

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International Resource Panel (UNEP)
and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment

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IUCN

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Society for Development and Community Empowerment (SDCE)
Venue: NYU, Silver Building 100 Washington Sq East, Room 101A - Jurow

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Governments of Norway; South Africa; Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General; the World Health Organization; and other members of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

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Permanent Missions of: United States, Member States of The Dignity Partnership (tbc), the International Labor Organization (ILO), other UN Agencies (tbc)

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Government of Canada (Global Affairs Canada), Government of Philippines (PM to the UN), PARIS21,Data2X

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Government[s] of Sweden [and Mexico (tbc)] and a coalition of think tanks which includes the World Resources Institute (WRI), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), European Environment Agency (EEA) (tbc), German Development Institute (DIE)

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Federal Government Of Germany

The panel will bring together eminent policy makers, scientists, futurists, and civil society representatives. It will discuss lessons learnt from prospective studies on how the world in 2030 will differ from today, and thus what it will take to achieve the SDGs. It will identify new and emerging issues that require policy action at national and global levels, including those that should be on the agenda of the high-level political forum and strengthen the science-policy interface. Panellists might also point out crucial emerging technologies for the SDGs until 2030 and debate their potential opportunities and threats.

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International Association for Community Development
Venue: Franciscans International, 246th East 46th St. #1F, New York, NY 10017-2937

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International Peace Institute
Venue: International Peace Institute, 12th floor, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

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United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)
Venue: Auditorium, Instituto Cervantes New York
211 East 49th Street, NYC 10017

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Permanent Mission of Latvia to the UN and the Permanent Mission of Tunisia to the UN in collaboration with 21st Century Fox, AT&T, intel, Google, Microsoft and Verisign

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IFAD

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UNIDO and UN-OHRLLS

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Permanent Mission of Portugal and
Permanent Mission of Ethiopia

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The International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA/DPADM) and the Permanent Missions of Austria and the United Arab Emirates

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UNDG, Korea, Pakistan and Sierra Leone

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France and Costa Rica in collaboration with the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy

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(UNDP), (UN-Habitat), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and International Recovery Platform (IRP)

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International Livestock Research Institute, CGIAR

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The Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Division for Sustainable Development and Division for Public Administration) and UNDP (Strategic Policy Unit and the Sustainable Development Cluster)

In addressing the relationship between climate change and inequalities, the discussion in this side event will addresses the non-climatic factors that make poor and marginalised people more susceptible, vulnerable and exposed to climate hazards. Through an emphasis on building climate change resilience, the event aims at highlighting the efforts that are required to reduce structural inequalities that undermine adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change, and the need for integrated and coherent approaches in the implementation of policies to achieve the goals proposed in the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development as a way to ensure that no one is left behind. This event will open the discussion of the contributions of the World Economic and Social Survey 2016 and the best ways to move forward in building resilience to climate change as an opportunity to reduce inequalities.

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United Nations Economic Commission For Europe (UNECE) And Regional Un Development Group For Europe And Central Asia (R-UNDG ECA)

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International Monetary Fund (IMF)