UNGA Guide 2023Civil society, the private sector, youth, women, scientists, local and regional governments and other stakeholders all have a key role in the implementation of the SDGs. Their participation, contributions and catalytic mobilization will be essential to the success of the SDG Summit and its follow-up. To generate additional opportunities for the engagement of all actors,...
Civil society, the private sector, youth, scientists, local and regional governments and other stakeholders all have a key role in the implementation of the SDGs. Their participation, contributions and catalytic mobilization will be essential to the success of the SDG Summit and its follow-up. The SDG Mobilization Day will create an opportunity for stakeholders from...
The SDG Acceleration Day will be held on Sunday, 17 September 2023 from 09:00 – 17:00 (precise times TBC). It will serve to profile actions, investments and support to accelerate implementation at the country level between now and 2030. The SDG Acceleration Day will build on the twelve high-impact initiatives that the UN development system is mobilizing...
Major global shocks in recent years – including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and the triple planetary crisis, among others – have challenged our international institutions. Unity around our shared principles and common goals is both crucial and urgent. The Summit of the Future is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation on critical challenges and address gaps...
Major global shocks in recent years – including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and the triple planetary crisis, among others – have challenged our international institutions. Unity around our shared principles and common goals is both crucial and urgent. The Summit of the Future is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation on critical challenges and address gaps...
This high-level dialogue hosted by the Government of Honduras will convene Member States to amplify the adolescent- and youth-specific commitments announced at the 2023 SDG Summit by Member States, as part of the 1.8 Billion Young People for Change advocacy efforts. It will facilitate meaningful discussions on how these commitments can be actioned in partnership...
The UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) will be convened by the President of the United Nations General Assembly on 20 September 2023, the second day of the general debate of the Assembly at its 78th session. The overall theme of the HLM will be “Making the world safer: Creating...
The latest scientific assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has once again highlighted the urgency to act. The damage from the climate crisis is already extensive, and global greenhouse gas emissions remain at record levels. The world needs immediate and deep reductions in emissions now, and over the course of the next three decades, to...
From the climate emergency to conflict and widespread human rights violations, continued food and energy insecurity, increasing division and political polarization, and a growing disillusionment with institutions to deliver on promises made in 2015, we are in the midst of intersecting and often overwhelming crises. However, solutions do exist and champions for them persist. Halfway...
The 2023 UN High-level meeting (UN HLM) on universal health coverage (UHC) provides countries and stakeholders an opportunity to reinvigorate progress towards delivering health for all. To ensure implementation and accountability, we need an action-oriented outcome that builds on the 2019 Political Declaration and focuses on creating resilient and equitable health systems, with primary health care as...
The United Nations General Assembly will hold the second high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis on 22 September 2023. The theme of the meeting is: “Advancing science, finance and innovation, and their benefits, to urgently end the global tuberculosis epidemic, in particular, by ensuring equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment and care.” ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING The UN...