High Level Political Forum https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf

A new UN Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General A new WGG Champion in the new UN Deputy Secretary General 

Maria Luiza Rineiro Viotti (Brazil) as his Chef de Cabinet and Kyung-wha Kang (South Korea)– New Position – Special Advisor on Policy

Theme of the HLPF

How to get involved? The Division of Sustainable Development, through the Stakeholders Engagement Programme, collaborates closely with MGoS through a coordinating body of facilitators known as the Organizing Partners, comprised of accredited organizations that are invited to be facilitators between the Major Group constituencies and DSD. Organizing Partners are tasked with coordinating inputs and streamlining communications from their particular constituencies. 

Stakeholder Engagement The 9 Major Groups Women Children and Youth Indigenous Peoples Non-Governmental Organizations Local Authorities Workers and Trade Unions Business and Industry Scientific and Technological Community Farmers

Organizing Partners https://sustainabledevelopment. un NGO Major Group – currently organizing administratively – now preparing for the HLPF Organizing Partners are Global OP (North) Daniel Perell at Bahi and Global OP (South): Alice Oluoko-Odingo  Soroptimist International  Email: alice.odingo@soroptimistinternational.org, aaodingo@yahoo.com  We also currently have five regional organizing partners who work to facilitate engagement in Africa (Paul Okumu, Masiiwa Rusare, Oluseyi Oyebisi), and Asia (Beckie Malay), the Caribbean (Shantal Munro-Knight), Europe (Leida Rijnhout), and North America (Soon-Young Yoon). Please feel free to contact any of us with proposals, questions, or concerns.

10 January 2017 Major Group The first NGO MG meeting of that year will be on 10 January at 11 AM eastern time (16:00 GMT). Both the physical and call-in locations are TBD, so stay tuned! However, I can tell you that we will be discussing issues related to how the clusters will be working towards ensuring that our report(s) to the HLPF are coherent and helpful. Come January, an agenda will be proposed and questions/comments can be inserted there to get the conversation started

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

40 Member states are presenting Voluntary National Reviews

In how many countries have we WGG Members?

What is the actual/real situation of girls in these 40 countries?

http://www.together2030.org/en/ In three languages Completed an analysis of the Statement from the GA Opening in September http://www.together2030.org/en/

Analysis of statement made at the opening of the General Assembly September 2016 40 Countries said that they had domesticated/made plans for implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Of the 40 countries doing the voluntary reviews the following 9 countries indicate that they have national plans Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Peru, Zimbabwe

15 countries flagged participation of Civil Society Of our 9 countries there are 4 - El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia and Zimbabwe on the list for voluntary reviews

http://action4sd.org 3 Languages Core Group – Organizations leading see next slide

such as action/2015 and GCAP. CIVICUS is the world alliance for citizen participation which has members in more than 170 countries and has incubated previous initiatives such as action/2015 and GCAP. Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 950 NGOs in over 110 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a global civil society movement calling for an end to poverty and inequality, with national coalitions in 85 countries and regional coordination in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean and Europe. International Forum of National NGO Platforms (IFP/FIP) is a network of 64 national development NGO platforms and 6 regional NGO coalitions from 5 continents.

http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/iaeg-sdgs/ 4th Meeting of the IAEG-SDGos was held from 15 - 18 Nov 2016    Geneva, Switzerland  United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Indicator Classification • Tier 1: Indicator conceptually clear, established methodology and standards available and data regularly produced by countries. • Tier 2: Indicator conceptually clear, established methodology and standards available but data are not regularly produced by countries. • Tier 3: Indicator for which there are no established methodology and standards or methodology/standards are being developed/tested.

Statistical Commission

WGG Statement for CSW ….

Commissions feed into the HLPF Regional Commissions too! Voluntary National Reviews!

And SDG’s for HLPF ??? Living in Poverty Without adequate Nutrition Without access to Health Care Experiencing gender based violence's – physical/emotional/psychological/harmful – FGM, Child Early and Forced Marriage, Breast Ironing, Girls who are trafficking, migrant/refugee girls/

Thank you ! Winifred Doherty January 2017