The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) will host its first Senior-Level Meeting on the margins of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York.
The Senior-Level Meeting will highlight the importance and contribution of effectiveness by showcasing tools – from and for the country level – for making development co-operation more effective. It will present new approaches to effectiveness in different contexts, and chart new ground, in view of global trends, for advancing effectiveness. It will also provide deeper insights into several goals under review in the 2019 HLPF, including SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), SDG 8 (Decent work) and SDG 16 (Peace, justice, and strong institutions), as well as new data on SDG 5 (Gender equality).
The 2019 Senior-Level Meeting, bridging Nairobi and the next High-Level Meeting, is the first of its kind and will seek to galvanize governments, civil society and other actors into the ‘gear change’ needed to accelerate SDG implementation at the country level and globally.
The meeting will present the achievements of the Global Partnership since Nairobi, and show how outputs from the current programme of work are contributing to an objective-led meeting, aiming to:
- Affirm effectiveness as an essential driver for sustainable development;
- Expand the reach of effectiveness with context-sensitive approaches, and through convening development actors on a more equal footing;
- Explore effectiveness challenges and priorities for the future.
At the same time, the Senior-Level Meeting will be an opportunity to reflect on the Global Partnership’s working methods and renew its leadership.
The Senior-Level Meeting aims to bring together key decision-makers and senior representatives, i.e. Vice-Ministers, Directors-General, Permanent Secretaries, civil society representatives, and heads of organisations and CEOs.
VENUE:
New York, USA
13-14 July 2019
Event Registration: GlobalPartnership
Published on 04 July 2019
