Sustainable Development Update – 20 May 2014 – Sustainable Development Policy & Practice

Experts Conclude Fourth Session on Sustainable Development Financing

16_May_2014: The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) held its Fourth Session, during which expert members discussed the draft report of the Committee. According to a briefing with the Co-Chairs on 16 May 2014, the Committee has reached agreement regarding a structure to mobilize all financial sources – international, domestic, private and public – using the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration as guides for exploring synergies and complementarities between different financial flows. continued…

World We Want Launches Data Visualization Tool

16_May_2014: The World We Want 2015 Policy and Strategy Group has launched the World We Want 2015 Trends page, a tool for “visualizing” the ongoing global conversation and related data on the post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). continued…

Member States Consider Options for Third FfD Conference

13_May_2014: UN Member States held informal consultations on the third international conference on financing for development (FfD), exchanging views on the preamble, duration, outcome, timing and organization of the preparatory process of the conference. continued…

African Countries Adopt Common Position on Post-2015 DRR Framework

16_May_2014: The 5th Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfRP14) and the 3rd Ministerial Meeting for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) convened under the theme ‘Prevent Risk: Build Resilience.’ The meeting was one in a series of multi-stakeholder consultations leading up to the 3rd World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), which is scheduled to take place in Japan in March 2015.  continued…

Governments Host Second Discussion on HLPF Review Mechanism

15_May_2014: Participants at the second workshop on ‘Making the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Work: How to build an effective “Review Mechanism”‘ addressed five questions: Who is to be reviewed, by whom and how often? What is to be reviewed? What might be the incentives to participate? What is the optimal approach for national and systemic reviews? And how will the review outputs link to other elements of the HLPF/SDG/Post-2015 puzzle, and to the wider geography of sustainable development endeavor? continued…