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Accelerating Social Progress to Boost SDG Implementation:
A UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue A Special Event on the margins of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) Monday, 21 July 2025
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT Conference Room 11
UN Headquarters, New York
and online Register here to join online: bit.ly/online21july
Open in person to those with a UN grounds pass With just five years remaining to realize the 2030 Agenda, the world faces a deepening social crisis. Economic insecurity, widening inequalities, and declining social trust undermine progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and threaten the foundations of peaceful, inclusive societies. UN DESA will organize a Global Policy Dialogue on "Accelerating Social Progress to Boost SDG Implementation" as a Special Event on the margins of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) to explore how principles from recent sources including the "World Social Report" can guide integrated policy solutions to advance several of the SDGs under review at this year’s High-level Political Forum for Sustainable Development. Drawing on the insights of experts and thought leaders, including the UN High-level Advisory Board members on Economic and Social Affairs (HLAB), the event will feature two high-level panel discussions, interactive polls, and audience Q&A. It aims to generate actionable recommendations for governments and stakeholders to help restore trust, expand opportunity, and accelerate SDG implementation through inclusive, people-centered policy innovation. Speakers include: - Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford, and member of the UN Committee for Development Policy
- Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Professor of Global Development and Brooks School of Policy, Cornell University, and member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs
- Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs
- Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Europe
- Poorvaprabha Patil, UN Major Group on Children and Youth
- José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, UN Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Bjørg Sandkjær, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination, UN DESA
Register here to join online: bit.ly/online21july The event is made possible by the United Nations Peace and Development Trust Fund. It will include captions in 20+ languages on Zoom. It is free to join, and all are welcome! | |
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