High-level Meeting

Achieving Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development:  Converting words into action

Co-organized by Cape Verde, Mexico, Norway, State of Qatar, Sierra Leone and Tunisia.

Thursday, 22 September 2016, 9:30am to 12:00pm

United Nations Secretariat, Conference Room 7

This high-level event will serve to formally launch the Global Alliance for Reporting Progress on Promoting Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies and seeks to provide a platform for Member States, representatives from civil society, private sector and high-level personalities to engage in strategy and policy discussion, outline priorities, exchange knowledge and experience, and strengthen partnerships within the international community to promote peaceful, just, and inclusive societies.

Recognizing the need to build new forms of partnership to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Member States and representatives of civil society and the private sector, with facilitation by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), have come together to create the Global Alliance for Reporting Progress on Promoting Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies. The Global Alliance aims to harness the strengths and resources of its diverse members in order to support effective and meaningful reporting on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 16 and its interlinkages to the entirety of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Speakers include: Ministerial level representatives from Member States, CEOs, and other high-level personalities.