ADA along with Asia Civil Society Partnership for Sustainable Development (APSD) organized the regional workshop on Voluntary National Review (VNR) of UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) in Bangkok on 24-25 February 2017. The workshop aimed at discussing the role of CSOs in upcoming HLPF at New York in July 2017. The main takeaways from the meeting were: opportunities to be engaged with the respective government, even though it’s a voluntary process, the outcome of the meetings can be used for advocacy at the national level, HLPF may not be very rigorous, but it still provides great value, holding governments accountable. It was also discussed that government picks easy targets to implement, But few goals like SDG 16 are difficult issues. It was also discussed to universalize SDG 16 by Integrating human rights approaching. Full excerpts of the country presentations on UN HLPF VNR can be found in the link