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Sharing a link to join UN NGO Major Group

Writer secretariat 16-10-12 16:53 count 1,311 Reply 0

Dear ADA members,

Here is a link to join the mailing list of NGO Major Group. Please join the group if you would like to get timely information on High Level Political Forum and civil society's engagement.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ngo-major-group

What is Major Group and Other Stakeholders?

Since the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 - known as the Earth Summit, it was recognized that achieving sustainable development would require the active participation of all sectors of society and all types of people. Agenda 21, adopted at the Earth Summit, drew upon this sentiment and formalized nine sectors of society as the main channels through which broad participation would be facilitated in UN activities related to sustainable development. These are officially called "Major Groups" and include the following sectors:

Women
Children and Youth
Indigenous Peoples
Non-Governmental Organizations
Local Authorities
Workers and Trade Unions
Business and Industry
Scientific and Technological Community
Farmers

Introducing NGO Major Group

The NGO Major Group is tasked with facilitating the participation and enhancing the engagement of non-governmental organizations in the processes directly and indirectly related to the High Level Political Forum. When possible, we work to organize positions on behalf of the members to be delivered in various United Nations spaces. Because of the diversity of voices and perspectives within this group, we are organized around thematic clusters which act as hubs of expertise on numerous issues and/or Sustainable Development Goals.

We are always striving towards transparency and inclusiveness in our decision-making processes. Currently we are doing this through the use of a Google Group. Please click here to join.

We have two global organizing partners; Alice Odingo in Nairobi, Kenya and Daniel Perellin New York City, USA. We also currently have four regional organizing partners who work to facilitate engagement in Asia (Beckie Malay), the Caribbean (Shantal Munro-Knight), Europe (Leida Rijnhout), and North America (Soon-Young Yoon). Please feel free to contact any of us with proposals, questions, or concerns.

Kind regards,
ADA Secretariat

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