ADA Newsletter- January 2022
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In December 2021, UNDP Myanmar in partnership with the Asia Development Alliance (ADA) organized a capacity-building training with CSO and NGO networks on SDG monitoring. A total of 27 CSO representatives completed the training. This joint UNDP and ADA initiative strengthened awareness among CSO/NGOs in SDG monitoring and reporting by bringing in regional experiences. It also provided CSO/NGOs with tools and methodologies to carry out an independent review of the progress of implementing SDGs in Myanmar from the lens of poverty and environment nexus. Towards the end of the training, a majority of participants indicated their interest in additional capacity building opportunities and information-sharing sessions from UNDP and ADA. In this deteriorating political context, they also voiced the need to establish a network of CSO/NGOs to monitor environmental issues and challenges in Myanmar. To follow up on previous discussions in December, UNDP in collaboration with ADA organized an information sharing session with the following objectives:
- To seek feedback on the formation of a potential CSO-led SDG initiative network, and
- To share up-to-date information on upcoming regional SDG forums.
The majority of participants joined the first capacity-building workshop in December 2021. The meeting was largely informal in setting and participants were encouraged to openly share their views.
Action Please!!
Please fill out this registration form if you would like to join (a part of) the online Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum.
After your registration has been approved, you will receive additional information about the programme and the online platform (HowSpace).
Please register by Friday the 4th of February at 12:00PM noon CET
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-major-groups-and-stakeholders-forum-7-10-february-2022-tickets-240872986587
Webinar: Regional engagement for SDG accountability
Wednesday February 9th, 9-10.30 am NYC /2-3.30 pm GMT
Register here.
Join our webinar on February 9th, jointly organised with Forus, to hear more about the civil society engagement mechanisms in each region, exchange your experiences and hear directly from UN officials working on the Regional Sustainable Development Forums. |
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Registration Details -
Tokyo Democracy Forum
Date &Time: 14-15 February 2022, 13:15-15:15 BKK Time
Registration: https://bit.ly/TokyoDemocracyForum2022
Registration Deadline: 9 February 2022
....And Climate Justice for All
Date&Time: 14 February 2022, 14:30-15:30 BKK Time
Register by 7 February via https://bit.ly/HAPIC2022_ClimateJustice
Business and Human Rights for Asia
Date and Time: 14 February 2022,
Session 1 13:15-14:15 (BKK) Session 2 14:30-15:30 (BKK)
Register by Monday, 7 February 2022 https://bit.ly/BHR_VirtualSessions
The opening webinar will take place on the first day of the course at 16:00 Seoul/ Tokyo time (UTC+9) on the 14th of February. (SIAP-ESCAP)
Nominees from your department as well as other Government institutions working in the field of crime, criminal justice, and gender statistics that you think will benefit from the course are most welcome.
If you wish to nominate your officials as participants of this course, please fill out the nomination form at the following link:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2zWeD09UYE-9zF6kFubccKTTweiwclpIoK6AIi89FoJUM1QzVUE1SDlJV05EVDBQUkEwWTBDRzhRWi4u
The deadline for receipt of nominations is 9 February 2022.
The 9th APFSD is being organized from March 28- 31, 2022, and applications are invited to organize side events.
Criteria for side events
While some slots would be available to organize side events in a hybrid format, online modalities would be preferable. Side events can be organized and sponsored by Member States, the UN system, other Intergovernmental organizations, accredited CSOs or other stakeholders. Held outside the official programme, they provide an opportunity to discuss the theme of the 9th APFSD “Building back better from COVID-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Asia and the Pacific” or one (or more) of the SDGs under review, or to deepen discussions on Voluntary National Reviews.
Side events might, also, share good practices, to identify new and emerging issues, to discuss areas of collaboration such as focus areas of regional UN collaboration on climate actions and resilience, human rights and gender equality, SDG data and statistics, and inclusive growth; and to spread greater awareness of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
• Priority will be given to events that show a clear link with the theme of the 2022 APFSD, the SDGs under review, and/or events related to VNRs.
• In view of the large interest in organizing side events at past APFSD sessions and taking into consideration the limited time, side-event requests should be limited to one per proposing entity. Side events sponsored by Governments will be given priority.
• To ensure that many organizers can be involved, side event proposals should ideally involve different partners. One of the organizers of a proposed side event should be designated as a lead organizer and communication focal point.
• Side-event organizers will be fully responsible for all aspects of their events, including arranging the virtual platforms to be utilized, programme, outreach, registration, speakers’ recruitment, and any related logistics or costs.
• Organizers are encouraged to ensure geographic and gender balance and include, in the discussions, a mix of countries and other actors, including civil society, scientists, private sector and academia.
• Organizers are requested to hold their event in English or make their own interpretation arrangements.
• Publicizing a side event is the responsibility of its organizers. The Secretariat will not distribute notices or run other publicity efforts for side events.
• The side events should be open to all APFSD participants. Participants attending side events will not automatically be listed as APFSD participants.
Proposed side events will be reviewed and selected so that the overall programme of side-events is balanced in terms of geographic and thematic focus and provides clear links to the theme and SDGs under review. The ESCAP secretariat will include a page displaying all side events on the APFSD website, with onward links to the organizer’s own pages for additional information and registration.
Process
Interested parties are invited to submit applications to organize a side event to the 2022 APFSD following the guidelines and criteria above to escap-apfsd@un.org using the proposal form.
The proposal should provide a detailed description of the side event, including its thematic focus, potential contribution to the APFSD and tentative speakers. It should clearly indicate the main organizer of the event and their contacts.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 6 February 2022. All requests for side events received within the deadline will be considered. The Secretariat will review the requests and revert to the organizers by the end of February 2022. Following approval, the full schedule of approved side events will be posted on the website of the 9th APFSD: https://www.unescap.org/apfsd/9/
All queries related to side events should be addressed to escap-apfsd@un.org
Please follow the link to know more -https://www.unescap.org/events/apfsd9
The People's Forum will be organised on March 22-26, 2022. We will inform you more on registration, tentative program, and call for workshops.
Important Advocacy Action Points
- To prepare for APFSD and the Roundtable Discussions, we are planning to develop the following factsheets: 1) Goal 4, 2) Goal 5, 3) Goal 14, 4) Goal 15, 5) Goal 17, 6) VNR, 7) People’s Solutions and one if thematic working groups would also like to develop their own
- Our factsheets in the last two years have guided us in our participation to the roundtable discussions, preparation of our intervention statements and also the collective CSO statement
- To prepare this important document, we need volunteers to be part of the Factsheet Team. We need your time, commitment and expertise especially those with ground work on the goals under review. You may signify your willingness to volunteer in this sign-up sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K3zyT-MuN0i8sRyTBS42jbqnE6USyz1eWZc8GSbmnOQ/edit?usp=sharing until February 7.
- Proposed Timeline of the Factsheet Development:
- Jan 31 - Announcements and call for volunteers
- Feb 10/11 - Team meetings
- Feb 12-Mar 3 - Drafting process (3 weeks)
- Mar 4 - Deadline of 1st draft
UNEA-5 (In-person session and online) – Nairobi, 28 February to 2 March 2022 – https://www.unep.org/environmentassembly/unea5
The theme of this year´s HLPF is: "Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development". The sets of SDGs to be reviewed in-depth will be: SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 14 (life below water), SDG 15 (life on land), and SDG 17 (partnerships for the goals).
Should you be interested in joining different NGO MG Task Teams to collaborate on the Ministerial Declaration, the preparation of the NGO MG side event, the VNRs, and Social Media, please fill out this form.
The theme of this year´s HLPF is: "Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development". The sets of SDGs to be reviewed in-depth will be: SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 14 (life below water), SDG 15 (life on land), and SDG 17 (partnerships for the goals).
According to information sent by UN DESA:
- The 500-word Executive Summary is due Friday, 25 March
- The full position paper is due Friday, 27 May
The schedule of deadlines is here, as well as the Paper Outline.
You can choose to join the drafting teams here.
You can choose to submit inputs for each portion of the paper here.
Please note that, if you are volunteering to participate in the Executive Summary group it is mandatory that you are available to assist in drafting from 25 February to 11 March.
The meeting of the HLPF in 2022 will be held from Tuesday, 5 July, to Thursday, 7 July, and from Monday, 11 July, to Friday, 15 July 2022, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from Wednesday, 13 July, to Friday, 15 July 2022, as a part of the high-level segment of the Council.
The theme for the HLPF 2022 will be “Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
The HLPF in 2022 will review in-depth Sustainable Development Goals 4 on quality education, 5 on gender equality, 14 on life below water, 15 on life on land, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals. The forum will take into account the different and particular impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across all Sustainable Development Goals and the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the Goals.
46 countries will carry out voluntary national reviews (VNRs) of their implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For more details, please click here.
UNDESA will organize substantive preparations for the thematic reviews of the HLPF 2022 together with relevant UN system partners.
Regional Forums for Sustainable Development will be convened by the Regional Commissions. The regional forums will assess progress and exchange knowledge, good practices and policy solutions to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, in line with regional priorities and specificities.
| Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) |
3-5 March 2022 |
| Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) |
8-10 March 2022 |
| Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) |
15-17 March 2022 |
| Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) |
28-31 March 2022 |
| Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) |
6-7 April 2022 |
UN system and other intergovernmental bodies and forums will be invited to provide inputs to the thematic reviews of the 2022 HLPF. Please click here to access the online platform which contains the inputs to the HLPF.
The HLPF will adopt the Ministerial Declaration as the outcome of its session. The President of ECOSOC will also prepare a summary to capture the key messages of the discussions.
Other events, including the Side Events, VNR Labs, Special Events, and Exhibition will be organized on the margins of the 2022 HLPF.
According to the letter from H.E. Collen Vixen Kelapile, President of the ECOSOC, on the closing of the list for countries that will be presenting their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) at the 2022 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) for your information.
Since the first communication dated October 4, a number of other countries have expressed their wish to present their VNRs for the first time at the HLPF. For your ease of reference, please find below the final list of VNR-presenting countries (a total of 45):
Andorra*, Argentina**, Belarus*, Botswana*, Cameroon*, Comoros*, Côte d’Ivoire*, Djibouti, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador*, Eritrea, Eswatini*, Ethiopia*, Gabon, Gambia*, Ghana*, Greece*, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Italy*, Jamaica*, Jordan*, Kazakhstan*, Latvia*, Lesotho*, Liberia*, Luxembourg*, Malawi*, Mali*, Montenegro*, the Netherlands*, Pakistan*, the Philippines**, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal*, Somalia, Sri Lanka*, Sudan*, Suriname, Switzerland**, Togo***, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates*, Uruguay***
VNR Countries in Asia - 2022
Kazakhstan*, Pakistan*, the Philippines**, Sri Lanka*,
(Note: Countries with one asterisk * are second timers, those with two asterisks** are third timers, those with three asterisks *** are presenting for the fourth time, while those without asterisks are presenting for the first time).
Interesting Readings!!
Summary of the 2022 UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
Nature Can Help Solve Crises, with Investment: Joint Report
Global Organizing Partners (ngomajorgroupopny@gmail.com):
Jessica Bridgers (jessica.bridgers@wfa.org)
M. Victoria Espada (mariavictoria.espada@dianova.ngo)
Oli Henman (oli.henman@action4sd.org)
Regional Organizing Partners:
Central Africa: Bernard Lutete Di Lutete (bernlutete@yahoo.fr)
Eastern Africa: Henry Oriokot (henrycidc@gmail.com)
Northern Africa: Hagar Monsif (h.monsif@maatpeace.org)
Southern Africa: Joseph Mihaye (aminiac15@gmail.com)
Western Africa: Kofi Kankam (eri@eri.kabissa.org)
Caribbean: Donovan McLaren (kevoy1@yahoo.com) and Joseph Severe (unascadhaiti@gmail.com)
North America: Kehkashan Basu (kehkashanbasu@greenhopefoundation.com)
South America: Rosario Diaz Garavito (r.garavito@themillennialsmovement.org)
Asia: Jyotsna Mohan (jyotsna@ada2030.org)
Central Asia: Artem Stepanenko (a.stepanenko@eca-ces.ru)
Europe: Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (golesorkhiwow@gmail.com)
Middle East/North Africa: Anis Brik (anisdago@gmail.com)
Pacific: Emeline Siale (siale@piango.org)
- ADA's official website has been renewed. All the information related to the implementation of SDGs in Asia and actions conducted by Asian CSOs will be accumulated on this website. Please visit www.ada2030.org
- ADA's Facebook page has been activated! The page will channel useful information among civil society actors in Asia. Feel free to tag @Asia Development Alliance in future collaboration. The page is accessible with this web address: https://www.facebook.com/ada2030/
- ADA Twitter account @alliance_asia
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