July Intergovernmental negotiations on post-2015 agenda

20 Jul 2015 to 31 Jul 2015
United Nations Headquarters, New York

GFC, as one of the Global Organizing Partners for the Women’s Major Group, is co-leading the WMG participation during this 2-week event which includes coordination, advocacy and communications, among others.

The United Nations is in the process of defining a post-2015 development agenda. This agenda will be launched at a Summit in September 2015, which is the target date for realizing the MDGs. It is currently being elaborated through informal consultations of the UN General Assembly. The President of the General Assembly has appointed two Co-facilitators to lead those informal consultations.

The process of arriving at the post 2015 development agenda is Member State-led with broad participation from Major Groups and other civil society stakeholders.

There has been numerous inputs to the agenda, notably a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by an open working group of the General Assembly, the report of an intergovernmental committee of experts on sustainable development financing, GA dialogues on technology facilitation and many others.

The General Assembly called upon the Secretary-General to synthesize the full range of inputs and to present a synthesis report before the end of 2014 as a contribution to the intergovernmental negotiations in the lead up to the Summit.

GFC participates in this process as a Global Organizing Partner of the Women’s Major Group.