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Kindly please be advised that guidelines and application form for organizing side events during the July session of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda (20-31 July) have been posted:

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/negotiationsoutcome2

An information note on the logistical arrangements for the upcoming HLPF (26 June-8 July), including pass pick up for registered participants, meeting room arrangements, webcast etc. can be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/HLPF-Info-Note

Background information on the HLPF including the latest programme, official documentation, list of side events and the SD-Learning Programme, is posted at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2015.

The theme of this year’s HLPF is “Strengthening integration, implementation and review – the HLPF after 2015”. As per the programme, most of the HLPF meetings will be held as interactiveround tables related to the theme. Time permitting, representatives of major groups and other stakeholders can participate in the question and answer sessions that follow the presentations by the panellists and lead discussants in each round table.

Also, on Monday, 29 June, from 8:30-9:45 a.m., the President of ECOSOC will convene a meeting on with representatives of social and natural sciences on “How science and inform policy making”, and on Tuesday, 30 June, from 8:30-9:45 a.m. the President will have a meeting with major groups and other stakeholders on ” Reinforcing major groups and other stakeholders’ participation”.

Please find below the revised schedule for the morning coordination meetings to be held during this week’s post-2015 IGN from 8:30-9:30 a.m.:

• Tuesday 23 June – CR B – Coordination Meeting for Major Groups and other Stakeholders to prepare for Wednesday meeting with Co-Facilitators
• Wednesday 24 June- CR 6 – Meeting with the Permanent Mission of Brazil
• Thursday 25 June – CR 12 – Briefing with Nikhil Seth

The next session of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda will be held from 22-25 June in the Trusteeship Council. The programme of work, relevant documentation and a list of side events are available on our website at https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015.

On Wednesday, 24 June, there will be a meeting with major groups and other stakeholders from 10:00am to 1:00pm in the Trusteeship Council. The meeting is intended as an opportunity for the major groups and other stakeholders to share their views on the Zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda, with a particular focus on the declaration and the review and follow-up sections of this document. To facilitate preparations for the meeting, NGLS and DSD have created the following Google Spreadsheet that major groups and other stakeholders are asked to use for identifying collaborative groupings for statements, and posting links to Google Docs of the draft statements: http://bit.ly/24June-Stakeholder-Collaboration

Similar to the previous negotiating sessions, a total of 12 seats with microphones will be made available for the use of major groups and other stakeholders on a rotational basis in the Trusteeship Council. Additional seating will be available in the balcony area. All meetings will also be webcast at http://webtv.un.org/.

Finally, NGLS and DSD have reserved daily caucus meeting rooms.Please note it is not the same room for all day; refer to the schedule for daily location. The room is available Monday – Thursday from 8:00am to 6:00pm. It can be reserved for use through the following link: http://tinyurl.com/June-Room-Reserve.

Daily coordination meetings Monday- Thursday 8:30-9:30am.

There will be daily morning coordination meetings from 8:30-9:30 am. On 22-24 June, these meetings will be held in conference room B, and on Thursday, 25 June the meeting will be in conference room C.

We are very pleased to send to all of you, for your organization’s RAPID sign-on and endorsement, the TAP Network Joint Response to the Post-2015 “Zero Draft,” which you can find at http://bit.ly/1IGUB6L. Thanks again to all who have contributed over the past week or so, as we really did have a significant amount of engagement on this draft response in a very limited timeframe, and we have come out with a very good resource and tool for our advocacy over the coming weeks and months ahead.

For those of you who would like to endorse this position paper through your organization, please simply respond to this email (to me at [email protected] and Liam at [email protected]) with your logo attached so we can include it on the paper.

Sign-on/endorsements will be accepted on an ongoing and rolling basis, however, to include your endorsement of the position paper in our initial outreach to Member States, please send us your endorsement by no later than 9 AM EST on Thursday, 18 June – as we will aim to circulate the position paper to Member States prior to the Post-2015 IGN from 22–25 June.

As you will notice, we have provided a footnote in the introduction of the Zero Draft Response and a concluding sentence that will link to the TAP Network Compendium of Amendments to the Zero Draft, which you can all contribute to on a rolling basis. If you would like your language amendments from your organization to be included in our advocacy going forward – including those points that may not have made it in to this joint response – please paste your language edits into the google doc ASAP, as we will send this compendium document around as a complementary resource to the TAP joint response to the Zero Draft. As such, I hope that any hesitance to sign-on/endorse the joint TAP Network Response because the language amendments do not match up word for word with your organization’s explicit recommendations will be addressed by us sending around this compendium resource along with the joint response. We have done our best to align the language amendments and broader points to already agreed-upon points and principles from other TAP Network position papers, and we are very grateful to all of you who have constructively contributed to this joint response along those lines as well.

Please also note that as always, sign-on/endorsement is not necessarily limited to CSOs that are already part of the TAP Network, so your help in reaching out to other potentially interested organizations is very much appreciated – and you can forward this message, and our contact information, on to them as well.

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the drafting of this paper, and thanks very much in advance for your rapid endorsements!

Link to the provisional program of the Major Groups and Other Stakeholders Workshop on Governance, Transparency and Accountability, to be held from 18-19 June 2015 in Conference Room 12 at UNHQ below. Please note that the programme is being updated to reflect the latest confirmations. Please also note that since Conference Room 12 will only seat 100 people registration limited to 100 individuals only. In addition, a WebEx link has been provided below for those that cannot attend in person; the login information is below. Please note that each session has a different login link. Please note that up to 200 individuals can participate via webex.

LINK TO PROGRAMME
LINK TO REGISTRATION
LINK TO HLPF WG MEMBERS

The programme for the sixth session of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda, to be held from 22-25 June, has been posted online at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015. Discussions during the June session will focus on intergovernmental negotiations on the zero draft outcome document.

Please note that all representatives of Major Groups and other Stakeholders must register to attend the June negotiating session by completing the following form: http://bit.ly/1QG67Ba

According to the programme for the June session, the co-facilitators will convene a meeting with the Major Groups and other Stakeholders on Wednesday, 24 June from 10:00am-1:00pm. Please indicate on this same form if you are interested in speaking at this meeting.

Responses may be viewed here: http://bit.ly/22-25June-P2015-register

Please note that an advance unedited copy of the 2015 edition of the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) has been posted at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport/2015

The report aims to inform Member States on options to strengthen the science-policy interface in the context of the SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda. It will be presented at the upcoming session of the HLPF from 26 June to 8 July.

Zero draft was released of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda. It is available here: http://bit.ly/1KBRxsr 

The draft outcome document will be the subject of intergovernmental negotiations at the UN from 22-25 June, 20-24 July and 27-31 July.

Non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and organizations participating in the Major Groups may contribute feedback on the zero draft by completing the form here:
http://bit.ly/post2015-zero-draft-submit-feedback DEADLINE: 21 JUNE 2015

Please provide specific suggestions of text edits or amendments for the elements of the zero draft. You may contribute for one or more elements. Please feel free to copy a paragraph and indicate your text edits [within brackets].

Kindly note that the Means of Implementation proposed under each Sustainable Development Goal will also be considered in depth at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 13-16 July 2015. More information: https://un.org/ffd3

Feedback submitted via this form can be viewed here:
http://bit.ly/Post-2015-zero-draft-feedback-received

UN-NGLS and DESA-DSD will produce a compilation document of inputs received and make it available to the UN system, UN Member States, and all stakeholders.

More information about the post-2015 negotiations may be found here:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015

The zero draft outcome document for the post-2015 summit has been posted at:  https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015

This zero draft will be discussed at the upcoming session of the post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations, from 22-25 June. The programme for the session has not yet been released by the co-facilitators.