Summary
The 2016 meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) started with panel discussions on “National mechanisms for monitoring progress and reporting on implementation for the achievement of SDGs” and “Making the 2030 Agenda deliver for SIDS, building on the SAMOA Pathway” on Thursday morning. In the afternoon, discussions took place on “Countries in special situations.”
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National mechanisms for monitoring progress and reporting on implementation for the achievement of SDGs
View of the panel during the session on national mechanisms for monitoring progress
and reporting on implementation for the achievement of SDGs
Johannes Paul Jütting, Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN and Vice President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Lisa Grace Bersales,
Philippine Statistics Authority
Georges-Simon Ulrich,
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Milorad Šćepanović,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montenegro
Peseta Noumea Simi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Samoa
Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General of South Africa
Nguyen Le Thuy, Viet Nam
Petero Okotai, Cook Islands
Jasmin Burgermeister, Major Group
for Children and Youth
Delegates follow the discussions
Making the 2030 Agenda deliver for Small Island Developing States, building on the SAMOA Pathway
Panel speakers for the session on making the 2030 Agenda deliver for Small Island
Developing States (SIDS), building on the SAMOA Pathway
Sven Jürgenson, Permanent Representative of Estonia to
the UN and Vice President of ECOSOC
Elizabeth Thompson, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and former Minister for Energy and Environment, Barbados
David Smith, University Consortium
of Small Island States
Justina Langidrik, Chief Secretary of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Anote Tong, Former President of
the Republic of Kiribati
Jeem Lippwe, Federated States of Micronesia
Kate Brown, Global Island Partnership
Courtenay Rattray, Jamaica
Renee Yap, New Zealand
Ahmed Sareer, Maldives
Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Kazakhstan
Countries in special situations
Panel speakers for the session on countries in special situations
Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Deputy Permanent
Representative of Honduras to the UN
and Vice President of ECOSOC
David Steven, New York University
Jean-Marc Châtaigner, French Research Institute for Development (IRD)
Marina Djernaes, EcoPeace Middle East
Youba Sokona, South Centre and Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Stephen Chacha,
Africa Philanthropic Foundation
Claudio Huepe Minoletti,
Universidad Diego Portales
Elisha Moyo, Zimbabwe
Omair Paul, Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) Major Group
Viviana Tatawaqa, Women's Major Group
Gloria Cid, Chile
Informal dialogue with UN Secretary-General candidate
View of the dais during the session
Christiana Figueres, UN Secretary-General candidate
Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly
View of the ECOSOC Chamber
Around the Venue
Delegates meet before the start of the session
Delegates from Italy
Delegates speak informally
Delegates take notes during the sessions
Adolphe Mabulena, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Members of the Secretariat with Georges-Simon Ulrich,
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
View of the Trusteeship Council
Tonya Vaturi, UN Department of Economic
and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Youba Sokona, South Centre and IPCC Vice-Chair,
speaks with a delegate
A delegate wears an orange scarf distributed by the
Women's Major Group to emphasize the need for
accountability and civil society participation
UN Security at the venue
Around the UN Headquarters
