Background
The theme of the 2024 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions”. The 2024 HLPF will have an in-depth review of Sustainable Development Goal 1, End poverty in all its forms everywhere; Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; Goal 13, Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; Goal 16, Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels; and Goal 17, Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
The HLPF in July 2024 will be the first HLPF under the auspices of ECOSOC after the 2023 SDG Summit - the HLPF convened under the auspices of the General Assembly in September 2023. The 2024 HLPF will support the implementation of the Political Declaration and other outcomes of the SDG Summit for advancing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. The Forum will provide an opportunity to translate the political guidance and commitments from the SDG Summit into tangible policy guidance and practical actions.
In preparation for the review of SDG 1 – and its role in advancing sustainable development across the 2030 Agenda, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development Goals (UN-DESA/DSDG), the World Bank and UNCTAD together with other partners, are organizing an Expert Group Meeting (EGM).
The objective of the meeting will be to take stock of where we are in terms of progress towards SDG 1; to identify innovative solutions and different ways forward in the second half than what was tried before; to consider how the enabling environment for ending poverty has changed including in relation to the intensifying climate crisis, ongoing recovery from COVID-19 and other challenges; to build on new opportunities, learnings and good practices that have emerged; and to harness the political momentum from the SDG Summit.
These discussions will help inform the HLPF, assist in planning its sessions, and help to identify collaborations and programmes of work on SDG 1 going forward from 2024. They will also consider how progress on SDG 1 can generate synergies across the 2030 Agenda, and how progress on other Goals can be aligned with poverty reduction.
For more, please see the World Bank website.
Meeting report
Concept Note
Other document
Programme
Presentations
ECLAC
Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023: labour inclusion as a key axis of inclusive social development https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/68703-social-panorama-latin-america-and-caribbean-2023-labour-inclusion-key-axis
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Financing a sustainable transition: investment for growth and climate change action https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/67990-economic-survey-latin-america-and-caribbean-2023-financing-sustainable-transition
The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Halfway to 2030. Goals, targets and indicators https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/68017-2030-agenda-and-sustainable-development-goals-halfway-2030-goals-targets-and
Social Panorama of Latin America 2021 (cepal.org)
ILO
The ILO Social Protection Platform
IOM
Leveraging Human Mobility to Rescue the 2030 Agenda: IOM Flagship Report for the SDG Summit https://publications.iom.int/books/leveraging-human-mobility-rescue-2030-agenda-iom-flagship-report-sdg-summit
ITU
SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda https://www.itu.int/initiatives/sdgdigital/acceleration-agenda/
Measuring digital development Facts and Figures 2023 https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/facts-figures-2023/
OHCHR
Input by the Special rapporteur on extreme poverty - Eradicating Poverty Beyond GDP February 2024
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/udhr/publishingimages/75udhr/united-nations-department-of-economic-and-social-affairs-en.pdf)
UNDRR
GAR Special Report 2023: Mapping resilience for the Sustainable Development Goals https://www.undrr.org/gar/gar2023-special-report
Strengthening risk analysis for humanitarian planning https://www.undrr.org/publication/strengthening-risk-analysis-humanitarian-planning
Financial arrangements for addressing losses and damages: A disaster risk reduction primer https://www.undrr.org/publication/financial-arrangements-addressing-losses-and-damages-disaster-risk-reduction-primer
UNCTAD
'World Investment Report 2023 (in particular chapters 1 and 4 - which also includes results and recommendations relevant for SDG 17 https://unctad.org/publication/world-investment-report-2023
SDG Investment Trends Monitor https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/diaemisc2023d6_en.pdf
Global Investment Trends Monitor https://unctad.org/publication/investment-flows-least-developed-countries-affected-disproportionally-global-crises
FDI in the LDCs Special Report https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/diaeia2022d1_en.pdf
UNDP
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023 https://hdr.undp.org/content/2023-global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi#/indicies/MPI
Growth Without Gains https://www.undp.org/blog/growth-without-gains
UN Secretary-General Our Common Agenda Policy Brief: Beyond GDP (collaboration by UNDESA, UNDP, and UNCTAD and other agencies) https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-beyond-gross-domestic-product-en.pdf
UNDP 2023 Human Development Report (Upcoming: to be released in March 2024)
UNDP 2019 Human Development Report: Inequalities in the 21st Century https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2019
2024 UNDP Asia and Pacific Human Development Report: Making New Directions for Human Development
2023 Africa Sustainable Development Report (by African Union, UNECA, AfDB, and UNDP https://www.undp.org/africa/publications/2023-africa-sustainable-development-report
2022 UNDP Arab States Human Development Report: Expanding Opportunities for an Inclusive and Resilient Recovery in the Post-Covid Era https://www.undp.org/arab-states/publications/arab-human-development-report-2022-expanding-opportunities-inclusive-and-resilient-recovery-post-covid-era
2021 UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean Human Development Report: High Inequality and Low Growth in LAC https://hdr.undp.org/content/regional-human-development-report-2021-latin-america-and-caribbean-region
UNDP SDG Insights, covering 90+ country reports https://sdgpush.undp.org/reports.html
UNECA
Economic Report on Africa 2021, Addressing poverty and vulnerability in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic https://www.uneca.org/era2021
Economic Report on Africa 2023, Building Africa’s Resilience to Global Economic Shocks https://repository.uneca.org/handle/10855/49992?show=full
African Sustainable Development Report 2023; Salvaging the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49986
UNICEF
Multidimensional and extreme poverty
All the national multidimensional child poverty analysis UNICEF supports: Child Poverty Reports — Global Coalition to End Child Poverty (endchildhoodpoverty.org)
Global trends in monetary poverty – World Bank and UNICEF analysis: World Bank Document
SDG Guide for Ending Child Poverty – outlines our approach to multidimensional child poverty, milestone 2: Child-Poverty-SDG-Guide-EN.pdf (unicef.org)
All the national multidimensional child poverty analysis UNICEF supports: Child Poverty Reports — Global Coalition to End Child Poverty (endchildhoodpoverty.org)
Use of poverty analysis for policy change
Multidimensional poverty analysis for policy change: A review of the use of multidimensional poverty measures | UNICEF
Monetary child poverty analysis for policy change: A practical guide to monetary poverty analysis | UNICEF
Policy Agenda for Ending Child Poverty: Briefing Paper — Global Coalition to End Child Poverty (endchildhoodpoverty.org)
Child poverty and climate
UNHCR
A Global Compact on Refugees Multistakeholder Pledge on Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention https://www.peacebuildingwithrefugees.org/
Multistakeholder Pledge: Accelerate and Better Leverage Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Approaches in Forced Displacement Settings https://globalcompactrefugees.org/multistakeholder-pledge-accelerate-and-better-leverage-humanitarian-development-peace-nexus
Multistakeholder Pledge: 2023 Global Legal Community https://globalcompactrefugees.org/pledges-contributions/multistakeholder-pledges-2023/multistakeholder-pledge-2023-global-legal
Policies and financing for forced displacement https://www.oecd.org/dac/conflict-fragility-resilience/humanitarian-financing/financing-forced-displacement.htm
UN Office of the Special Advisor for Africa
Solving paradoxes of Africa's development: financing, energy and food system https://www.un.org/osaa/sites/www.un.org.osaa/files/files/Reports/2023/2023-nepad-report/2023-nepad-report_en.pdf
UN Office of the Special Advisor on Solutions to Internal Displacement
Turning The Tide on Internal Displacement: A Development Approach to Solutions https://www.undp.org/publications/turning-tide-internal-displacement-development-approach-solutions
UN WOMEN
Progress on the SDGs: The Gender Snapshot 2023: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/progress-on-the-sustainable-development-goals-the-gender-snapshot-2023-en.pdf
The World Bank
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023
Poverty and Inequality Platform
Expert Group Meeting on SDG1, Copenhagen, May 2017
Poverty eradication
Disaster risk reduction
