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 this context, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), co-organized an Expert Group Meeting (EGM), with the support of interested UN system organizations, to prepare the 2024 HLPF review of SDG 2 – and its role in advancing sustainable development across the 2030 Agenda.
For further details about the EGM, please visit the FAO-managed EGM website.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
- Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2023
- The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition
Economic Commission of Africa (ECA)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023: labour inclusion as a key axis of inclusive social development
- Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Financing a sustainable transition: investment for growth and climate change action
- The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Halfway to 2030. Goals, targets and indicators
Economic and Social Commission for Western Africa (ESCWA)
- Transforming rainfed agriculture in the Arab region
- War on Gaza: weaponizing access to water, energy and food
- Accelerating circularity in the Arab region
- Arab Food Security: Vulnerabilities and Pathways
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
- https://www.oecd.org/dac/conflict-fragility-resilience/humanitarian-financing/financing-forced-displacement.htm
- https://www.peacebuildingwithrefugees.org/
- https://globalcompactrefugees.org/multistakeholder-pledge-accelerate-and-better-leverage-humanitarian-development-peace-nexus
- https://globalcompactrefugees.org/pledges-contributions/multistakeholder-pledges-2023/multistakeholder-pledge-2023-global-legal
United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
UN-Habitat
- Urban Rural Linkages for Nutrition – Urban Policy Platform
- An overview of food security in a context of urbanization | UN-Habitat (unhabitat.org)
- Strengthening Local Fresh Food Markets for Resilient Food Systems – Urban Policy Platform
- Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) – Urban Policy Platform
- Impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods, food security & nutrition in East Africa - Urban focus | UN-Habitat (unhabitat.org)
- Managing Urban-Rural Linkages for Biodiversity – Urban Policy Platform
- Urban-Rural Linkages Guiding Principles – Framework for Action to Advance Integrated Territorial Development – Urban Policy Platform
United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)
- 2024 SG report on implementation of the DPoA (forthcoming, March 2024)
- 2023 SG report on implementation of the DPoA
- SG report on the 10-year assessment of the implementation of the VPoA
United Nations University (UNU)
- Lost in Aggregation? On the Importance of Local Food Price Data for Food Poverty Estimates
- Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Technologies in Africa’s Sahel Region and SDGs 2, 6, and 7
- SDG2 - Zero Hunger: Food Security, Improved Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture
World Food Programme (WFP)
World Health Organization (WHO)
- COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health
- Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment
- Latest publications on nutrition and food safety
UN Women
- The Gender Snapshot 2023
- Feminist climate justice: A framework for action
- A gender-responsive just transition for people and planet
- The climate–care nexus: Addressing the linkages between climate change and women’s and girls’ unpaid care, domestic, and communal work
United Nations Office of the Special Advisor for Africa (UNOSAA)
- "Solving paradoxes of Africa's development: financing, energy and food systems"
- SDG 2: forthcoming compendium report on the work of the Interdepartmental Task Force on African Affairs (IDTFAA) on 2023 dedicated to food systems – details to be shared in due course.
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development
- A/HRC/54/27: Reinvigorating the right to development: A vision for the future (August 2023)
- A/78/160: Role of business in realizing the right to development - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Surya Deva (July 2023)
