Background
INFORMAL STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE ON THE ZERO DRAFT POLITICAL DECLARATION
7 June 2023
The 2023 SDG Summit will be convened on 18-19 September 2023 in New York, during the United Nations General Assembly high-level week.
The SDG Summit will be chaired by the President of the General Assembly (PGA). The outcome of the Summit will be a negotiated political declaration. After an initial round of consultations with Member States as well as with major groups and other stakeholders, including on a draft elements paper, the co-facilitators (Ireland and Qatar) have issued a ‘zero draft’ of the political declaration (available here: https://bit.ly/LinkZeroDraft).
On 7 June 2023, UN DESA, in partnership with the SDG Action Campaign, hosted a virtual informal stakeholder dialogue to provide major groups and other stakeholders as well as civil society organizations with an opportunity to provide inputs to the SDG Summit Zero Draft Political Declaration.
The dialogue featured welcoming remarks by Mr. Neil Pierre, Acting Director of the UN DESA Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination, and Ms. Marina Ponti, Director of the UN SDG Action Campaign Director, as well as from the co-facilitators of the intergovernmental process, H.E. Mr. Fergal Mythen of Ireland and H.E. Ms. Alya Ahmed bin Saif-Al Thani of Qatar. Additionally 14 stakeholders representing different networks, coalitions, major groups and other stakeholder constituencies provided substantive inputs to the zero draft of the 2023 SDG Summit political declaration. The dialogue also included an interactive survey for participants to share their expectations for the SDG summit and a visual scribe who visualized the key elements of the discussion (see bottom of the page).
Over 1,600 people from 140 countries registered for the event and more than 800 participated live in the Zoom webinar. The session was also livestreamed on Facebook where it reached around 2,700 people by 11 am on 7 June 2023.
The written statements can be accessed here on this webpage under the statements tab. Participants were also able to provide written inputs through a dedicated form which received more than 50 submissions.