Organizing Partner NY

Dear NGO ,

UN DESA has released a form for nominations of lead discussants from Major Groups and other Stakeholders for the HLPF 2020. This call for expert lead discussants will allow us to identify who we will submit as the NGO nominations for the 2020 HLPF.

The 2020 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from 7 to 16 July 2019 under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HLPF will happen, most probably, virtually.

This year's theme will be "Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development."  More information (details, program, info on VNRs, etc.) are available here.

The 2020 HLPF Draft Programme can be found here.

We are looking to nominate lead discussants to contribute to the various official thematic sessions and the official stakeholder session in the first four days of HLPF.


The applications will be reviewed by the NGO OPs, and we will make our selection for each official session, including both a lead discussant and a replacement speaker, in case the first speaker will not be able to participate at the last minute. These nominations will then be reviewed by the Steering Group of the MGoS Coordination Mechanism. A slate of nominations will then be submitted by the Steering Group to ECOSOC, taking into account equitable geographical distribution, gender, age, constituency and issue-based balance.

Deadline: Tuesday, June 1st, 2020 (5:00pm Eastern Time).

Nomination form can be found here. 

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