2025 Operational Activities for Development Segment

Briefing on OAS by the Vice-President of ECOSOC 

24 April 2025, ECOSOC Chamber, Informal briefing on the OAS by the Vice-President of ECOSOC

• Vice-President invitation to Member States

• Programme of the 2025 Economic and Social Council Operational Activities Segment
• Annotated programme 5 May, of the 2025 Economic and Social Council Operational Activities Segment
• Vice-President invitation to Member States

Day 1

• 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
  Opening of the segment
   
• 10:30 AM – 1: 00 PM
  Supporting the front-lines of operational activities for development: Messages from the field
   
• 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  High-level Dialogue with the Secretary-General on his report on the Implementation of General Assembly resolution 79/226 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system

Day 2

• 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 
  Dialogue with the Deputy Secretary-General on the UNSDG Chair’s report on the Development Coordination Office and the Resident Coordinator system
   
• 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM 
  Dialogue with UNDS Executive Heads: Supporting countries to achieve sustainable development in the current context
   
• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
  SDG financing at the country level: dialogue with UN country teams and other actors

Day 3

• 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  Effective accountability: UN system evaluation  Report of the System-wide Evaluation Office (SWEO) Dialogue on recent evaluation results and management response
   
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
  Effective accountability: Action for the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment
   
• 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
  Supporting countries in implementing the SDGs in complex settings: interlinkages between develop
   
• 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
  Development needs and solutions for internally displaced persons
   
• 5:45 PM– 6:00 PM
  Closing

• Call for side events
  Side events will be held on the margins of the Economic and Social Council Operational Activities for development Segment (OAS), 20 to 22 May 2025.
  Complete the online form to register your event: ECOSOC OAS 2025 Side Event Request Form.

2025 Secretary General’s Report on the implementation of the QCPR 

• Report (advance unedited version)
• Addendum: Funding report (Official document-ODS version, advance unedited version)
• Framework for global-level monitoring and reporting on the Funding Compact (updated 28 April 2025)
• Annex: QCPR Monitoring Framework (updated 30 April 2025)

2025 Report of the Chair of the UNSDG on the Development Coordination Office 

• Report (advance unedited version)

2025 Annual report of the Executive Director of the UNSDG System-Wide Evaluation Office

• Report (advance unedited version)

Vice President's Summary

Summary will be added after the Segment

DESA Survey Questionnaires

• Survey of Governments (PDF: EN | FR | ES | RU | AR / Word: EN | FR | ES  | RU | AR)
• Survey of Resident Coordinators (PDF / Word)
• Survey of UN Country Teams (PDF / Word)
• Survey of Headquarters of UN development system entities (PDF / Word)