Roundtable discussion: “Unity in Action: Accelerating SDG Implementation and Building a Better Future for All"

During the 2025 June management segment, the Economic and Social Council will convene a discussion to integrate key messages from ECOSOC subsidiary bodies and the UN system on the Council’s main theme, develop action-oriented recommendations for follow-up and feed into the high-level political forum on sustainable development (as mandated by GA resolution 75/290 A).

The discussion will take place in the form of a roundtable in the morning of Wednesday, 11 June 2025, and will focus on how to build on the recommendations in the Pact for the Future to further strengthen the role of ECOSOC in driving solutions, actions and partnerships to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and help build a more prosperous, sustainable and inclusive future.

Specifically, the roundtable discussion will aim to:

1. Integrate key messages and policy insights from the Council’s subsidiary bodies and UN system entities and generate concrete, action-oriented recommendations and guidance for the 2025 HLPF, building on the recommendations of the 2025 ECOSOC Coordination Segment.
2. Showcase and strengthen the role of ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies as drivers of multilateralism, cooperation and solidarity as well as advance collaborative and evidence-based responses to global challenges in a rapidly evolving and complex international context.
3. Highlight the ECOSOC system’s contributions to enhancing the relevance, coherence and impact of the United Nations by generating integrated, inclusive and forward-looking policy recommendations that support the acceleration of SDG implementation and leave no one behind.
4. Translate system-wide expertise and deliberations into coherent guidance that contributes meaningfully to ongoing global processes and the implementation of the Pact for the Future.
5. Explore how, working together, ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies can harness the power of partnerships to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and advance our shared global priorities.

• Concept note
• Programme
• Summary
• Webcast
• Statements
  • H.E. Mr. Lok Bahadur Thapa, Vice-President of ECOSOC [Opening Remarks] [Closing Remarks]
  • H.E. Ms. Paula Narváez, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations and President of the 2024 session of the Economic and Social Council
  • H.E. Mr. Muhammadou M.O. Kah, Chair of the 28th session and Chair interim of the 29th session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)
  • H.E. Mr. José Antonio Zabalgoitia Trejo, Chair of the 34th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)
  • Ms. Khrystyna Hayovyshyn, Chair of the 64th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSoCD)
  • Ms. Andrea Mocanu, Vice Chair of the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
  • Ms. Aluki Kotierk (Canada/Artic), Chair of the 24th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII)
  • Mr. Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Coordinator for the Regional Commissions for 2025
  • Ms. Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, Special Representative to the UN and Director of the ILO Office for the United Nations
     

Background resources

• Inputs of the functional commissions of the Council and other intergovernmental bodies and forums to the thematic reviews of the 2025 HLPF.
• Informal note by the Secretariat and summary of the 2025 ECOSOC Coordination Segment.