Phase 2

Report - summary of second phase of the ECOSOC dialogue

The Future We Want, the UN System We Need: Papers by the Independent Team of Advisors to the ECOSOC Bureau

Roadmap

Press Release - Independent Team of Advisors

Retreats

Workshops

Informal follow-up consultations

ECOSOC Formal Session

Event on Middle-income Countries (26 May 2016)

Civil society consultations and briefings

Retreats

Retreat 2 (26-27 February 2016)

Programme
List of Participants
DSG's Keynote Address
Summary
Background documents
- List of proposals submitted by Member States
- List of proposals from Phase 1

Workshops

Briefing Session (17 December 2015)

Programme
Summary
Statements
- Statement by Helen Clark, UNDG Chair and UNDP Administrator
- Statement of Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (Delivered by Navid Hanif, Director, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination)
- Statement by Mahmoud Mohieldin, Corporate Secretary and President’s Special Envoy, World Bank Group
- Statement by Sarah Cliffe, Director, Centre on International Cooperation, New York University
- Statement by Youssef Mahmoud (Tunisia), HIPPO Panel Member

Workshop 5 (April 13 2016)

Workshop 6 (May 5 2016)

Programme

Workshop 7 (13 June)

Programme
Independent Team of Advisors Paper on interlinkages
Statement by H.E. Ambassador Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Vice-President of ECOSOC

Workshop 8 (22 June)

Informal follow-up consultations(27 May, 10 June and 1 July 2016)

Informal follow-up consultations (27 May)
- Guiding questions for Functions & Funding, Partnership Arrangements
Informal follow-up consultations (10 June)
- Guiding questions for Governance, Organizational Arrangements
Informal follow-up consultations: Briefing on Proposals by the UN System (1 July)
- Programme
  - Final programme
- Statements and presentations
  - Statement by H.E. Ambassador Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Vice-President of ECOSOC
  - Introductory remarks, by Mr. Amir Abdulla, UNDG Vice-Chair & WFP Deputy Executive Director - Summary of Key UNDG Proposals for a More Strategic and Dynamic QCPR
  - Breaking Down the Silos and Working Across the Pillars, presentation by Mr. Amir Abdulla, UNDG Vice-Chair & WFP Deputy Executive Director
  - The UNDS at Country Level - Facts on the Ground, presentation by Ms. Kanni Wignaraja, Director, UN DOCO
  - Effective Joined-up Operations, Mr. Jens Wandel, Co-Chair UNDG Business Operations Working Group & Director, UNDP Bureau for Management Services (UNDG position paper on The Role of UN Business Operations for Enhanced Programme Delivery Under the SDGs)
  - Maximizing the Normative Agenda, by Mr. Vinícius Carvalho Pinheiro, Special Representative to the UN and Director, ILO Office for the United Nations, delivered on behalf of FAO, ILO, UNESCO, UNIDO and WHO
  - Moving Towards a SDG-aligned, Flexible Funding Framework, New Financing Models, presentation by Mr Olav Kjørven, Director, UNICEF Public Partnerships Division
  - Discussion on Regional UNDG Coordination, by Ms. Cihan Sultanoglu, Europe and CIS Regional UNDG Chair & Director, UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and Mr. Amr Nour, Director, Regional Commissions NY Office
- Other Documents
  - Suggestions for Reforming the UN Development System – Input from UNICEF for the 2016 QCPR

ECOSOC Formal Session: Conclusion of the ECOSOC Dialogue (7 July)

Draft programme
Statement by H.E. Ambassador Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Vice-President of ECOSOC
Statement by Mr Wu Hongbo, Under Secretary-General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, delivered by Mr Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General, Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Statement by Ms Helen Clark, Chair, UNDG, delivered by Mr. Amir Abdulla, UNDG Vice-Chair & WFP Deputy Executive Director
Statements by Member States: AOSIS, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Kazakhstan, Norway, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Related events

Event on Middle-income Countries (26 May 2016)

Programme
Concept Note
Background Paper
Summary by the Vice President of ECOSOC
Statements
Presenters (in order of presentation)
- Statement by H.E. Ambassador Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Vice-President of ECOSOC (forthcoming)
- Presentation by Mr. John McArthur, Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
- Papers by Mr. Jonathan Glennie, Visiting Fellow, International Development Institute, King's College, and Director of Policy and Research, Save the Children UK can be found here and here
- Presentation by H.E. Mr. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Minister of Labor and Social Security of Costa Rica
- Statement by H.E. Ms. Lourdes Ortiz Yparraguirre, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations
- Presentation by Ms. Adriana Abdenur, Fellow, Igarapé Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Presentation by Mr. Harold Robinson, Chief, Post 2015 Development Agenda Branch, Division of Governance and Multilateral Affairs, UNFPA
Member States

Civil society consultations and briefings

Briefing Session to Civil Society (10 February 2016)

Programme
Statements
- Statement by H.E. Ambassador Héctor Alejandro Palma Cerna, Vice-President of ECOSOC
- Statement by representative from the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development
Webcast

Briefing Session to Civil Society (26 April 2016)

Programme

Informal inputs of civil society:

CSO FfD Group's Statement

Consultations with Civil Society (16 June 2016)