ECOSOC Briefing on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Place: ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations, New York

Date: 4 April 2012, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The briefing presented the Secretary-General’s timeline and process related to the post-2015 development agenda and some of the key findings and analysis of the UN Task Team. In particular, the briefing is expected to draw from the conclusions of the Experts Group Meeting to support the advancement of the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda, held on 27-29 February 2012 as well as to build on the informal briefing for delegations held on Tuesday, 28 February 2012. It is also expected that the briefing will highlight the intersection of the two processes and how they can complement each other.

Participants in the briefing will include: Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Sha Zukang, Mr. Selim Jahan, Director of the Poverty Group, UNDP, Professor Frances Stewart and Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, members of the Committee for Development Policy.

The agenda of the meeting is available here and its Background note here.

See here the introductory remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

Here, you will find the presentation used by Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, member of the Committee for Development Policy.