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Consultations within this year´s Agenda 2030 Alignment process successfully completed

The last session in the framework of this year’s process of harmonization of agendas of the UN agencies with the Agenda 2030 took place on July 3, 2019, in the New York UN Headquarters. The meeting was chaired by the Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations, Marie Chatardová, and the Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste to the United Nations, Maria Helena Lopes de Jesus Pires.

At the outset of the session, deputy chief of staff of María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the President of the seventy-third UN General Assembly, ambassador Yanerit Morgan, delivered the position of the UN GA presidency. It was emphasized that there need to be specific and concrete results from the harmonization process, especially given the upcoming SDG Summit in October, where the world leaders are supposed to reconfirm their commitments to achieve the Agenda 2030 goals.

This year, the harmonization process revolved around the evidence-based solutions in coverage of the individual SDG goals and overlaps and duplications between the different intergovernmental UN agencies. There was a member-state consensus achieved in regard to updated mapping of the individual goals but there is still work to be done to determine specific criteria to identify the overlaps and duplications.

This year’s harmonization process took eight sessions in total and the member states especially appreciated the co-facilitators’ decision to organize five expert-level meetings where a very open exchange of positions was cultivated. These expert sessions definitely helped to deliver specific results of this year’s process.