UNESCO High-Level Global Education Meeting - December 2018
UNESCO High-Level Global Education Meeting to review progress towards global education targets and commitments, especially in the context of SDG 4, took place on 3- 5 December 2018 in Brussels. The meeting culminated in the Brussels Declaration.
Through the Brussels Declaration, participating governments reiterated commitment to partnerships:
14. We commit to reinforcing national and regional SDG4 coordination and implementation mechanisms and to strengthening international cooperation, solidarity and partnerships by learning from each other's experiences and developing joint initiatives ensuring complementarity and synergy in our efforts to meet our shared goals and commitments.
SDG 4 will be featured for an in-depth review during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2019 to be convened by ECOSOC in July 2019 on the theme ‘Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality,’
SDGs- HLPF 2019 held in New York
The meeting of the high-level political forum (HLPF) on sustainable development in 2019 was convened in New York, under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council, from 9 July to 18 July 2019. Discussions included the report of the Expert Group Meeting on SDG 17 (which had taken place on 12 April 2019 at the UN Headquarters in New York) entitled “Harnessing Means of Implementation (MOIs) through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to BuildInclusive and Equitable Societies”. The findings of the report focused on the internal and external effectiveness of partnerships, highlighting concerns around power imbalances, sustained funding, reporting, accountability, local relevance and obstacles to bottom-up engagement.