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As we approach the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations under the banner “the future we want, the UN we need”, we reflect on the complex challenges facing our world, including cross-border health pandemics, economic shocks, inequality, climate instability, and threats to peace and security, and bring forward a call to action. Talking about what the UN system can do for us and the changes required is important. An even more critical challenge is to engage stakeholders from within and outside the world body to co-create partnerships and pathways to the future we fervently desire and a United Nations that inspires and serves all humanity.

How can we harness our collective strength among governments, global civil society, UN agencies, and the business community to design the Future We Want, The UN We Need?

WHEN: September 16 & 17, 2020 / September 18: Community-driven Sessions
WHERE: Virtual Event
WHO: Stakeholders from civil society, scholars, policy entrepreneurs, UN system bodies and Member States, the private sector, and philanthropic institutions.

Our Basic Goal: In connection with the world body’s 75th anniversary, the UN75 Global Governance Forum seeks to promote a more inclusive and effective United Nations through dialogue and recommendations that better harness the ideas, capabilities, and networks of both state and non-state actors for achieving the UN’s commitment to peace, sustainable development, human rights, and a stable climate.

OVERVIEW

On September 16th and 17th, 2020, we will gather virtually to honor the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. A cornerstone of international order since 1945, the United Nations must continue to adapt and innovate to respond to new threats, challenges, and opportunities in our current age of complexity. On September 18 we will hold the UN75 community-driven sessions which will contribute to the UN75 Global Governance Forum’s overall goal to promote a more inclusive and effective United Nations through dialogue and recommendations.

We will convene stakeholders from civil society (including youth), scholars, policy entrepreneurs, UN system bodies and Member States, the private sector, and philanthropic institutions to honor the principles of multilateral cooperation upon which the UN was founded.

In this spirit, participants will seek collectively to raise the ambition of the UN75 Declaration—to be finalized in June 2020 by Member States—by initiating new multi-stakeholder pilot projects toward the realization of “the future we want, the UN we need.” In an era of accelerated connectivity and advanced technology, we aspire to forge a roadmap to bring a fresh, modern perspective to the UN Charter’s founding principles to update our vision and promote a truly “people-centered” architecture for global collective action.

AGENDA

• PARTNERSHIP TRACK DISCUSSIONS (INVITATION ONLY)
  13 JULY – 4 SEPTEMBER, 2020
• INNOVATION TRACK E-CONSULTATION AND WEBINAR SERIES (INVITATION ONLY)
  HELD BETWEEN AUGUST 3RD – 30TH, WITH WEEKLY WEBINARS HELD FROM 10:30 AM TO 11:45 AM EST (NY TIME) ON AUG. 5TH (GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT), AUG. 12TH (PEACE & SECURITY), AUG. 19TH (HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMANITARIAN ACTION & INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE), AND AUG. 26TH (CLIMATE GOVERNANCE).
• PLENARY SESSIONS
  SEPTEMBER 16 & 17 FROM 9:00 AM TO 1:30 PM EST
• COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SESSIONS
  SEPTEMBER 18 FROM 9:00 AM TO 1:30 PM EST
• *PLEASE CLICK THE AGENDA FOR FURTHER DETAILS

FORUM GOALS

• INITIATE A NEW GENERATION OF SCALE-ABLE, MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES THAT BETTER HARNESS, FOR 2020 AND BEYOND, THE IDEAS, CAPABILITIES AND NETWORKS OF STATE & NON-STATE ACTORS FOR ACHIEVING THE UN’S COMMITMENT TO PEACE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND A STABLE CLIMATE.
• BUILD CONSENSUS AROUND A STRATEGY FOR A SELECT NUMBER OF “GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONAL, POLICY, AND NORMATIVE INNOVATIONS.”

URL:

https://www.platformglobalsecurityjusticegovernance.org/news/event-designing-a-roadmap-to-the-future-un/