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SUMMARY:Webinar on Gender and SDGs - In preparation on the HLPF 2018
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 3 July\, 14:00 – 15:15 CET \nCountries are implementing policies and programs to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Gender and equality are cross-cutting issues throughout the 17 goals and 169 targets. In advance of the HLPF on Sustainable Development taking place from 9 to 18 July\, the webinar is an opportunity to explore how to ensure gender and equality are at the forefront of SDG implementation\, including what gender and equality advocates can do to hold their countries accountable and monitor progress. What are the areas for civil society to influence the SDG process? How to get information if you country is doing a VNR\, how to get involved? What are the major groups & other stakeholders? \nThe theme will be “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”. The set of goals to be reviewed in depth will be the following\, including Goal 17: \n\nGoal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all\nGoal 7. Ensure access to affordable\, reliable\, sustainable and modern energy for all\nGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive\, safe\, resilient and sustainable\nGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns\nGoal 15. Protect\, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems\, sustainably manage forests\, combat desertification\, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss\n\nThe focus of the webinar will be on how UN member states and CSOs are preparing to report on SDG 6\, 7 and 12\, as well as 15 and 16. We will also give examples from CSO questions about the Voluntary National Reviews which member states are presenting. \nAgenda and speakers: \n\nSascha Gabizon\, International director WECF: Introduction to HLPF 2018\, preparations on Voluntary National Reviews and on SDG6 – Water and Sanitation\nCamila ROLANDO\, ICTA UAB: SDG 15\, 12 and linking to SDG16 to better protect environmental defenders through legal and juridical means\nKatharina Habersbrunner\, Head of energy and climate WECF: How to assure equal access to save\, renewable and affordable energy? What to focus on for the SDG7 review?\nJohanna Hausmann\, Senior advisor for chemicals WECF: Sustainable consumption and production SDG12 – why are critical problems of waste and toxic chemicals and their impact on women and men missing from the SDG12 review and what to do about it\nQ&A\n\nModerator: Tbd \nPlease join my meeting from your computer\, tablet or smartphone: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/399645469  \nYou can also dial in using your phone.  \nUnited States: +1 (571) 317-3129\nAccess Code: 399-645-469 \nMore phone numbers:\nAustralia: +61 2 9087 3604\nAustria: +43 7 2081 5427\nBelgium: +32 28 93 7018\nCanada: +1 (647) 497-9391\nDenmark: +45 32 72 03 82\nFinland: +358 942 72 1060\nFrance: +33 170 950 594\nGermany: +49 692 5736 7317\nIreland: +353 16 572 651\nItaly: +39 0 247 92 13 01\nNetherlands: +31 202 251 017\nNew Zealand: +64 9 280 6302\nNorway: +47 21 93 37 51\nSpain: +34 932 75 2004\nSweden: +46 853 527 827\nSwitzerland: +41 435 5015 61\nUnited Kingdom: +44 330 221 0088  \nFirst GoToMeeting? Let’s do a quick system check: https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check
URL:https://sdgwatcheurope.org/event/webinar-on-gender-and-sdgs/
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SUMMARY:European Anti-Poverty Network’s 2018 annual conference "Social Protection for All! How can the Social Pillar and SDGs build stronger welfare states?" - 5 July
DESCRIPTION:EAPN will be holding its annual conference on 5 July from 9:00 – 13:00\, at the Crowne Plaza\, rue Gineste 3\, 1210 Brussels \nAccess to Social Protection and social inclusion is the third chapter of the European Pillar of Social Rights\, with social protection specifically quoted in principle 12: “regardless of the type and duration of their employment relationship\, workers\, and under comparable conditions\, the self-employed\, have the right to social protection”. It is now a key element of the Commission’s new Social Fairness Package\, with a proposal for a Council Recommendation to improve access to social protection\, which will attempt to ensure that all ‘workers’ get access to ‘social protection’\, including those currently categorized as ‘self-employed’. Principle 14 on ‘Minimum Income’\, aims to provide a basic social assistance safety net for those who fall outside the ‘social protection’ net and is currently a key focus on EAPN’s work coordinating the EMIN project and bus awareness raising journey. \nHowever\, the ‘definition’ of social protection\, currently at EU level\, is limited to only those who are in employment\, and ‘pay’ for coverage through work-based contributions. Those who fall outside receive only basic income support safety nets (minimum income). Such an approach fails to ensure equal rights to social protection\, at all ages and to all groups\, regardless of their employment status\, risking increasing poverty and inequality\, and undermining a more inclusive and sustainable development model. \nThe SDGs and in particular the ILO’s Social Protection Floor takes a broader definition on social protection as “basic social security guarantees which secure protection aimed at preventing or alleviating poverty\, vulnerability and social exclusion’” aiming to cover all groups for income security and access to public health and other services\, through the life cycle. \nIn the context of the future of work carrying major threats of unemployment and/or increasingly precarious work\, an employment contributions model will increasingly leave more people behind and widen the inequality gap. \nA new concept of the welfare state and financing is needed and this is what we will explore in our interactive conference\, which will: \n\nPresent why social protection for all is key\, including input from people experiencing poverty;\nDiscuss the challenges and promising practices from the national level;\nGet feedback & debate on access to social protection and guaranteed minimum income with the European Commission\, European Parliament\, Council & Civil Society partners;\nGive special attention to the financing and concept of Welfare states with input from the ILO and other Civil Society Organisations.\n\nKey speakers invited: \n\nCidália Tomé Barriga\, Activist with direct experience of poverty/EAPN PT\nMaria Jeliazkova\, EAPN BG\nJoost Korte\, Director General DG Employment\, Social Affairs and Inclusion\nA representative of the Social Platform and Eurochild\nA representative of the EMIN project (European Minimum Income Network)\nMEP Maria João Rodrigues\, Vice-President of the S&D Group and President of FEPS\nJan Farzan\, German Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs\nAudrey Le Guével\, Acting Director ILO Brussels\nFrancine Mestrum\, Founder of Global Social Justice\nConny Reuter\, Solidar General Secretary\n\nFor further information on content\, contact Sian Jones (Policy Coordinator) sian.jones@eapn.eu\, or on registrations Rebecca Lee (Information & Events Officer)\, rebecca.lee@eapn.eu \nSee more information on the conference on the EAPN website : https://www.eapn.eu/20132-2/
URL:https://sdgwatcheurope.org/event/eapn-conference-5-july-900-1300-crowne-plaza-rue-gineste-3-1210-brussels/
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SUMMARY:High Level Political Forum (HLPF)
DESCRIPTION:The yearly UN high-level political forum on sustainable development to discuss progress on Agenda 2030 and the SDGs \nIt is convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council and will be held from Monday\, 9 July\, to Wednesday\, 18 July 2018; including the three-day ministerial meeting of the forum from Monday\, 16 July\, to Wednesday\, 18 July 2018.
URL:https://sdgwatcheurope.org/event/high-level-political-forum-hlpf/
LOCATION:New York
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