Asia Pacific CSO Forum on Sustainable Development:
Consolidating Peoples’ Agenda for Development Justice
The Asia Pacific CSO Forum on Sustainable Development: Consolidating Peoples’ Agenda for Development Justice was organized and supported by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development, UNESCAP, UNEP and the AP-RCEM on 17-19 May, 2015. This was a back to back meeting aiming to inform and build capacity of civil society organisations including those who are coming from underrepresented constituencies and who are new in engaging in the UN Processes or new to sustainable development discourse. The objectives of the meeting were:
1. Inform and build capacity of civil society participants on sustainable development at the global and regional levels, and on the opportunities and modalities for engaging these processes;
2. Provide a space for dialogue on the content and substance of the APFSD and UNEP Forum of Environment Ministers and Environmental Authorities, formulate civil society positions building on Asia-Pacific civil society messages on post-Rio+20 and post-2015 development agenda and strategize interventions at the APFSD and the UNEP Forum;
3. Reflect on the work of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism 2014-2015, and elect the new committee of AP-RCEM and UNEP Alternate Regional Representative
4. Agree on joint actions and follow up to civil society positions adopted.
Documents
Programme Asia Pacific CSO Forum on Sustainable Development
Environment and Health Linkages in Asia Pacific
Environment Outlook Background Document
Translating General Development Goals into Practical Policies
UNEA Background Paper_22 April 2015
Aligning corporate sustainablity with SDGs – tentative agenda 2015-05-13
Presentations
Orientation
Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism by Marjorie Pamintuan | Asia Pacific Research Network
Financing for developent Presentation by Cai Yiping | DAWN
HLPF and post 2015; Structure, position, review and participation by Ajay Jha | CECOEDECON
Why Engage in the Post-2015 process by o Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission on Migrants
SDGs and P2015 overview by Paul Quintos | Ibon International
Day 1
CSO_SD_17.05_draft by Ms. Hitomi Rankine, Environmental Affairs Officer, Environment and Development Division, ESCAP
ESCAP Presentation – CSO_SD_17.05_draft by Ms. Hitomi Rankine, Environmental Affairs Officer, Environment and Development Division, ESCAP
UNEA Opportunities for CSO Engagement_AP Ministerial Forum by Alexander Juras, Chief, Major Groups and Stakeholder Branch and Satwant Kaur, Regional Information Officer, UNEP
SDGs and P2015 overview by Paul Quintos | Ibon International
Privatization of SDGs by Wali Haider | Roots for Equity
Post 2015 Development Agenda by Ranja Sengupta | Third World Network
CSO Perspective CSO Engagements in UN Global and Regional Intergovernmental processes by Neth Dano | ETC Group
Video to support LGBTIQ Rights: https://www.unfe.org/en/actions/the-riddle–15 by Rudolf Bastian Tampubolon, GCAP Youth SENCAP
Environmental Concerns in the Region_An Outlook from Indonesia by Ahmad Syamsul Hadi | Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia
Pesticides & Environmental Health by Chela Vasquez | Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific
CSO Perspectives on Economic and Social Impacts by Maria Finesa Cosico, AGHAM-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
High Level Political Forum by Kate Lappin
Indicators survey APFSD by Kate Lappin
Day 2
Architecture for Regional SD Mechanism by Ajay Jha | CECOEDECON, Meena Bilgi | WOCAN and Govind Kelkar | LANDESA
RCEM presentation by Wardarina | APWLD ; Marjorie Pamintuan | APRN ; Ranja Sengupta | TWN
MOI & FFD overview by Paul Quintos | Ibon International
Outcome Documents
Consolidating People’s Agenda for Development Justice Summary of Civil Society Recommendations for the APFSD: AP-RCEM APFSD Statement (English Only)