The latest meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development, convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, met this month from 10 July to 19 July 2017.
The theme has been “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world“. IACD has consultative status with the United Nations and as such seeks to be a voice for community development across all UN programmes and agencies. Where we can we participate in meetings and consultations, to be kept in touch with and contribute to latest thinking about development issues. Since 2014 our priority has been around the UN Sustainable Development Goals and we’ve attended several INGO consultations and were at the UN in 2015 and 2016 for the publication of the SDG targets and for the High Level Political Forum, where we organised a full house official Side Event on the theme of community development and the SDGs.
For more information on the 2017 HLPF session, held from 10-19 July in New York on the overarching theme of “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world” with a special focus on SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 14 and 17, please see: https://
IACD members outside the UN in New York during the High Level Political Forum on the SDGs.
Over the next three years IACD plans to have a presence at appropriate UN events related to progressing the SDGs. Our focus being to raise the profile of the importance of community development practice and scholarship in both strengthening the capacity of vulnerable communities, but also of enhancing governmental, non-governmental and business sector expertise as listening to and engaging with local communities and communities of interest and identity. This is the key timeline (2015-2019) for SDG gatherings at the UN is:
Our work linking with the UN is led by Board members Anastasia Crickley, from Ireland and Tony Kimbowa from Uganda, together with New York based members Esther Farmer and Randy Adams (Past Vice President) and John Stansfield from New Zealand. The IACD President, Paul Lachapelle, is an ex officio member of this committee. Anastasia chairs IACD’s International Relations Committee. You can find out more about the work of the committee by contacting Anastasia anastasia.crickley@nuim.ie
