The First National Sustainable Development Forum will take place on January 24, 2019

The date of the First National Sustainable Development Forum has been announced at today’s meeting of the UN Resident Coordinator in Belarus Joanna Kazana-Wisniowiecki and National Coordinator on the implementation of SDGs Marianna Shchotkina. 

The upcoming forum will gather over 400 participants. The representatives of the Council for Sustainable Development, parliamentary and regional working groups on SDGs, Partner group on Sustainable development, the representatives of the UN agencies and other international organizations, as well as diplomatic corpus are invited to participate. According to Joanna Kazana-Wisniowiecki, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger has already confirmed her attendance. It will be her first regional visit in this position.

At the Forum, the participants will hear the reports on the progress of the Republic of Belarus in the implementation of SDGs, assess the pace of the progress and outline the strategic moves for further development. The concept of the National strategy on sustainable development by 2035 is to be presented as well. The current version of the Concept is publicly discussed and can be found on the website of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus. 

The participants of the forum will discuss the opportunities of supporting sustainable economic growth, ecological safety, more effective realization of the potential for cooperation between business, authorities, and civil society, fighting climate change and the preservation of ecosystems, gender equality, and inclusion.