28 March 2024
On March 28, 2024, an information seminar on the Сontest of Pilot Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals was held in Vitebsk.
The event was attended by over 90 people, of which more than 80% were women. The seminar was joined by representatives of the Vitebsk regional and district executive committees, educational institutions, social services, healthcare, science, culture, public organizations working in the field of providing humanitarian assistance, popularizing sports for people with disabilities, as well as private companies in the fields of tourism, banking and farming, online education.
During the seminar, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) team presented the Regulations on the Сontest, requirements for pilot initiatives on the SDGs, and also demonstrated the process of submitting applications for the Сontest through a specially created platform sdgidea.by. A prerequisite for holding a competition is the creation of equal opportunities and fair access to resources and expertise for all applicants, regardless of their social status, cultural characteristics or other factors.
The UNDP team, together with representatives of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), presented the experience of localizing the SDGs in Belarus, as well as potential directions for future pilot initiatives in the context of 4 accelerators to achieve the SDGs in the Republic of Belarus.
The information seminar was organized by the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee together with UNDP within the framework of the international technical assistance project “Support to the Efforts of the Republic of Belarus in Nationalization and Localization of SDGs” with financial support from the Russian Federation.
The recording of the information seminar about the Сontest of Pilot Initiatives on the SDGs in Vitebsk is available at the link.
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