2 April 2024
On April 2, 2024, the information seminar on the Contest of Pilot Initiatives on the Sustainable Development Goals was held in Minsk.
More than 70 people took part in the event, of which 69% were women. The seminar was joined by representatives of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk regional and district executive committees, educational institutions, social services, culture, public organizations working in the field of providing humanitarian assistance, supporting people with visual disabilities, children and young people with disabilities, as well as private companies in the field of tourism, banking, support for small and medium-sized businesses, the introduction of unmanned technologies in agriculture, and the production of automotive electronics.
During the seminar, the representative of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus elaborated on the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus on international technical assistance, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus informed about the functioning of the national architecture for managing the process of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The United Nations Development Program team presented the Regulations on the Contest, requirements for Pilot Initiatives on the SDGs, and also demonstrated the process of submitting applications for the Competition through a specially created platform sdgidea.by.
In addition, together with a representative of the United Nations Population Fund, the experience of localizing the SDGs in Belarus was presented, 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 Minsk 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.
A recording of the information seminar on the Contest of Pilot Initiatives on SDGs in Minsk is available at the link.
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