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Putting the wellbeing of people and the planet at the centre of COVID-19 recovery strategies: The critical role of parliaments
Summary
14:00 to 16:00 (ICT Bangkok time)
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically set back progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), affecting all aspects of development and pushing an estimated 75 to 80 million more people in Asia and the Pacific into extreme poverty. According to the Asia and the Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report 2021, progress appears to be very slow or stagnant for various goals. Critical issues that need to be addressed urgently in the region are especially related to climate action and disaster risk.
Jointly organized by the IPU and UNESCAP, the webinar will provide parliamentarians and parliamentary staff with up-to-date information as well as tools that can help them monitor the status of SDGs implementation at the national and regional levels. Parliamentarians and parliamentary staff will have a unique space where they can exchange and discuss tangible strategies to implement coherent actions to address climate and disaster risks and progress towards more resilient and sustainable development. The discussions will also focus on the importance for parliaments to be engaged in the Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) process in order to monitor government actions, strengthen national ownership of and build more political support for the SDGs.
The webinar is part of a series of IPU regional webinars on SDGs implementation in a time of pandemic, and is being organized in anticipation of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, an intergovernmental meeting organized by UNESCAP to review progress on the SDGs at the regional level.
The meeting will be held virtually and will be open to parliaments of Asia-Pacific countries as well as additional ESCAP Members. The working language will be English.