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17th Session Documentation

Programme of work (as of 19 April 2018) 

Opening

Remarks by H.E. Mr. Jerry Matthews Matjila, Vice-President of ECOSOC

Remarks by Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, UNDESA

Remarks by Ms. Marion Barthelemy, Director, Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development, UNDESA (PPP / Text)

Item 2: Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters 

Provisional annotated agenda (E/C.16/2018/1)
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Economic and Social Council decision on the provisional agenda for the seventieth session of CEPA (2017/253)
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Item 3: Readying institutions and policies for implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: 

Item 3 (a): Promoting policy and institutional coherence in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to be reviewed in depth by the 2018 high-level political forum on sustainable development and the other Goals; 

Expert paper: Promoting policy institutional coherence for the Sustainable Development Goals (E/C.16/2018/2)
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Contribution by the Committee to the 2018 thematic review of the high-level political forum on sustainable development 

Conference room paper on appraising institutional capacity for policy integration  

​Item 3 (b): Building capacities and effectively mobilizing, allocating and managing budgetary resources for implementation of the 2030 Agenda 

Expert paper: Building capacities and effectively mobilizing, allocating and managing budgetary resources for implementation of the 2030 Agenda (E/C.16/2018/3)
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Remarks by Ms. Cristina Duarte, Former Minister of Finance, Planning and Public Administration of Cabo Verde 

Item 3 (c): Building the awareness, competencies and skills of civil servants at the national and local levels; 

Expert paper: Building the awareness, competencies and skills of civil servants at the national and local levels (E/C.16/2018/4)
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Item 4: Building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels: 

​Item 4 (a): Elaborating principles of effective governance for sustainable development building on the work of the Committee at its sixteenth session; 

Expert paper: Elaborating principles of effective governance for sustainable development (E/C.16/2018/5)
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Remarks by Chairman of the Secretariat of the Praia Group on governance statistics (English / French) 

Item 4 (b): Engaging accountability mechanisms, civil society and the media in advising on and overseeing implementation of the Goals; 

Conference room paper on the issues for the current discussion are citizens’ engagement in public decision making, effective institutions and access to information  

Remarks by Mr. Paul Jackson, Programme Director, British Academy and Professor, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham 

Remarks by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)    

Item 4 (c): Nature and challenges of misconduct and corruption in the public sector, and ways forward; 

Expert paper: The question of the protection of whistle-blowers (E/C.16/2018/6)
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Conference room paper on whistle-blower protection and the implementation of article 33 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption on the protection of reporting persons

Item 5: Supporting the transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies by enhancing and equipping institutions:​ 

Item 5 (a): Changes required in institutions and public administration at all levels to foster the transformation of societies required under the 2030 Agenda in urban and rural communities 

Expert paper: Institutional transformation to strengthen the well-being of rural and urban communities: the case of Malaysia (E/C.16/2018/7)
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Remarks by Mr. Abdelhak Saihi, Director General, National School of Administration of Algeria 

Other inputs

African Local Government Academy (ALGA) (French)

Information note on past discussions of CEPA:

Policy coherence and integrated approaches to sustainable development

Public finance and budgeting

Corruption prevention

Participatory governance

The content of and the views expressed in the written statements are those of the NGO and do not imply any expression of opinion on the part of the United Nations.