2024 Programme for “Digital Delegates” of Religious NGOs to the HLPF on Sustainable Development

Commitment required for participation:

• Ability to converse in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French
• Participation in at least 5 online gatherings (global and/or regional)
• Viewing of recordings of any gathering one is unable to attend live
• Participation in at least one session of the “JCoR SDG Lab” in July
• Completion of all independent study/reflection and outreach activities between gatherings
• Effort to make contact with a national civil society network that is monitoring SDG implementation in the participant’s country
• Participation in a JCoR WhatsApp group with other HLPF delegates from the same country throughout the programme

Content of online gatherings:

• 15 January 2024: Global Call #1
  • What is the Justice Coalition of Religious (JCoR)?
  • What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
  • What is the role of Religious congregations in the UN system and the SDGs?

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• 12 February 2024: Global Call #2
  • What is the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)?
  • What are Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)?
  • How can we, members of civil society, participate in the VNR process and in the HLPF?

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• February-May 2024:
  • Regional Calls: Round 1
    • Meeting others with your region and learning about their personal areas of ministry and experience
    • Exact date and time to be selected by members from each region
  • Regional Fora on Sustainable Development
    • Dates for each region:
      • Asia-Pacific: 20-23 February 2024
      • Western Asia: 5-7 March 2024
      • Europe: 13-14 March 2024
      • Latin America and the Caribbean: 15-19 April 2024
      • Africa: week of 22 April 2024
    • What are the central themes or concerns my national government is emphasizing in our input to the Regional Forum?
    • What ideas or concerns are absent from my government’s input to the Regional Forum?
    • How does my government’s input compare to those of other countries in the region?
• 29 April 2024: Global Call #3
  • What were key themes of our respective nations’ input to their Regional Fora?
  • What insights or concepts from our respective governments’ input would we wish to reinforce? What would we add?
  • What key ideas or observations did we take away from the Regional Forum as a whole?

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• 20 May 2024: Global Call #4
  • How can we reflect on reports of governments and civil society that were submitted to previous HLPF sessions?
  • To which of the priority SDGs does each of us feel called to focus (and possibly speak about) during the JCoR SDG Lab?
  • What tasks do we need to complete in order to prepare for our participation in the HLPF and JCoR SDG Lab?
  • Click here to access the VNR for your country

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• 1 July 2024: Global Call #5
  • How shall we prepare our contributions to the JCoR SDG Lab?
  • How do we follow the proceedings of the HLPF virtually or in person?

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• 8 – 19 July 2024: Regional Calls: Round 2
  • What are our responses to the most recent VNR presented by our respective governments?
  • What are our responses to the most recent SDG progress report(s) developed by a civil society network in our respective countries?
  • What are the key ideas from each country that we want to include in our presentations/comments for the JCoR SDG Lab?
• 5 August 2024: Global Call #6
  • What were our impressions of the 2024 HLPF and JCoR SDG Lab?
  • How do we intend to take the lessons of this process forward?
  • What support from JCoR or our congregations would helpful to us as we continue to implement and monitor SDGs in our countries?

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