A CPD team of high officials participated at a conference on UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel (HLP) report titled “Turning Evidence into Action for the Post-2015 Agenda,” during 25-26 June 2013, in New York, USA.
Jointly organised by Overseas Development International (ODI) and United Nations Foundation(UNF), the two-day conference provided space for substantive discussions onthe outlines of a consensus on the post-2015 agenda following the publication the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel report, and many thousands of hours of consultation.
As panellists on the second day, Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow, CPD addressed the session “Delivering poverty Eradication: Economic Transformation, Employment and Social Protection” and Professor Mustafizur Rahman, Executive Director, CPD addressed “Global Reforms for Delivering a Post-2015 Agenda.”
The conference convened staff in UN missions, UN specialist agencies, leading thinkers and other key practitioners in New York and Washington working on the post-2015 agenda.