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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arabic Typesetting"">Murali PADMANABHAN</span></i></b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arabic Typesetting"">Regional Disability Inclusion Advisor-Asia & Pacific</span></b><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Abia Akram <abia.akram@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 27, 2022 11:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Murali PADMANABHAN <murali.padmanabhan@wfp.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Adfsecretariat9@gmail.com; Amba Salelkar <asalelkar@ida-secretariat.org>; Angeline Chand <Angeline.Chand@pacificdisability.org>; Annika Tierney Lemisio <annikatierney@gmail.com>; Asinate Tinai <tinai.nate@gmail.com>; Beia Temango <btemango@gmail.com>;
Bella Choo <bchoo@specialolympics.org>; Belly Lesmana <ptrdehunt@gmail.com>; Bethany Brown <bbrown@ida-secretariat.org>; Caleb Nelly <calebn.vdpa@gmail.com>; Casper Joseph Fa'asala <genderalert@gmail.com>; Danishkadah <danishkadah@gmail.com>; Deepa Sonpal
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</span><span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">김동호</span><span lang="EN-US"> <dongwest@hanmail.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [APRCEM) Information and Preparation for APFSD 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0in;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an <b>annual and inclusive intergovernmental</b> forum
and a <b>regional platform</b> for supporting countries, in particular those with special needs, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while serving as a regional preparatory meeting to the high-level political forum.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Forum provides a <b>regional perspective on the implementation</b> of the 2030 Agenda by identifying regional trends
and consolidating and sharing best practices and lessons learned. The Forum takes into consideration the contributions of United Nations system bodies (at the regional level), other regional and sub-regional organizations, and relevant stakeholders.<b> </b>The
APFSD also<b> supports follow-up and review</b> of progress on the 2030 Agenda at the regional level.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The theme of the 9th APFSD is “Building back better from COVID-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030
Agenda in Asia and the Pacific”. The 9th APFSD will play a unique role as a catalyzer of solutions and peer learning on how to accelerate transformations for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda while recovering from COVID-19. Within this context, the forum
will provide the space for an in-depth review of the following cluster of goals which will be reviewed by the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in 2022: <b>SDG 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality), 14 (Life below water), 15
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<p style="margin-top:0in;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#4D4D4D">Sustainable Development Goals Under Review in 2022</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#4D4D4D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The APFSD will be convened in hybrid mode – physically at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC),
and virtually on the KUDO virtual platform (plenary), and via Zoom (Roundtables for SDGs 4, 5, 17, 14, and 15 respectively) from 28 to 31 March 2022. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The programme, documents, and information on the side and other associated events are available at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unescap.org%2Fevents%2Fapfsd9&data=04%7C01%7Cmurali.padmanabhan%40wfp.org%7C178eec4ecb5e4697046b08da0fad2b21%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637839533752258720%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=O9mzSjiDVaslbna4RYjNLGoejukzQ2m75%2BJRQDMOQLE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.unescap.org/events/apfsd9</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Contributing to APFSD discussions</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If any of our Constituency members have comments or input our statement or to the roundtables discussions,
please feel free to contact me. The side events are also listed below and I encourage you to participate. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The APFSD plenary sessions on all days of the Forum will be broadcast via YouTube, and links are available
at the APFSD website (see <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unescap.org%2Fevents%2Fapfsd9&data=04%7C01%7Cmurali.padmanabhan%40wfp.org%7C178eec4ecb5e4697046b08da0fad2b21%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637839533752258720%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=O9mzSjiDVaslbna4RYjNLGoejukzQ2m75%2BJRQDMOQLE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.unescap.org/events/apfsd9</a> (Programme).
The roundtable discussions on 29 March 2022 will be not publicly broadcast. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The APFSD will feature a large number of side events and the full programme will be available on the APFSD website shortly. We invite you to join and urge you and your colleagues and
networks to also participate.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">That's all for now. Keep you posted later. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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