<div><div dir="auto">Many Thanks for your email and sharing the details, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I reached Bangkok , this year participating in person. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Looking ahead ! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Abia </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 at 10:44 AM, Murali PADMANABHAN <<a href="mailto:murali.padmanabhan@wfp.org" target="_blank">murali.padmanabhan@wfp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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Hi thank you very much dear all I will be there tomorrow morning and look forward to meeting you those who are there for on-site participation thank you<br>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:arial,sans-serif">annual
and inclusive intergovernmental</span> forum and a <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:arial,sans-serif">regional platform</span> for supporting countries, in particular those with special needs, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Forum provides a <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:arial,sans-serif">regional perspective on the implementation</span> 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.<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span>The APFSD also<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> supports follow-up and review</span> of progress on the 2030 Agenda at the regional level.</font></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem"><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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”. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder;font-family:arial,sans-serif">SDG 4 (Quality Education), 5 (Gender Equality), 14 (Life below water), 15 (Life on Land), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).</span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<td style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Roboto,serif"><img alt="SDG 5 Gender Equality" src="https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/inline-images/SDG5.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-family: Roboto, serif;"></td>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I believe all of you are in our WhatsApp group chat, APFSD Disability 2022. We'll use this for staying connected and smooth coordination of our Constituency's statement since our participation is hybrid, with some
of us are in Bangkok and some in KUDO/virtually. Are there any onsite or virtual participants I've missed? Please let me know. </font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A longer version of the statement has been disseminated to all the Constituency members and colleagues for final input. This same longer version statement will be submitted to the APRCEM. I'll deliver the shorter
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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%7Cd1a3c5a927a24dade0c908da0f2eeb18%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637838991636155713%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ZHeZKvIhtX%2BG8aI3QMgvmRXqWrvq5qq0PATvYhGNlp4%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://www.unescap.org/events/apfsd9</a>.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Contributing to APFSD discussions</u></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="line-height:18.4px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The APFSD plenary sessions on all days of the Forum will be broadcast via YouTube, and links are available at the APFSD website (see </span><span style="line-height:18.4px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unescap.org%2Fevents%2Fapfsd9&data=04%7C01%7Cmurali.padmanabhan%40wfp.org%7Cd1a3c5a927a24dade0c908da0f2eeb18%7C462ad9aed7d94206b87471b1e079776f%7C0%7C0%7C637838991636155713%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ZHeZKvIhtX%2BG8aI3QMgvmRXqWrvq5qq0PATvYhGNlp4%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://www.unescap.org/events/apfsd9</a> (Programme)</span><span style="line-height:18.4px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">.
The roundtable discussions on 29 March 2022 will be not publicly broadcast. </span></font></p>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you for your time and continued support. </font></div>
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