Policy Goal

ICES and its partners are working for the inclusion of Essential Surgery in the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

1. High Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda

A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development, a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development.
ICES' official response to the draft report

2. Health in the post-2015 Agenda

Health in the Post-2015 Agenda report
ICES' official r esponse to the draft report

3. Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Public Consultation on Draft Report - Indicators for Sustainable Development Goals - 2014 - ICES
Indicators for Sustainable Development Goals - ICES comments pages 135-138

4. Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

8th Open Working Group meeting side event- ICES with partners hosted an Official United Nations Side Event - 6 February, 2014
- osition paper: Vision & Priorities for the Sustainable Development Goals and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

“Empowering Women and Children through Increased Access to Essential Surgery”

12th Open Working Group meeting
- Official comment submitted to the UN Open Working Group with Global Surgery and Anesthesia Partners
13th Open Working Group meeting
- Official joint statement submitted to the UN Open Working Group with the UN Health Cluster

5. UN Department of Public Information (DPI) NGO conference 2014

http://outreach.un.org/ngorelations/conference-2014/

The 65th UN DPI/NGO Conference will return to United Nations Headquarters from 27-29 August 2014. The 64th Conference was held in Bonn, Germany, and previous Conferences were held in Melbourne, Mexico City and Paris. The Conference was last held at UNHQ in 2007. A major civil society gathering at the UN, the Conference will provide an opportunity for civil society, international networks and activists to develop an “Action Agenda” to mobilize messaging, advocacy strategies, partnerships and accountability frameworks in the lead up to the launch of intergovernmental negotiations at the beginning of the 69th Session of the General Assembly for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, due to culminate at a summit in September 2015. The Conference will also be an important milestone ahead of the Secretary-General’s September 2014 Climate Summit and UN General Assembly, finalization of the Secretary-General’s Synthesis Report on the post-2015 development agenda, and the Lima (2014) and Paris (2015) UNFCCC COPs.

Resources document (please note SDG 3) here: http://outreach.un.org/ngorelations/files/2014/08/ResourceDoc25Aug2014.pdf