ICAE participated in this years´ High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) – United Nations’ central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from 9 to 18 of July in New York.
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ICAE raised the voice for Adult Learning and Education at the HLPF, be present and active in connecting with various stakeholders and players from a range of regions and fields (also outside of ALE) as well as with supporters and allies of ICAE. We approached government representative, as well as key allies from Major Groups and Other Stakeholders (MGoS), as we see it is essential to engage and coordinate even more with other MGoS, national and global CSOs as well as (ministerial) representatives on national level.
In this section we share key documents of the HLPF:

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Here you can find the final Ministerial Declaration (the final outcome document of the HLPF): Ministerial_declaration
This is the CSOs Response to the SDGs Progress Report ahead of the 2018 HLPF: Statement in response to 2018 SDGs progress report
Here you you can read an analysis of the Major Groups and other stakeholders’ participation in the 2017 and 2018 sessions of the HLPF: 20504MGoS_HLPF_involvement_31Jul