Bangkok, 17th & 18th December 2024. The High Level Consultation was organized to feed into negotiations and outcomes of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, which will take place in Seville, Spain from 30th June to 3rd July. Ajay K Jha participated in the Regional Consultation and provided inputs on the climate finance as well as draft to Chairs Summary. The APRCEM CSO participants also organized bilateral meeting with the Chair (Nepal) of the Consultation and Mr. Hamza Malik, Head of the Deptt of Macroeconomic Policy and Financing for Development (MPFFD) of the ESCAP which organized the Consultation. APRCEM provided comprehensive Policy briefs on Austerity & Debt, Illicit Financial Flow, International Development Coordination and ODA, Trade, Climate Finance, Public Private Partnership and Digital Divide, Digitalization and technology.
Delhi, 11th to 14th November 2024. The Forum organized by South and South West Asia office of the ESCAP engaged All countries in the south and south West Asia and APRCEM South Asia Colleagues. Ajay K Jha participated in the preparations for the Forum despite he was unable to participate due to COP 29 coinciding the SSWA Forum. He was also a key note speaker in the South and south West Asia Peoples Forum which was organized by the APRCEM on the 5th November. Mikiko Tanaka, Director of South and South West Asia office of ESCAP also addressed the Peoples Forum.
The UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) was held during 8th to 17th July at UNHQ in New York City. The HLPF under the theme ‘Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: The effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions’ reviewed progress on SDG 1, 2, 13, 16 and 17 and witnessed Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) from 36 countries. While PAIRVI did not participate in person in the HLPF 2024, it supported MGOs Coordination Mechanism, and its Advocacy Working Group, and APRCEM in its side events and global south strategy meeting, daily HLPF debrief throughout the Month of June and first two weeks of July. A number of meetings were organized for APRCEM RCC and members’ orientation on the HLPF 2024, preparation…
18th to 23rd June, Penang, Malaysia. International Festival of Peoples Rights and Struggles was organized in collaboration of many organizations led by Pesticide Action Network, Asia Pacific at Cititel Hotel, Penang. Other organizers included Asia Peasants Coalition (APC), Peoples Coalition for Food Sovereignty, Global Peoples Caravan, International League for Peoples Struggles (ILPS), International Migrants Alliance, and International Women’s Alliance etc. More than 530 CSOs and Peoples movements from all continents and 44 countries participated in this festival. The central theme of the Festival was “Unite, Resist and Triumph.” Peoples from all parts of the world shared their struggles and successes as well. Intense study workshops were organized on wide variety of subjects including agro ecology, food and farmers, environment, climate change, energy and renewable energy, human rights, war and peace,…
Asia Pacific Forum of Ministers and Authorities of Environment | 3rd to 6th October, 2023 • UNEP organizes Regional Forum in all the 6 regions of the UN before each UNEA. This time UNEA is being organized during 26th February to 1st March 2024 at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. In the Asia Pacific region, it was organized as titled “5th Forum of Ministers and Authorities of Environment in Asia Pacific.’ It was organized in collaboration with the Govt of Sri Lanka at Shangri-La Colombo on 4th and 5th October. The objective of the Regional Forum is to provide to input regional priorities for the UNEA. More than 50 CSOs belonging to the Major Groups and Sri Lanka’s CSO participated in the Forum. Ajay K Jha, Regional Facilitator (Asia Pacific)…
Ajay K Jha was the Focal point of the APRCEM during the SDG Summit. He was invited to speak in the SDG Summit (Leader Dialogue 5) on the 18th September representing Asia Pacific Regional CSOs Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) and CECOEDECON. He was also invited to speak in the MGOS Coordination Mechanism (MGOS CM) side event titled “Breaking the barriers and Leaning no one behind” on the 16th September. SDG Summit SDG Summit Leaders Dialogue 5 (19th September) was entitled “Unity and Solidarity; Strengthening the Multilateral system for enhanced support, cooperation, follow up and review.” The dialogue was moderated by the President of Mozambique and the Prime Minister of Iceland. Ajay K Jha was the only CSO speaker in the event. Around 20 Heads of the Government (Prime Minister)…
Jaipur. PAIRVI was invited to provide an update on global regional and national developments on climate change and sustainable development issues. The meeting was organized by CECOEDECON on the occasion of its Annual day, where more than 150 farmers, women farmers (federations), partners and other stakeholders were invited. Ajay K Jha represented PAIRVI and apprised the audience of the state of affairs on climate change (urgency and scale) and the sustainable development goals (covid 19 pandemic set back). The emphasis of his presentation was that there is a very small window of opportunity available now if the global rise in temperature by the end of the century has to be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius. It requires that global carbon emission must peak by 2030, emissions must be halved by…
Raipur, 19th to 21st Sept; More than 50 organizations and networks attended the SDG training organized by the CSODE network India. Ajay K Jha was the principal trainer for the workshop. Dehradun, 8th to 10th Dec; A workshop was organized for Uttarakhand partners by Mount Valley Development Association. The workshop, along with other dimensions of sustainable development also focused on climate change and risk assessment, and how to align local projects with the SDGs.
Pre-COP 27 Podcast series: A four-episode podcast series was released before COP 27 with a focus on the history of the conference of parties (COP) and expectations from COP 27. The language of the podcast series is Hindi but the episode 'expectation from the COP 27' is available in English also. Episode 1: Brief History of COP (Part-I) (Hindi) Episode 2: Brief History of COP (Part-II) (Hindi) Episode 3: Expectation from COP 27 (Hindi) Episode 4: Expectation from COP 27 (English) COP 27 Preparation Call, online, 12th Sept; The preparatory meeting was organized to finalize logistics and fine-tune preparation towards the COP 27 and COP side events. The meeting was attended by PAIRVI, CECOEDECON and other participants in the COP 27. Peoples Assembly, online, 21st Sept: In parallel with the…
Manila, 28th to 30th November; Ajay K Jha was invited to participate in the Global Sustainable Development Report Regional Consultation for Asia Pacific organized by UNDESA and the Govt of Philippines. Ajay K Jha contributed by giving remarks on energy security and climate action. Inputs to the GSDR 2023 Regional (Asia Pacific) Consultation by Ajay K Jha CECOEDECON/PAIRVI India | MGOS Coordination Mechanism on the SDGs Broad overarching concerns Local Vs Global; While it may be good to draw lessons from what works locally; it should not undermine the fact that that many of the problems that we are talking about (climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, lack of sustainable development etc.) are global challenges and can only be dealt with globally. No amount of local solution will be appropriate to deal…
