Prof. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated as a discussant in an Expert Group Meeting on Updating the Secretary-General's voluntary common guidelines on Voluntary National Review (VNR) Reports. The EGM took place on 8 October at UN Headquarters in New York. Around 40 participants from member states, UN system and non-governmental experts discussed concrete proposals on how to improve the guidelines for the next cycle of VNRs.