The Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is organizing an Inter-agency Expert Group Meeting on “Employment and decent work for poverty eradication, in support of the Second UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008 – 2017)” under the theme “Full employment and decent work for all” and the inter-agency Plan of Action for the decade from 4 – 6 May 2016, in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of the preparations for the 71st session of the UN General Assembly.

The Inter-agency Expert Group Meeting will evaluate progress made over the past decade to eradicate poverty through employment creation. Specifically, the meeting will examine the contributions of the UN system to implementing the objectives of the Second Decade. The meeting will seek to answer key questions such as:

• What happened in terms of impact on poverty and employment levels; what actions were put in place at the national, regional and global levels to promote the implementation of the objectives of the Second Decade;
• How do we measure success or the lack of thereof;
• What kind of policies should be promoted at the national, regional and global levels to address the unfinished business of the Second Decade and the Millennium Development Goals; and
• How can the Second Decade contribute to progress in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?

The meeting will be a three-day event that will allow a robust exchange of ideas that contribute to achieving the objectives of the Second Decade among focal points of the Second UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, policy makers, the private sector and other representatives from the United Nations system, regional organizations, government officials, independent experts, and civil society.

The interaction will foster the identification of concrete social and economic policies as well as encourage greater inter-agency convergence and collaboration within the United Nations system in sharing knowledge, promoting policy dialogue, facilitating synergies, mobilizing funds, providing technical assistance in the key policy and programmatic areas underlying the overarching objective of the 2030 Agenda of poverty eradication, the decent work agenda, and strengthening system-wide policy coherence on poverty, employment, and rural development issues.

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