About the Event
High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) -Bringing it all together:
The HLPD will create a platform for senior UN officials and high-level policy makers from African member states, and development partners to bring all the threads together and discuss policies to shape our common future and to deliver reparatory justice for all Africans and people of African descent.
These will include the establishment of a fair and development-focused international financial architecture and an accompanying international trading system, which will allow Africa to deliver on the two Agendas and repositioning Africa as a strong, united, resilient and
influential global player and partner in line with the Aspirations of Agenda 2063 for the Africa We Want.
For the first time this year, the ADS HLPD is co-hosted by the President of the UN General Assembly. The HLPD will be an opportunity to situate the implementation of the Pact for the Future in the context of addressing the enduring impacts of colonialism and Africa’s economic transformation.
This requires the reform of the International Financing Architecture and the International Trading system to empower African countries to be able to control their own economic and financial flows and align the means of implementation with the ambition of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063.
Therefore, the ADS will also contribute to the reflections on transforming international financing tools as part of the proposed outcome of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development.
ADS 2025
The High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD), to be held in a hybrid format on 30 May 2025, represents the high-level segment of ADS 2025 and features high-level participants from Member States, the United Nations system, the African Union, and representatives of other regional and subregional organisations, including the Regional Economic Communities and CARICOM.
The ADS is a flagship advocacy activity of UN-OSAA that is held annually throughout May and is organised jointly with the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations (AUPOM).
It seeks to amplify a new narrative for Africa from Africa and foster global consensus on innovative solutions to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063. Each year’s edition focuses on the annual theme of the AU. The ADS 2025 aims to be a catalyst for translating these political commitments into concrete actions, by mobilising African and diasporic expertise to develop effective
reparative strategies adapted to specific contexts.
The 2025 edition of the ADS will feature various activities and events, allocating one week each to aspects related to the past, present, and future of the theme “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations.”
Partners of choice entities will co-organise the activities of each week in coordination with OSAA and the AUPOM. ADS 2025 will include a High-level Policy Dialogue, taking place on 30 May 2025, co-hosted with the President of the UN General Assembly.
Through the selection of three unique sub-themes seen from these prisms, ADS 2025 will work with partners of choice to advocate the following:
Sub-theme 1: Learning from the Past: Transatlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, Extractive Economies and Institutions in Africa [5 to 9 May 2025]
Partners of Choice: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and African Union Economic Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC)
Sub-theme 2: Understanding the Present: Economic, Social and Cultural Justice for Sustainable Development [12 to 16 May 2025]
Partners of Choice: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and Pan-African Parliament (PAP)
Sub-theme 3: Building the Future: Healing and Reparations towards Socio-Economic Justice for Africans and People of African Descent [19 to 23 May 2025]
Partners of Choice: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Accessibility Arrangements
Delegations are requested to inform the Secretariat of the accessibility requirements of their delegates to facilitate participation in meetings. Upon request, adjustments can be made to three seating arrangements with a view to enabling the participation of persons with disabilities. For individual requests, please contact the Meetings Support Section of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (email: accessibilitycentre@un.org; phone: 212 963 7348/9) no later than three working days prior to the meeting.
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