 High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015: London Meeting On 7 November, the Special Envoys of the Co-Chairs of the High-level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Agenda and the High-level Panel Secretariat provided a briefing at UN Headquarters in New York to highlight the outcomes of the Panel\'s second meeting, held in London, from 31 October to 2 November. The London meeting, which focused on the overall theme of household poverty, opened on 31 October in a seminar setting, allowing the Panel to hear from academic experts on key poverty and sustainability issues, including on future social and economic projections, rule of law, and good stewardship of natural resources. A closed discussion followed on 1 November, addressing individual and household poverty, with a particular focus on human development. Finally, 2 November was marked by a day of outreach to civil society, the private sector and youth. Organized in partnership with these constituencies, the outreach day featured six Civil Society Roundtables, a Youth Event, a Private Sector Roundtable, as well as a livestreamed Town Hall meeting. In the lead up to the London meeting, NGLS carried out an online consultation, from 19-26 October and then extended through 7 November. The initial report was presented to the Panel on 30 October, ahead of their London meeting; the final report of the consultation will be available online in the coming days on the NGLS website in addition to www.worldwewant2015.org/post2015hlp. More information is available online. 
Post-2015 Development Framework: E-Discussion on Governance and Accountability (19 November - 16 December 2012)  To contribute to the UN system-wide effort to develop the post-2015 development framework in an inclusive manner, UNDP, OHCHR and the government of Germany, are co-convening a global thematic consultation on governance. As part of this global consultation, UNDP and OHCHR recently launched an e-Discussion on "Governance and Accountability in the Post-2015 Development Framework, encompassing two phases:
- Phase I (19 November - 2 December) "Building blocks for governance in a post-2015 development framework"
- Phase II (3 December - 16 December) "Ensuring an accountability framework for delivery on the post-2015 development agenda."
More information is available online. Please note: Other thematic consultations also are underway on the following themes: Inequalities; Health, Food Security and Nutrition, Conflict and Fragility, Water, Population Dynamics, Environmental Sustainability, and Growth and Employment. These can all be accessed through the World We Want platform. UNICEF releases new study on the occasion of Universal Children\'s Day  On the occasion of Universal Children\'s Day, the United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) released the research paper Generation 2025 and beyond: The critical importance of understanding demographic trends for children of the 21st century, which forecasts global demographic shifts for the coming generation of children, and consequently major challenges for policy-makers and planners.
More information is available online. 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women: Some key deadlines  The 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) will take place at UN Headquarters in New York from 4-15 March 2013. It will gather a broad range of stakeholders to discuss two overarching themes and one emerging issue. For the 2013 session, the priority theme will focus on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. The review theme will address the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS. The emerging issue is still to be determined.
ECOSOC-accredited NGOs may designate representatives to attend the annual CSW session. Pre-registration is now open (until 23 January 2013). There will also be a possibility for a limited number of NGOs to make oral interventions during the general discussion and/or the interactive expert panels (Sign-up period: 16 January to 19 February 2013). In addition, from 13-14 December 2012, UN Women will convene a Forum to engage a range of stakeholders in the preparations for CSW57 at UN Headquarters in New York. The Forum will consist of five inter-active panel discussions and aims to: (i) raise awareness of existing commitments and standards for ending violence against women; (ii) create a platform for sharing ideas and strategies that work and bring results; (iii) identify key areas and issues where consensus needs strengthening; (iv) and foster dialogue and build alliances to accelerate implementation and follow-up to the outcomes of CSW57. More information is available online. WSIS Project Prizes 2013: Call for project submissions  ITU has launched its WSIS Project Prizes contest for 2013. The contest, open to all stakeholders, aims to recognize excellence in the implementation of projects and initiatives that further the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of improving connectivity to information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The contest comprises 18 categories that are directly linked to the 11 WSIS Action Lines outlined in the Geneva Plan of Action, one of the key WSIS outcome documents. Interested parties are invited to nominate a project by completing the online form at www.wsis.org/prizes. The deadline for submission of project descriptions is 16 December 2012. More information, including criteria, is available online. The NGO Working Group on Food and Hunger discusses civil society participation within the Committee on World Food Security  On 8 November 2012, the NGO Working Group on Food and Hunger at the UN organized a discussion entitled "The Committee on World Food Security: Civil Society Participation and Recent Policy Development." Hosted by the Global Policy Forum, this event featured Nora McKeon, the author of a new book entitled Food Security: From Crisis to Global Governance, to be published in 2013.
The event elaborated extensively on the major 2009 reform of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which not only ensured that the voices of non-governmental stakeholders became heard in the global debate on food security and nutrition, but also making it one of the most inclusive international platforms. More information is available online. 26 November: "Toward a New Generation of Development Goals" event to be webcast live  A day of informal discussions on the post-2015 development agenda "Toward a New Generation of Development Goals" will be held Monday, November 26 at the United Nations Headquarters. The event is organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Club de Madrid, and co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the UN-Missions of Mexico, Peru and France. The purpose of this day of informal discussions and question and answer sessions is to bring together key participants in the relevant stakeholder groups – in civil society, the UN system and among political decision-makers – to discuss what is needed in order to move toward a new generation ! of development goals.
Please encourage your networks to watch the webcast, to be livestreamed at www.worldwewant2015.org, webtv.un.org, and on the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Facebook page. You are welcome to provide comments and questions to the panel through the World We Want 2015, Facebook at FES\'s page, or on Twitter using the hashtags #NewDevGoals and #post2015. More information is available online. | 
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