This high-level event will highlight education as a catalyst for realizing all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Participants will reflect on the achievements of the UN Secretary-General's Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) in advancing the global education agenda and bridging from the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Education for All (EFA) Initiative to the SDGs. They are also expected to outline political commitments for increased financing on education, and to reaffirm commitments to quality lifelong learning as critical to ending poverty and hunger, protecting the environment and building peaceful and inclusive societies. The GEFI and its partners are organizing the event. Speakers will include: 2014 Nobel Laureates, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi; the First Lady of China and UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Special Envoy for Advancing Girls' and Women's Education, Peng Liyuan; UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova; the Presidents of Croatia and the Republic of Korea, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Park Geun-Hye; and the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown; and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Australia, Ethiopia, Norway and Tunisia. The event will convene on the sidelines of the UN Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda.
date: 26 September 2015
3:00 to 5:00 pm
venue: UN Headquarters, Conference Room 4
location: New York City, US
contact: GEFI
e-mail: info@globaleducationfirst.org
www: http://www.globaleducationfirst.org/files/Concept_Note_GEFI_HL_Event_UNGA_2015.pdf
http://www.globaleducationfirst.org/5519.htm