Tenth Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development

Registration

Opening of the Session (agenda item 1)

Group photo and coffee break

High-level panel 1: Stepping up ambition and innovative solutions to eradicate poverty and reinforce the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, of the African Union (agenda item 2)

Organizational matters (agenda item 3)

Lunch break

High-level panel 2: The race to 2030 and beyond: leveraging the Summit of the Future to get back on track towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (agenda item 4)

Coffee break

High-level panel 3: Priorities of young people regarding the Summit of the Future and the reinforcement of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 (agenda item 5)

Inauguration of the Tenth ARFSD knowledge fair

Award ceremony of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences

Plenary round-table panel on voluntary national and subnational reviews and actions to reinforce institutions, policies, plans and budgets to speed up and scale up integrated implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 (agenda item 6)

Coffee break

Plenary round-table panel on the transformation and modernization of statistical systems in order to produce high-quality data and statistics that can be used to track progress and reinforce national policies and plans to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 (agenda item 7)

Launch of the 2024 Economic Report on Africa

Lunch break

Parallel meetings for an in-depth review of progress made, peer learning and acceleration actions regarding the sub-themes of the Regional Forum (agenda item 8)

Parallel meetings for an in-depth review of progress made, peer learning and acceleration actions regarding the sub-themes of the Regional Forum (agenda item 8 continued)

Plenary round-table panel on leveraging science, technology, innovation and digital transformation for poverty reduction and reinforcement of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 (agenda item 9)

Coffee break

Presentations and discussions on transformative pathways and ambitious actions for accelerated implementation of the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 (agenda item 10)

Lunch break

Consideration and adoption of key messages and the Addis Ababa declaration on the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions to reinforce the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 and to eradicate poverty in times of multiple crises (agenda item 11)

Theme, dates and venue of the eleventh session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (agenda item 12)

Other matters (agenda item 13)

Closing of the session (agenda item 14)