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Sixth meeting of the HLG-PCCB

29-30 SEP 2016   Budapest

The sixth meeting of the High-level group on partnership, cooperation and capacity building for the 2030 Agenda (HLG-PCCB) will be held from 29 to 30 September 2016 in Budapest, Hungary. The meeting will be hosted by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Please note that this meeting is open to HLG-PCCB members and selected issue partners only.

At its 46th session, the UN Statistical Commission establish a High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for the 2030 Agenda, composed of national statistical offices, and regional and international organizations as observers operating under the auspices of the Statistical Commission.

Meeting objectives

  • review and finalize the Global Action Plan to be submitted to the 48th session of the Statistical Commission
  • review and discuss the status of preparation of the upcoming UN World Data Forum and agree on the next steps
  • review and finalize the 2017 workplan of the HLG to be submitted to the UN Statistical Commission


(As of 12 Sep 2016)

Thursday, 29 September 2016

  • Registration of participants  9:00am —9:30am
  • Follow-up from the Fifth Meeting of the HLG (closed session) 9:30am—10:30am
    • -Introduction
    • -Adoption of the report of the fifth meeting
    • -Joint IAEG-SDGs / HLG subgroup
    • -Rotation mechanism for the HLG members and co-chairs

Morning session

  • 1Opening  10:30am—11:00am
    • -Welcome from Host/ co‐Chair
    • -Remarks from UNSD
    • -Introduction of issue partners

Coffee break

  • 2The Global Action Plan for Data 11:15am—12:30pm
    • -Presentation by the subgroup on current status of the draft
    • -Discussion on the document to be submitted to the Statistical Commission

Lunch break

Afternoon session

  • 3 Global Action Plan for Data (continued) 2:00pm—3:30pm
    • -Launch of the document at the UN WDF
    • -Additional comments by issue partners

Coffee break

  • 4 The First United Nations World Data Forum 3:45pm—5:30pm
    • -Update by the Secretariat and host country
    • -Update on the Programme Committee

Cultural excursion planned by the Host country

Friday, 30 September 2016

Morning session

  • 5 The First United Nations World Data Forum (continued)  9:30am—11:00am
    • -Update on the Programme Committee (continued)
    • -Key milestones and timeline for the UN WDF

Coffee break

  • 6 Initial discussion on preparations for the second UN World Data Forum  11:15am—12:30pm
    • -Call for Host Country of the second UN World Data Forum
    • -Timeline for the decision on the host country for the second UN World Data Forum

Lunch break

Afternoon session

  • 7 Conclusions and next steps 1:30pm—3:00pm

Coffee break

  • Closed session 3:30pm—4:30pm
    • -Presentation on the proposed work plan for 2017
    • -Preparation of the report of the HLG to the UN Statistical Commission
    • -Other activities, including UN Statistical Commission side events
    • - Any other business

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