Theme of HLPF 2021- “Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development”
Key Findings:
i.Countries across the World shall enact Gender-responsive policies to build back a better future and refocus on attaining SDGs by 2030.
ii.Lower rate of Vaccination in poor countries is the major risk against recovery from the pandemic
Women & Girls are mostly pushed into extreme poverty.
iii.At the end of the review 42 countries agreed to carry out Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) of their SDG targets.
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According to the ‘World Development Report 2021: Data for better lives’ (WDR 2021) released by World Bank Group, Most countries across the globe shy away from an Open-data policy. It states that only 11% of low-income countries made available a license classifiable as ‘open’.
About ECOSOC:
Established – 1945
Headquarters – New York, USA
President – Munir Akram