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Regional Seminar on “Parliamentary cooperation for sustainable development: Combating poverty and promoting health care”
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Belgrade Serbia
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The National Assembly of Serbia and the Inter-Parliamentary Union are jointly organising a Regional Seminar on “Parliamentary cooperation for sustainable development: Combating poverty and promoting health care”. This event, to be held in Belgrade on 24 and 25 May 2018, is the fourth in a series of IPU seminars for the region on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the previous three having been hosted by the Romanian Parliament (in 2015 and 2016) and the Hungarian National Assembly (in 2017).
The seminar will offer an opportunity to share experiences, engage in comprehensive discussions on topics such as poverty eradication and improvement of public health care that are deemed to be very important in attaining a better quality of life. The impacts of climate change, the engagement of youth as well as the development of parliamentary mechanisms for the implementation of the SDGs will also be at the core of the discussions.
The proceedings will be conducted in English, French, Russian and Serbian.
Thursday, 24 May 2018
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Opening session
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Family photo
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Session I: The Sustainable Development Agenda and priorities of the States in the region
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Coffee break
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Session II: Results obtained by Parliaments in the region by overseeing the implementation of the SDGs: The role of self-assessment
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Lunch hosted by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms. Maja Gojković
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Session III: Poverty reduction in the region: Marginalized groups
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Coffee break
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Session IV: Implementation of SDG 3: Promoting health care
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Guided tour of the House of the National Assembly
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Dinner hosted by the Coordinator of the Focus Group for the Implementation of the SDGs, Mr. Milorad Mijatović
Friday, 25 May 2018
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Session V: Climate changes compounds poverty and public health
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Coffee break
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Session VI: Inclusion of youth in social and political processes as a prerequisite for an efficient SDGs implementation
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Summary of the seminar, next steps and conclusions
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Lunch
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Presentation of Global Parliamentary Report 2017: Parliamentary oversight: Parliament’s power to hold government to account
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City tour of Belgrade offered by the National Assembly (in English, French and Russian)