The Road to the SDGs

X The SDGs-CoP website is continuously enhanced to serve as a repository for all the knowledge products developed through the platforms of the SDGs-CoP and external knowledge sources on SDGs. The website also contains blogging and online discussion spaces where professionals can write about and have virtual discussions on topics related to the SDGs in particular, and development in general. ACHIEVEMENTS X So far, 13 issues of SDGs Digest have been published that feature contributions frommore than 120 authors from across the IsDB Group and development partners. The articles cover a wide range of topics on all the SDGs, in particular those that affect development areas such as climate change, youth and women’s development, poverty alleviation, agriculture and food security, health, education, and SDGs financing. X A total of 13 SDGs Open Dialogues have been organised over the past three years in order to discuss important topics on all 17 SDGs. These include events held in partnership with a diverse array of eminent personalities and global experts such as Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General, United Nations; Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Mr Achim Steiner, UN Development Programme Administrator; Prof Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University; Prof Dr Murat Yulek, Rector of OSTIM Technical University and author of the Book How Nations Succeed; and Prof Asim I. Khwaja, Director of the Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School. X The SDGs-CoP has collaborated in the development and organisation of various high-profile events. For example, along with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and the Inter- Parliamentary Union, the SDGs-CoP was co-developer of the Capacity Development Programme for Arab Parliamentarians on the SDGs. X IsDB has also co-organised two regional forums under this programme. The first was held in Beirut in January 2019 and the second was co-organised online in November 2020. X The SDG-CoP has engaged in a wide variety of events, including United Nations high-level political forums, international forums of development partners and IsDB Annual Meetings. INVESTMENT X The SDGs-CoP will continue to engage with IsDB professionals through the SDGs Digest and the SDGs Open Dialogues. X In addition to these platforms, the SDGs-CoP will soon launch a new more frequent series of events called the SDGs Brown Bag Sessions, which will provide professionals with a platform to dive deeper into more specific SDGs and development-related topics. The aim is to bring professionals together more frequently to hold more topical and technical discussions and collaborations. X The SDGs-CoP will also enhance its website in order to provide a one- stop shop to access SDG-related topics and knowledge sources as well as a resource to reach out to experts on individual SDGs within IsDB. S D G s O P E N D I A L O G U E S 13 SDGs Open Dialogues have been organised over the past 3 years [ 161 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S