|  IFPRI is pleased to invite you to the following policy seminar, which will be held in IFPRI's fourth floor conference facility (2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, US). Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. Kindly RSVP to Keith Fernandez (Tel: 202.862.8142; k.fernandez@cgiar.org). | Road to New York:
Keeping the SDGs' Agenda in Focus Wednesday, 2 September 2015
12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (EDT) Please join us for a light lunch beginning at 11:45 am. Click to Register  Panel:
Shenggen Fan Francisco Ferreira
Homi Kharas Claudia Ringler Andrew Steer
Moderator: Nabeeha Kaz **Live webcast. Also available for post-event viewing.** Click here to watch online By the end of September 2015, world leaders will agree on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will anchor the global development agenda for the next 15 years. At the center of the SDGs are the goals to eliminate extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in a sustainable way. Keeping the focus on these key aims is critical to help unify efforts toward achieving multiple SDGs.
Yet there is still a lack of clarity on the goals and targets addressing poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and sustainability: Questions remain on how to measure and track progress, how such efforts will be financed, and who is accountable for what. Building country capacity to track and monitor progress and to ensure delivery on forthcoming commitments is also a key issue that must be addressed. Despite advances, disparate efforts to bring clarity have remained in silos. As we welcome the historical launch of the SDGs, there is an urgent need to share knowledge on these issues to help chart a way forward.
Join us for a moderated discussion, as our panel of experts weighs in on these issues and explore solutions to challenges on the path to attaining the SDGs. Have a question for the speakers while watching the live webcast?
Simply Tweet your question of fewer than 140 characters and include the hashtag #AskIFPRI. Or send question to k.fernandez@cgiar.org.
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Individuals attending IFPRI events may be audiotaped, videotaped, or photographed during the course of a meeting, and by attending grant permission for their likenesses and the content of their comments, if any, to be broadcast, webcast, published, or otherwise reported or recorded. | Speaker Info Shenggen Fan is Director General of IFPRI. Francisco Ferreira is Senior Advisor, Development Research Group, the World Bank. Homi Kharas is a senior fellow and deputy director for the Global Economy and Development program, the Brookings Institution. Nabeeha Kaz is President & CEO at Humanitas Global. Claudia Ringler is Deputy Division Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division. Andrew Steer is President and CEO of the World Resources Institute. | | | |
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