Nisha Onta attended the regional workshop, jointly organized by ESCAP and the Embassy of Sweden in Thailand on March 25-26, 2019 in the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok which was held as a pre-event to the Sixth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD). The workshop highlighted regional and subregional perspectives on the theme of the high-level political forum in 2019, “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.
The purpose of the workshop was to increase the knowledge of all stakeholders on the situation regarding empowerment and public participation and their impacts on development outcomes and to foster regional dialogue and cooperation around these critical issues. The workshop had two objectives:
- To develop a shared understanding on the impacts and value of empowerment, including through public participation, for strengthening implementation of the SDGs with an emphasis on the environment related goals;
- To discuss and identify incentives on how participation will improve interventions for sustainable development.
The workshop developed actionable recommendations needed to accelerate delivery of the environmental dimension of the SDGs in the context of other goals related to gender (SDG 5), inequality (SDG 10) and peace and justice (SDG 16).
