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Harnessing Water and Energy for Africa's Sustainable Industrialization and Inclusive Economic Transformation
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Dr. Hafez Ghanem, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, will be speaking at a Panel under the theme « Harnessing Water and Energy for Africa's Sustainable Industrialization and Inclusive Economic Transformation » during a Forum entitled « Africa Day at the HLPF » for its first edition launched by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN-OSAA), the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
"Africa Day at the HLPF", is an annual Ministerial event designed to share good practices and lessons learned to overcome challenges facing the African Member States in their efforts to implement and monitor the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union Agenda 2063.
The annual Africa Day at the HLPF also aims to popularize and promote the outcomes of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD), which was established to follow up on and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Africa and feed into the work of the HLPF.
The event is taking place on July 19th, 2023 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am (EST/New York)
