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Note: Session 1 will take place from 10:45 to 12:15, and Session 2 will take place from 12:30 to 14:00.
SESSION 1
10:45 - 12:15
Accountability, Standards, and Monitoring
We foster citizen engagement in data, asking Member States to commit to:
1. Filling critical data gaps on marginalized groups through citizen data, ensuring their situation is reflected in monitoring and review processes
2. Enhancing citizen participation in government decision-making through data
3. Advancing values such as fairness, inclusiveness, openness, transparency in statistics
Please find here the and description
Focal point: Peter Koblowsky (pkoblowsky@icscentre.org)
Conference Room 11
Artificial Intelligence
Focused on principles such as safety, sustainability, and inclusion, the Impact Coalition on AI & Cyber-Tech Governance will seek to improve global management of artificial intelligence and other cyber-technologies, with the aim of expanding significantly for all nations and people the potential benefits of these powerful technologies while, simultaneously, mitigating their risks.
Please find here the description.
Focal point: Richard Ponzio (rponzio@stimson.org)
Conference Room 9
Children’s Rights and Participation
Children are acknowledged as agents of change by the 2030 Agenda, which builds on the UNCRC Principles. We seek to advance on clearly establishing children and young people (under 18 years of age) as a critical constituency, which enables bringing their voices and their needs and solutions to global-level policymaking. Children and young people (under 18 years of age) have a strong capacity to contribute to multilateralism and global governance. Please see the.
Focal point: Arelys Bellorini (arelys_bellorini@wvi.org) / Ruth Koshal (ruth_koshal@wvi.org)
Conference Room 7
Earth Governance
This coalition will focus on establishing and strengthening Earth governance mechanisms, building on Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance (MEGA), a coalition of civil society organizations, like-minded governments, legislators, experts, private sector actors and other stakeholders. Such governance mechanisms are vital to ensure implementation of environmental obligations and accountability to environmental law. Please find the and for further information and the session description.
Focal point: Alyn Ware (ware@wfm-igp.org)
Conference Room 14
Funding for Community Action on Sustainable Development
This session will seek to explore collective needs for access to funding and learn from existing good practices from across key civil society constituencies on approaches to enhance the flexibility for funding support for grassroots CSO groups working on sustainable development. The aim of the session is to shift the balance of funding towards more participatory, community-led approaches, thereby redressing the imbalances around power and agency in international development.
Focal Point: Oli Henman (oli.henman@action4sd.org)
Conference Room 10
Gender Equality
The ImPACT Coalition on Gender Equality will focus on governance reforms specific to UN mechanisms that affect women and girls in all their diversity, including but not limited to the Commission on the Status of Women, Beijing +30, the implementation of SCR 1325 and the International Conference on Population and Developmental. Please find here the description.
Focal points: Pamela Morgan (cochairs@ngocsw.org)
Conference Rooms 2 | 3 | 4
Inclusive Global Governance
The multistakeholder ImPACT Coalition on Inclusive Global Governance aims at bringing together and advancing civil society initiatives to put people at the heart of global governance. This includes, but is not limited to, the campaigns for a World Citizens’ Initiative, a UN Parliamentary Assembly, a permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly and a UN Civil Society Envoy. Please find the description here.
Focal point: Aishwarya Machani (iggcoalition@democracywithoutborders.org)
Conference Room 13
International Anti-Corruption Court
This session will explore how an (IACC) can help enhance implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). The ImPACT Coalition will build on the work already being done by governments and civil society to produce a draft IACC treaty and campaign for the establishment of the court. Please find the and description.
Focal point: Ian Lynch (ian.lynch@integrityinitiatives.org)
Conference Room 8
UN Charter Reform
Many reforms being suggested require reform of the UN Charter. Yet this discussion has been taboo for years. This is no longer the case. Moreover, the provisions of the Charter itself, such as Article 109, envisioned that Charter Reform would take place. We seek to build a “coalition of the leading” Member States and others to begin the important conversation around Charter Reform, including the potential of invoking Article 109. Please find here the description and the .
Focal point: Tim Murithi (tmurithi@ijr.org.za)
UNON Press Room
Youth and Intergenerational Engagement: Collective Action for Youth, Adolescents and Older Generations
A collaborative platform for youth, adolescents, older people and all generations in all their diversity and geographical settings to connect, work together and share expertise to meaningfully engage in the processes of the Pact for the Future (including its Annexes) and follow-up. The engagements will complement the aim for a collective future that safeguards intergenerational and sustainable well-being. Please find the description and much more!
Focal point: Sameh Kamel (youth-intergen-ic@unmgcy.org)
Conference Room 1
15 minutes transition
SESSION 2
12:30 - 14:00
Arts, Culture, and Faith-based Solutions
An intergenerational alliance advocating for the integration of art and cultural expression into UN processes while promoting their representation and encouragement. Committed to amplifying diverse voices, including faith-based, indigenous, ethnic, linguistic, and artistic communities, enriching global dialogue with their unique cultural perspectives and traditions. Join our UNCSC pre-conference Town Hall on May 8th Please find here the description.
Focal Point: Lisa Russell (lisa@create2030.org)
Conference Room 7
Digital Governance and Eliminating Digital Divides
This Coalition’s goal is to foster a safe, inclusive, and empowering digital environment for everyone, including young women and girls, as a contribution to the Global Digital Compact. We are leveraging science, technology, and innovation to promote digital cooperation and address the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age. We are advocating for comprehensive cyber harassment laws, partnering with tech companies to combat online abuse, and promoting digital literacy programs. Please find the description and .
Focal Point: Lilian Olivia Orero (orerolilian@gmail.com)
Conference Room 11
Drug Policy for the Future
The Coalition aims to build on extensive consultations done regionally and globally in 2023 and early 2024, leading up to the 2024 mid-term review of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs resulting in a published by the Vienna and New York NGO Committees on Drugs. Please find the .
Focal Point: Matej Ko?ir (info@vngoc.org)
UNON Press Room
Financing for Development and International Financial Architecture Reform
This ImPACT coalition session will convene to address the need for enhanced financing for development and for the reform of the International Financial Architecture. The policy discussions will focus on critical areas such as: expanding multilateral financing for the SDGs, rethinking development measurement, addressing sovereign debt issues, and reforming IFIs' governance and promoting international tax cooperation. The coalition will continue working after SOTF towards the IV International Conference on F4D in 2025. Please find the .
Focal point: Agustina Briano (abriano@clubmadrid.org)
Conference Room 1
Future Generations
The ImPACT Coalition for Future Generations is a global network dedicated to reimagining the United Nations to effectively address the challenges of the 21st century. The coalition is dedicated to championing the needs of future generations through intergenerational equity, trust, and solidarity and ensuring no one is left behind. Please find the and description.
Focal Point: Jacob Ellis (Jacob.Ellis@futuregenerations.wales)
Conference Room 9
Just Institutions and the International Court of Justice
This coalition supports the universality and effectiveness of global judicial architecture, including the ICJ as the primary means for States’ pacific resolution of disputes; the ICC, “the hope of humanity” to end impunity; ITLOS; and other tribunals. It will promote cooperation and complementarity with domestic and regional systems, and new institutions. Please find the description and .
Rebecca Shoot (rshoot@globalsolutions.org)
Conference Room 8
探花精选building
Focused on the 2025 探花精选building Architecture Review and Chapters 2 and 5 of the Pact, this ImPACT Coalition aims to feed into the intergovernmental negotiations in the run-up to the Summit of the Future and the 2025 PBAR process. The key question to consider "How can we build upon existing knowledge to address gaps and opportunities in UN peacebuilding efforts?” Please find here the description and.
Focal Point: Graeme Simpson (Simpson@interpeace.org)
Conference Rooms 2 | 3 | 4
Science and Policy Solutions for the Planet
This imPACT Coalition will explore how an improved science-policy-action approach to the environment could help to address the triple planetary crisis. How to drive system-wide changes based on science -- including within the international financial institutions and national governments -- is the key question for this coalition. It will draw from existing proposals like those made by the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism and others to produce concrete, actionable initiatives for the Summit of the Future and beyond. The coalition concept note and session agenda can be found .
Focal Point: Adam Day (adam.day@unu.edu)
Conference Room 6
Towards the World Social Summit
This ImPACT Coalition will focus its efforts on ensuring that the outcomes of the Summit of the Future are well connected to the upcoming World Social Summit set to take place in September 2025. This includes a strong focus on poverty eradication, social protection, and social cohesion. We will ensure amplifying the voices and participation of marginalized communities in shaping social development and global governance. Please find the here.
Focal Point: Lucy Fagan (socialsummit2025-ic@unmgcy.org)
Conference Room 13
Underrepresented Communities
We champion a human-rights-based approach to advocacy and action when catalyzing progress towards the Pact of the Future. United in the inherent dignity of all human beings, we will amplify the voices of underrepresented communities globally and stand together to ensure inclusivity, accessibility, participation, and liberation from oppression. Please find here the description.
Focal Point: Please reach out to johannes@GlobalForumCDWD.org and rashima.kwatra@rfsl.se
Conference Room 10
14:00 - 14:45
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