UN DESA United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs [to 11 July 2015]

UN DESA United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs [to 11 July 2015]
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At ECOSOC, ministers commit to ‘people-centred’ post-2015 development agenda
8 July 2015, New York
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today committed itself, through a Ministerial Declaration, to establishing a new set of inclusive sustainability goals that build on the successes of and the lessons learned from the landmark Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are set to wrap up at the end of 2015.

Development financing conference to agree ‘concrete’ action on social protection, aid delivery
8 July 2015, New York
The senior United Nations official who will act as head of the upcoming Third International Conference of Financing for Development, to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, announced today that among the meeting’s “concrete deliverables” would be a commitment to establish a new technology bank for the least developed countries by 2017.