The High Level Political Forum 2018 in its sixth session has started in New York on last Monday, 9th July, with the three-day ministerial meeting of the Forum that will take place from 16-18 July, as part of ECOSOC's high-level segment. The theme of HLPF 2018 is: ‘Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies’. The event is an important occasion where the statistical system is called upon in order to take decisive actions about data and statistics transformation in relation to the way they are produced and disseminated to inform development policy decision, with the vital support of governments, in closer partnership with academia and civil society.
For more information about the event see: HLFP 2018 website