The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual and inclusive intergovernmental forum and a platform for supporting countries in the regional implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Forum provides an Asia-Pacific perspective on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda by identifying regional trends and consolidating and sharing best practices and lessons learned.
The theme of the 9th APFSD, which takes place from 28 through 31 March 2022 in Bangkok, is ‘Building back better from COVID-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Asia and the Pacific’. The Forum, to which UNESCO contributes in various ways, will play a unique role as a catalyzer of solutions and peer learning on how to accelerate transformations for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda while recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Within this thematic context, the forum will provide the space for an in-depth review of the following cluster of goals, which will be reviewed by the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in 2022: SDG 4 (Quality Education); 5 (Gender Equality); 14 (Life below water); 15 (Life on Land); and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
