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The 2013 CIVICUS Nelson Mandela-Graça Machel Innovation Awards will provide seed funding for innovative ideas emerging from CIVICUS members who attended the 2012 CIVICUS World Assembly, and based on the theme of last year’s assembly, “Defining a new social contract – Making the future together.
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The UK parliament's international development select committee's report on post 2015 development goals has received a cautious welcome from IDS experts.
The atmosphere was pensive and highly emotional at the Professor Mahmoud F.
The General Assembly, recalling its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, in which it endorsed the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”:
(a) Decides to establish the Open Working Group on SustainableDevelopment Goals, in accordance with paragraph 248 of the outcome document;
(b) Welcomes the membership of the Open Working Group as designated bythe five United Nations regional groups and as listed in the annex to the presentdecision.
As part of the Rio+20 Conference follow up, governments stated that they would establish the 30 member inter-governmental Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by September 2012.
