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Multi-stakeholder panel 2: Achieving Infrastructure Resilience through partnership, solidarity, and innovation. 

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Resilient, reliable, and sustainable infrastructure can boost global resilience to future crises, reduce inequalities and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The dialogue will be open to Member States, Observers, United Nations system, ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.  

UNGA Sustainability Week Concept note

Watch the (Part 2) Informal Dialogue on Building Global Resilience and Promoting Sustainable Development through Infrastructure Connectivity - General Assembly, Sustainability Week, 78th session.

The informal dialogue aims to generate momentum and raise ambition on proposals to contribute to enhancing investments in quality, reliable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, including a risk-informed approach to infrastructure development and management.

Opening segment

Plenary segment

Multi-stakeholder panel 1: Bridging the Gap: Challenges and Best Practices to Forge a Resilient Future through Infrastructure Connectivity. 

Resilient, reliable, and sustainable infrastructure can boost global resilience to future crises, reduce inequalities and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The dialogue will be open to Member States, Observers, United Nations system, ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.  

Related Sites and Documents

UNGA Sustainability Week Concept note 

Watch the (Part 1) Informal Dialogue on Building Global Resilience and Promoting Sustainable Development through Infrastructure Connectivity - General Assembly, Sustainability Week, 78th session.

Non-Member States of the United Nations, which are members of one or more specialized agencies, can apply for the status of Permanent Observer. The status of a Permanent Observer is based purely on practice, and there are no provisions for it in the United Nations Charter. The practice dates from 1946, when the Secretary-General accepted the designation of the Swiss Government as a Permanent Observer to the United Nations. Observers were subsequently put forward by certain States that later became United Nations Members, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Japan. Switzerland became a UN Member on 10 September 2002.

Many regional and international organizations are also observers in the work and annual sessions of the General Assembly.