The World Humanitarian Summit was not the only forum where progress continued to be made in 2016.
"More could have happened, more could be done," the Rev. David Beckmann, a Lutheran minister who serves as president of the Washington-based advocacy group Bread for the World, said Wednesday (Sept . 22 at a forum assessing progress on the MDGs and the overall global fight against poverty.
(DP1) In 2009, a second midwifery forum reviewed progress.
In other forums, significant progress has been made on limiting specific types of armaments, such as bacteriologic, chemical, nuclear, and toxic weapons.
The ministerial forum made some progress at its meeting late last month, splitting its consideration of palm oil from other labelling changes.
However, experts at the forum warned that progress is still too slow and that resources are often allocated inadequately.
The Intergovernmental Committee on World Food Security CFSS) is the UN forum for monitoring progress towards the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) goals and recommending actions that could help achieve them more rapidly.
The forum discussed the progress achieved on birth registration to date and future directions for the birth registration system in the country.
How about the first installment of Movement Research's work-in-progress forum, which features Lenka Bartunkova, Alex Escalante, Dora Hostova and Juliana May? Seating is limited, so arrive early.
Adults and adolescents have also met in over 60 forums to examine progress and plan further action.
In the concluding year of the IDNDR, the Geneva Program Forum has identified the progress of Science and Technology research as: substantial progress has been achieved in understanding the cause and effects of natural hazards.
