2023 will be the final year for the preparations for the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family. Since 2020, and after the initial meeting with other civil society organizations in our last Congress in London, we held several focus groups, participated in expert group meetings and coordinated the kick-off meeting to launch the civil society declaration last March
During the next months, we are planning to conclude all the different processes:
– We will promote accession to the civil society declaration to be presented to the United Nations.
– We will participate as co-organizers in the expert group meetings scheduled in South Africa, Belgium, Mexico and the United States.
– We will finalize the cycle of focus groups and publications with their outcomes.
The preparations will also be present in our other projects:
– The events at the United Nations headquarters during the Commission on Social Development in February, the Commission on Population and Development in April and the International Day of Families in May will always be celebrated in the context of the observance.
– The updated version of the Venice Declaration has taken into account the topics suggested and will be presented in March, and the Technical Meeting of Signatories, to be held in Poland in May, will include good practices on the megatrends.
– The next International Advocacy Workshop will be celebrated in Paris next September and will also work on advocacy plans related to the anniversary.
For all this work, we are following the indications of the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly entitled ‘Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family’, especially “to support research and awareness-raising activities at the national, regional and international levels on the impact of technological, demographic, urbanization, migration and climate change trends on families in order to harness their positive effects and mitigate their negative impacts.”
