BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6af365ab5b0d3 DTSTART:20230917T154500Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20230917T171500Z LOCATION:Conference Room 1\, United Nations Headquarters\, United States of America SUMMARY:Transforming4Trade - Paradigm shift to boost economic development CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:UNCTAD'\;s High Impact Initiative - Transforming4Trade - ai ms to help countries foster economy-wide productive capacities and achieve structural economic transformation.Because systemic and structural vulner ability of economies to shocks is the result of weak productive capacities and inability to produce goods and services with more value added\, the p rogramme focuses on enabling productive capacities.Transforming4Trade part icularly focuses on strategic pillars for socio-economic development (such as agriculture\, agro-processing\, manufacturing\, creative economy\, and the blue economy) as well as the key drivers or enablers of growth and tr ansformation (such as energy\, ICTs\, infrastructure\, private sector and institutions).ObjectiveThe event is devoted to a high-level exchange of vi ews on the comprehensive approach to development through the design and im plementation of holistic programmes for structural economic transformation .The key objective is to re-orient development policies and global partner ships towards new generation policies centered on the fostering of product ive capacities to kickstart structural economic transformation\, as the su rest way to build socioeconomic resilience to internal and external shocks .The event will be an opportunity to share success stories from the piloti ng of the approach in Angola\, as well as operational and policy lessons l earned from the development of similar programmes.Participants will includ e senior government officials\, senior United Nations officials\, represen tatives of development partners\, national\, regional\, and international experts in the field of economic development and representatives of the pr ivate sector and civil society.Registration informationThe deadline to reg ister for participation is 8 September 2023.If you have a valid UN Grounds Pass:Anyone with a valid UN Grounds Pass\, including members of official government delegations\, UN Entities\, IGOs\, media and Civil Society Repr esentatives\, will be able to access UNHQ premises on 16 -17 September wit hout the need for additional registration.If you DO NOT have a valid UN Gr ounds Pass (Until 8 September 2023):All interested participants without a valid UN grounds pass will need to request registration to receive a Speci al Events Ticket. This includes those who are NOT members of the official delegations of Member States/GA-accredited IGOs/specialized agencies to GA 78.Collaborating agencies: UNIDO and DESA.<\;p>\;UNCTAD'\;s High I mpact Initiative - Transforming4Trade - aims to help countries foster econ omy-wide productive capacities and achieve structural economic transformat ion.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;Because systemic and structural vulnerability o f economies to shocks is the result of weak productive capacities and inab ility to produce goods and services with more value added\, the programme focuses on enabling productive capacities.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;Transform ing4Trade particularly focuses on strategic pillars for socio-economic dev elopment (such as agriculture\, agro-processing\, manufacturing\, creative economy\, and the blue economy) as well as the key drivers or enablers of growth and transformation (such as energy\, ICTs\, infrastructure\, priva te sector and institutions).<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;<\;strong>\;Objecti ve<\;/strong>\;<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;The event is devoted to a high-l evel exchange of views on the comprehensive approach to development throug h the design and implementation of holistic programmes for structural econ omic transformation.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;The key objective is to re-orie nt development policies and global partnerships towards <\;em>\;new ge neration policies<\;/em>\; centered on the fostering of productive cap acities to kickstart structural economic transformation\, as the surest wa y to build socioeconomic resilience to internal and external shocks.<\;/ p>\;<\;p>\;The event will be an opportunity to share success stories from the piloting of the approach in Angola\, as well as operational and policy lessons learned from the development of similar programmes.<\;/p& gt\;<\;p>\;Participants will include senior government officials\, sen ior United Nations officials\, representatives of development partners\, n ational\, regional\, and international experts in the field of economic de velopment and representatives of the private sector and civil society.<\ ;/p>\;<\;p>\;<\;strong>\;Registration information<\;/strong> \;<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;The deadline to register for participation is 8 S eptember 2023.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;<\;strong>\;If you have a valid U N Grounds Pass:<\;/strong>\;<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;Anyone with a valid UN Grounds Pass\, including members of official government delegations\, UN Entities\, IGOs\, media and Civil Society Representatives\, will be abl e to access UNHQ premises on 16 -17 September without the need for additio nal registration.<\;/p>\;<\;p>\;<\;strong>\;If you DO NOT have a valid UN Grounds Pass (Until 8 September 2023):<\;/strong>\;<\;/p >\;<\;p>\;All interested participants without a valid UN grounds pas s will need to request registration to receive a Special Events Ticket. Th is includes those who are NOT members of the official delegations of Membe r States/GA-accredited IGOs/specialized agencies to GA78.<\;/p>\;<\; p>\;<\;strong>\;Collaborating agencies<\;/strong>\;: UNIDO and D ESA.<\;/p>\;\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/node/42 163 DTSTAMP:20261110T184251Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR