{"id":443,"date":"2018-02-16T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/iepf-attends-ngo-roundtable-with-unog-director-general-michael-moller\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:17:04","slug":"iepf-attends-ngo-roundtable-with-unog-director-general-michael-moller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/iepf-attends-ngo-roundtable-with-unog-director-general-michael-moller\/","title":{"rendered":"IEPF Attends NGO Roundtable with UNOG Director General, Michael M\u00f8ller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tThe&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/\" style=\"color: rgb(32, 101, 194);\">International Eurasia Press Fund<\/a>&nbsp;(IEPF) has attended its second bi-annual NGO roundtable discussion with the UN Director General for Geneva, Michael M\u00f8ller, at the Palace of Nations. Updating NGO representatives on the latest UN Geneva developments, Michael M\u00f8ller also stressed the importance NGOs play at the United Nations where they provide invaluable experience and technical expertise at a time when UN resources are increasingly under strain. New developments at the Geneva office this year include an expansion of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdglab.ch\/about\/\" style=\"color: rgb(32, 101, 194);\">SDG Lab<\/a>, a multi-stakeholder initiative which engages Geneva-based civil society, UN member states, and private corporations to \u201cleverage expertise and knowledge into policy, practice and action\u201d in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tFurther developments included a proliferation of the new online conference management system to UN headquarters in Bangkok and Nairobi. Launched in 2017, the new system allows NGOs to quickly and easily register events, reserve conference rooms, and acquire temporary&nbsp; grounds passes for guests. The IEPF was one of the first NGOs to take advantage of the new system during a convening of the Human Rights Council in March 2017 when it held a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/news\/20\/1586\" style=\"color: rgb(32, 101, 194);\">historic side event<\/a>&nbsp;on children in armed conflict at the UN office in Geneva, which saw an unprecedented number of attendees from various embassies, UN agencies, and civil society organizations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px;\">\n\tFollowing the event, the IEPF\u2019s own Geneva representative, Michael Montafi, met briefly with Michael M\u00f8ller and expressed his satisfaction with the role the IEPF has had in Geneva and the possibility of future events being held at the UN office.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;International Eurasia Press Fund&nbsp;(IEPF) has attended its second bi-annual NGO roundtable discussion with the UN Director General for Geneva, Michael M\u00f8ller, at the Palace of Nations. Updating NGO representatives on the latest UN Geneva developments, Michael M\u00f8ller also stressed the importance NGOs play at the United Nations where they provide invaluable experience and technical expertise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}