The Forum is a high-level regional platform for review and follow-up of
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Arab region
(hereafter referred to as the 2030 Agenda). Following on from the success of the
three previous sessions, held in Amman in 2014 and 2016 and Manama in 2015, the
Doha Declaration on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, adopted at the 29th Ministerial Session of ESCWA (Doha,
13-15 December 2016), affirmed the Forum’s role as an annual gathering that brings
together Arab governments and sustainable development bodies to review national
and regional experience and study the mechanics of implementing the 2030 Agenda
at national and regional levels.1 The outputs of the Arab Forum will be submitted to
the high-level political forum on sustainable development to be held in New York in
July every year.