Expert Group Meeting: Families in Development: Focus on Modalities for IYF+30, Parenting Education and the Impact of COVID-19

The Expert Group Meeting addressed issues such as appropriate ways and means for the preparations and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (IYF) and beyond (2020-2024), parenting education in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 16 and beyond and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on families and parenting. DISD proposed to focus on the major trends identified by the United Nations Secretariat, including the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and their impact on families, namely new technologies, climate change, urbanization & international migration and demographic change.