International Day Of Families 2025: Family-Oriented Policies for Sustainable Development

Theme: Family-oriented Policies for Sustainable Development: Towards the Second World Summit for Social Development 2025 

The 2025 observance of the International Day of Families (IDF) aims to:

• Note the importance of family policy focus in the upcoming Second World Summit for Social Development
• Present an analysis of family policies and issues in National Voluntary Reviews 2020-2024
• Review the major initiatives undertaken as part of the preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (IYF+30)
• Present good practices in family policymaking at regional and national levels
• Recommend family-oriented policies for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Information Materials

Publication

• UN DESA Policy Brief on Family-oriented Policies and Programmes in 2020-2024 VNRs
• Family-oriented Priorities, Policies and Programmes in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as Reported in Voluntary National Reviews 2020-2024

Presentations

• Rosario Esteinou:  Family Policies and Issues in Voluntary National Reviews, 2020-2024
• Anna Nagy:  Single Parents' Centers in Hungary
• Vivian Lou:  Family-oriented Policies in Response to Megatrends in Asia & Outcomes of Asian Family Summit 2024
• Patricia Debeljuh: Family-friendly Policies in Latin America: Focus on Work-Family Balance and the Private Sector
• Francisca Lawson Tettevie: Empowering Young Academic Voices: IFFD Working Groups Shaping the Second World Summit for Social Development.