Preparations for the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, 2024

The Division for Inclusive Social Development of UN DESA organized Expert Group Meeting and consultations with stakeholders concerning the preparations for the IYF+30.

International Expert Group Meetings in preparation for the IYF+30

• 2024 - Expert Group Meeting on "Families and Climate Change"
• 2022 - Expert Group Meeting on “Megatrends and Families: Focus on Digital Technologies, Migration and Urbanization”
• 2020 - Expert Group Meeting on “Families in Development: Focus on Modalities for IYF+30, Parenting Education and the Impact of COVID-19”

Regional Expert Group Meetings

Africa

• 2023 – Demographic Changes and Family Wellbeing in Africa

Asia

• 2024 - Families and Megatrends: Interlinkages between Migration, Urbanization, New Technologies, Demographic Trends and Climate Change in Asia 
• 2023 - Expert Group Meeting on Demographic Change & Ageing of Population in Asia 

Europe and North America

• 2023 – Population ageing and family well-being in Europe
• 2023 Megatrends & Families: Focus On Demographic Change, Migration And Urbanization In North America

Latin America

• 2024 - Parenting/Care, Family-Work Balance, and Family Policies
• 2023 - Megatrends & Families: Focus on Demographic Changes in Latin America

Subregional Meetings

• 2022 - Technological Change and the Family in the Arab Region

Thirtieth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family (IYF+30)

• Resolutions
  • General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family A/RES/78/176
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  • General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family A/RES/77/191
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  • General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family – A/RES/76/139
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• Technological changes
  • The report of the Secretary-General A/77/61-E/2022/4 presents analysis of the impact of new technologies on families & current preparations for the IYF+30
  • “Technology Use and Families: Implications for Work-family Balance and Parenting Education” by Susan K. Walker, Associate Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.
     
• Migration and urbanization
  • The report of the Secretary-General A/78/61-E/2023/7 Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family focuses on the analysis of urbanization and migration trends and their impact on families.
  • “Migration, Urbanization, and the Family Dimension” by Bahira Sherif Trask, Professor & Chair, Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Delaware
  • UN DESA Policy Brief No. 133: Migration Trends and Families
  • UN Chronicle – Urbanization and Families
     
• Demographic trends
  • The report of the Secretary-General A/79/61-E/2024/48 Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family focuses on the analysis of demographic trends and their impact on families.
  • “The Impact of Demographic Change on Families” by Zitha Mokomane, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Changing Demographics can Result in Strengthening Families” - Generations United Symposium
    Report of the Symposium with Recommendations | Agenda/Bionotes of Participants/Papers
     
• Climate change
  • https://social.desa.un.org/issues/family/events/expert-group-meeting-on-families-and-climate-change