Civil society role is crucial in building awareness, planning, implementation, monitoring and accountability. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals has rightly recognized the role of civil society and civil society organizations. Governments are committed to robust, voluntary, effective, participatory, transparent and integrated follow up and review mechanisms.

Engaging a wide range of civil society organizations to enable all voices to be heard and complement to the government initiatives is critical. CSOs get engaged at the local, national, regional and global levels in various ways. Among others, High Level Political Forum and Voluntary National Reviews have been special occasions for CSOs to make assessments of the implementation of the SDGs. CSOs spotlight report including  People’s Score Card has been an important way to collate people’s perceptions and assessment of the SDGs based on various indicators. Generally, the People’s Score Card process on SDGs culminates to the production of the assessment and report to the HLPF from the civil society or CSOs' perspective.  “The purpose of developing a spotlight report with  Scorecard method is to provide an opportunity for civil society organisations to review delivery of the 2030 Agenda in their own country.”  

The objective of organizing a World People's Assembly  on 2030 agenda is to:

1. Build awareness and capacity of peoples' movements, civil society and civil society organizations on 2030 agendas, spotlight report using People's Score Care and CSOs roles on
2. Create a learning-sharing platform in the experiences of civil society monitoring of the SDGs.
3. Critical Review of SDGs and 2030 agendas

The sessions and discussion on VNR, Spotlight report and People’s Scorecard on the occasion of World Social Forum 2024 will bring together the peoples' movements and CSOs from different countries to Kathmandu, share the experiences and learning of the earlier engagements in monitoring of the SDGs. The CSOs which have practiced CSOs report useing People’s Scorecard as a means to assess the SDGs will share their experiences and a comparative analysis of several countries will also be presented and discussed. As Nepal is going to be a VNR country in 2024 for the third time, Nepali CSOs will also have an opportunity to learn and prepare for People’s Scorecard exercises in 2024.

This assembly  will take place on 13 February 2024 just ahead of the WSF2024 in Kathmandu. NFN will coordinate for this session. An Asia Regional comparative analysis and lessons from the VNR and People’s Scorecard 2022 will be shared so that CSOs remain prepared for the People’s Scorecard exercise in 2024.This will also get the CSOs prepared for engagement and scoring survey in 2024 and increase the effectiveness of the People's Scorecard exercise for the monitoring of the SDGs.