Integrating the 2030 Agenda into National Strategies – Lessons Learnt and Next Steps
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This document discusses lessons learned from countries that have started aligning their national development strategies with the 2030 Agenda and integrating the SDGs into their national plans and policies. It focuses on the challenge of implementing integrated approaches across sectors, levels of government, and time. The document considers questions about how to better align national strategic priorities with the 2030 Agenda commitments, identify interconnectedness between goals, and achieve policy coherence given greater interconnectedness. It also provides brief examples of good practices from several countries and the state of Assam in India.
Integrating the 2030 Agenda into National Strategies – Lessons Learnt and Next Steps
- 1. SESSION II: Integrating the 2030 Agenda into National Strategies – Lessons Learned and Next Steps Countries have started to align their national development strategies to the 2030 Agenda and integrate the SDGs into their national plans and policies. This session will discuss the lessons learnt so far focusing on the challenge of operationalizing integrated approaches/policy coherence across sectors, between levels of government and over time
- 3. A UN perspective on integration for Agenda 2030 Strategy Operational Economic + Social + Environmental Leaving no one behind / Reach furthest behind first Sustainability and resilience Accountability Human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment;
- 4. Questions to consider • For the strategic priorities in your country: Is there a divergence between the ambition of the 2030 Agenda and the national strategic priorities What could be done to bring the national strategic priorities closer to the 2030 Agenda commitments? • How to better identify the specific interconnectedness of goals? (Trade offs and synergies) • What is the implication for policy coherence of greater interconnectedness?
- 5. Good practices briefs Bangladesh | Indonesia | Malaysia | Nepal | Philippines Assam state, India (subnational)
Editor's Notes
- #2: To be achieved, SD/ SDGs must be integrated in development planning – vision setting, planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring. UNDP has done a review of 6 countries’ experiences in integrating SD/ SDGs into planning – Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Assam State.
- #3: SD/ SDGs need to be integrated into the planning system as a starting point. At each stage of the planning cycle, countries are finding “entry points” to integrate the SD agenda/ SDGs. 6 countries’ cases: good practices and experiences exists (BLACK) where gaps exist (RED);. You might want to pull out 1-2 examples from the briefs. My recommended example would be: Where good progress exists: several of the 4 countries – Philippines, Malaysia, Nepal, Assam – started to use SDGs as a criteria for prioritizing projects for public funding. Progress but gaps at strategic/ policy level - not seeing the SD for the SDGs Requires: 1) policies to advance SD/ achieve SDGs; not addressing the inter-related nature of the SDGs; Progress at operational level – whole of government: 1) planning results frameworks – reviewing to make consistent with SDG targets; 2) programme/ budget prioritization – governments are tagging programmes and budgets by the SDGs; 3) estimating costs of SDGs; 4) building data systems to measure SDGs; 5) localizing at the subnational level; 6) engaging stakeholders to rally them behind the SDGs. (refer to good practices briefs). Not much progress at operational level – whole of society. Engagement had been not on real collaboration, but on raising awareness about the SDGs. Limited experiences of actual collaboration with private sector. Good examples: Malaysia collaboration on design and implementation of projects (not related to SD/ SDGs), Indonesia – activating businesses and philanthropies to contribute to SDGs.
- #6: Notes in case you might need to elaborate: In terms of operational-level actions to integrate the SDGs: UNDP has done good practice briefs on integrating SDGs in development planning – where can learn about each other’s experiences, mostly government processes. Apart from recent processes, also need to look at practices that preceded the SDGs, and use these practices for working on planning, budgeting for, implementation and monitoring of SDGs. For example, Malaysia has an innovative experience of massive government-private sector-civil society collaboration to implement public interest projects such as Urban and Rural Transformation Centres. Same approaches can be used to get partners to collaborate for the SDGs.