Building national capacities to design evidence-based sustainable development policies by the use of environmental, economy-wide, microsimulation, and integrated assessments modelling tools

Over the last ten years, DPAD/UN-DESA has supported a number of Member States in developing the required capacities to use modelling tools to inform development policies. As such, an important number of models and training activities have been developed to support countries in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and more recently to assess strategies for low-carbon growth and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
Governments from developing countries confront…

Costa Rica, Mexico, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Sri Lanka
Partners: UNDP, IAEA, UNESCO
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Monitoring and reporting on sustainable development objectives, goals and targets; enhancing institutional capability in selected developing countries

Progress of the Sustainable Development Agenda (i.e. post-2015) is conditioned in large measureby the ability of Member States to monitor, report on -- and learn lessons from -- theimplementation of their National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS) and assess theireffectiveness against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is thus critical for policymakers and other stakeholders to have access to effective statistics and data, monitoring andreporting tools, frameworks and…

Latin America and the Caribbean, Belize, South America, Colombia, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Honduras, Western Asia, Jordan
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Implementation of national sustainable development strategies in selected countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Northern Africa, Egypt, Latin America and the Caribbean, Costa Rica
Partners: UNDP, ECA,ECLAC
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Integrated and coherent national recovery strategies promoting social inclusion, macroeconomic stability, effective governance and protection of the environment for selected small island developing states

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Mauritius, Seychelles, Guinea-Bissau and Jamaica to formulate and implement integrated and coherent national planning and policy that promote social inclusion, macroeconomic stability, effective governance, protection of the environment and mobilizes stakeholders. Based on integrated planning methodologies and the principles of blue and green economy, the focus will be to support the development of economies that are resilient, diversified and…

Mauritius, Seychelles, Guinea-Bissau, Jamaica
Partners: UNECA
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