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…

Recipients: Costa Rica, Mexico, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Sri Lanka
Partners: UNDP, IAEA, UNESCO
Status: Closed
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…

Recipients: Latin America and the Caribbean, Belize, South America, Colombia, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Honduras, Western Asia, Jordan
Status: Closed
Improved local and national government capacities for localizing SDGs progress through Voluntary Local Reviews

The achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs largely depends on inclusive national and local actions. The primary objective of the present proposal is to support the acceleration and scaling up of SDGs implementation and localization through the preparations of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) of SDG implementation in the target countries and regions and, through this process, to build the capacities of government officials at the national and subregional levels…

Recipients: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Paraguay
Partners: ECA, ECLAC, RCOs, UNHABITAT
Donors: Italy
Status: Closed