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Delivering on the Capacity Development of Civil Society and other Stakeholders to ensure a successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda

The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) has established a process of voluntary national reviews (VNRs), which have become a tool for the review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs. Between the years 2016 and 2018, 111 VNRs have been submitted by governments to the HLPF. Since its inception, the HLPF peer review system …

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UN
Monitoring & review tools

Progressing national SDGs implementation: An independent assessment of the voluntary national review reports submitted to the UN HLPF in 2018

The Third Edition in an annual series commissioned by civil society organisations

This report, the third edition of Progressing National SDGs Implementation, aims to provide useful insights and suggestions to inform these discussions and help guide improved implementation and reporting. It documents and analyses all 46 VNR reports submitted in 2018 to the HLPF, as …

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UN
Monitoring & review tools, Policy papers

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019

The report demonstrates that progress is being made in some critical areas, and that some favorable trends are evident. Extreme poverty has declined considerably, the under-5 mortality rate fell by 49 per cent between 2000 and 2017, immunizations have saved millions of lives, and the vast majority of the world’s population now has access to …

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UN
Monitoring & review tools, Policy papers

Sustainable Development Report 2019: transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents an updated SDG Index and Dashboards with a refined assessment of countries’ distance to SDG targets.

As in previous years, the Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents the most up-to-date metrics to gauge the performance of countries on the SDGs. Trends are presented at the level of goals and for …

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EU, UN
Monitoring & review tools

Mind the Gap

De duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen (SDG’s) in een Belgisch perspectief

Er is meer dan 3 jaar verstreken sinds de Verenigde Naties een akkoord hebben bereikt over 17 duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen (Sustainable Development Goals of SDG’s). Ze staan voor een bijna alomvattende en behoorlijk ambitieuze agenda, te realiseren tegen 2030. Doelen als armoede en honger uitbannen, ongelijkheid verminderen en …

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Belgium
Monitoring & review tools, Policy papers

Measuring Progress: The Sustainable Progress Index 2019

The ‘Sustainable Progress Index 2018’ compares Ireland’s progress on achieving the SDGs compared to its peer countries in EU-15.
While affluence affords the resources to address social, environmental and political concerns, the evidence suggests that it is not enough. Some of the measures used to pursue economic growth (policies and values) are often barriers …

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Ireland
Monitoring & review tools

EU SDG Indicator set 2019

Result of the review in preparation of the 2019 edition of the EU SDG monitoring report

The EU SDG indicator set, used to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an EU context, is open to annual reviews to incorporate indicators from new data sources and to take into account new EU policy …

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EU
Monitoring & review tools

How sustainable is Switzerland? Implementing the 2030 Agenda from a civil society perspective

Following Switzerland’s announcement that it will present a progress report to the UN in July, the civil society organisations that make up the Platform Agenda 2030 have been busy drafting their own parallel report. In doing so, they have not followed the UN guidelines for country-led reports. Instead, they have defined the topics and issues …

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Switzerland
Monitoring & review tools, Policy papers

VNR: Engaging in national implementation and review of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals – a civil society quick guide

This quick guide aims to provide guidance to civil society, national coalitions and other nongovernmental stakeholders on how to engage in this review process.

The main objective of VNRs is to facilitate the sharing of experiences, including successes,challenges and lessons learned, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. They also …

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UN
Monitoring & review tools

Sustainable development of Latvia: analysis of NGO participation

Spotlight Review on the Report by Government of Latvia on Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Latvia.

By honestly revealing a part of the challenges the country faces, the Voluntary National Review by the Government of Latvia on Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals defines a range of positive development directions for sustainable development. …

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Latvia
Monitoring & review tools, Policy papers