Expert meeting on Readying institutions and policies for integrated approaches to implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Background
The 2016 United Nations High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF) showed that many countries are already well advanced in setting in motion the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted at the United Nations in September 2015. They are, however, grappling with the challenge of developing policies that integrate economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and build on the synergies between the various goals and targets. The meeting thus aims to explore how far we have gone in ensuring that institutions are organized and equipped to deliver integrated plans and policies.
The meeting will focus on the SDGs to be reviewed in depth by the HLPF in July 2017, namely the SDGs on eradicating poverty, ending hunger, ensuring healthy lives, achieving gender equality, building resilient infrastructure and promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and protecting oceans (Goals 1, 2, 3, 5, 9 and 14), as well as SDG 17 on means of Implementation. Attention will be given to the interlinkages among these goals and targets, as well as between them and the other SDGs.
Participants will exchange experiences on how institutional arrangements, plans, policies and means of implementation can best build on these interlinkages and achieve integrated approaches. They will identify what has worked and reflect on solutions for the future. The focus will be not only on sector ministries, but also on the various kinds of institutions that may exist in an area and how they relate with one another. International cooperation and the impact of policies and actors beyond the country level may also be addressed.