Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership

The mission statement of the SDKP is the following:



To organize the knowledge on sustainable development in order to make it more useful for practitioners and policy makers.



To that end, the SDKP will establish a broad-based partnership which will bring together individuals, institutions and networks engaged in the production and dissemination of knowledge on sustainable development with the following objectives:



i. To organize the web-based information on Sustainable Development and make it available to the policy making and other communities in a coherent and user-friendly form;



ii. To build relations with existing networks working on SD, and make their activities more visible to policy-makers;



iii. To document success stories, best practices, evaluations of policies and programmes in the sustainable development domain and to make them available in web-based, user-friendly form;



iv. To organize a dynamic stocktaking exercise of Sustainable Development over the past two decades;



v. To publish and disseminate the partnership's research in a variety of media, possibly including a sustainable development book series;



vi. To provide capacity building through training for policy makers and their advisors as well as for government representatives working on sustainable development issues.