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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The adoption in 2015 of Agenda 2030 with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda signalled an increasingly coherent international vision of sustainable devel opment. Together they seek to move away from the siloed approaches and individual sector goals that characterised the MDG era to a more integrated and mutually interdependent post 2015 landscape. Having created this new international framework, the next challenge is to implement these agreements in a coherent way at the national level.
Chapter 1 starts by mapping out the linkages made between the SDGs and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – the commitments countries made under the Paris Agreement. Commitments to climate actions and sustainability are contained in NDCs and Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) on pro gress towards the SDGs. Based on the information presented in these national documents it is clear that the potential for co-benefts between climate action and sustainable development is being understood at the national level. The next step is to integrate these commitments into national development plans and track how actions implemented on the ground cap ture these co-benefts in practice.
Chapter 2 then unpacks the process for up dating and implementing NDCs. The 5 year NDC cycle and country experiences in NDC planning are presented. Key initiatives supporting NDC imple mentation are outlined, including CDKN’s Planning for NDC Implementation Quick Guide, the NDC Partnership, UNDP’s programmes of support and the Transparency Partnership for the Paris Agreement.
Chapter 3 explores SDG implementation and extracts lesson learned form the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) submitted by countries on progress towards the SDGs to date. Examples of countries linking their climate and sustainable development plans and actions are presented. Key initiatives supporting SDG planning and implementation are presented, including the SDG Guide, the SDG Guide for Cities and tools for localising the SDG monitoring and evaluation.
Chapter 4 focuses on alignment between the SDGs and NDCs at the national level and presents entry points and good practices for linking SDG and NDC implementation. These include i) a green economy,
ii) adaptation and risk management, iii) whole of government and society approaches, iv) data, report ing and evaluation and v) sub-national planning and implementation.
Financing NDC and SDG implementation is the focus of Chapter 5 with further detailed informa tion available in part one of Sida‘s Climate Guides ‘Supporting Access to Finance for Climate Action’ (2017).
Finally, the role of bilateral donors and agencies such as Sida in supporting NDC and SDG planning and implementation is considered.