This page contains work by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on the topic of “Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)”
Recent documents
- Communique on a new approach to the voluntary national review process (13 February 2024)
- The 2020 VNRs: points for reflection in preparation for the 2021 reviews, based on analysis by the CDP (8 April 2021 – revised)
- Letter to co-facilitators for the intergovernmental negotiations for the review process of ECOSOC and HLPF (2 February 2021)
- Communique on further improving the voluntary national review process (April 2020)
Excerpts from Reports of the Committee for Development Policy
- 2023 CDP Report (E/2023/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) - 2022 CDP Report (E/2022/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) - 2021 CDP Report (E/2021/33, Supplement No. 13)
Analysis of the 2020 voluntary national reviews (VNRs) - 2020 CDP Report (E/2020/33, Supplement No. 13)
The voluntary national reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - 2019 CDP Report (E/2019/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - 2018 CDP Report (E/2018/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
CDP Background Papers
2023
- No. 56: Implementing the SDGs: Strengthening the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
2022
- No. 54: What are the Voluntary National Reviews (still) not telling us?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
2021
- No. 52: What did the 2020 Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports still not tell us?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
2020
- No. 50: Voluntary National Reviews Reports: What do they (not) reveal?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
2019
- No. 49: Voluntary National Reviews Reports – What do they (not) tell us?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
2018
- No. 47: ‘Leaving no one behind’ as a site of contestation and reinterpretation
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Thea Smaavik Hegstad - No. 46: Voluntary National Review Reports – What Do They Report?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
CDP Side events at the HLPF
2023
2021
2020
2019
VNR Labs
2022
2020
2019
2018
Infographics and other background documents
2022
- Under-reported goals and targets
- Leaving No One Behind
- Pandemic preparedness
- Environment
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
2021
- Under-reported goals and targets
- Structural transformation
- Leaving No One Behind
- Pandemic preparedness
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
- Global Partnerships (SDG 17)
2020
- Leaving No One Behind
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
- Global Partnerships (SDG 17)
2019
- Infographics on leaving no one behind, quality education, the global partnership and overall importance assigned to individual SDGs
- Note: Are some SDGs more important than others?
2018
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