Agenda 2030

How can the VNRs be strengthened in content and process to better support an accelerated SDG implementation?

One central pledge of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to ensure that no one is left behind. On 13 July the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) dedicated an entire session on this theme with a view to synthesize messages from earlier sessio ...

This paper provides an overview of the conceptual and empirical issues involved in the overarching goal of “leaving no one behind” (LNOB). It proposes ways to operationalize LNOB, discusses whether to take a country-focused or person-focused approach, examines various (multidimensional) ways to measure those who are left behind, argues for grounding LNOB on intrinsic and instrumental reasons, suggests ways to identify those at risk of being left behind, and discusses difficult trade-offs with other SDGs for an agenda focused on LNOB.

This Policy Note provides some answers by analyzing the strategies and policy choices of 14 countries that have successfully graduated from the LDC category, or have made noteworthy progress towards graduation

Pingfan Hong, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Event held in Vienna, Austria from 26 to 28 Sept ...

Perhaps no other word has been repeated more frequently than “integrated” to describe the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Yet policymaking is approached sector-by-sector. The allocation of resources and the political accountability a ...