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Strategic Planning and Assessment Research Themes
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Strategies for sustainable development
Agenda 21 called on all countries to develop national sustainable development strategies (NSDS) to implement Agenda 21. More recently, The Plan of Implementation agreed at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development set a target for all countries to be implementing such strategies by 2005. For more than a decade, SPA has been at the forefront of international work to share experience and learn lessons from country efforts to develop and implement such strategies at national and sub-national levels. Between 1998-2002, SPA coordinated OECD work to develop policy guidance on NSDS and produced an acclaimed OECD/UNDP Resource Book providing practical guidance on such strategies. SPA is one of the leading centres in the world working in this field and continues to investigate approaches to NSDS, working with and advising governments, agencies and organisations, and promoting good practice at national, sub-national levels (e.g. district) and local levels (eg through local Agenda 21s). Currently, SPA’s work is concentrating on monitoring and evaluation approaches to NSDS. Subsequently this approach provided the basis and model for the peer review system now being promoted by the EC for EU countries and by UNDESA elsewhere. SPA is providing advice and technical support to various countries on such peer reviews (eg Netherlands, Korea). Further information on peer review and NSDS is available at www.nssd.net. view review document (PDF file 678k) Copyright © 2005 International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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