Support for SDG Review and Implementation Processes (SDG-RI)

State of implementation/results

• Since the start of the project, the programme has produced policy briefs and political studies on an ad hoc basis, in order to make use of them in the political debate (so far on monitoring, cities, tourism, NDC & long-term strategies, risk governance, biodiversity and capacity development, among others).
• In cooperation with the IKI project ‘Strategic Environmental Dialogues’ (SUD) and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the project supports the consultation, dissemination and implementation of the recommendations of the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2023 at country level. Multi-stakeholder workshops in Lima and Manila in autumn 2022 and in Qatar in January 2023 enabled regional voices of key stakeholders from business, science, politics and civil society to be incorporated into the consultation process of the GSDR 2023. A first dissemination workshop of the GSDR 2023 took place in Brasilia in November 2023 in cooperation with ENAP (Escola Nacional de Administração Pública). Another dissemination workshop took place in Berlin in January and another is planned for autumn 2024 for the Asia-Pacific and West Asia region in New Delhi (22-24 October 2024). The target group of the dissemination workshops are local and national implementers of the 2030 Agenda in the Asian partner countries and their promotion for an integrated addressing of the SDGs in implementation and reporting.
• Support for the secretariat of the Global Forum, a global network for multi-stakeholder sustainability councils, with a steering group meeting in January in Oxford, England, for the strategic direction of the network. As well as support for individual partners from Costa Rica and Ecuador for the Voluntary National Report (VNR) for the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2024 in New York. These work processes are carried out in cooperation with the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), the German multi-stakeholder body for sustainability policy.
• Conception, preparation and implementation of the national HLPF pre-conference for stakeholders in Germany and as preparation for the German delegation to New York (22 April 2024 in Berlin)
• Supporting the bilateral meetings of the BMUV on the HLPF, as well as support for the German delegation to the HLPF 2024 (8 - 18 July 2024 in New York at the United Nations). As well as, together with the BMZ-financed Agenda 2030 sector project, the conception and implementation of the German side event for BMZ and BMUV on integrated SDG implementation: ‘Just, healthy and green? Exploring the nexus of SDGs 1, 2 and 13 and transformative approaches like climate-smart school meal programmes.’. Support for a high-level dialogue format of the BMUV for female politicians and on socially just environmental policy, the ‘Women Leaders Breakfast’.
• In Latin America, the project advises Colombia's National Planning Department (DNP) through policy coherence analyses at national and subnational level with regard to the integrated inclusion of the SDGs in its Voluntary National Report (VNR), which was presented by the government at this year's HLPF. In addition, as a follow-up to previous consultation processes of the VNR, the multi-stakeholder platform in Colombia was strengthened with regard to stronger integration of national and local (cities and municipalities) sustainability strategies. The project also supported the DNP through two local advisors in bringing integrated SDG implementation to the biodiversity COP in Cali in November 2024. Furthermore, a stakeholder mapping for SDG actors in Latin America was prepared together with the UN Regional Commission for Sustainable Development (UN ECLAC). The project is contributing an in-depth analysis for Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Jamaica.
• In Asia, together with the GIZ project Sino-German-Environment-Partnerships, the project is supporting a delegation trip by the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) to Germany in June 2024 to prepare an initial concept for the circular economy with German stakeholders. In India, the regional GSDR workshop is being prepared and a package of activities for an SDG coordination centre and stakeholder involvement in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is being initiated (together with GIZ in India and UNDP).

Latest Update:
12/2024