The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development demands bold action. It will require coordinating policy on multiple fronts, forming new partnerships, and committing significant resources across the globe. It also requires an open and accountable approach to implementation. With government and civil society working together in 66 countries to make governments more open and effective, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) presents a unique opportunity to advance the 2030 Agenda. This special edition of the Open Government Guide focuses on how an open government approach can spur progress across the 17 Goals, including in improving public services and ultimately, in reducing poverty. Many OGP countries are already tackling these challenges by promoting transparency and accountability, empowering citizens and civil society, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies in their national action plans, examples of which are showcased here. Also highlighted are illustrative commitments drawn from the Open Government Guide for inclusion in future action plans. We invite government and civil society open government champions around the world to build on these ideas in the coming months with their own suggestions of open government policies that advance the SDGs.

The United Nation’s High-Level Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda called for a “fundamental shift to recognise the significant role of institutions in contributing to citizens’ well-being (HLP, 2013). This message was echoed by the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which put forward a proposal including targets for reducing corruption, promoting transparency, access to information and accountability, as well as ensuring decision-making processes are more inclusive and representative. Statisticians are starting to recognise governance statistics as a fourth leg of official statistics, alongside economic, social and environmental statistics. This Post-2015 Reflections Paper outlines the importance of effective institutions for sustainable development and examines what steps are being taken to achieve the change required.

El propósito de este estudio es analizar el diseño y el funcionamiento del Consejo desde la perspectiva de la participación ciudadana para contar con una línea de base que permita conocer sus alcances y limitaciones, así como la calidad y los resultados del proceso participativo. El documento tiene la siguiente estructura. En el primer capítulo, se presenta una breve descripción de los antecedentes y los elementos de la política nacional de cambio climático, que definen el contexto institucional en el cual se inserta el Consejo. En el segundo capítulo se describe de forma general el Consejo y su operación desde 2013 a la fecha. En el tercer capítulo se describe la metodología utilizada para el análisis del diseño institucional y la operación del Consejo. En el cuarto capítulo se presentan los resultados del análisis del diseño institucional. En el quinto capítulo, se presentan los resultados del análisis de la operación del Consejo en la etapa 2013-2016. El sexto capítulo aborda los hallazgos y las conclusiones del análisis. Por último, en el séptimo capítulo se presenta una serie de recomendaciones sobre los aspectos de mejora en el diseño y operación del Consejo a partir de los hallazgos.

The SDG Accelerator and Bottleneck Assessment (ABA) tool aims to support countries to identify catalytic policy and/or programme areas or ‘accelerators’ that can trigger positive multiplier effects across the SDGs, and solutions to bottlenecks that impede the optimal performance of interventions that enable the identified accelerators. The ABA builds on the methodology of the UN MDG Acceleration Framework and its application in 60 countries, and is also informed by the COMBOS methodology developed by UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, which has been applied extensively to countries in the region.

In recent years businesses have advanced significantly, not only by adopting sustainability strategies, but also by adopting sustainability reporting to measure and communicate their economic, environmental and social impacts. This information is often generated sparsely and, usually, it is not aligned with the SDGs. This hinders its accurate and timely collection and aggregation to assess the overall contribution of private sector to sustainable development. Many companies around the world use the GRI Standards to report on their sustainability impacts, The GRI Standards are the first global standards for sustainability reporting. They feature a modular, interrelated structure, and represent the global best practice for reporting on a range of economic, environmental and social impacts. In 2017, UN Global Compact and GRI Business Reporting on the SDGs: An Analysis of the Goals and Targets, a first step towards a uniform mechanism for business to report on their contribution to and impact on the SDGs in an effective and comparable way. The publication contains a list of existing and established disclosures that businesses can use to report on their contribution and impacts on the SDGs. It also lists illustrative actions that businesses can take to make progress towards the SDG targets. Therefore, there is a valuable information about business impacts on the SDGs, which comes from corporate sustainability reporting. This four-pager seeks to explain how the National Government is considering the contribution of the Colombian Private Sector to the SDGs, to understand its overall impact and contribution, without imposing any burden, but facilitating the collection of SDGs related business data, already disclosed by companies, through impact measurement and sustainability reporting according to the GRI Standards.

Gender inequality remains the most pervasive form of inequality around the world, and progress in reducing it remains unacceptably slow with stagnation in several areas. Gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls are at the center of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda positions the Beijing Platform for Action as a foundational framework for sustainable development. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls addresses many of the important barriers to advancing women’s human rights. These are accompanied by gender-sensitive targets across other goals. Ensuring these commitments are fulfilled in all countries has the potential to transform the lives of women and girls across the world. Based on UN-Women’s analytical work and operational activities, a number of key lessons have emerged that should guide all stakeholders in all efforts to ensure a gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Gender equality, as we all know but too often take for granted in our daily lives, is neither a given nor something that happens all by itself. Gender equality needs champions and dedicated actions at all levels to make it a reality. Our special thanks go to all those in our partner countries and in Germany who are determined to overcome gender-based discrimination and disadvantages and to facilitate real gender equality. This publication offers you some insights into our work, outlining our commitments to the Women’s Empowerment Principles and the 20 best-rated contributions to this year’s Gender Competition.

El presente documento está pensado como guía de referencia para los Equipos de la ONU en los países (UNCT) que, con la dirección de los Coordinadores Residentes de las Naciones Unidas, están interesados en apoyar a los Estados miembros y a los grupos de interés nacionales en su adaptación de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible a las condiciones específicas de sus países (“Transversalización”), mientras protegen su integridad. Como tal, la presente guía no pretende ser prescriptiva ni exhaustiva sino más bien estimular la reflexión de los Equipos de la ONU en los países sobre cómo proceder. El documento presenta una gama de enfoques y herramientas que los Equipos pueden discutir con los Estados miembros para adecuar la Agenda a las condiciones y realidades nacionales, subnacionales y locales, y para incorporar las perspectivas regionales cuando corresponda. Los Equipos de la ONU en los países deben tratar estos enfoques y herramientas como un menú de alternativas, donde los estudios de casos ejemplifican las formas en que algunos países han comenzado a desarrollar y usar las herramientas pertinentes. Aunque la guía fue elaborada principalmente para los Equipos de la ONU en los países, los pasos que describe, los estudios de casos que destaca y las herramientas disponibles para el público a las que hace referencia también pueden servir directamente a un grupo más amplio de funcionarios gubernamentales y profesionales del desarrollo.

At the 60th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) in March 2016, Member States reiterated their commitment in the 2030 Agenda to significantly increase investments to close the gender gap, to strengthen support for gender equality institutions at all levels, and to systematically embed gender perspectives into all aspects of implementation, including in their work on data and statistics, indicators, follow-up and review, and to build accountability and give primacy to women’s leadership at all levels. The CSW60 Agreed Conclusions laid out the strategy and road map for gender-responsive implementation of all Sustainable Development Goals. “Driving the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” highlights the key messages and presents an analysis of the CSW60 Agreed Conclusions.

Moving beyond the narrow goals and targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the top-down manner in which they were defined, the 2030 Agenda promises to address many of their shortcomings. Not only has the process of defining the new agenda been more inclusive and its scope a universal one, but it is also anchored in human rights principles, while its goals and targets draw attention to a far more variegated set of structural concerns. This is evident in the remarkably broad scope of the targets under the gender-specific Goal 5. But the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), like the MDGs, are somewhat silent on the policies needed to achieve the goals and targets. When it comes to the gender-specific elements, while the SDGs do a far better job than the MDGs in drawing attention to key structural constraints that hold back women's enjoyment of their rights, on some of the more contested issues they hardly advance the agenda beyond what has been the ‘agreed language’ for decades. At the same time, the hard-won gains and vision of the SDGs, including SDG 5, may be difficult to realise unless the dominant economic model that forms the backdrop is changed, and stronger accountability mechanisms are put in place. In the absence of robust accountability mechanisms, the risk of dilution and selectivity in the process of implementation looms large.

This report is the outcome of a discussion among many experts, who were actively engaged in the design of sound indicators for measuring Goal 16, as an input to the work of the United Nations Statistical Commission's Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDG) and the Praia Group on Governance Statistics. It is also meant to provide inspiration and guidance for the development of Goal 16 indicators at the regional and national levels. The Virtual Network for the Development of Indicators for Goal 16 brought together governance experts, development practitioners, statisticians, UN agencies and civil society organizations to advice on the best possible set of indicators for measuring progress on goal 16 in the Post-2015 development framework.

En el presente documento se analiza la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible y sus Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) a la luz de los desafíos y prioridades para la igualdad de género y los derechos y la autonomía de las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe. Se presentan ejemplos ilustrativos sobre las interrelaciones entre objetivos y metas de la Agenda 2030, y se advierte sobre la importancia de un abordaje integral para asegurar que el progreso en algunos de los ODS no se realice a través de medios que puedan obstaculizar el logro de los objetivos y metas vinculados a la igualdad de género y los derechos de las mujeres. Se concluye que la Agenda Regional de Género constituye una hoja de ruta para lograr los ODS en América Latina y el Caribe a través de la implementación de políticas públicas que vinculen las dimensiones económica, social y ambiental del desarrollo sostenible y contribuyan a erradicar las desigualdades de género y las desigualdades en los países y entre ellos.

In the latter part of 2014, a group of countries started on an initiative to pilot illustrative work on governance in the context of the discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the time, SDG “Goal 16” as we now know it did not exist, but the fundamental aspects of peaceful, just and inclusive societies under discussion in the UN Open Working Group (OWG) were already of significant interest to a number of countries. Member States willing to champion such a goal and targets, raised the following questions: if we could start now, to work on the aspects of peace, justice and institutions under consideration in the OWG, where would we start and what would we prioritise? That was the start of an interesting initiative that UNDP has been proud to support in the five pilot countries – Albania, Indonesia, Rwanda, Tunisia and, at a later stage, the United Kingdom – who volunteered to address these questions. The Pilot countries have emphasised that whilst measuring Goal 16 is a challenge, more data is available on peace, justice and institutions than is often assumed. In addition to presenting the different phases of the Pilot Initiative, the report draws out the main lessons learned from the Pilots experience, and identifies some guidelines for work on implementation of aspects of Goal 16.

This brief provides an overview of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members’ aid to gender equality since the MDGs and identifies priorities for financing gender equality in the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda. The figures are based on DAC members’ aid that has been screened using the DAC gender equality policy marker – a statistical tool to measure whether aid activities target gender equality as a policy objective. At present, 92% of all bilateral “sector allocable” aid is screened against the gender marker.

Este documento recoge los Compromisos y Ruta hacia un planeta 50-50 al 2030, elaborado por el Grupo Interagencial de Igualdad de Género y Empoderamiento de las Mujeres y Niñas del UNDG LAC, integrado por 18 entidades de Naciones Unidas.

This paper suggests a framework that governments and stakeholders can use in their countries to take action to leave no one behind in a way that enables and accelerates national progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also seeks to inform the manner in which the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works with countries to implement the 2030 Agenda, in keeping with the commitment of the United Nations Development System to put the pledge to leave no one behind at the heart of its support.

Un gran desafío que presenta la Agenda 2030, es que no proporciona herramientas o metodologías específicas para traducir en la práctica este ambicioso marco teórico del desarrollo sostenible. La primera es que, tal como lo recalca la resolución que dio origen a la Agenda 2030, “se reconoce que cada país dispone de diferentes enfoques, visiones de futuro, modelos e instrumentos para lograr el desarrollo sostenible, en función de sus circunstancias y prioridades nacionales”. La segunda tiene que ver con la necesaria contextualización de herramientas.

En el marco del Seminario “Cooperación internacional como catalizador para el desarrollo y la comunicación efectiva de actores”. El reto para los gobiernos estatales es poder aterrizar el enfoque teórico de los ODS en su acción pública. Para ello, a nivel global y en ciertas partes del mundo, se han desarrollado herramientas diversas. Algunas ya están funcionando, otras siguen en desarrollo. En el PNUD México estamos convencidos de que la agenda para promover sociedades más justas e inclusivas inicia desde lo local, pues es en este ámbito donde la cercanía de las autoridades con las personas permite entender mejor las necesidades y demandas particulares y proponer soluciones integrales en cada estado, municipio, comunidad o región.

El ODS 16, por su contenido controvertido, de poco agrado de algunos países, se ha aceptado como parte de la Agenda 2030 después de intensos debates en las negociaciones. En el caso de México, para aterrizar el ODS 16 en la acción política, a nivel nacional y subnacional, el PNUD ha liderado una iniciativa que consistió en un ejercicio profundo de análisis para identificar los problemas específicos de este país en el marco de este ODS y explorar las soluciones existentes para atenderlos.

No es el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo alineándose a la Agenda 2030, es tomar de la Agenda elementos orientadores y referencias para que la planeación resuelva efectivamente problemas públicos multidimensionales y complejos. La Agenda no sustituye los esfuerzos de planificación nacional, pero si los enriquece y los complementa. Con ese fin, y con el objetivo de fortalecer el vínculo entre la Agenda 2030 y la planeación estratégica en el país, en el PNUD publicamos la guía “El enfoque de la Agenda 2030 en planes y programas públicos en México”, que constituye una propuesta metodológica, centrada en la Gestión por Resultados para el Desarrollo, que busca orientar a los gobiernos en la incorporación de los conceptos rectores y principios de la Agenda en el ciclo de vida de la política pública.