Country Briefs on SDG Integration into Planning

Country Briefs on SDG Integration into Planning

October 3, 2017

How are countries moving ahead the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs? A series of briefs produced by UNDP shares good experiences about how governments are integrating the SDGs into their planning systems. Some highlights from case studies in six countries in Asia:

  • Bangladesh estimated the costs of reaching the SDGs by 2030. Between now and 2030, US$928 billion will be needed for Bangladesh to achieve the SDGs, equivalent to 18.5-20 percent of its GDP annually.
  • The state of Assam in north-eastern India is the first in the country to produce a SDG-oriented state budget in the fiscal year 2016/17 – budget which shows how much will be allocated to which goal. Overall, the biggest allocations are made to SDG 10 (inequality), SDG 4 (education), SDG 3 (health) and SDG 1 (poverty).
  • In Indonesia, the private sector and philanthropic foundations are actively engaged in a movement to achieve the SDGs. The government of Riau province is getting support from the Tanoto Foundation and UNDP to localize the SDGs – to determine which goals and targets matter for people in the province and to orient local development plans to achieve them.
  • Malaysia has innovative practices of engaging “the whole of society” in designing and implementing public interest projects – where government, private sector and civil society work alongside each other. These practices are a good model for collaboration to achieve the SDGs.
  • In Nepal, the government did an inventory of 484 projects and programmes to classify the budget by the SDGs. Over half of the government budget is allocated towards SDG 9 (infrastructure) and SDG 11 (cities and settlements).
  • The Philippines government has planning, budgeting and civil servant performance evaluation systems geared towards results – goals important for people, rather than internal organizational goals. The government is now using SDGs as a criteria for allocating fiscal resources to programmes.