Follow-up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals: Alignment vs. Internalization
By Å. Persson, Nina Weitz, Mans Nilsson. 2016
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Follow-up and review arrangements will play a critical role in ensuring that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are effectively implemented, much of which will need to happen at the national level. This article examines the nature of commitments that countries have made and if follow-up and review arrangements currently planned are consistent with those. In particular, we consider the need to encompass both the global SDG targets and the nationally defined targets foreseen. We also discuss the balance between following up and reviewing outcomes vis-a-vis behaviour to achieve those outcomes. Following a review of current plans for follow-up and review, we further draw lessons from principal–agent theory and from the two predecessors of the SDGs, Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals. We conclude that increased attention and visibility of nationally defined and internalized targets is likely to enhance implementation effectiveness, and that they should therefore be accommodated in the follow-up and review systems.
Subfields: Development, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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