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1 UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) 2005. UN system engagement with NGOs, civil society, the private sector, and other actors: A compendium. Geneva, Switzerland: NGLS. viii, 248p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 341.23 G000 UNN Record No: H038327)
2 Eyben, R.; Turquet, L. 2013. Feminists in development organizations: change from the margins. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. 208p.
Gender mainstreaming ; Women's participation ; Organizational change ; Bureaucracy ; Empowerment ; Institutional development ; Capacity building ; UN ; European Union ; Policy ; Political aspects ; Case studies / Ghana / USA / Morocco / Nepal / Albania / New York
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.4 G000 EYB Record No: H046373)
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3 Litke, A.; Rieu-Clarke, A. 2014. The UN Watercourses Convention and its complementary user’s guide: indispensable ingredients for global water cooperation. In Grafton, R. Q.; Wyrwoll, P.; White, C.; Allendes, D. (Eds.). Global water: issues and insights. Canberra, Australia: Australian National University (ANU Press). pp.215-221.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046567)
http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Global+Water%3A+Issues+and+Insights/11041/ch07.3.xhtml#toc_marker-47
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046567.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046567.pdf
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4 Widyono, B. 2008. Dancing in shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia. Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 322p. (Asian Voices)
Political aspects ; Political parties ; Political systems ; Governance ; Bureaucracy ; Leadership ; Social aspects ; International organizations ; UN ; Economic development / Cambodia / Phnom Penh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 959.6 G700 WID Record No: H046832)
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5 Strangio, S. 2014. Hun Sen’s Cambodia. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press. 322p.
Political systems ; Government ; Leadership ; Conflict ; Political parties ; Social aspects ; Economic aspects ; International organizations ; UN ; Agreements / Cambodia / Phnom Penh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 959.6 G700 STR Record No: H046834)
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6 Nhamo, G.; Nhamo, S.; Nhemachena, Charles. 2018. What gets measured gets done!: towards an afro-barometer for tracking progress in achieving sustainable development goal 5. Agenda-Empowering Women for Gender Equity, 32(1): 60-75.
Sustainable Development Goals ; Gender ; Women in development ; Women's participation ; Empowerment ; Labor force ; Equity ; UN ; Monitoring ; Barometers / Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048618)
What gets measured gets done! This saying implies that without quantifying what needs to be done, doing it may not be possible. This term is relevant to how African countries will implement the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, particularly in tracking progress on SDG 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. During the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments failed to establish baselines for measuring progress in meeting the goals. To ensure that no country is left behind, the UN came up with a list of indicators (Tiers 1-3) for tracking progress in achieving SDGs targets. Tier 1 indicators fall in conventional data sets and almost all countries have these data. The process for implementation, through domestication and localisation by countries, includes the responsibilities of reporting, tracking and monitoring. The article highlights the importance of attempts to establish a broad baseline of data on women in Africa. An Afro-barometer, drawing from UN Tier 1 indicators and using a composite index and data drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI), is a tentative step towards a baseline for tracking progress towards achieving SDG 5 in Africa. The research established data for 52 of the 54 African countries on women for three indicators, namely: women’s political representation, maternal mortality rates and women’s labour force participation. The gaps in the available data, places a question mark over the capacity and will to measure key indicators of gender inequality by countries. Implementation and reporting is integral to the achievement of the SDGs as well as the African Agenda 2063 and call for political will and resources on the continent to move from the merely aspirational, towards the transformation that the agendas propose.
7 Elmqvist, T.; Bai, X.; Frantzeskaki, N.; Griffith, C.; Maddox, D.; McPhearson, T.; Parnell, S.; Romero-Lankao, P.; Simon, D.; Watkins, M. (Eds.) 2018. The urban planet: knowledge towards sustainable cities. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 482p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316647554]
Urban development ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Urbanization ; Towns ; Urban planning ; Landscape design ; Innovation adoption ; Knowledge management ; Environmental effects ; Resilience ; Indicators ; International organizations ; UN ; State intervention ; Governance ; Political aspects ; Leadership ; Civil societies ; Policies ; Financing ; Macroeconomics ; Social aspects / Arab countries / India / Pakistan / Kenya / Karachi / Nairobi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048771)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/urban-planet/05E1CEDF6B9DF4E4B95AB8B4474C3C71
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048771_TOC.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048771_TOC.pdf
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8 Dickens, Chris; Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Ndhlovu, Brown. 2019. Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 23p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2019.212]
Sustainable Development Goals ; Mainstreaming ; Developing countries ; UN ; Development indicators ; Multi-stakeholder processes ; Public-private cooperation ; Partnerships ; Awareness raising ; Economic development ; Development policies ; National planning ; Government agencies ; Institutions ; Governance ; Financing ; Budgeting ; Monitoring ; Impact assessment ; Accountability ; Adaptability ; Risk assessment ; Strategies / Southern Africa / South Africa / Botswana / Malawi / Namibia / Eswatini / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049245)
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The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises to achieve change in almost every aspect of life on Earth. Encompassing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, the Agenda marks the first time in history when all nations have agreed on how to chart their future. The SDGs are not just a global reporting exercise, however, but rather involve a global program that embraces country-led efforts. Guided by the ideas contained in the 2030 Agenda, each nation must seek to become more prosperous and sustainable, while contributing to the global effort at the same time. If all the countries achieve this, we will have a sustainable planet and a secure future for all.
This document offers guidance on how developing countries can adapt the SDGs to their own contexts and priorities. It indicates important areas for developing countries to consider when creating their own program to achieve the SDGs, and provides examples of success to demonstrate concrete possibilities for progress.
This document offers guidance on how developing countries can adapt the SDGs to their own contexts and priorities. It indicates important areas for developing countries to consider when creating their own program to achieve the SDGs, and provides examples of success to demonstrate concrete possibilities for progress.
9 Ringer, C.; Dias, P.; United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN). 2020. Water and nutrition: harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade. Rome, Italy: United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN). 56p.
Water resources ; Nutrition security ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Water security ; Water insecurity ; Malnutrition ; Food systems ; Food security ; Diet ; Climate change ; Agricultural production ; Water management ; Irrigation water ; Water demand ; Water supply ; Sanitation ; Hygiene ; Households ; Domestic water ; Women's empowerment ; Fisheries ; Social aspects ; Human rights ; Environmental sustainability ; Ecosystems ; UN ; Case studies
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049549)
https://www.unscn.org/uploads/web/news/document/Water-Paper-EN-WEB-12feb.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049549.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049549.pdf
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10 Gennari, P.; Navarro, D. K. 2019. The challenge of measuring agricultural sustainability in all its dimensions. Journal of Sustainability Research, 1(2):e190013. (Special issue: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Underpinning and Contributing to Sustainability Research). [doi: https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20190013]
Sustainable agriculture ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Development indicators ; Assessment ; Monitoring ; Policies ; Farm surveys ; Economic aspects ; UN ; FAO
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049572)
https://sustainability.hapres.com/AddDownload.aspx?id=1101&type=pdf&action=JSR
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049572.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049572.pdf
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SDG indicator 2.4.1, the “Percentage of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture” aims to measure the degree of sustainability of each farm with reference to 11 distinct sustainability attributes, and hence provide an overall national assessment through a dashboard approach. Today, this indicator has an internationally agreed methodology, and dozens of countries around the world are receiving technical assistance from FAO in its measurement and implementation. However, what we may now take as a given is the result of a long and arduous process of methodological development that involved a series of difficult decisions on numerous methodological aspects. This paper reviews and provides supporting documentation for these key methodological decisions, particularly with regard to the definition of agricultural sustainability, the choice of the scale of the sustainability assessment and the data collection instrument; the sub-indicators within each dimension; the criteria to assess the sustainability level of the farm with respect to each sub-indicator; and the modality of synthesizing the information. These decisions were further encumbered by the need to faithfully capture progress towards a multidimensional SDG target determined by a political process, with negligible input from statistical experts.
11 Vezzoni, R.; Sijtsma, F.; Vihinen, H. 2023. Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN decade on ecosystem restoration. Ecosystem Services, 62:101541. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101541]
Environmental policies ; Ecosystem restoration ; UN ; Ecosystem services ; COVID-19 ; Recuperation ; Economic value ; Financing ; Natural resources ; Governance
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052110)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000347/pdfft?md5=90ddcb4e77552053cb3ab9b9af834e20&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000347-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052110.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052110.pdf
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The 2020s are starting under challenging circumstances. The impact of COVID-19 recovery plans and the realignment of geopolitics with energy provisioning will be crucial for meeting global environmental policy targets, such as those exemplified by the recently launched United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. How to build a more ecologically viable society, however, remains a contested issue. Several scholars are also highlighting the importance of complexifying environmental policy beyond individual instruments centred on the limiting paradigm of economic growth. Drawing on these considerations, we make a case for Environmental Policy Mixes (EPMs), which can better accommodate a diversity of institutional arrangements, contextual power dynamics, and a multiplicity of environmental targets. In this paper, we first present a database of 146 environmental policy instruments (provided in the annexe) that we collected through a survey of the literature. Second, we develop an EPM framework based on a set of 14 criteria that we then test with a selected group of experts in the field, both academics and business practitioners, through structured interviews and card sorting. Following, we present an adjusted final version of the framework and conclude with two illustrative examples of how to apply it. The first one is a case study of the environmental trade-offs in a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the other investigates how to align COVID-19 stimulus packages with the objectives of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The decade ahead is going to be critical for reaching global environmental targets. The EPM framework can facilitate policy discussions and guide decision-makers in tackling the environmental policy challenges of the 2020s and beyond.
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