PROGRESSING NATIONAL SDGs IMPLEMENTATION:

VNR government around the world to a Decade of Action reports are meant to be prepared through inclusive and and Delivery to realize the ambitious 2030 Agenda participatory processes, serve as a source of information for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable on good practices, lessons learned and challenges in Development Goals (SDGs) in 2019, 2020 saw the growth implementation and provide a. [...] Conversely, there has been partial information on the key components an increase in the number of countries of the voluntary common reporting reporting the integration of the SDGs into guidelines. [...] suggest an improvement in relation to the previous year in the sense that more countries are doing such The reporting countries continue to refer more to incorporation, instead of mentioning it as a future the SDGs than to the broader 2030 Agenda and its plan. [...] reports.3 The review aims to improve the VNR process The review follows the Progressing National SDGs and the VNR reports and strengthen accountability Implementation assessment framework that was built around the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. [...] is still at the stage of formation, and that its development is supported by a presidential decree that aims to further Compared to 2019, 2020 saw an increase in the number involve civil society and enhance its role towards the of countries that pointed to the inclusion of academia, renewal of the country’s democracy.