ACCELERATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WATER-RELATED SDGS IN TUNISIA - Implementing SDG-PSS in Tunisia

Since 2017, a consortium of partners (UNU-INWEH, UNOSD, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, and the Korea Environment Corporation(1)) has implemented the project “Water in the World We Want” to investigate how countries can address critical evidence gaps and deliver better policies to achieve SDG 6. [...] The consortium collaborated with the experts and policymakers from the project partner countries to develop SDG 6 Policy Support System (SDG-PSS), the key output of this project, to help create evidence for the enabling environment of SDG 6 in countries with limited or missing data. [...] For example, the Tunisian team is working on engaging more resourceful and motivated experts within the National Working Group for the third phase (2021–2023) to support data collection and interpretation of the reports.. [...] Supporting National Policies: A major achievement of this project is reflected in the contributions of the tool to support the National Committee for the Preparation of the National Voluntary Review of Tunisia for SDGs 2019 and 2021 with an assessment of evidence gaps in their current SDG 6 campaign. [...] More generally, and to fill these gaps, the government has taken decisions for the generation of quantitative and qualitative indicators and the integration of gender dimensions into water-related socioeconomic and political activities.