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NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIES International Experience
Barry Dalal-Clayton IIED
Yunnan Sustainable Development Action Plan
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Scope of presentation

• Targets
• OECD UN Learning Initiatives
• OECD/UNDP Resource Book
• Rationale for strategies
• Changing approaches since Rio
• Principles Characteristics
• Continuous improvement approach
• Mechanisms
• Participation
• Partnerships the SD triad
• Challenges

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Targets

• Agenda 21 call for NSDSs
• Rio5 (introduce by 2002)
• MDG Goal 7, target 7 (integrate principles of SD
  into country policies programmes)
• WSSD (begin implementation by 2005)

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Rationale for a systematic approach to
sustainable development strategies
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NSDS Definition
A co-ordinated set of participatory and
continuously improving processes of analysis,
debate, capacity strengthening, planning and
investment, which seeks to integrate the short
and long term economic, social and environmental
objectives of society through mutually
supportive approaches wherever possible - and
manages trade offs where this is not
A co-ordinated set of participatory and
continuously improving processes of analysis,
debate, capacity strengthening, planning and
investment, which seeks to integrate the short
and long term economic, social and environmental
objectives of society through mutually
supportive approaches wherever possible - and
manages trade offs where this is not possible
(OECD DAC 2001
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1999-2002 OECD/DAC and UN Learning
InitiativesReviews dialogues

• Lessons from many approaches to strategy
• Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Nepal, Thailand,
  Ghana, Namibia, Pakistan
• 3 international workshops
• Web-based information exchange (www.nssd.net)
• DAC policy guidance 2001 principles building
  on what works
• UN Forum on NSDSs November 2001 (Ghana)
• UN Guidance(2002)

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OECD/UNDP Resource Book

• Launch at WSSD
• How to implement OECD and UN policy guidance on
  strategies
• Distilling technical guidance from the 8 study
  countries and far more
• 150 contributors
• CD ROM ( other resources)
• French, Spanish, Russian, others?
• Website (www.nssd.net)

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Resource Book chapters

• Introduction a road map to the book.
• Why are strategies needed for SD?
• What have previous strategies achieved?
• How can we start a strategy, improve one, or
  coordinate many?
• How to generate the knowledge required?
• How to get the right people involved?
• How to ensure good communications?
• How to make decisions about strategy objectives
  and instruments?
• How to obtain a secure financial basis?
• How to improve strategy through monitoring and
  evaluation

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Changing approaches to strategies
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FROM
Builds a system of coordinated mechanisms
processes dealing with SD priorities step-by-step
Master plan for SD (gets increasingly out of
date)
Continuous process monitoring, leaning
improvement
One-off initiative
Fixed ideas and solutions

An adaptive, learning system offering coherence
between activities
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Also experimentation and managing uncertainty
Management based on precedent or evidence only
State alone is responsible
Society as a whole is responsible
Multi-stakeholder approach
Narrow participation
Focus on outputs (projects, laws, etc.)
Focus on outcomes (impacts) and the quality of
participation and management processes
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Partnerships and integrated research and planning
Sector-based research and planning
Externally-driven (in developing countries)
Country-driven, locally-owned
Focus on costly projects (and a consequent
dependence on external assistance)
Focus on cost savings and domestically-driven and
financed investment and development
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International Strategy Principles
Characteristics

• Integration of economic, social and environmental
  objectives
• Coordination and balance between sector and
  thematic strategies and decentralised levels, and
  across generations
• Broad participation, effective partnerships,
  transparency and accountability
• Country ownership, shared vision with a clear
  timeframe on which stakeholders agree, commitment
  and continuous improvement

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International Strategy Principles
Characteristics

• Developing capacity and an enabling environment,
  building on existing knowledge and processes
• Focus on priorities, outcomes and coherent means
  of implementation
• Linkage with budget and investment processes
• Continuous monitoring and evaluation

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Continuous improvement approach to managing
strategies
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Mechanisms
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Some key tools

• Policy mappingThe other strategies, policies,
  plans initiatives that the NSDS needs to be
  coordinated and coherent with (International,
  National, Provincial, Local)
• VisioningWhat kind of sustainable future for
  Yunnan Province?
• Scenario planningA method for learning about
  the future by understanding the nature and impact
  of the most uncertain and important driving
  forces affecting the future

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Participation map
Government
Sectors
Academia
Private sector
Communities in specific regions
Regional, eg, EU
National
Provinces, regions
Local
Household
Marginal groups
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The sustainable development Triad
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Challenges

• Think and behave in new, open, participatory ways
  that provide for dialogue and consensus-building
• Agree what is needed and how to get there
• Identify motivations to encourage bureaucrats to
  work differently
• Work in support of each other to achieve
  cross-sectoral integration and synchronisation
• Identify and support existing constructive
  institutional relationships and experiments

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Challenges

• Secure genuine political support
• Use NSDS principles and system to continuously
  improve such political will
• Secure bold leadership to kick off the whole NSDS
  process

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Strategies Website
www.nssd.net