Annex 1: Additional Reading on Getting Started with the SDGs

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Baseline Assessment

Reconstructing Baseline Data for Impact Evaluation and Results Measurement (Bamberger, 2010)

Baseline Data Collection (Keller & Baretto-Dillon)

What is a baseline assessment? (UN Women, 2012)

Differential Diagnosis

Sachs, Jeffrey (2005). The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time. Penguin Books: London.

Multi-stakeholder Consultation

Creating Adaptive Policies: A Guide for Policy-making in an Uncertain World (Swanson and Bhadwal, 2009)

Multi-stakeholder Engagement and Communication for Sustainability: Beyond Sweet-talk and Blanket Criticism — Towards Successful Implementation (Hemmati and Rogers, 2015)

Participatory Scenario Development and Future Visioning in Adaptation Planning: Lessons from experience: Part I (Bizikova, et al., 2014)

GovernAbilities: The nexus of sustainability, accountability and adaptability. Essential tools for successful governance in the 21st century (Swanson, et al., 2014)

Using scenarios to make decisions about the future: Anticipatory learning for the adaptive co-management of community forests (Wollenberg & Buck, 2000)

Guidance on Participatory Assessment (Dummet et al., 2013)

Backcasting

Backcasting and why do we need it? (Olga, 2013)

Backcasting (European Commission, 2007)

Backcasting for a Sustainable Future: The Impact After 10 Years (Quist, 2007)

Governance Systems

Vertically Integrated Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (V-NAMAs): Policy and Implementation Recommendations (GIZ, 2014)

Governance for Sustainable Development: Five OECD Case Studies (OECD, 2002)

Governance Principles, Institutional Capacity and Quality (UNDP, 2011)

From Connectivity to Service Delivery: Case studies in e-governance (UNDP, 2013)

Goal-based Financing for the SDGs

Financing Sustainable Development: Implementing the SDGs through Effective Investment Strategies and Partnerships” (Sachs and Schmidt-Traub, 2015)

Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: Understanding the Billions and Trillions (Schmidt-Traub, 2015)

Report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (UN, 2015)

Readiness for Climate Finance (UNDP, 2012)

Climate Finance Options (UNDP website)

Towards integration at last? The sustainable development goals as a network of target (Le Blanc, 2015)

Partnerships

The State of the Global Partnership for Development (MDG Gap Task Force, 2014)

Public Private Partnerships Reference Guide (WBO, 2014)

Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Issue Paper (ODI & Foundation for Development Cooperation, 2003)

Data Revolution

Data for Development: A Needs Assessment for SDG Monitoring and Statistical Capacity Development (SDSN, 2015)

Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for Sustainable Development Goals: Launching a data revolution for the SDGs (SDSN, 2015)

A World That Counts: Mobilising the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (UN-IAEG, 2014)

Statistics and indicators for the post-2015 development agenda (UN, 2013)

Green Economy: Using indicators for green economy policymaking (UNEP, 2014)

Towards a New Industrial and Business Statistics Programme for Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition (UNIDO, 2009)

JOINT UNECE/EUROSTAT/OECD TASK FORCE ON MEASURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (UNECE, 2009)

Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals (UNEP, 2013)

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