2009/11/18 to 2009/11/19
Nairobi, Kenya
Dates: 18-19 November 2009
Place: United Nations Office, Nairobi, Kenya
Background
The meeting was held as part of a larger effort to improve capacities of countries emerging from conflict to integrate sustainable development principles into development strategies and thereby increase the likelihood of sustainable peace.
Objectives
- To review and evaluate experiences and status of methodologies for integrating sustainable development principles in overall development strategies in countries emerging from conflict;
- Highlight key challenges, their causes and areas of concern related to sustainable development planning;
- Identify and assess the critical gaps in the area of national sustainable development strategies (NSDS) and comprehensive development planning in conflict-affected countries;
- Develop selection criteria of the pilot countries to be considered under the project; and
- Make recommendations and propose areas to be tackled to achieve the main project objectives of:
- increasing capacities to utilize sustainable development principles in policy-making in countries emerging from conflict; and
- producing methodologies (scalable toolkit) based on NSDS guidelines that explain and illustrate ways to integrate sustainable development principles into national development strategies as part of peace-building.
(Office: UNCRD Africa Office)