Expert Group Meeting on Strengthening National Capacity for the Integration of Sustainable Development Principles into Development Strategies of Countries Emerging from Conflict

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:
  1. increasing capacities to utilize sustainable development principles in policy-making in countries emerging from conflict; and
  2. 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)