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This article examines the nature of commitments that countries have made to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and if follow-up and review arrangements currently planned are consistent with them.
Follow-up and review arrangements will play a critical role in ensuring that the SDGs are effectively implemented, much of which will need to happen at the national level. In particular, the authors examine the need to encompass both the global SDG targets and the nationally defined targets foreseen.
The authors also discuss the balance between following up and reviewing outcomes vis-à-vis behaviour to achieve those outcomes. Following a review of current plans for follow-up and review, lessons are drawn from principal–agent theory and from the two predecessors of the SDGs, Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals.
The article concludes that increased attention and visibility of nationally defined and internalized targets is likely to enhance implementation effectiveness, and that they should therefore be accommodated in the follow-up and review systems.
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Feature / Water is a central research topic at SEI. This World Water Day, explore SEI's latest research and perspectives on water.
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