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Iraq
Lessons Learned & Best Practices
Issue: Engaging local governments
Finding: To highlight the sustainable development performance of the provinces, the VNR includes an analysis of the efforts made by seven selected provinces, containing more than half of the Iraqi population. They are presented in Chapter V to analyze their experience in achieving the SDGs.
To monitor this performance, the preparation team developed two digital guides to measure achievement. The first focuses on the achievement of indicators for each goal compared to the international standard. The second looks at local development perseverance; it ranks each province’s commitment to progress in terms of success on indicators for each goal.
Year: 2019Income Group: Upper middle incomeSource: VNR
Finding: The methodology followed by Iraq to prepare its VNR is explicitly linked with a nationally developed public set of guiding principles, consistently applied in each stage of the country review process. These principles reflect the Iraqi practical understanding of the 2030 Agenda follow-up and review commitments, referring to issues such as the adoption of international reporting standards to ensure the report quality and identifying those responsible for implementing the SDGs based on national laws and development planning documents.
The principles include elements that secure meaningful engagement of stakeholders in the VNR process, ensuring a voluntary and participatory approach, taking gender and differences among geographic areas into account to expand national ownership, and promoting high-level networking.
As a result, the VNR report preparation includes inputs directly provided by a broad spectrum of the Iraqi people, making gender, geographic area, and vulnerability the three most important inclusion criteria. This exercise was complemented by also inviting external partners to share their VNR preparation expertise
