Lessons Learned & Best Practices | High-Level Political Forum

Issue: Post-VNR process: presentation of VNR results to the national audience

Year: 2021Income Group: High incomeSource: VNR

Finding: The government developed a National Sustainable Development Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation indicators framework to serve as a reference in elaborating annual government Progress Reports. Those yearly reporting exercises will be the basis of an accountability mechanism that will engage all stakeholders, including citizenship. Its results will be presented to and debated with the parliament. Moreover, considering the 2030 Agenda's intergenerational nature, the government will submit the annual progress reports to the national Child Participation Council. In addition, Spain assumed the commitment of carrying out an exhaustive mid-term evaluation in 2024 to produce a detailed assessment of the country's progress towards the SDGs and its compliance with the promises made in the 2030 Agenda.

Issue: Analyzing strategies and their impacts

Year: 2018Income Group: High incomeSource: VNR

Finding: This VNR analyses the impacts of the country's foreign policy in SDG achievement outside Spain, considering the international effects of its national policies. Consequently, Spain has developed an SDG impact analysis for legislative initiatives, including external and global impact, and extended its foreign policy impact assessment to include the SDGs. A forecast analysis on SDG impact is included in the country partnership framework with third states.