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UN DESA's work is supported by a growing series of strategy guidance notes on the many facets of effective governance for sustainable development which embody the knowledge and experience of hundreds of committed expert practitioners and academics from around the world. UN DESA gratefully acknowledges their very generous contribution of time and effort to thinking deeply about how to build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels and deliver on the shared vision for people and planet embodied in the 2030 Agenda.

In reading these strategy guidance notes, individuals in government ministries and agencies who are less familiar with a topic will be able to understand the fundamentals. Those who have taken initial steps with limited follow-through or impact will be able to identify how to adjust elements of their practice to achieve better results and to better embed and institutionalize the strategy in their organizations. Finally, those who are more advanced will be able to recognize the practices which contribute to its success.

Technical guidance for government officials

Sound policymaking

 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on strategic planning and foresight                                         
Lead author: Cat Tully, Founder and Managing Director, School of International Futures                                         
Other experts   
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on regulatory impact assessment                                         
Lead author: Claudio Radaelli, Professor of Comparative Public Policy, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute                                         
Other experts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on promotion of coherent policymaking                                         
Lead author: Måns Nilsson, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute                                         
Other experts  
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on strengthening of national statistical systems                                         
Lead author: Lisa Grace Bersales, Professor and Vice President for Planning and Finance, University of the Philippines                                         
Other experts  
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on monitoring and evaluation systems                                         
Lead author: Dorothy Lucks, Executive Director, SDF Global Pty Ltd and Co-Chair, EVALSDGs                                         
Other experts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on science-policy interface                                         
Lead author: Kristiann Allen, Executive Secretary, International Network for Government Science Advice                                         
Other experts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on risk management frameworks                                         
Lead author: Rolf Alter, Senior Fellow, Hertie School of Governance                                         
Other experts     
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on data sharing                                         
Lead author: Martin Romitti, Director, LMI Institute and Senior Vice President, Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness                                         
Other experts   
  

Transparency

 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on fiscal and budget transparency                                         
Lead author: Raquel Ferreira, Senior Technical Advisor, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT)                     
Other experts 
  

Leaving no one behind

 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on promotion of social equity                                         
Lead author: Kate Bird, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network and Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom                                         
Other experts   
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on systematic follow-up and review                                         
Lead author: David O'Connor, IUCN Permanent Observer to the United Nations                                         
Other experts 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on data disaggregation (forthcoming) 
  

Non-discrimination

 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on promotion of public sector workforce diversity  
Lead author: Sonia M. Ospina, Professor Emerita, RF Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University      
Other experts
Sonia M Ospina
  

Participation

 
  

CEPA strategy guidance note on participatory budgeting      

Lead author: Giovanni Allegretti, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University                                         
Other experts 

  

Subsidiarity

 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on fiscal federalism and decentralization                                   
Lead author: Paul Smoke, Professor of Public Finance and Planning, New York University                 
Other experts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on strengthening urban governance                            
Lead author: Brian H. Roberts, Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia                     
Other experts
Brian Roberts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on strengthening municipal finance and local finance systems                          
Lead author: Astrid Haas, Urban Economist and Adjunct Professor at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, Extraordinary Lecturer at the African Tax Institute, University of Pretoria and Research Associate at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town                          
Other experts

 

 

 

  
CEPA strategy guidance note on enhancement of local capacity for prevention, adaptation and mitigation of external shocks                           
Lead author: Allan Lavell, Research Associate at the Latin American Social Faculty, Costa Rica and founding member of the Latin American Network for the Social Study of Disaster Prevention (LA RED)                                         
Other experts 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on multi-level governance      
Lead author: Hanna Kleider, Associate Professor, King's College London      
Other experts
  

Intergenerational equity

 
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on impact assessment for sustainable development                                         
Lead author: Richard K. Morgan, Emeritus Professor, University of Otago                                         
Other experts   
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on long-term public debt management                                         
Lead author: José Maurel, Founder, Public Debt Management Practice and former Director, Special Advisory Services Division, Commonwealth Secretariat                                         
Other experts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on long-term territorial planning and spatial development                                         
Lead author: Frank J. D'hondt, Director, Territorial Capital Institute and Secretary-General, International Society of City and Regional Planners                                         
Other experts
  
CEPA strategy guidance note on ecosystem management                                         
Lead author: Geoffrey Garver, Researcher, McGill University                                         
Other experts