Project Info

Project Code
1617AH
Tranche
T10A
Tranche Type
Residual
Status
Active
Title
Integrated modelling tools to support evidence-based sustainable development policies

Entities

Implementing Entity (Lead)
DESA
Other Collaborating Entities
Other UN entities

Financial and Evaluation Info

Total Budget
$822,000.00
Project Selected for Evaluation
No

Countries and Regions

Countries or Areas: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Mexico
Regions: Americas
Sub-Regions:
Intermediate Regions:
Countries in Special Situations: Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDC)

Areas of Work

SDG
1
2
6
7
8
12
13
15
SDG Targets
1.4
1.b
2.3
2.4
6.4
6.5
6.6
8.3
12.a
15.1
15.2
Thematic Clusters
Social Development
Sustainable Development

Brief Description

Governments from developing countries confront the challenge of designing coherent policies that can simultaneously accelerate growth, reduce poverty, deepen human development, preserve and improve the environment, and adapt/mitigate to climate change. To successfully achieve these objectives, countries need quantitative analytical capacities to assess comprehensive, coherent and detailed policy options. This requires assessments that integrate a large number of development objectives across the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. This project aims at building integrated assessment methodologies and capacities in each country to address the interlinkages and tradeoffs among policies, goals and the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. A climate, land-use, energy and water systems integrated assessment will be developed in each target country, with capacity building activities provided to government officials, to address the challenges and particular policy scenarios discussed with official government counterparts, to inform evidence-based policy discussions.

Objective and Expected Outcomes

Objective
To build capacities of technical government officials and policymakers in selected developing countries to use integrated assessment modelling tools in support of evidence-based policies
Expected Outcome 1
Enhanced technical capacity of government experts to use integrated assessment models and/or single sector models in order to inform policies for sustainable development
Expected Outcome 2
Strengthened capacity of middle to high level policy makers to use modelling-based information to assess sustainable development strategies and options