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At a glance SDplanNet Asia & Pacific

At a glance SDplanNet Asia & Pacific. Our Mission. “Help professionals involved in development planning share innovative approaches for integrating sustainable development into plans, strategies and budgeting processes at local, sub-national and national levels”. Innovative approaches.

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At a glance SDplanNet Asia & Pacific

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  1. At a glanceSDplanNetAsia & Pacific

  2. Our Mission “Help professionals involved in development planning share innovative approaches for integrating sustainable development into plans, strategies and budgeting processes at local, sub-national and national levels”

  3. Innovative approaches • Focus on approaches that: • Facilitate forward-looking analysis and adaptive strategy-making • Identify important linkages and trade-offs between economic, social and environmental issues • Examples • Scenario outlooks • Indicator information systems • Multi-stakeholder councils • Integrated assessment techniques: Integrated Policy Appraisal, Impact Assessment, Regulatory Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment, Sustainability Assessment and etc. • Innovative financing mechanisms: payment for ecological goods and services

  4. Network Activities • Host bi-monthly internet-based learning events • Moderate email correspondence among participants to share new practices and questions posed by participants • Develop and maintain a website serving as a one-stop shop and communication platform • Share best practices with other similar networks worldwide • Conduct targeted research on specific tools and approaches of interest to network participants • Coordinate and host an annual conference of practitioners in the region

  5. Network Activities • Internet-based learning event • First event: Using Multi-stakeholder Councils in National Planning • Second event: scheduled in Feb 09 • Annual meeting • Scheduled in May or June 2009 • Present research results • Forum for exchanging experience and having dialogues on common challenges and innovative approaches (not limited to participants in Asia-Pacific)

  6. Research Interests • To what extent these issues have been integrated into national planning processes • Climate change • Food security • Energy • Identification of research areas with some preliminary questions • What are the key challenges in relation to national development planning and sustainable development strategies? • What are some of the innovative approaches and tools being used to address these planning and strategy-formulation challenges in the region?

  7. Cash and in-kind funders: • International Development Research Center Canada (IDRC) • Deutsche GesellschaftfürTechnischeZusammenarbeit (GTZ) • UNEP- Regional Office for Asia and Pacific • In –kind contribution: • UNEP- Regional Office and Regional Resource Center for Asia and Pacific • UN-Division for SustainableDevelopment (UN-DSD) • UN-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP • UNDP- Pacific Centre • Earth Council • Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) • The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat • Network Manager: • International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) • Network Coordinator: • Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Who supports and advises us?

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