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TITLE GUIDANCE IN PREPARING A NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY:
Managing Sustainable Development in the New Millenium
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Background Paper No. 13
DATE 2002
SNAPSHOT CSD acting as the preparatory committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development Second preparatory session 28 January – 8 February 2002
  • What is sustainable development?
  • What are national sustainable development strategies and why do we need them?
  • Basis for building national sustainable development strategies: assembling the pieces
  • Elements of effective national sustainable development strategies
  • Building the elements of the strategy: managing critical processes
  • Formulating the strategy
  • Implementing the strategy
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Sustaining the national sustainable development strategy process
  • The role of the United Nations and the international donor community