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Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP)
Description/achievement of initiative

The Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP) is a portfolio investment approach by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), which aims to address the issues of water, food, and energy security in South Asia through better regional cooperation, policy reforms, technology transfer and capacity building targeting the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and girls.

Implementation methodologies

The methodology has been divided into three phases of four years each. CUTS activities are designed keeping in mind its influence on SDIP domains and pre-conditions of change. CUTS will be refining its activities as and when required keeping in mind the evolving nature of this partnership approach. On a broader note, CUTS activities in phase 1 will majorly focus on expanding its networks throughout the region by linking itself with relevant strategic partners, conducting policy research on SDIP issues and annually assisting IOD PARC in undertaking the logistics of the annual SDIP Partnership Dialogues meetings. During phase 2, apart from the above mentioned activities, CUTS will indulge more into policy advocacy as it will be in a position to disseminate more information to the targeted stakeholders from its activities during phase 1 along with the activities performed by its strategic partners. The last phase (phase 3) will majorly focus on high level policy dialogues at different levels (local, sub-national, national and regional) to influence change and enhance regional cooperation in South Asia.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

CUTS will engage in more in-depth advocacies for policy and governance reforms through meetings and seminars at national/regional level. CUTS will also engage in continued policy dialogues with Member of Parliaments of the sub-region so as to foster greater bilateral and multi-lateral cooperation in the region. Partnership contracts will be formulated with our strategic partners. Networks of various stakeholders at sub-national, national and regional level will be formed and/or developed with the objective of bestowing a certain degree of ownership of the activities to be carried out under SDIP. The identified CSOs will play a pivotal role in conducting a part of policy research through stakeholder’s perception survey, key informant interviews as well as focus group discussions in their respective countries.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

The initiative will be monitored through Policy Research, CSO Mapping & Outreach, Media mapping & outreach, Policy advocacy and Policy dialogues.

Partner(s)

* CUTS International * Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Progress reports
Goal 2
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
2.b - Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.c - Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Goal 6
6.5 - By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
Goal 13
13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.b - Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
Goal 17
17.2 - Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.7 - Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.10 - Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.11 - Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.12 - Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.13 - Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.14 - Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.15 - Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Multi-stakeholder partnerships
17.16 - Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.17 - Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Data, monitoring and accountability
17.18 - By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.19 - By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
December 2014
Policy (GAP) Analysis
June 2015
Perception Study
November 2014
Diagnostic Study
October 2014
Policy Mapping
Staff / Technical expertise
Staff time from seven professionals from CUTS International

Basic information
Time-frame: 11/2014 - 01/2016
Partners
* CUTS International * Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Countries
Contact information
Susan Mathew, Senior Programme Officer, sma@cuts.org
United Nations