Turkmen Government finalizes its Voluntary National Review

The participants of the meeting, including the heads of UN Agencies, reviewed and commented on the VNR report and video to be presented during the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), which will take place under auspices of ECOSOC in July in New York.

“I would like to note that work on the SDGs does not end with the submission of the VNR; it is just beginning. And we are ready to continue working at the same pace by providing further support in the monitoring of the progress on SDGs in Turkmenistan”, stressed Ms. Elena Panova, UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan.

To ensure that no one is left behind, the review process engaged the youth, the private sector and the civil society in the development of the report.

While developing the report, various innovative methods and tools were used to reflect the interlinkages among SDGs within the implementation of the joint UNDP – Ministry of Finance and Economy project on SDG Platform. For instance, the UN ESCAP tool of systems thinking, which reviews interrelationships of the SDG targets, was used for the first time.