Turkmenistan presents its model of multi-stakeholder partnership on SDGs

Mr. Atajan Atayev, Head of the Strategic and Sustainable Development Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan, reflected on how multiple stakeholders were engaged in the preparation of the country’s Voluntary National Review and briefed on its main findings recently presented at the High-Level Political Forum in New York in July 2019.

In his turn, Mr. Batyr Mamedov, Head of the Secretariat for the Inter-State Commission on Sustainable Development, IFAS, told about the country’s leadership in the realization of the regional initiatives for the achievement of the SDGs.

The Forum was organized by UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). It was aimed at fostering deepened and shared understanding of member states and other stakeholders in North and Central Asia on cross-border challenges and ways forward to accelerate the balanced implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the national and subregional level.

The Forum resulted in the outcome report, based on multi-stakeholder review and consultation. This report will be submitted to the seventh Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development in 2020.

The Forum participants noted there was a need to enhance stronger regional cooperation and opportunities for peer-learning. They have also developed recommendations for accelerating progress towards SDGs and identified cross-border challenges in the implementation of the SDGs and unlocking the means of implementation to overcome these challenges.