The responses from 61 Member States and the EU and its Member States supplied responses to a questionnaire on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the responses are now available online in searchable form.
States responded to 12 questions, including on priority areas, identifying appropriate targets and the process for developing SDGs.
December 2012: The UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, hosted by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), has posted responses to the government questionnaire on the development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sixty-one Member States and the EU and its Member States submitted responses to the 12 questions posed in the questionnaire.
The survey was conducted in preparation for the UN Secretary-General’s initial input to the Open Working Group (OWG) on SDGs. It is also meant as a contribution to the UN-supported national consultations on the post-2015 development agenda.
The questionnaire asks States to, inter alia: list five to ten priority areas that SDGs should address; identify ways SDGs could balance the economic, environmental and social pillars of sustainable development; identify key uses of SDGs for their country; and name existing goals and targets that should be incorporated. The questionnaire also asks States to consider how to make universally applicable SDGs nationally relevant, given different levels of development, and whether targets should be common to all countries, defined by each country, or common but differentiated. The questionnaire further asks States to respond to questions on the process of developing SDGs, including how to ensure that the SDG process is integrated into the post-2015 development agenda.
The submissions are listed by Member State, and are searchable. [Posted Questionnaires] [IISD RS Story on Questionnaire Launch]