The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), prepared this tool compendium to help developing countries implement the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as to support governments to mainstream poverty and environment objectives into national planning, budgeting, and investment processes.
It also includes many more tools developed by ADB, United Nations agencies, and other development partners. The tools presented here can help policymakers gain a better understanding of Sustainable Development Goal interlinkages, establish horizontal and vertical policy coherence, and select appropriate guidelines, indicators, and institutional arrangements for effective integration into national policies, plans, and programmes.
The tools included will help policymakers understand the interlinkages within and between environment-related goals and targets; promote policy coherence and integration of the environmental dimensions of the SDGs; and help develop indicators, policies, and institutional arrangements to support progress toward the environment-related dimensions of the SDGs. It is also anticipated that the use of such tools will be scaled up through programs including the recently launched UNDP and UN Environment Poverty-Environment Action for the SDGs 2018–2022 project.