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UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inquiry

Inquiry

The International Development Committee (IDC) identifies serious failings in the preparation and presentation of UK’s first Voluntary National Review of progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The UK has taken a long time to get around to producing a VNR (some countries have produced two since 2015) and so expectations were naturally that much higher, and the disappointment that much greater. The Government had 19 months between committing to a VNR and producing it. Despite this, the timeline was squeezed and most of the work – and virtually all of the engagement activity – was left to the last few months, preventing stakeholders from meaningfully engaging in, or influencing, the final report.

Work news

UK Progress on the SDGs: the Voluntary National Review – Special Report Publication

Committee to publish Government response to its Twelfth Report

19 September 2019

Government's Voluntary National Review casts doubt on its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals

International Development Committee publishes Report on the UK's progress for implementing the SDGs

UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The VNR Report publication

International Development Committee publishes Report on the SDGs and VNR

Richard Curtis CBE examined on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

International Development Committee takes evidence on UK progress on the SDGs

UK's contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals overseas examined

International Development Committee takes evidence on Tuesday 14 May at 9.40am

Concerns raised over UK's Voluntary National Review of the SDGs

International Development Committee publishes correspondence on the Sustainable Development Goals

Secretary of State examined on the Sustainable Development Goals

International Development Committee takes evidence from the Department for International Development

UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals examined

International Development Committee take evidence from domestic and international-facing NGO coalitions

UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals inquiry launched

International Development Committee calls for submissions on the Sustainable Development Goals

3 December 2018

Contact us

Email: indcom@parliament.uk
Phone: 020 7219 1223 (general enquiries) |0207 219 8969 (media enquiries)
Address: International Development Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA