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A review of monitoring mechanisms for national sustainable development strategies (pdf 678kb)

This review introduces the role and practice of national strategies for sustainable development (NSDSs).  It traces key steps in the evolution of strategy demand and thinking, and considers how monitoring can contribute to their basic strategic purposes.

It also explores the potentials and challenges of monitoring in relation to five key strategy elements:

- Strategy process
- Strategy content or products
- Outcomes
- Impacts
- Disseminating and using monitoring information

 

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