Publications

Echoing the five pillars of the 2030 Agenda, the Report calls for an integrated framework to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in country contexts faced with complex and often recurring challenges. It aims to support efforts to achieve peace and sustainable development for populations across the Arab Region, offering evidence-based examples of lessons learned and successes in using the SDGs to catalyze the transition towards greater peace and prosperity. The Report further adds value by offering an exhaustive repository of existing frameworks to strengthen responses to gaps and opportunities. As an initiative that recognizes the highly localized and evolving dynamics across the region, the Report covers conflict, post-conflict and conflict-affected settings including Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.  The Report recognizes that development, peace and humanitarian action are linked and mutually reinforcing highlighting the integrated nature of the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs. It highlights the transformative approach of human security to engender a comprehensive plan of action, which countries can translate into national policies that can bring tangible improvements to the lives of millions across the Arab Region.   The Report calls on all actors to adopt an inclusive approach that eliminates the systemic structural causes of exclusion as a priority and leaves no one behind. Through regionally-specific examples, it highlights opportunities in different peacebuilding, development and humanitarian contexts to extend coordination efforts between central and local levels by strengthening the localization of the SDGs, enhancing institutional cooperation and data collection, and managing competing priorities and challenges, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic.