This page contains work by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) on the topic of “Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)”
Recent documents
- Communique on a new approach to the voluntary national review process (13 February 2024)
- The 2020 VNRs: points for reflection in preparation for the 2021 reviews, based on analysis by the CDP (8 April 2021 – revised)
- Letter to co-facilitators for the intergovernmental negotiations for the review process of ECOSOC and HLPF (2 February 2021)
- Communique on further improving the voluntary national review process (April 2020)
Excerpts from Reports of the Committee for Development Policy
- 2023 CDP Report (E/2023/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) - 2022 CDP Report (E/2022/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) - 2021 CDP Report (E/2021/33, Supplement No. 13)
Analysis of the 2020 voluntary national reviews (VNRs) - 2020 CDP Report (E/2020/33, Supplement No. 13)
The voluntary national reviews of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - 2019 CDP Report (E/2019/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - 2018 CDP Report (E/2018/33, Supplement No. 13)
Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
CDP Background Papers
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- No. 56: Implementing the SDGs: Strengthening the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
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- No. 54: What are the Voluntary National Reviews (still) not telling us?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
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- No. 52: What did the 2020 Voluntary National Review (VNR) reports still not tell us?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
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- No. 50: Voluntary National Reviews Reports: What do they (not) reveal?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
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- No. 49: Voluntary National Reviews Reports – What do they (not) tell us?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
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- No. 47: ‘Leaving no one behind’ as a site of contestation and reinterpretation
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Thea Smaavik Hegstad - No. 46: Voluntary National Review Reports – What Do They Report?
By CDP subgroup on voluntary national reviews
CDP Side events at the HLPF
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VNR Labs
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Infographics and other background documents
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- Under-reported goals and targets
- Leaving No One Behind
- Pandemic preparedness
- Environment
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
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- Under-reported goals and targets
- Structural transformation
- Leaving No One Behind
- Pandemic preparedness
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
- Global Partnerships (SDG 17)
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- Leaving No One Behind
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
- Global Partnerships (SDG 17)
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- Infographics on leaving no one behind, quality education, the global partnership and overall importance assigned to individual SDGs
- Note: Are some SDGs more important than others?
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