Aligning development co-operation to the SDGs in upper-middle income countries

Abstract

Achieving sustainable development will require all development actors to act together and in synergy, and using comparable metrics to monitor progress. This case study explores whether the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be used as a shared framework by all actors to manage development cooperation for results in upper middle-income countries, taking Peru as a case study.The report first lays out Peru's SDG journey: its vision of the Goals as an anchor for policy coherence, and how its domestic policies align with them. It then discusses how well development co-operation aligns to the SDGs in Peru, analysing the related enablers, drivers and challenges. The report also examines how to set up monitoring approaches that support SDG measurement in Peru. Finally, it suggests ways to overcome a number of technical, political and organisational challenges that limit the use of the SDGs -some of which are unique to development co-operation delivery in upper middle-income countries.

Aligning development co-operation to the SDGs in lower middle-income countries

“…A majority of SDG adopters report their outcome and impact indicators using official country data, compared to 29% of development partners that have not adopted the SDGs yet (Table 3.3). This difference is significant and consistent with other comparable country studies recently carried out by the OECD in Peru, Samoa and Uganda (Guerrero-Ruiz, Kirby and Schnatz, 2021 [41]; Guerrero-Ruiz, Sachin and Schnatz, 2021 [42]; Guerrero-Ruiz, Kirby and Sachin, 2021 [43]).…”

“…Such adaptive practices include the use of management approaches that stress the ability to anticipate, react and correct actions as the context changes. This finding echoes similar findings in other OECD country case studies (Guerrero-Ruiz, Kirby and Schnatz, 2021 [41]; Guerrero-Ruiz, Sachin and Schnatz, 2021 [42]; Guerrero-Ruiz, Schnatz and Verger, 2021 [38]; Guerrero-Ruiz, Kirby and Sachin, 2021 [43]). During project preparation, almost all SDG adopters (95%) are required to carry out context-sensitivity analysis to ensure the design of a fitting results framework (Table 2.1).…”