Sustainable development goals and indicators: can they be tools to make national budgets more sustainable?

Hege, Elisabeth; Brimont, Laura; Pagnon, Félicien

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Sustainable development goals and indicators: can they be tools to make national budgets more sustainable?

Elisabeth Hege*

Laura Brimont*

Félicien Pagnon*

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Table 1
Checklist of the necessary conditions according to the case studies for successful SDG integration into the budgetary process

	Assam (Indian province)	Afghanistan	Colombia	Finland	Mexico	Norway	Slovenia
Year in which SDGs were (or are planned to be) integrated into the budgetary process	2016	2019	2018	2018	2018	2016	2020
Extent to which the SDGs have been translated into the national context
National Implementation Plan or Strategy	X	X	X	X	X		X
Nationally translated targets or priorities^a		X	X	X	X		X
Gap analysis to identify national challenges			X	X			X
High level political support for the SDGs	X	X	X	X	X	X
Degree of involvement of Ministry of Finance
Exercise Initiated by Ministry of Finance	X			X	X
Ministry of Finance piloting the approach	X	Ministry of the Economy	National Planning Department	X	X	X	X
Ministries use the SDGs as an argument for their budget proposal	X				X	X
Extent to which the tool is used by different actors		too early to say		too early to say			too early to say
Parliamentarians use the SDGs in the budget debate	X					X
NGOs use the SDGs for budget advocacy						X	X
Supreme audit institutions use the SDGs in the budget oversight process					X		X

^a Some countries avoid using the term “priorities” because of the indivisible nature of the SDGs, highlighting the importance to work towards the Agenda 2030 as a whole. Instead they focus on a selection of “accelerators” or “cross-cutting themes”.

Source: table created by the authors based on semi-structured interviews

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