Progress Report of the Global Pilot Programme on STI for SDGs Roadmaps

The 2030 Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015, positioned Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) as key means to implement the SDGs, and launched the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM). The Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI Forum), supported by the Inter-Agency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (IATT), has been the main TFM forum for discussing topics of common interest to Member States and STI stakeholders in the context of the 2030 Agenda.

Abstract

The 2030 Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015, positioned Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) as key means of implementation of the SDGs, and launched the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM). The Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum for Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI Forum), supported by the UN Inter-Agency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (IATT), has been the main fora for TFM to discuss topics of common interests of Member States and STI stakeholders in the context of the 2030 Agenda. As STI roadmaps and action plans for SDGs have been among the central topics through the first three STI Forum , IATT established a sub-working group on Roadmaps for taking forward the discussions and initiatives on STI Roadmaps. Consequently, the IATT sub-working group together with 10-Member Group launched the Guidebook for the preparation of STI for SDGs Roadmaps. As a mean to engage countries in piloting the approach and methodology elaborated in the Guidebook, the IATT sub-working group launched a Global Pilot Programme on STI for SDGs roadmaps. Since the High Level Political Forum (HLFP) in July 2019, five pilot countries, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya and Serbia, together with two international partners, Japan and the European Union, have been participating in the first phase of the Programme. Ukraine joined the Programme in 2021. This Progress report of the Global Pilot Programme is designed to take stock of the state of country pilots, to draw out lessons and implications from the current implementation and to suggest ideas for the way forward.