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Background

The meeting was held as part of a larger effort to improve capacities of countries emerging from conflict to integrate sustainable development principles into development strategies and thereby increase the likelihood of sustainable peace.

Objectives

To review and evaluate experiences and status of methodologies for integrating sustainable development principles in overall development strategies in countries emerging from conflict;

Highlight key challenges, their causes and areas of concern related to sustainable development planning;

Identify and assess the critical gaps in the area of national sustainable development strategies (NSDS) and comprehensive development planning in conflict-affected countries;

Develop selection criteria of the pilot countries to be considered under the project; and

Make recommendations and propose areas to be tackled to achieve the main project objectives of:

1. increasing capacities to utilize sustainable development principles in policy-making in countries emerging from conflict; and
2. producing methodologies (scalable toolkit) based on NSDS guidelines that explain and illustrate ways to integrate sustainable development principles into national development strategies as part of peace-building.