Management and Governance of the Coalition
The Global SDG Synthesis Coalition is chaired by UNDP through its Independent Evaluation Office, which also hosts the Secretariat.
A Leadership Group of high-level political representatives sits at the top of the Coalition’s governance structure. It serves the activities of the Coalition by identifying key learning needs for the achievement of the SDGs, to secure broad participation and ownership, and to ensure the communication and uptake of findings lessons.
Each synthesis pillar is co-led by different partners and supported by a Management Group, who lead on setting the scope and terms of reference, engage strategic partners, support resource mobilization, ensure timely delivery of the synthesis, and support communication and uptake.
- The Partnership Pillar is co-led by UNDP and Canada
- The People Pillar is co-led by UNICEF, UN Women, WFP, UNESCO and UNDP
- The Planet Pillar is co-led by UNEP and GCF
- The Prosperity Pillar is co-led by ILO, UNIDO, CAF, and UNDP
- The Peace Pillar is co-led by OIOS, PBSO, UNDP and UNODC
Each synthesis pillar is supported by a Technical Advisory Panel composed of subject-matter and methodological experts nominated by the respective Management Groups for each synthesis project. The panels help quality assure synthesis products, communicate lessons to relevant stakeholders, and facilitate uptake at relevant decision-making levels.
What are the key objectives?
This is an ambitious and unprecedented multi-agency initiative that aims to synthesize rigorous evaluative evidence organized around the five pillars of the Sustainable Development Goals—People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership. The Coalition’s multi-agency and participatory nature ensures that each synthesis reflects the key policy and thematic priorities of each SDG pillar. Multiple syntheses will be produced under each pillar to help accelerate progress towards the SDGs by 2030.
Each synthesis incorporates evidence from:
- Impact evaluations and systematic reviews that provide findings on the effectiveness of interventions towards the SDGs
- Evaluations undertaken by UN agencies and other bilateral and multilateral institutions that provide findings on how programmes and interventions were implemented
- Voluntary National Reviews, which provide country-level accounts of successes, challenges and lessons learned from implementing the SDGs
- An analysis of progress against SDG indicators to identify positive outliers
The synthesis and triangulation of evidence from these sources provides an opportunity to generate insights on:
Which interventions and approaches are effective in advancing the SDGs;
How and why they work, and in which contexts and for whom they are most effective.