Afghanistan SDGs Cost Estimation Workshop

UNDP Afghanistan, in partnership with the Afghanistan Ministries of Finance and Economy, and with technical support from the Millennium Institute, conducted a three-day workshop on cost estimation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Afghanistan. The workshop is the first activity of a project to estimate the financial resources that will be required to achieve the Afghanistan SDGs (A-SDGs) by 2030.

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Understanding the size of financing gap and financing options are crucial preconditions, however, successful implementation of the A-SDGs also depend greatly on integrating and streamlining the SDGs in Afghanistan’s mechanism for development policy discussion and priority setting, most importantly the national budget process.

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To achieve this goal, MI will work with Afghanistan national stakeholders to contextualize and calibrate the Integrated Sustainable Development Goals model (iSDG) to Afghanistan, and deploy a comprehensive tool to support evidence-based policymaking. As noted by Mr. Abdallah Al Dardari, UNDP Resident Representative for Afghanistan, “The iSDG model will be developed in close coordination with the relevant government institutions; it will be a nationally owned model and will be handed over to the government.”​

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The iSDG-Afghanistan model will be used to examine the impact of policy interventions on each of the A-SDG targets, identify the complementary priority interventions that will catalyze progress towards meeting the targets, and following this, used to estimate the cost requirements for implementing integrated interventions under a ‘baseline scenario’ and ‘growth+ scenario’ policy options, and how they can be financed. 

 

The project is expected to be concluded by October 2021.