National Strategies for Sustainable Development: The challenge ahead

This paper is based on research conducted by IIED and others and the experience of many countries in developing and implementing a range of strategic planning approaches over the past 15 years. In particular, it builds on analysis and ideas about the need for national strategies for sustainable development (nssds) to focus on strategic analysis, debate and action set out in Dalal-Clayton et al. (1998). It also draws from discussion and case studies presented at the OECD DAC Scoping Workshop on National Strategies for Sustainable Development, Sunningdale, UK: 18-19 November 1998.