- Title
- Review of the roadmap for implementing the SDGs in Timor-Leste: Achievements and limitations
- Creator
- Courvisanos, Jerry; Boavida, Matias
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/181673
- Identifier
- vital:15968
- Abstract
- On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
- Publisher
- TLSA Timor-Leste Studies Association
- Relation
- Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Subject
- Timor-Leste Government; SDGs; Sustainable Development Goals
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