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the interacademy partnership Report with a focus on the to Global Policymaking UN Sustainable Development Goals Improving Scientific Input INTERACADEMY PARTNERSHIP IMPROVING SCIENTIFIC INPUT TO GLOBAL POLICYMAKING MAY 2019 May 2019 the interacademy partnership Available for free download at: for free Available www.interacademies.org/50429/SDGs_Report Improving Scientific Input to Global Policymaking with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals Report May 2019 The shaded countries in the cover image indicate where IAP member academies exist. ISBN 978-1-7330379-0-7 © Copyright The InterAcademy Partnership, 2019 A summary report is also available: IBSN 978-1-7330379-1-4 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................. 4 CHAPTER 4: Exploring routes for applying science to the SDGs (cont’d) Working Group Members and Secretariat .................................................................................... 5 Engaging with the STC Major Group .......................................................................................38 Participating in the UN STI Multistakeholder Fora ....................................................................38 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ 7 Expert Group Meetings on STI-for-SDGs roadmapping ............................................................ 40 How you can support the implementation of the SDGs ...............................................................10 Supporting the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 ...................................................41 CHAPTER 1: Context for the IAP project .....................................................................................12 Participating in other international science meetings ................................................................41 Summary ................................................................................................................................12 Engaging at the regional level ................................................................................................42 Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals ..................................................................13 Building relations with the UN Regional Commissions ...............................................................42 Science and the SDGs ...............................................................................................................14 Working with IAP regional networks ...................................................................................... 43 The IAP project .........................................................................................................................16 Institutional capacity and institutional change .........................................................................56 CHAPTER 2: The global science advice landscape ......................................................................18 CHAPTER 5: Observations and opportunities .............................................................................57 Summary ................................................................................................................................18 Summary ................................................................................................................................57 Challenges scientists face in advising policy .................................................................................18 Observations .............................................................................................................................57 Role and capacity of science academies ......................................................................................20 Opportunities ............................................................................................................................58 IAP and its members, the national academies .........................................................................20 1. Addressing inherent challenges ........................................................................................58 The Global Young Academy and National Young Academies ......................................................20 2. Engaging with UN processes ............................................................................................58 The potential of all senior and young science academies ..........................................................21 3. Stimulating academy involvement .....................................................................................62 Survey of academies on SDGs awareness and engagement ............................................................21 4. Promoting cooperation among academies ......................................................................... 63 Database of SDG-relevant academy outputs .................................................................................23 5. Turning rhetoric into action ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER 3: Governance of the SDGs in the UN system ..............................................................26 CHAPTER 6: Project recommendations ...................................................................................... 64 Summary ................................................................................................................................26 Summary ............................................................................................................................... 64 Agenda 2030: the SDGs, targets and indicators ...........................................................................26 1. Recommended actions for the UN system, its agencies and funders .......................................... 64 Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals: a guide for merit-based academies .........................27 2. Recommended actions for the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) ................................................. 65 Governance of the SDGs within the UN system .............................................................................28 3. Recommended actions for IAP regional networks and national members .....................................67 Principal UN governance structures .......................................................................................28 4. Recommended actions for the Global Young Academy (GYA) and National Young Academies (NYAs) ...................................................................................67 Permanent UN science advisory structures .............................................................................29 5. Recommended actions for the wider science community.......................................................... 68 UN science advisory structures specific to the SDGs ................................................................30 Summary of routes by which the science community can support the SDGs ...............................35 APPENDIX 1: Practitioner guests at Project Working Group meetings .........................................69 CHAPTER 4: Exploring routes for applying science to the SDGs ................................................. 36 APPENDIX 2: The role of Academies in the 21st century ............................................................ 71 Summary ............................................................................................................................... 36 APPENDIX 3: Key global scientific advice organisations .............................................................76 Engaging at the global level ........................................................................................................36 IAP flagship project: Food and Nutrition Security and Agriculture (FNSA) ...................................37 APPENDIX 4: Examples of actions for academies identified at regional workshops.....................78 Engaging with the Commission on S&T for Development (CSTD) .............................................. 38 APPENDIX 5: List of Acronyms ...................................................................................................81 2 3 FOREWORD Working Group Members and Secretariat The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) is a global network of over 140 science, engineering and Professor Eva Alisic (Co-Chair) Professor Norichika Kanie medical academies that work together to support the role of science in seeking solutions Melbourne School of Population and Global Health Graduate School of Media and Governance to the world’s most challenging problems. In 2016, IAP for Policy (IAP-Policy), hosted by University of Melbourne Keio University the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and a component Former co-chair, Global Young Academy Japan of the Partnership, launched a three-year project on Improving Scientific Input to Global Australia Policymaking with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Funded Professor Keto Elitabu Mshigeni by Carnegie Corporation of New York and undertaken in partnership with the Institute for Professor Jinghai Li (Co-Chair) Research Professor and former Vice Chancellor Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, this three-year project was governed by an international Vice President Hubert