United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Discussion Papers

This report has is based on review of 12 MAPS mission reports and summarizes the results of the MAPS missions carried out in 2016-2018 in the UNDP programme countries of the Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (ECIS) region. Overall, the MAPS mission reports focus on the mainstreaming and acceleration discussions/ challenges, particularly the latter, with the aim of providing recommendations and inputs for the elaboration of a national roadmap to implementing the SDGs. The policy support elements are given less attention and tend to focus on how the comparative advantages of UN agencies can be leveraged to support implementation.