THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

Abstract

This article describes the nature and scope of national sustainable development strategies (NSDS), articulates key principles and common elements. It offers guidance to understand the linkages that are needed between the array of national level mechanisms that can contribute to an national sustainable development strategies.

The purpose of the article is to determine the principles of the national sustainable development strategy, the feasibility of changes in the implementation of the methodology for assessing the national sustainable development strategy in Ukraine, introduced in Agenda 21. The purpose set in the article was achieved using methods of analysis, classification method, induction, deduction, system analysis method.

Defined that most national development plans have now shifted from a philosophy of central planning to one of ‘creating enabling conditions’, to accommodate a degree of voluntary and civil society action, which contributes to partnership and the implementation of strategy. This approach, and some of the planning infrastructure set up for it, is conducive to National sustainable development strategies in Ukraine. In the architecture of the national strategy for sustainable development of Ukraine, a special place, in our opinion, belongs to the financial stress index.

Justified, that applying the principles and elements of national sustainable development strategies and bringing together the systems, could result in national development plans offering much that is required for national sustainable development strategies. Attention would especially have to be paid to developing shared, multi-stakeholder visions of development goals, and to broader criteria for making trade-offs.

The work explores that interndtional strategies and action plans have been prepared by many countries. The results of applying the methodology in Ukraine is  reported. These case studies suggest that the proposed NSDS assessment methodology has considerable potential for strengthening sustainability planning at the national level.