These include new priorities on water management and renewable energy, increased support to economic diversification, and technical assistance in the formulation of a new budgeted National Development Plan. These strategic priorities and their associated outcomes and outputs aim to drive transformative change in Libya and advance the UN Secretary-General’s prevention agenda by strengthening the UN’s joint efforts to address the challenges Libya faces in near future. To ensure the Cooperation Framework is representative of the needs and views of a broad range of constituents throughout the country, the UN in Libya convened extensive consultations with key stakeholders, including government ministries and institutions, local authorities, representatives of vulnerable and marginalized groups, the private sector, civil society, donor partners, and international financial institutions, amongst others.īased on a comprehensive and integrated analysis of the main impediments to inclusive and sustainable development, as well as the outcome of wide-ranging consultations, a set of four interrelated and mutually reinforcing strategic priorities were identified on which the Cooperation Framework is structured, specifically 1) Peace and Governance 2) Sustainable Economic Development 3) Social and Human Capital Development and 4) Climate Change, Environment, and Water. In the context of these developments, as well as the pending expiry of the United Nations Strategic Framework 2019-2022, the UN in Libya has formulated a United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework to guide its collective work in support of Libya’s implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs for the years 2023 to 2025. The establishment of a national Sustainable Development Committee in 2018 for localization of the SDGs and the submission of its first Voluntary National Review report in 2020, have demonstrated the government’s commitment to the 2030 Agenda. While significant challenges remain, the October 2020 ceasefire and formation of a unified government in March 2021 provided a new basis on which to take forward the necessary transformative change to put Libya back on track towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Libya has made commendable, albeit intermittent, advances on development in recent years.Ī decade of political crisis and conflict, institutional fragmentation, weak governance, economic decline, and increased poverty, inequality, and human rights violations have impeded the country’s progress towards the 2030 Agenda. Steeped in history and rich in culture, Libya is endowed with significant natural resources, a vibrant, young, educated, and ethnically diverse population and a strategic geographical location, providing the country with a solid basis for peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable development for all.
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