This site is arranged in three main areas: 

Country Area,  Reference Area  &  Working Documents.

The menu to the left of the screen provides shortcuts to these three areas, as well as a search facility and site map.

At the top of each page is an active navigation bar. Click on the headings to return to the relevant pag

Country Area

Reference Area

Overview of what's new on this site

Country Areas
provide information specific to the countries and regions participating in the dialogues on national strategies for sustainable development (nssd). Country-specific reference material on nssd dialogues and on working plans are listed in the country pages.

Reference Areas
contain project-specific details such as the terms of references for the project and country studies. This area also contains the key reference materials, either as full text or as abstracts, on national strategies for sustainable development, references on indicators and details of international agreements. Material on related sustainable development issues such as the sustainable livelihoods framework and poverty reduction strategy papers (prsp) are also provided.

Working Documents
include general topics under discussion and specific topics related to the project and the country dialogues. Wider access to these working documents provides critical links between participating countries and between these countries and the donors.

Certain documents or pages on this site are also available in French or Spanish.

For the convenience of users many documents
are presented in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

To view these documents, which are identified by the  symbol, the free Acrobat viewer is required. In CD-ROM versions of the nssd knowledge management system look in the \Install folder. Internet users can download the latest viewer from the Adobe web site