Towards Saudi Arabia's Sustainable Tomorrow: First Voluntary National Review 2018

This review has been prepared from a comprehensive perspective covering the 17 SDGs, with emphasis on the goals that have been selected for a more in-depth discussion in the UN High-Level Political Forum 2018, the theme of which was “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”.

This review represents the Kingdom’s first attempt to conduct a systematic and comprehensive review of the status of the SDGs and actions taken by relevant stakeholders to fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It provides a broad assessment of the status of the SDGs by 2018, existing institutional arrangements for their operationalization and the enabling policy environment; establish a baseline for tracking progress on implementation of the SDGs. It also identifies priorities for further action in the implementation process, outlines opportunities, challenges and lessons learned and provides an overview of the next steps.

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