Key objectives
The Regional Sustainable Consumption and Production Roadmap will seek to promote initiatives and activities that foster a stronger foundation for the implementation of Sustainable Consumption and Production at the regional and national level for the mainstreaming of Sustainable Consumption and Production through multi-stakeholder partnerships for Sustainable Consumption and Production, the establishment of National Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plans, and the promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production indicators as a sound scientific knowledge base for Sustainable Consumption and Production policy interventions.
To promote the establishment of a strong regional and national foundation for the implementation of Sustainable Consumption and Production enabling frameworks, the roadmap will focus on the following objectives:
- Guidelines on how to plan, develop, implement and monitor national programmes on promoting sustainable consumption and production (SCP)
- Foster the importance of obtaining high-level commitment at both the regional and national levels, establishing multi-stakeholder processes, and setting objectives and indicators, preferably integrated with existing strategies on sustainable development and poverty reduction
- Support countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to implement Sustainable Consumption and Production policies and initiatives utilizing the Sustainable Consumption and Production Indicators Database
Links to SDGs and the 10YFP
Activities in this sectoral work package will contribute the implementation of the following sustainable development goals (SDGs):
- 8.4. 12.1, 12.2, 12.5, 12.a, 17.16, 17.18, 17.19
Roadmap activities
A. Regional and sub-regional policy dialogue, training and networking activities
- A1: An annual multi-stakeholder dialogue on SCP bringing together high level policy makers, SCP focal points at the regional level to share successes and challenges in SCP, and agree on a joint statement on SCP priorities for international SCP fora. (UNEP)
- A2: The establishment of a regional SDG database of SCP activities, policies, experts, and institutions operating on SCP oriented SDGs, to be reflected in the Global SCP Clearinghouse (UNEP)
- A3: Annual sub-regional SCP Forums to address sub regional policy needs and to hold thematic policy dialogues and training (ASEAN Forum on SCP, South Asia Forum on SCP) (UNEP)
- A4: Sharing the experiences, take actions and review the progress on 3R elements of SCP at the Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific and draw synergies between sub-regional SCP Forums and the Regional 3R Forum in Asia-Pacific
Potential partners: APRSCP, ASEAN, SACEP, 10YFP Secretariat, Government, UN ESCAP, UNCRD
B. Support for national roundtable and action plan on SCP
B1: National governments hold periodic national multi-stakeholder roundtables on SCP to launch the process of developing NAP on SCP or mainstreaming SCP into SDG development strategies by defining clear goals, targets and indicators for Asia Pacific countries. Mobilization of financial and technical support to help developing countries kick-start mainstreaming processes. (UNEP)
National programs may also include the following:
- Establish national multi-stakeholder group to develop a scoping paper, setting up an institutional framework, selecting priority areas, objectives, targets and SCP indicators
- Identify key partnerships and investment opportunities for the future implementation of the SCP national action plans and/or revised strategies
- Organize high level political event to validate and launch officially SCP national action plans and/or revised strategies
- Develop sectoral policies in response to priorities identified in existing national SCP action plans or related strategies for Asia Pacific countries
- Demonstration projects (including at the sectoral level) to advance the implementation of the national action plans on SCP or related strategies
- Technical assistance and training provided. Key partners accompanied along the demonstration project, and demonstration project undertaken
Potential partners: National Ministries, Implementing agencies, 10YFP Secretariat, SWITCH-Asia, Donors and development agencies and Academia
C. Regional or national awareness raising campaigns
- C1: Regional engagement campaign on SCP that allows citizens across Asia to engage on SCP, building on existing campaigns such as #SCP2Me (UNEP)
- C2: Regional awareness raising campaign on SCP that demystifies SCP concepts (UNEP)
- C3: Sub-regional capacity building workshops on how to design and implement awareness raising campaigns.
Potential partners: APRSCP, 10YFP secretariat and programmes, ASEAN, SACEP and UNEP
D. Regional and national technical analysis for policy development
- D1: National reports that interpret SCP to the national context, outlining the status of SCP in policy and implementation, and identifying priority areas for action, and supporting communication and awareness raising at the national level.
- D2: Scoping studies on SCP indicators and monitoring frameworks at the national level, including proposals of indicators to be incorporated into national strategies and development plans
- D3: Training workshops on indicator data collection and guidelines on the use of indicators in decision making
- D4: Development of SCP Indicator snapshots based on household consumption, public procurement and capital investments
- D5: Develop a trans-disciplinary research project addressing SCP in the region, approaches to sufficiency and efficiency, governance of SCP from the viewpoint of SDGs
