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Regional Workshop: “Modelling Tools to inform national Policies for Sustainable Development and the 2030 Agenda

As part of an outreach training course developed by UN-DESA/DPAD and UNDP in collaboration with other partners, the Regional Workshop on “Modelling Tools to inform national Policies for Sustainable Development and the 2030 Agenda” took place on 23-26 January in Istanbul. The objective of this workshop is to enhance understanding, among development practitioners, on how modelling tools can be used to unveil the interlinkages and tradeoffs across different policy areas for sustainable development.

The Istanbul Regional Workshop is the fourth event organized under this initiative, launched in Addis Ababa on August 2016. With a regional focus in Europe and Central Asia, the workshop is attended by 30 participants from key development ministries and UNDP country offices from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan as well as from the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub (IRH).

The workshop is conducted by Eduardo Zepeda (DESA/DPAD), Holger Rogner (IIASA),  Francesco Gardumi and Youssef Hassan (KTH, Sweden), and organized by George Bouma,  Mihail Peleah (UNDP, IRH), Caroline Lensing-Hebben (UNDP-NY), and Eduardo Zepeda (DESA/DPAD).

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