Key Message

Change is increasingly occurring at the global level, calling for measurement and assessment frameworks and tools that span across nations and regions.

Global and International Scale

Policy-focused assessments for sustainable development across nations and regions

Given that human societies are increasingly effecting change at a global level, it is often no longer sufficient for countries to take individual action. Instead, collaborative high-level assessments are needed. These, in turn, may provide frameworks for assessment and planning at sub-global levels.

While there are no global conventions on measurement and assessment at present, there are a number of international and global institutions and processes that are actively involved in leading and designing assessment processes that address cross-cutting issues and processes. The policy context for these may be provided by multilateral environmental agreements, the Millennium Development Goals and other multilateral instruments. Some of these initiatives include:

The global and international assessments with which we are involved tend to cut across issues, scale and institutions; integrate retrospective and forward-looking perspectives; and are policy focused.

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