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Sustainable estonia 21
Where
Estonia
Estonia
When
2016
2016
Who
Different ministries and agencies as se21 is implemented through governments’ sectoral and thematic strategies and action plans.
Different ministries and agencies as se21 is implemented through governments’ sectoral and thematic strategies and action plans.
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Description of the policy/measure
Estonia has considerable experience in advancing sustainable development. the sustainable development act was adopted by parliament already in 1995. in 2005, the parliament adopted the estonian sustainable development strategy „sustainable estonia 21“, which states 4 main goals for sustainable development in estonia. number one of them is the viability of estonian cultural space. the estonian national sustainable development strategy is implemented by governments’ sectoral and thematic strategies and action plans. the national sustainable development strategy is one of the main horizontal strategies that has to be taken into account when designing governments’ strategic development plans. in 2016 estonia was among the first countries that submitted a national voluntary review on implementation of the 2030 agenda to the un.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
Sustainability of cultural space is assessed using the following three criteria (sub-goals) along with their indicators:extent of the estonian cultural space.functionality of the estonian culture.temporal continuity and plasticity of the estonian culture.key mechanisms for achieving the goal are education, reflexivity, communication and innovation.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Financial resources are allocated through different ministries according to their yearly work plans for implementing their strategies and long-term action plans.
Evaluation of the policy/measure
First evaluation regarding the implementation of se21 was carried out in 2008 in order to define topics that are important for sustainable development. as a result the list on sustainable development indicators has been constantly improved and currently there are 69 indicators used. understanding the problems, statistics and trends remains in the circle of experts and is not widely spread. in order to have a dialogue with the society it is important that information and knowledge about bottlenecks and key aspects of sustainable development are delivered to the society and policy makers. based on the survey carried out in 2010-2011 statistics estonia recommended to map and analyse the relevance and quality of sustainable development indicators used in estonia.