The NDC Action Project supports 10 partner countries to translate their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into concrete sector strategies and actions ready for financing and implementation, and to increase the ambition of their NDCs. At present, many countries are not yet able to fully exploit the transformative potential of their NDCs, as they still face significant obstacles.

The Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI) explores Party and other stakeholder views on options to assist with the implementation of sustainable development provisions in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement to the UNFCCC.

The Measuring Sustainable Development in NAMAs project contributed to improve quantitative and qualitative measurement of the sustainable development outcomes of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). It enhanced understanding of how NAMAs can contribute to meeting national development goals and provided improved knowledge of early action and lessons learned on measurement of sustainable development considerations in NAMAs. This was done through:

• A review on tools and approaches used to assess and measure the sustainable development contributions of projects and initiat