A/HRC/42/38/Add.1 development assistance. During the Conference the African Development Bank’s Director General for the West Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office announced the Bank’s intention to triple its support to Cabo Verde by allocating an estimated €175 million for the 2018–2021 period, to be complemented by an additional €200 million, exclusively targeting private sector investments. B. Process of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals 24. In the context of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Government sought support from the United Nations to develop a road map to place the Goals at the centre of its national development planning process. With United Nations support, a rapid integrated assessment of the country’s third growth and poverty reduction strategy, covering the period 2012 to 2016, was conducted, measuring the strategy against 116 of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The assessment outcome and a more detailed analysis of sectoral and subnational plans were utilized to further identify gaps in and priorities for the implementation of the Goals and to prepare the next national development plan. The country’s civil society platform, Plataforma de ONGs, invited government and United Nations representatives to discuss the platform’s role in implementing the Goals and ways to strengthen its capacity to engage effectively to shape the national development agenda.14 25. The plans for the country’s national development are outlined in the National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development. The Plan covers the period 2017 to 2021 and is based on four objectives: (a) to make Cabo Verde a circular economy; (b) to ensure economic and environmental sustainability; (c) to ensure social inclusion and reduce inequalities and asymmetries; and (d) to strengthen sovereignty, creating value in democracy and orienting diplomacy to the challenges of the country’s development. To achieve the four objectives, the programmes under the Plan form three pillars. The programmes in pillar 1 – economy – are aimed at supporting a new model of economic and environmental growth; those forming pillar 2 – social status – are aimed at ensuring human capital and quality of life and combating inequalities and asymmetries; those forming pillar 3 – sovereignty – are aimed at seeking a new State model to strengthen sovereignty, create value in democracy and orient diplomacy to the challenges of the country’s development.15 26. All relevant United Nations agencies were involved in the preparation of the National Strategic Plan and the programmes thereunder. For example, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) provided support to mainstream gender in the national plan. The agencies mobilized multiple funding sources, including regular resources from the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UN-Women, funding pooled through the One United Nations fund in Cabo Verde (including from the Delivering Results Together fund and from the innovation fund under the United Nations Development Assistance Framework) and bilateral contributions. The Government has since further requested the United Nations to strengthen monitoring and reporting on the Goals and develop a platform for financing for development and innovative models of aid effectiveness and partnerships. 27. The country’s United Nations Development Assistance Framework for the period 2018 to 2022 was developed in close collaboration with the Government, but also with the involvement of civil society organizations, the private sector and international development partners represented in the country. The Framework is aligned with the Government’s programme for the ninth legislative term and the country’s National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development.16 The Special Rapporteur finds that efforts the United Nations country team made to ensure a broad participatory process when working on the 14 15 16 See https://undg.org/cabo-verde-initiating-the-sdg-implementation-in-a-small-island-developingstate/. SDG Cabo Verde, p. 18. See http://www.un.cv/files/UNDAF_FINAL_En.pdf, pp. 6 and 8. 7