The CSO, through Ireland's Institute for SDGs (IIS), supports reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG 17.13.1 Macroeconomic dashboard is published by the CSO, National Accounts division.
The CSO’s National Accounts division publish the Macroeconomic Scoreboard on an annual basis.
The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) is an annual process which the European Commission undertakes, using a scoreboard of 14 headline indicators and 28 auxiliary indicators to screen for any macroeconomic imbalances that may occur in member states. Each of the 14 headline indicators has a threshold, set by the European Commission, beyond which economic imbalances are determined to have occurred.
All EU member states have obligations to ensure that their economies do not exceed the various thresholds on the headline indicators. This Macroeconomic Scoreboard 2021 publication is designed to help users to verify the European Commission's data on Ireland and provides additional analysis of all headline indicators and many auxiliary indicators. The information shown in the MIP scoreboard is based on the data available for the Alert Mechanism Report (AMR) 2023, that was published in November 2022. The cut off for inclusion of data for each country in the AMR 2023 was 22 October 2022.
Data shown in this publication was compiled throughout the month of October 2022. Some data may have been updated/revised since this date as part of the regular production cycle of each domain, meaning small differences may exist between this publication and the AMR.
Table 8.1 provides the MIP Scoreboard for Ireland for the years 2017-2021.
In 2021, four out of the 14 MIP indicators for Ireland breached their thresholds. These indicators were:
See Table 8.1.
SDG 17.14.1 Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development was published by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.
The government of Ireland launched the new National Implementation Plan for the Sustainable Development Goals 2022-2024 on 5 October 2022. Details of the Cross-government launch are on the government of Ireland website.
The new plan sets out 5 strategic objectives and 51 actions, with 119 individual measures, to increase Ireland’s ambition and strengthen implementation structures to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The plan was developed in collaboration with all government departments and key stakeholders, and based on input from two public consultation processes held over the last year.
Agreed by all 193 United Nations Member States, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals represent the international community’s collective roadmap towards a safer, fairer, more prosperous and sustainable world. They provide an internationally-agreed framework to advance progress across the three dimensions of sustainable development - economic growth, social inclusion and the protection of the environment - while ensuring that no one is left behind.
The launch today reflects the whole-of-government approach Ireland has adopted to the implementation of the SDGs. Each Minister has specific responsibility for implementing individual SDG targets related to their Ministerial functions and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications has responsibility for overseeing coherent implementation across government.
A key objective of the new National Implementation Plan is to embed the framework provided by the 2030 Agenda into the work of national and local government. This will ensure a coherent system-wide approach, and provide for greater dialogue and joined-up thinking between policy makers across sectors to meet the goals.
Strategic Objective 1 in the plan relates to embedding the SDG framework into the work of government departments to achieve greater Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD). The overall objective is to move Ireland towards a position where:
A number of initial steps have been identified to lay the foundations upon which PCSD can be built, including the integration of the SDGs into public administrative mechanisms and building capacity across national and local government. Providing clear guidance to civil servants and local authority officials is essential so that they can effectively consider their work in terms of the impact on economic, social and environmental dimensions, the principles set out under Agenda 2030 (for example the principle of Leave No One Behind) and the impact of their work on each of the goals and targets.
In order to progress PCSD Ireland will draw on existing research, knowledge and resources developed both nationally and internationally and continue to attend the OECD Network of National Focal Points for Policy Coherence (PCSD Network) which facilitates peer learning in enhancing PCSD.
In addition, in Q1 2023, research will commence on integrating the SDGs into the budgetary process, memoranda to government and regulatory impact assessments. Ireland has also secured EU funding to commence a multi-country project supported by the OECD to build PCSD across national and local government.
SDG 17.15.1 Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation - information is published by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Irish Aid Annual Report 2021 states the following:
"In 2021, the government of Ireland invested more than €976 million in official development assistance. The majority of this funding (€569 million) was overseen and managed by the DFA through the government’s international development programme.
Ireland priorities are to:
We provide aid to support the most vulnerable communities, and strive to create lasting improvements in the lives of those living in poverty. To these ends, we form partnerships with governments, international organisations, civil society groups, private sector organisations and international non-governmental organisations. We believe that global problems can be tackled most effectively through collective action."
The theme for the 2021 Irish aid annual report was climate action, one of Ireland’s key ODA priorities. The DFA climate unit has refined our climate priorities into three main areas of work: Adaptation and building resilience to climate change; sustainable oceans and the blue economy; and climate and security.
Ireland took up its seat as an elected member of the UN Security Council on the 1 January 2021. Throughout the year, DFA worked to integrate development and political priorities in contributing to the Council’s vital peace and security mandate. They also drew on the lessons from the international development programme as the world faced overlapping humanitarian crises, conflict, climate change and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of growing challenges and setbacks for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, and DFA remained committed and redoubled efforts to implement A Better World, Ireland’s development cooperation policy.
More information on Ireland's official development assistance is covered in section SDG 17.2.1.
The UN SDG Indicators Database provides the following information on SDG 17.15.1 metadata.
The target for this indicator is Target 17.15 which is to:
"Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development".
This indicator measures the extent to which, and the ways in which, all concerned development partners use country-owned results frameworks (CRFs) to plan development cooperation efforts and assess their performance. The indicator assesses the degree to which providers of development cooperation (i.e. development partners) design their interventions by relying on objectives and results indicators that are drawn from country government-owned results frameworks reflecting the country’s development priorities and goals.
Country-owned results frameworks (CRFs) define a country’s approach to results and its associated monitoring and evaluation systems focusing on performance and achievement of development results. Using a minimal definition, these results frameworks include agreed objectives and results indicators (i.e. output, outcome, and/or impact). They also set targets to measure progress in achieving the objectives defined in the government’s planning documents.
The definition of country-owned results framework used for this indicator allows the possibility to use equivalent priority-setting mechanisms at the country level since not all countries articulate their priorities through consistent, integrated CRFs.
In practice, country-owned results frameworks defined at the country level are often broadly stated (e.g. long-term vision plans, national development strategies) and operationalised in more detail at the sector level (e.g. sector strategies), where specific targets and indicators are set for a given timeframe.
Some examples of CRFs are long-term vision plans; national development strategies; joint government multi-donor plans; government’s sector strategies, policies and plans; subnational planning instruments, as well as other frameworks (e.g. budget support performance matrices and sector-wide approaches). In contrast, planning and priority setting documents produced outside the government, such as country strategies prepared by development partners, are not considered CRFs.
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