UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2022-2026)
UNECE is a signatory of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework and contributes in particular to the following strategic priorities:
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Outcome 1.1: By 2027, all people, especially the vulnerable, benefit from improved management and state of natural resources and increasingly innovative, competitive, gender-responsive and inclusive economic development that is climate resilient and low-carbon.
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Outcome 2.1: By 2027, all people, especially the vulnerable, increasingly benefit from equitable, gender-responsive and universally accessible social and child protection system and quality services, including labour market activation and capabilities.
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Outcome 2.2: By 2027, all people, especially the vulnerable, benefit from strengthened human capital including early childhood development, and more resilient, gender-responsive, and quality healthcare and education.
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Outcome 3.1: By 2027, all people, especially the vulnerable, benefit from improved social cohesion, increased realization of human rights and rule of law and accountable, gender-responsive institutions.
UNECE works in close cooperation with the Resident Coordinator and the United Nations Country Team.
Key highlights
Energy
Montenegro is a beneficiary of the project “Enhancing national capacities to develop and implement energy efficiency standards for buildings in the UNECE region” and is a subject of a gap analysis between the performance objectives set forth in the Framework Guidelines for Energy Efficiency Standards in Buildings and current energy efficiency standards and their implementation in the countries of South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation (SDG7).
Environment
Montenegro is a Party to UNECE’s 5 environmental conventions and several of their protocols.
Air pollution in the Western Balkans remains one of the highest in Europe with major impacts on health, the environment and the economy. In Montenegro, particulate matter (PM) pollution is mainly attributable to emissions from domestic heating, industrial installations (such as coal power plants), and road transport.
Following a self-assessment on equitable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) using the Equitable Access Score-card under the Protocol on Water and Health, Montenegro is currently in the process of setting climate-sensitive targets concerning water, sanitation, hygiene and health, with UNECE support.
In the Drina River Basin, shared by Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, UNECE supports riparian countries in working together across borders to jointly address water and energy challenges for effective climate action (SDG6, SDG7, SDG13).
UNECE is also supporting Montenegro to accept the amended versions of the Protocols of the Air Convention and to ratify the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone (the Gothenburg Protocol) to the Convention.
UNECE is assisting Montenegro in identifying a focal point to work with the UNECE Aarhus Convention secretariat and inform UNECE on activities carried out to strengthen the implementation of the Convention and strengthen governance-human rights-environment nexus.
Gender equality
The standards body of Montenegro is invited to sign the Declaration on Gender-Responsive Standards and Standards Development (SDG5, SDG9 and SDG12).
Statistics
UNECE has implemented projects to improve the dissemination of statistical data for COVID-19 and SDGs in Montenegro. A follow-up project to develop a national SDG reporting platform was completed in October 2022, and the platform was launched at the Western Balkans Conference on Sustainable Development in Budva in December 2022 (SDG11).
Trade
Montenegro has an opportunity to accelerate circular economy transition by active participation in Circular STEP stakeholder engagement platform (SDG8, SDG9, SDG12).
Transport
Montenegro has acceded to 37 UN legal instruments on inland transport.
It is invited to join the Trans-European networks for Motorways (TEM) and Rail (TER) in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Urban development
The Smart Sustainable Profile (SDG3 and SDG11) of the capital – Podgorica – developed under a UNDA project, was published in 2023.
Statistics: National SDG reporting platform