Sustainable Development at the United Nations
United Nations — Sustainable Development & Strategic Planning
Sustainable Development · Policy · Strategic Planning
Project overview
The Context
Strategic-planning and sustainable-development support within the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General.
The challenge
What Needed to Change
Global sustainable-development processes require concise research, reporting, and coordination across complex policy agendas.
My role
How I Contributed
As a Strategic Planning Intern in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, I contributed written material to the Secretary-General’s Millennium Report and the Sustainable Development section of the annual report, prepared reports for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, and represented the unit at ECOSOC’s general assembly.
The approach
From Analysis to Action
I synthesized policy information, supported strategic reporting, and contributed to multilateral sustainable-development processes.
The work
Key Deliverables
Policy research; strategic reporting; sustainable-development writing; meeting representation; briefing support.
The impact
What the Engagement Built
The experience placed me inside multilateral sustainable-development reporting and strategic-planning processes at United Nations Headquarters.
Capabilities demonstrated: Sustainable Development · Policy Research · Strategic Planning · Multilateral Affairs