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Last updated on:
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Year of approval of the SD strategy and updates

Slovakia 2030 – Vision and National Sustainable Development Strategy of Slovakia until 2030 was approved by the Slovak government on 20 January 2021 (Government Decree 41/2021). (See also further information on SD strategy). It is expected to prepare an update Slovakia 2050 by 2023.

Slovakia started with the process of incorporating the 2030 Agenda into its national implementation in 2016. Between 2016 and 2018, four key documents setting up the national implementation of the 2030 Agenda were approved by the Slovak government:

“The Baseline for the national implementation for the 2030 Agenda for SD and SDGs” (March 2016),

“The Framework for the 2030 Agenda implementation in the international environment” (January 2017),

“The Roadmap for the national implementation of the 2030 Agenda for SD” (June 2017)

“Proposal of the national priorities for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for SD” (June 2018).

“The national priorities for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda”(2018) is national policy framework setting up 6 priorities for the 2030 Agenda national implementation:

  1. Education for life in dignity,
  2. Transformation towards knowledge-based and environmentally sustainable economy in the face of changing demography and global changes,
  3. Poverty reduction and social inclusion,
  4. Sustainable settlements, regions and countryside in the face of climate change;
  5. Rule of law, democracy and security,
  6. Good health.
Type of SD strategy
Lead ministry/institution in the SD strategy process

Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic

The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic is responsible for the external dimension of the Agenda 2030.

Link to the SD strategy document

https://www.mirri.gov.sk/sekcie/vizia-a-strategia-rozvoja-slovenska-do-roku-2030/index.html

English version is expected to be available in April/May 2021.

Further information about the SD strategy process

By government decree 41/2021, adopting Slovakia 2030 – Vision and national SD strategy until 2030, the following tasks were approved: to reflect the Vision and national SD strategy until 2030 in the programming documents for EU 2021-27 programming period, to prepare an update Slovakia 2050 until 2023, and to incorporate Slovakia 2030 - Vision and national SD strategy until 2030 into sectoral and regional development strategies.