Voluntary national SDG reviews as a new reporting institution in a globalized society

¹ Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics & Economic Policy, University embankment 7–9, 199034, St Petersburg, Russia
² St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Sociology, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia

^* Corresponding author: a-novikov@mail.ru

Abstract

Research background: Having recognized the SDGs as the most important direction of globalization processes’ implementation, we point out that assessing the results of world progress in this direction is important both in terms of assessing its dynamics and as a new technology of global governance. Assessment (both as an institution and as a management technology) is a new type of analytical and coordination interactions between countries, which is just beginning to emerge.

Purpose of the article: The publication has three goals. The first is to present Voluntary national SDG reviews (VNRs) as an emerging institution for assessing and managing of global development. The second is to describe methodological approaches of their assessment, presenting them as a continuous improvement of methodology and methods that reflect new requirements for the VNRs analyses. The third is to assess the VNR of the RF (Russian Federation) - 2020, taking into account official and unofficial judgments, views from within and external experts.

Methods: The publication as a whole follows an institutional approach. It provides a comparative generalization of methodological approaches to the VNRs assessment, presents expert judgments that allow to outline the compliance of VNR RF-2020 with the new valuation principles

Findings & Value added:: The publication will present a general scheme of VNR institutional understanding, a comparative analysis of traditional and new methodologies for their assessment and will propose systematic (comprehensive) assessment of VNR RF-2020.