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UN Decade Country Action Plans

Country-Level Action Plans for the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport

Turns lessons from earlier UN Decades – especially the Decade of Action for Road Safety – into a practical framework and guided country action plans.

Project ID: WRI 8

Lead: World Resources Institute (WRI)

Workstream: Transport research

At a glance

Region Global

Duration October 2026 – March 2027

  • Analysis of previous UN Decades

  • Links to international monitoring frameworks

  • Guidance for country action plans

What can countries learn from previous UN Decades to build into national action plans for sustainable transport?

Tags

  • Sustainable transport

  • UN framework

Research activities

  • Learn from previous UN Decades

  • Identify enabling conditions for national action

  • Connect with international monitoring frameworks

  • Practical guidance for national action plans

Planned research outputs

  • White paper & policy brief

  • Analysis of transport indicators and tracking initiatives

  • Modular country action-plan guidance

  • Digital action-plan template

Relevance & uptake

Engagement with UN DESA · action-plan guidance and template

Implemented by

World Resources Institute (WRI)

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