Pakistan affirmed its commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its National Development Agenda through a unanimous National Assembly Resolution in 2016. In line with this Agenda, the Ministry of Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement and designed the National Initiative for SDGs to develop mechanisms for achieving the SDGs per national and provincial priorities.
Since then, the country has made considerable progress by mainstreaming these goals in national policies and strategies and developing an institutional framework for SDGs implementation in Pakistan. SDGs support units have been established at federal and provincial levels with the planning institutions (Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives and Provincial Planning and Development Departments) to guide and track the SDG's implementation and progress.