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monitoring/indicator frameworks for the specific national development policy
or plan.

2. Conceptual framework
Inclusiveness and sustainability are symbiotic dimensions of development.
One cannot be achieved without another. In 2015, the world leaders
committed to “reach the furthest behind first”, when signed the 2030
1
development agenda at the general assembly of the United Nations. This
means that all national and sectoral policies endeavour to be inclusive of
needs and priorities of vulnerable groups that are most likely to miss the
development train. This ambition cannot be achieved without a paradigm shift
in planning, monitoring and evaluation process. Vulnerable groups of
population are not easily identifiable by single-dimensionally developed
policies. The same way that development pillars (economic, environmental,
institutional, and social) are interlinked, vulnerability is often a result of various
deprivations that cut across the four dimensions. Therefore, demand for and
use of evidence (produced from disaggregated statistics) on the situation if
vulnerable groups arises from deep understanding of the issues pertaining
those groups and reflect them in the policy documents. This is the first step in
defining what has to be measured and where. In other words, identifying
issues that require Issues for Action and beneficiary target groups are primary
to indicators and disaggregation requirements in the policy planning and
evaluation process. To understand policy-data dynamic better, Bidarbakht-Nia
(2018) proposes a framework within which policy and data interact and defines
a knowledge space that can be expanded by linking policy with data
(figure 1).
Figure 1- Policy-Data Space diagram

In all four dimensions of development, there are agreed principles
embedded in international conventions ratified by the UN Member States.

1 http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=E
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