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#SDG1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
#SDG2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
#SDG3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
#SDG4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all
#SDG5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
#SDG6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
#SDG7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
#SDG8: Promote sustained, inclusive & sustainable economic growth, full & productive employment & decent work for all
#SDG9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
#SDG10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
#SDG11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
#SDG12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
#SDG13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
#SDG14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
#SDG15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, …
#SDG16: Promote peaceful & inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, .. institutions
#SDG17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing - #KW88A

B - Mining and quarrying - #KW88B

C - Manufacturing - #KW88C

D - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply - #KW88D

E - Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities - #KW88E

F - Construction - #KW88F

G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles - #KW88G

H - Transportation and storage -#KW88H

I - Accommodation and food service activities - #KW88I

J - Information and communication - #KW88J

K - Financial and insurance activities - #KW88K

L - Real estate activities - #KW88L

M - Professional, scientific and technical activities - #KW88M

N - Administrative and support service activities - #KW88N

O - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security - #KW88O

P - Education - #KW88P

Q - Human health and social work activities - #KW88Q

R - Arts, entertainment and recreation - #KW88R

S - Other service activities - #KW88S

T - Activities of households - #KW88T

U - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies - #KW88U

Comments

Are initiatives transparent, effective & with synergy?
Give your comments or provide links to resources that are instrumental to improving transparency and effectiveness of the public sector and/or aid in Kuwait.

For the initiatives listed per Function of Government (COFOG class) and/or category of economic activity (ISIC class), comments may be given at an initiative's wiki page. If such a wiki page is missing, make a request to create it in your comment.

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Scope of the country's Initiative Book: The initiatives concluded, planned, or ongoing in Kuwait, involving (relevant) actors listed in the Actor Maps (Included Actors) and compliant with or building upon (relevant) statutes and treaties listed in Statute Books.

Parties in the initiatives: both public authorities and private entities are invited. See Included roles.

Constraints: At the Constraint Dictionary common constraints facing development initiatives are classified by COFOG/COPNI class, and dependencies and impact spheres are indicated. The constraint map is under construction. The degree to which a constraint matters to a developing country, and is (can be) reduced by an initiative, is measured by indicators which are mapped, also by COFOG/COPNI class, at the Indicator Dictionary (under construction).

Achieving synergies across initiatives Initiative management is often the weakest link in the (strategy) execution chain. Traditional project and programme planning and communications approaches insufficiently use the bundling facilities that internet and wikis offer. As a precursor for an initiative atlas, a country initiative book aims to list all development initiatives and cluster them according to their COFOG classification. In this way, proponents and stakeholders of new initiatives can easily discover what initiatives exist already. Suitable cooperative agreements can be made and double or competing efforts can be avoided early in the planning cycle.

Initiatives of developing country governments must both avoid the fragmentation of public resources and ensure a sufficient coverage of all functions of government. An initiative book can support striking such a balance.

As indicated in Reform of the Multilateral Development System: Call for a High-Level Commission (J.F. Linn, The Brookings Institution) both the rapidly rising number of multilateral agencies, and the declining average project size reinforce the risks of aid fragmentation, a lack of focus on scaling up development impact, and rising transactions costs.

Initiative books, used both by the multilateral agencies and country development stakeholders will help mitigate the risks of aid fragmentation.
Moreover, when multilateral and national initiative books are complemented also by nested Development Dashboards, the smaller project size should not be overstraining the limited absorptive capacity of poor recipient countries, it should not lead to inefficient communications with stakeholders, and it could be coupled to a more equitable spreading of the public resources.