This paper, shows many post conflict countries in the world, including in the Arab Region (e.g.Somalia, Iraq, Sudan) have already started to use the SDGs as a framework to align their national development plans.

In many instances, these plans integrate actions to tackle both humanitarian and more structural challenges and support transitions towards long-term recovery, and resilient and sustainable development.

This sends a clear signal that the ‘apparent’ divide between resilience programming and the SDGs needs to be reconsidered and more efforts should be made to anchor resilience-building action onto national SDG implementation frameworks.