The economic growth of today's "advanced" economies was achieved by "developing" natural resources on a grand scale to construct infrastructure for massive production and consumption. This unsustainable pattern of "development" is now rapidly spreading to developing nations, through development aid policies and investment activities of advanced nations, and causing a broad range of severe problems, including environmental destruction and human rights abuses.

In order to establish a sustainable global community, it is imperative that advanced nations and their development agencies formulate development policies and funding practices which are consistent with the principles of sustainablity.

The aim of SDAP is to recommend policies that will contribute to the realization of a sustainable society, through our research and analysis of environmental considerations and other policy aspects of development assistance. More about SDAP (PDF)