Recent international experience has demonstratedthat Integrated Assessment (IA) can contribute to sustainable development outcomes by makingassessment practice more integrated in terms of sustainability dimensions, more proactive and opportunity-oriented, less procedural and more anintegral part of a policymaking process.

The purpose of this document is threefold: to document and share knowledge based on experiences,focused on practices to stimulate an integrated and proactive assessment approach; to enable the branching out of IA in order to stimulate and support wider application and address specific concerns such as climate change and biodiversity; and to support Integrated Policymaking for Sustainable Development, with a view to embedding sustainability within policymaking processes.