While these committees remain relevant, including for monitoring the SDGs, there is a need for most of these committees to have stronger terms of reference, particularly to be more active in monitoring plans and budgets. This led to the establishment of a National Sustainable Development Strategies Partnerships Group (NSDSPG)13 at the SIDS Conference in Samoa in 2014. The primary goal of the NSDSPG is to help Pacific island governments improve their planning and budgeting, while embracing nationally tailored SDGs, key elements of the Samoa Pathway and the Framework for Pacific Regionalism.