it also offers potential to improve coherence at the national level and to better capture the synergies between the different agendas as they are implemented meanwhile the increased scope of the goals will increase pressure on human resources and capacity in development agencies as the prioritisation of goals at the national level may not always be a good match with the expertise development partners have at their disposal assessing this expertise will need to be a priority for providers the principles and tools that have informed development practice in the past decades ranging from the paris principles and the busan partnership agreement to tools on environmental mainstreaming and the rio markers will provide a shared framework for action in equipping development partners for the challenge ahead this will range from expertise in mainstreaming and policy coherence to good practices in transparency and mutual accountability