According to the Development Planning System Law, the National Development Council (NDC) is responsible for long-term development planning and assessment of development. National Development Council is chaired by the Prime Minister and includes the minister of education and science, the minister of economics, the minister of finance, the minister of environmental protection and regional development, a representative of the State President, as well as social partners and representatives of the most influential non-governmental organizations.

The functions of the NDC in accordance with the Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers on the NDC (in Latvian):

• To ensure planning process of State long-term development
• To assess implementation of the long-term planning documents and to submit proposals for new development planning documents
• To submit recommendations to the Cabinet of Ministers on State long-term development priority directions after analysis and evaluation of their potential impacts
• To submit recommendations to the Cabinet of Ministers on the development planning aspects of the State medium-term budget
• To discuss relevant structural reforms

Responsibility for the NSDS implementation and overall policy coordination and monitoring at the national level lies with the State Chancellery.   NSDS and the National Development Plan are the highest level planning documents and as such serve as a reference documents for the State Chancellery to coordinate and ensure compliance of medium and short-term sectoral policies. The State Chancellery submits proposals on the implementation of national reforms and the redistribution of resources for the implementation of national development priorities and policy guidelines.

(The NGO platform LAPAS, in collaboration with its member organization - the Centre for Education Initiatives spearheaded the establishment of a Cross Sectoral Coalition for the Implementation of the SDGs in 2020. Attending were representatives of different NGOs, local governments, businesses and business organizations, academic institutions, the Central Statistics Office and the Cross Sectoral Coordination Centre (now the Cross Sectoral Coordination Department of the State Chancellery). The Coalition follows SDG policies and promotes information exchanges about communication, education and cooperation projects on sustainable development. LAPAS has published a Handbook on Implementing SDGs in the Civil Society Sector (2023, in Latvian) and 80 stories on the SDGs (2023, in Latvian) that bring the SDGs closer to the people.