Progress report for
PCSD Partnership – A multi-stakeholder Partnership for Enhancing Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
Achievement at a glance
The PCSD Partnership launched 64 initiatives that work towards enhancing policy coherence for sustainable development (SDG17.14). During 2016-17, it achieved 16 deliverables, 41 are in progress, 4 have been postponed, and 18 new deliverables were launched. It brings together 24 partners operating in 17 countries with some of them having a global reach. The work focuses on: (A) evidence-based analysis, (B) institutional practices, (C) integrated approaches, and (D) tools for tracking progress. The results of the first collective work features as chapter in the forthcoming OECD Publication: Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2017 - Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity.Challenges faced in implementation
SDGs call for a new paradigm: applying their new vision of sustainable development and principles through old strategies and instruments is a key challenge. Within this framework, for some institutions joining the PCSD Partnership a particular challenge is limited resources to develop specific work on policy coherence for sustainable development, including country case studies, or initiatives that could be applied and tested in one location for possible replication elsewhere (e.g. role of cooperatives), or capacity building. The PCSD Partnership, which is a knowledge-sharing partnership, has achieved core initiatives with no funding. It encourages potential partner institutions working on similar issues to exploit complementarities, add value to ongoing work and avoid duplication.Next Steps
The PCSD Partnership will continue engaging governments, key stakeholders and the public to keep policy coherence for sustainable development (SDG17.14) on the agenda internationally and at national and local levels as an important means of implementation of the SDGs. The Partnership will support and facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues, webinars, as well as interactive learning events, including a high-level event followed by an interactive learning session on the occasion of the 2017 HLPF. The latter aims to test tools that enable policy-makers to analyse policy interactions as well as potential effects (on other countries and future generations), and to identify concrete measures to enhance policy coherence for SDG implementation. The Partnership will also support a consultation process on how best to update existing international instruments for promoting good institutional practices for policy coherence.Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries include: members of the OECD network of national focal points for policy coherence for development as well as policy-makers and stakeholders around the world working on SDG implementation, including governments, parliamentarians, international organisations, civil society organisations, academic institutions, and policy communities.