Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: A troubleshooting guide for reluctant EU donors
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: A troubleshooting guide for reluctant EU donors

Author(s): Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, International relations/trade, Developing nations
Published by: EUROPEUM - Institut pro evropskou politiku
Keywords: PCSD;
Summary/Abstract: The inclusion of the Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) in the Sustainable Development Goals as Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) created a conceptual and institutional confusion that overloaded implementation capacities of many EU member states. The Visegrad Group and other ‘reluctant’ aid donors should primarily pursue both PCD and PCSD separately as a recognition of their logic of action in foreign and domestic policy-making respectively. Due to the complexity of the agendas, they should also focus on the low hanging fruits. To promote Policy Coherence for Development, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs should reclaim full ownership for the PCD agenda and keep National Focal Points for PCD with dedicated capacities. They should select one or at maximum two policy areas with the highest potential and focus on the already existing intra-ministerial procedures and inter-ministerial Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) to tackle transboundary effects in the related domestic policy proposals. They should ally with the civil society, academia and media to bring positive and/or negative evidence and mediate personal experience of the impact of national policies on the global South

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