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Sustainable Governance Indicators 2014 and Policy Coherence for Development 11.03.2014 1 Sustainable Governance Indicators 2014 and Policy Coherence for Development Dr. Daniel Schraad-Tischler Senior Project Manager Bertelsmann Stiftung Structure of presentation and guiding questions 2 1. How do we define “sustainable governance”? What are the elements needed? 2. What has been the experience with the new “PCD sensitive” questions in SGI 2014? 3. What do the results tell us in terms of governments’ capacities to act coherently? 1 11.03.2014 Sustainable Governance Indicators – What is the SGI project? 3 . Indicator-based cross-national comparison of all OECD & EU countries • Major international index project conducted on a periodical basis • Next edition to be published in spring 2014 . Measuring Sustainable Governance • 140 qualitative and quantitative indicators • Based on an international network of more than 100 renowned experts • Detailed country reports • Full and free access to all data, indicators and composite indices via the project‘s website www.sgi-network.org How do we measure sustainable governance? 4 The SGI’s underlying guiding questions • How successful are the countries of our sample in achieving sustainable policy outcomes? • How well-developed are the governance capacities of these countries in terms of long-term-oriented political steering capacities? • What is the quality of their democratic order? 2 11.03.2014 SGI 2014: Three analytical pillars 5 Policy Performance Quality of Democracy Governance • Three classical dimensions of • Addressing four key • Executive capacities (steering, sustainability (economic, dimensions of democracy implementation, learning) social, environmental) • Substantive and procedural • Executive accountability: • Measuring policies and criteria government interaction with outcomes • Focus on quality of institutions societal actors • Distinguishing domestic and and processes • Institutions and processes international activities Strengths and weaknesses Framework conditions for Reform capacities (need for reform) long-term system stability Sustainable Policy Performance - Overview 6 Economy Education Environmen- tal Policy Social Inclusion Labor Market Health Care Taxes Families Pensions Budgets Integration Research and Safe Living Innovation Conditions Stable Global Global international Socioecono- Environmen- Financial mic Fairness tal Protection Markets Regimes 3 11.03.2014 Quality of Democracy - Overview 7 Governance Index - Overview 8 4 11.03.2014 Preliminary results for the composite indices „Policy Performance“ and „Governance9 “ Policy Performance Governance Rank Rank 1 - 11 1 - 11 … … … … Rank Rank 25 - 41 25 - 41 PCD sensitive indicators in the SGI 2014 10 Assessments on four key aspects: 1. tackling global social inequalities 2. fostering stable international financial markets 3. promoting global environmental protection regimes 4. international coordination capacities to foster global public goods 5 11.03.2014 PCD sensitive indicators 11 1) Tackling global social inequalities To what extent does the government demonstrate an active and coherent commitment to promoting equal socioeconomic opportunities in developing countries? 12 Rank Rating ParagraphParagraph from Luxembourg from Estonia report report: SinceParagraph 2000,(…) the In country’sJanuary from New 2011,development Zealand the Estonian agency, report: Government Luxembourg approvedDevelopment the Cooperation Strategy (Lux- Development),of Estonian Developmenthas as part of its Cooperation efforts exceeded and the U.N. target for industrializedHumanitarian nations Aid of earmarking 2011 – 2015, 0.7% which of GDP takes toward the development UN MDGs projects. as a After NewNorway Zealand (1.02%) is and highly Sweden committed (1%), Luxembourg to tackling spent global 0.97% of GDP (€317 million)socioeconomic indeparting public development point inequalities.. 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(…) and the improvement of coordination between state fair trade movement is one example of NGO activity (…). departments and Lux-Development for more positive results. The In January 2011, the Estonian Government approved the Strategy of Estonian Development indicator measures how often 7rms from a given country are alleged to Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid 2011 – 2015, which takes the UN MDGs as a departing point. engage in dumping and related activities. The vertical axis in Figure 5.4 plots The strategy contains objectives and main fields of activities, as well as major partner countries. the log number of antidumping measures taken against 7rms located in that The priority partners are former communist countries in Eastern Europe (i.e., Moldova, Ukraine) country. The data are from the same data source and, too, are based on averages and the Caucasus region (i.e., Georgia); and Afghanistan. Estonia is active in various fields, but over the 200692010 period. special efforts are made in transferring knowledge in the fields of education policy, health system reform and e-government. Dissemination of domestic expertise in implementing ICT in public administration and education are the areas in which Estonia is acting as a trend-setter. http://mark-kayser.com/papers/AnheierStanigKayser2013.pdf Generally, however, the government’s approach is to follow international strategies and policy 6 guidelines on development assistance. In parallel to government, NGOs and private enterprises work in the field of international development. Awareness raising campaigns in the fair trade movement is one example of NGO activity (…). 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Internationally, Germany pushed strongly for coordinated, international steps to reform the global financial system. It helped the G-20 summit develop into a 24 first-class forum for international cooperation. (…) Although skeptical at first,
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