Master thesis in Sustainable Development 279 Examensarbete i Hållbar utveckling Worldviews and Policy Coherence – an analysis of the United Nations Guiding Principles and Swedish Development Cooperation Policies Sara Gottenhuber DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES INSTITUTIONEN FÖR GEOVETENSKAPER Master thesis in Sustainable Development 279 Examensarbete i Hållbar utveckling Worldviews and Policy Coherence – an analysis of the United Nations Guiding Principles and Swedish Development Cooperation Policies Sara Gottenhuber Supervisor: Rasmus Kløcker-Larsén Evaluator: Radu Mares Copyright © Sara Gottenhuber and the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University Published at Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University (www.geo.uu.se), Uppsala, 2015 List of Abbreviations CSR Corporate Social Responsibility NGOs Non-Governmental Organisations MDGs Millennium Development Goals SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SSM Soft Systems Methodology UNGP United Nations Guiding Principles UNDP United Nations Development Programme PPPs Public-Private Partnerships B4D Business for Development PSD Private Sector Development PCD Policy Coherence for Development GRI Global Reporting Index UN PRI UN Principles for Responsible Investments IIRC International Integrated Reporting Council COP Communities of Practice GNI Gross National Income ODA Official Development Assistance SEK Swedish Export Credit Corporation EKN Swedish Export Credit Guarantee Board DFIs Development Finance Institutions CSOs Civil Society Organisations ILO International Labour Organization OECD Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development IFC International Finance Corporation PGD/PGU Policy for Global Development/ Politik för Global Utveckling Content 1.1 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1.1 Motivation & Pre-Study ............................................................................................................. 3 1.1.2 International Frameworks & Development ............................................................................. 4 1.1.3 Policy Coherence ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.1.4 Swedish Development Cooperation & Policy Coherence .................................................... 8 1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY ..................................................................................................................... 9 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ..................................................................................................................... 10 1.4 THESIS DISPOSITION .......................................................................................................................... 10 1.5 DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY .......................................................................................................... 10 2. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND THEORY................................................................................ 11 2.1 SCIENTIFIC POSITION.......................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 WORLDVIEWS ..................................................................................................................................... 11 2.3 COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE & SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY ..................................................... 15 2.4 ANALYTICAL SYNTHESIS .................................................................................................................... 16 3. METHOD ................................................................................................................................................. 18 3.1 RESEARCH METHOD .......................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 CONTENT ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................................... 18 3.2.1 Data selection ........................................................................................................................... 20 3.3 METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ............................................................................................... 21 4. RESULTS ................................................................................................................................................ 22 4.1 UNITED NATIONS GUIDING PRINCIPLES ............................................................................................ 22 4.2 SIDA .................................................................................................................................................... 23 4.3 SWEDFUND INTERNATIONAL .............................................................................................................. 24 4.4 SWEDISH EXPORT CREDIT CORPORATION (SEK) ............................................................................ 25 4.5 CONTENT ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................................... 26 4.5.1 UNGP ........................................................................................................................................ 26 4.5.2 Sida ............................................................................................................................................ 27 4.5.3 Swedfund International ........................................................................................................... 29 4.5.4 SEK ............................................................................................................................................ 30 5. ANALYSIS .............................................................................................................................................. 33 5.1 PRACTICES ......................................................................................................................................... 34 5.2 OBJECTIVES ....................................................................................................................................... 36 5.3 PERSPECTIVES ................................................................................................................................... 38 5.4 NORMS ............................................................................................................................................... 39 5.5 VALUES ............................................................................................................................................... 40 5.6 WORLDVIEWS ..................................................................................................................................... 42 6. CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................................... 44 6.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ..................................................................................................................... 44 6.2 METHOD EVALUATION ........................................................................................................................ 47 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................................... 48 8. REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................... 49 ANNEX 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 58 REVIEW DOCUMENT UNGP ..................................................................................................................... 58 ANNEX 2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 60 CONTENT ANALYSIS: SIDA ....................................................................................................................... 60 CONTENT ANALYSIS: SWEDFUND ............................................................................................................ 76 CONTENT ANALYSIS: SEK ....................................................................................................................... 85 CONTENT ANALYSIS: UNGP .................................................................................................................... 95 Worldviews and Policy Coherence SARA GOTTENHUBER Gottenhuber, S., 2015, Worldviews and Policy Coherence – an analysis of the United Nations Guiding Principles and Swedish Development Cooperation Policies, Master thesis in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University, No. 279, 57 pp, 30ECTS/hp. Abstract: Within the field of development cooperation policy coherence has received increasing attention. Definitions of policy coherence are elusive; from describing consistency between intention and outcome to describing synergies between and within different policy areas. Potential incoherence has been ascribed not only to potentially incongruent goals but also different frames, discourses and underlying values. This thesis uses the concept of worldviews to understand how coherence or incoherence can be discerned between and among the United Guiding Principles on Business