Policy Coherence & the 2030 Agenda Building on the PCD experience James Mackie, Martin Ronceray & Eunike Spierings EU PCD Focal Points meeting – Brussels, 22 February 2017

1. Policy Coherence & the 2030 Agenda
Building on the PCD experience
James Mackie, Martin Ronceray & Eunike Spierings
EU PCD Focal Points meeting – Brussels, 22 February 2017

2. Content / outline here
1. Objectives of paper
2. Approaches to integrated policy making
3. Creating a PCSD system
4. Recommendations

3. 1. Objectives of the paper

4. • On-going dialogue with a number of European PCD focal points
Transition to the 2030 Agenda
• Understand nature of PCSD
• See how it differs from PCD
• Can we build on the PCD experience for working with PCSD?
1. Objectives of paper

5. 2. Approaches to integrated
policy making

6. 2. Approaches to integrated policy making
Identified 4 different approaches
1. PCD tradition: Policy coherence for development
• Other policies should not undermine core policy / Unidirectional
2. Issue-based mainstreaming
• Integrate specific concern in core policy / Unidirectional
3. Multi-sector approaches: nexus approach – SDGs have similar approach
• Address concerns of several sectors simultaneously / Multi-directional
4. Collective Responsibility: cabinet responsibility, whole-of-government
• Unified strategy to which all ministers adhere / Multi-directional

7. 2. Analysed how they worked against 8 criteria
• Rationale
• Problem Definition
• Goal
• Direction of coherence
• Mechanisms
• Legal and policy statements
• Coherence promoting system
• Implementing Authority
• Impact
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Constraints and challenges
PCD tradition was well developed with more tools than others; system idea
important; some similar tools were used in different approaches

8. 3. Creating a PCSD system

9. 3. Creating a PCSD system
• Analysis of what tools might be useful for PCSD
• Table with Summary of lessons for PCSD – using same 8 criteria
Some examples
• Coherence promotion system
• PCD ‘champions’ or ‘policy entrepreneurs’ has worked well could
extend this to PCSD: Multiple champions working as a group
• Focus on a limited number of issues - lesson from Nexus + PCD
• Implementing Authority
• All approaches: need for clear authority at appropriate level for
leadership, to encourage synergies and adjudicate on trade-offs
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Lessons from PCD useful: impact assessments, peer reviews, PCD
Reports, dialogues with different actors and independent scrutiny

10. 4. Recommendations

11. 4. Recommendations
• Both PCD and PCSD matter
• Delegate PCSD to sectoral advocates – multiple sector champions
• Make PCSD your own – importance of political commitment, pay attention
to political economy for different actors and to incentives
• Build a PCSD System with interdependent parts
• Framework – legal / policy statements – clear locus of authority
• Mechanisms – group of champions, consultations systems, etc.
• Knowledge systems – analysis, monitoring
• Accountability – peer review, reporting, independent scrutiny
• Communicate on the added value of PCSD – principle needs support

12. Thank you!
jm@ecdpm.org
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European Centre for Development Policy Management