Saving the baby while discarding the bathwater: the application of policy coherence for development analysis to payment for watershed services

Koff, Harlan; Maganda, Carmen

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“…PCD recognizes the separation of policy sectors. It aims to clarify the relationships between them and identify the mechanisms through which they affect each other [34] with the goal of highlighting specific points of interaction in policy cycles that either reinforce or undermine sustainability. Once identified, citizens and government officials can pinpoint problem areas and mutually reinforce best practice (which can be mainstreaming or policy integration but need not be either) in such a way as to better promote transformative sustainable development from below.…”

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“…This is important because insecurity is an issue for communities living in these areas. For example, Koff and Maganda's analysis of payments for watershed services in Veracruz included mention of local security costs for communities forced to pay for private security on conservation lands in order to prevent criminal activity and illegal logging [34].…”

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Guidelines for Operationalizing Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) as a Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategies

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Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is considered a pillar of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. It aims to promote whole of government approaches to sustainable development. Despite its prominence in development cooperation discussions, many national development professionals or stakeholders have not heard of PCD, indicating that its effectiveness is significantly limited. This article contends that the impact of PCD has not been maximized because it has been presented as a political objective or a policy tool by multilateral organizations and their member states. Instead, the article argues that PCD should be implemented as a methodology that can be adopted by domestic government and non-governmental actors alike, in order to understand trade-offs and co-benefits within and between policy sectors, thus promoting a participative approach. I-GAMMA is a research project in Mexico that examines data-driven public policy in order to promote PCD. It is based on in-depth reviews of policy documents and interviews with development actors. It is committed to open data, evidence-based policymaking, and collaborative dialogue between academics, government officials, and representatives of civil society organizations in sustainable development discussions. In the results section of this article, the project proposes participative PCD as a methodology for policy analysis through which a plurality of actors can identify mechanisms that either reinforce or undermine sustainable development strategies. This section then applies the methodology to the governance of protected natural areas in Mexico. The discussion section and the conclusions highlight the relevance of this approach for participative policymaking in sustainable development.

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Guidelines for Operationalizing Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) as a Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategies

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“…Policy information was collected through the websites of the case countries' governments and through secondary sources. The policy analysis was carried out according to a normative PCD methodology developed by Koff and Maganda (2019) and which is explained in detail in Section 4. This methodology establishes scales that indicate the impacts of policies on normative objectives through the measurement of trade-offs and synergies (see Nilsson et al, 2018).…”

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Addressing COVID through PCD: policy coherence for vulnerability in development and its relationship to the coronavirus pandemic

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to understand how coronavirus impacts relate to existing vulnerabilities in different world regions.Design/methodology/approachThe article utilizes quantitative analysis to examine regional variations in coronavirus risk assessment. It then qualitatively employs a policy coherence for development (PCD) approach to analyze how public policies contribute to or mitigate vulnerability, defined as the product of exposure to external shocks, institutional coping capabilities and risk associated with social divisions in societies.FindingsThe research presented below shows that significant regional variance exists in terms of coronavirus risk, based on statistical analysis of the INFORM COVID-19 Risk Report prepared by the European Commission. The PCD analysis highlights important relationships between public policy strategies and the construction of both underlying vulnerabilities and coronavirus impacts.Practical implicationsThe PCD approach presented here focuses on the reconciliation of trade-offs. It shows how policy interactions affect vulnerabilities and suggests that coherent policy strategies aimed at reducing vulnerabilities are necessary in order to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic.Originality/valueThis analysis frames vulnerability as a socially constructed condition and through implementation of a PCD approach, it indicates how policy strategies contribute to or mitigate vulnerabilities. In doing so, it intends to contribute conceptually to the literature on vulnerability by showing how policy incoherences contribute to the construction of this condition. Empirically, the originality of this article is its statistical analysis of regional variance of coronavirus risk and the qualitative analysis of policy strategies in representative cases and how they have affected vulnerabilities and coronavirus impacts.

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“…La CPD es un concepto que ha tomado gran importancia en la agenda internacional sobre el desarrollo y ha sido promovido por la ONU, la OCDE y la Unión Europea (UE) (Koff y Maganda, 2019;Millán, 2015;Siitonen, 2016;Thede, 2013). También forma parte esencial de los mecanismos de gobernanza que establece la ONU en la agenda de los ODS, en específico en la meta 17.14 (Barry, King y Matthews, 2010;Koff y Maganda, 2019). Sin embargo, su puesta en práctica ha sido limitada, lo cual ha impedido que se dé a conocer su verdadero potencial para la promoción de los ODS.…”

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Los pagos por servicios ambientales en la Ciudad de México: un enfoque de coherencia de políticas públicas

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Objetivo: analizar dos programas de pagos por servicios ambientales aplicados en el Suelo de Conservación de la Ciudad de México, utilizando el marco teórico-metodológico de coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo. Metodología: análisis cualitativo basado en la tipología de coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo. Resultados: los beneficiarios de los programas dependen económicamente de los subsidios otorgados, existen restricciones para el desarrollo de actividades productivas, los mecanismos financieros son ineficientes y falta una visión de sostenibilidad que considere las dimensiones socioeconómicas. Limitaciones: escasa participación de las autoridades y comuneros en este tipo de estudios y falta de información sobre las interrelaciones de instituciones y programas de trabajo. Valor: analizar las políticas públicas periurbanas mediante la coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo. Conclusiones: aplicar el marco teórico-metodológico de la coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo brinda elementos para identificar descompensaciones y sinergias entre las dimensiones analizadas. Esta metodología puede fomentar la transversalización de la visión de sostenibilidad.

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Saving the baby while discarding the bathwater: the application of policy coherence for development analysis to payment for watershed services

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Guidelines for Operationalizing Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) as a Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategies

Guidelines for Operationalizing Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) as a Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategies

Addressing COVID through PCD: policy coherence for vulnerability in development and its relationship to the coronavirus pandemic

Los pagos por servicios ambientales en la Ciudad de México: un enfoque de coherencia de políticas públicas

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