Shedding Light On Policy Coherence for Development: A Conceptual Framework

Sianes, Antonio

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“…These organisations initially tended to frame policy coherence in a narrow and negative way, focused on addressing intentional and unintentional 'incoherencies' across the policies and institutions of Northern donor countries (Sianes, 2017). Such contradictions prominently included, for example, the detrimental effects of donor countries' trade policies on the desired outcomes that were otherwise central to their own international development policies.…”

Section: Conceptualising and Problematising Policy Coherencementioning

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Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Lindsey

Darby

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This article addresses the urgent need for critical analysis of the relationships between sport and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enshrined in the United Nations' global development framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Importantly, there has yet to be any substantial academic exploration of the implications of the position accorded to sport as 'an important enabler' of the aims of 2030 Agenda and its broad set of SDGs. In beginning to address this gap, we draw on the concept of policy coherence for two reasons. Firstly, the designation of a specific SDG Target for policy coherence is recognition of its centrality in working towards SDGs that are considered as 'integrated and indivisible'. Secondly, the concept of policy coherence is centred on a dualism that enables holistic examination of both synergies through which the contribution of sport to the SDGs can be enhanced as well as incoherencies by which sport may detract from such outcomes. Our analysis progresses through three examples that focus on the common orientation of the Sport for Development and Peace 'movement' towards education-orientated objectives aligned with SDG 4; potential synergies between sport participation policies and the SDG 3 Target for reducing non-communicable diseases; and practices within professional football in relation to several migration-related SDG Targets. These examples show the relevance of the SDGs across diverse sectors of the sport industry and illustrate complexities within and across countries that make pursuit of comprehensive policy coherence infeasible. Nevertheless, our analyses lead us to encourage both policy makers and researchers to continue to utilise the concept of policy coherence as a valuable lens to identify and consider factors that may enable and constrain various potential contributions of sport to a range of SDGs.

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Section: Conceptualising and Problematising Policy Coherencementioning

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Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Lindsey

Darby

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Olsen (), for example, found that political will plays an important role in the coherence of the European Union's policy toward Africa. In an impressive review article on PCD, Sianes (, p. 136) similarly emphasizes the importance of political will. In the context of South Africa, it might be helpful to rekindle the political momentum of the important role the country played in the negotiations that led to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda.…”

Section: Guidelines For Aligning South Africa's Ndp With the 2030 Agendamentioning

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Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement

Fourie

2018

Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development depends on coherence between the development policies of recipients and the providers of development assistance. Yet achieving coherence is difficult. This paper examines the extent to which the Policy Coherence for Development movement offers guidelines for aligning national development priorities with global development priorities. This qualitative paper focuses on alignment between South Africa's National Development and its Medium‐Term Strategic Frameworks and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Based on an analysis of policy documents and peer‐reviewed research on the Policy Coherence for Development movement, it is argued that five guidelines might be of relevance for South Africa, namely (i) prioritizing political buy‐in, (ii) safeguarding country ownership of development priorities, (iii) using and improving existing institutional structures and processes, (iv) stimulating cooperation across government departments by using an issue‐based approach and (v) including a long‐term and transnational perspective when considering policy impacts.

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“…Much scholarly work has concentrated on the theoretical significance of PCD, the factors that enable or hinder its promotion, and the pernicious effects it has on developing countries (Forster and Stokke, 1999;Ashoff, 2005;Picciotto, 2005;Carbone, 2009;Sianes, 2013). Less attention has been attracted by the gradual evolution of PCD from being a donor responsibility, along a North-South division, into becoming a shared responsibility, with both emerging and developing countries playing a more assertive role in relation to actors in the North (Janus et al, 2015).…”

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The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development: Reforms, Results, Resistance

Carbone

Keijzer

2015

Eur J Dev Res

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This article discusses the trajectory of policy coherence for development (PCD) in the European Union (EU). In particular, it argues that the strong focus on institutional mechanisms, conceived as a way of overcoming different types of resistance, has had the effect that results achieved have by no means been commensurate with the expectations raised by the various reforms launched over the years. EU Member States have paid lip-service to the importance of PCD without translating commitments into more coherent (national and supranational) policies. Moroever, through an analysis of the Impact Assessment (IA) -the principal mechanism to promote PCD at EU level -prepared for the reform of the EU's agricultural and fisheries policies in 2011-2013 it shows how bureaucratic arrangements have substantially failed to clarify the real impact of EU policies on (different types of) developing countries. The conclusion is that successful promotion of PCD is more than just having the right arguments and ensuring sufficient technical support, but is first and foremost a political undertaking.

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Shedding Light On Policy Coherence for Development: A Conceptual Framework

Cited by 36 publications

References 25 publications

Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the policy coherence?

Aligning South Africa's National Development Plan with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals: Guidelines from the Policy Coherence for Development movement

The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development: Reforms, Results, Resistance

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