Knowledge
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021
The Covid-19 Pandemic has slowed down and sometimes even reversed development processes around the globe. The setback for the international Agendas for development and the SDGs has to be met with appropriate responses. While damages can already be witnessed, the crisis also presents the opportunity of renewing mechanisms and understanding the need for immediate action. The 2021 Financing for Sustainable Development Report of the Interagency Task Force addresses a broad range of issues that development finance is facing, including domestic public resources, trade and more. The report highlights the importance of the local level to address the crisis and future challenges, and to build resilient financing from the bottom up.
Author: Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development
Publisher: United Nations
Publication Date: 2021
Copyright: United Nations
Facilitation Guide for Gender-Sensitive Conflict Analysis
The Facilitation Guide for gender-sensitive Conflict Analysis (GSCA), developed by Conciliation Resources and Saferworld, aims to support analysis of how gender inequality shapes social, economic and political systems, institutions and structures. It can be used by analysts, policy and programme staff working on peacebuilding, conflict prevention and security, or on gender and/or women’s empowerment in conflict-affected contexts. The guide explains how to design, use and adapt tools to analyse gender, peace, violence and conflict in any given context as well as how to integrate it in policy planning and programme implementation.
Author: Sophia Close, Hesta Groenewald and Diana Trimiño Mora
Publisher: Conciliation Resources, Saferworld
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: Conciliation Resources, Saferworld
Rural-Urban Migration in West Africa: Contexts, Trends, and Recommendations
This policy brief by the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) analyses the key challenges of and links between urbanisation and rural-urban migration in the West African region. In West Africa, urban growth in the last decades has become a key challenge to sustainable development and fighting inequalities. The reasons of the migration of the rural poor towards urban centers are often ignored in policies, for example in national urban and climate policies. The brief aims at giving a concise, comprehensive overview of the main pattern of international and cross-border migration in the region and to formulate recommendations for its inclusion in migration and urbanisation policies.
Author: Eva Dick and Benjamin Schraven
Publisher: KNOMAD
Publication Date: 2021
Copyright: KNOMAD
Changing Local Governance in Yemen - District and Governorate Institutions in the Areas under Ansar Allah's Control
In this working paper, the Berghof Foundation analyses how local governance in Yemen is changing in the areas controlled by Ansar Allah. The paper assesses the current situation and addresses long-term drivers of conflict in those areas. These drivers include tax systems and financial and natural resource mobilisation for adequate service provision and social and political inclusion. The Berghof Foundation has been working with local authorities and the central administrations in Yemen since 2017 to strengthen inclusive local governance, support the resolution of local conflicts, and ensure that key concerns from the local level are fed into central policy-making and the peace process.
Author: Joshua Roberts
Publisher: Berghof Foundation
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: Berghof Foundation
Building Safe Communities: Bridging the Gap Between Citizens, Municipalities & the Police
Developed as part of the “Matra project on Local Safety and Security in Albania 2017 – 2020”, this handbook describes local pilot projects for increasing citizen safety in Berat, Cërrik, Devoll, Mat and Roskovec. Besides providing a detailed overview of the projects’ achievements, the guidebook lists concrete policy recommendations for other Albanian municipalities and civil servants to address local safety and security issues. Additionally, the guide provides national policy makers with recommendations on how to support municipalities in their efforts to promote local safety.
Publishers: The Hague Academy for Local Governance; VNG International; Foundation for Local Autonomy and Governance
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: The Hague Academy for Local Governance; VNG International; Foundation for Local Autonomy and Governance
Disruptive Resilience: An Agenda for the New Normal in Cities of the Global South
Crises, like the current global health pandemic as well as climate change, require “disruptive resilience” in urban governance sectors such as finance, public service delivery and data management. Throughout this briefing its authors highlight the need for an adjustment of existing risk management systems and practices through innovative approaches in order to effectively meet new challenges. Besides outlining numerous ways of transition from business as usual to a new concept of resilience, this brief showcases successful practices already taking place in the global South.
Authors: Aditya V. Bahadur, David Dodman
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: IIED
Towards a Concept and Framework for Governing Complex Emergencies - Emergency Governance for Cities and Regions
Launched in Mai 2020 by UCLG, Metropolis and the London School of Economics – LSE Cities, the Emergency Governance Initiative for Cities and Regions (EGI) has published its second policy brief in the field of emergency governance. By introducing a preliminary concept and framework, the policy brief analyses how to best govern during complex emergencies, while taking the needs of regional governments and cities into consideration. By defining specific emergency cases and relating them to grand global challenges, the policy brief is able to discuss relevant governance principles, structures, processes and domains before adapting them to present local and regional challenges.
Publisher: Emergency Governance Initiative (EGI)
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: Emergency Governance Initiative (EGI)
Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African Cities Through Knowledge Co-Production
Implemented as part of the Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA 2030 Africa), this report sheds light on current collaborative transdisciplinary research, carried out between science, policy and society in different African cities. Highlighting the means and processes behind the co-production of knowledge on sustainable urban development in Africa, the report provides recommendations for the creation of enabling environments and for capacity-building for African scientists in this area. It underscores the need to invest in transdisciplinary urban research science and the cooperation of scientists, policy actors, urban practitioners, communities and the private sector for future knowledge production.
Publisher: International Science Council (ISC)
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: International Science Council (ISC)
Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals through Better Local-Level Data: A Case Study of Lumajang and Pacitan Districts in Indonesia
By providing the districts of Lumajang and Pacitan in East Java, Indonesia, with data to trace Local Government and local stakeholder contributions toward SDG localisation, ADB has assisted these regions with monitoring, implementing and raising awareness for SDG implementation. By filling this data gap ADB aims to harmonise local action and trace its positive impact for sustainable development. The referenced case study outlines ADB’s approach.
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: Asian Development Bank
THE 2030 AGENDA - Through the Eyes of Local and Regional Governments’ Associations
Conducted as part of PLATFORMA’s workshop at the United Nations’ 2020 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) on “Localising the Sustainable Development Goals” this survey analyses the progress made by European regions, municipalities and their national associations regarding SDG implementation. Emphasising the local perspective in a multi-stakeholder context, this study presents a follow up to CEMR and PLATFORMA’s previous studies on “How local & regional government associations bring the SDGs to life” (2019) and the “Sustainable Development Goals – How Europe’s towns and regions are taking the lead” (2018).
Publisher: Platforma, CEMR
Publication Date: 2020
Copyright: Platforma, CEMR