Cross-Cutting Governance
Governance is a Sustainable Development Goal in itself (Goal 16) and a means and essential lever of the systemic transformations needed to achieve all 17 SDGs. The SDC applies this dual-track approach in its own operations. On the one hand, the SDC invests in dedicated governance programmes with the principal objective to address governance deficiencies and achieve specific governance results in SDC priority areas. On the other hand, based on the SDC's commitment of thinking and working politically, the SDC takes a “transversal approach": it strengthens governance as a lever and integrates a governance perspective with the good governance principles in all sectors and areas of cooperation. This includes also sometimes to work on the own governance of partner organisation, i.e. on their organisational development and financial management.