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.
To implement governance in sectors and at partner level, the SDC applies a systemic and contextualized understanding of governance. Here, you will find out documents in this regard, such as the:
- Governance principles
- Adoption of a political approach to governance, with consideration for underlying power dimensions and formal-informal rules and norms: "Thinking and working politically" (TWP)
- Governance as a transversal theme (GTT) in sectors. Guidance on how to work on the own governance of partners will follow soon
See also some tools helping to think and work politically (TWP) and to conduct a Political Economy Analysis (PEA), but also to analyse Governance cross-cuttingly as well as to monitor and report about it:
- Peace, Governance and Equality Tools on Political Economy (link)
- Peace, Governance and Equality Tools to Analyse, Monitor and Report on Governance (link)
Relevant Documents
- OECD-DAC Capitalisation on Locally-Led Cooperation (link)