Governing SDG interactions in East-Africa
Implementing the SDGs in an indivisible way is not only a coordination challenge but a political undertaking, which is subject to the interests and ideas of those who benefit from policy (in)coherence
— Art Dewulf, Principal Investigator
The project on governing SDG interactions in East-Africa tries to answer the question,
How do mechanisms of cross-level and cross-sector alignment enable development actors to address trade-offs and build synergies in the governance of SDG implementation in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda?
This project is about the governance of SDG interactions. Currently, SDG governance is mostly fragmented. Some actors may be working, for instance, on improving food security without regard for environmental needs; while other actors in the same area may be working on environmental conservation and restoration without considering food security interests
The research takes a transdisciplinary approach and is structured around three in-depth multi-level case studies in the three East-African focus countries. The research combines a global-to-local perspective that examines the effects of global phenomena on specific local contexts, and a local-to-global perspective that investigates how local events or innovations influence and connect to broader global processes of governing SDGs.
ETHIOPIA
Interactions with SDG 15 (life on land) in landscape restoration
The focus countries and cases are:
KENYA
Interactions with SDG 2 (zero hunger) in climate-smart livestock
UGANDA
Interactions with SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) in the Water-Energy-Food nexus
The early stages of this project are yielding valuable findings. Here is what we’ve learned so far:
Explore a summary of the preliminary findings from this project, shared in a concise two-pager that highlights key insights.
Beyond cherry-picking: aligning development actors and efforts for inclusive and effective governance of trade-offs and synergies between SDGs in East Africa
Explore additional outputs from across the SDG Interactions project—including publications, interviews, and synthesised findings from all four themes—on the outputs page.
The research consortium is led by Prof. Art Dewulf from the Public Administration & Policy group at Wageningen University and collaborates with 4 research institutes in East-Africa:
Dr. Gete Zeleke
Water and Land Resource Centre
Ethiopia
Dr. Todd Crane
International Livestock Research Institute
Kenya
For more information and updates from the research team in Wageningen, click here
Mr. Joel Onyango
African Centre for Technology Studies
Kenya
Prof. Art Dewulf
Public Administration & Policy group, Wageningen University
Netherlands
Dr. Richard Mugambe
School of Public Health, Makerere University
Uganda