Formation/Cours

This course explores policy design through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), using interactions with local policy experts. The SDGs aim to promote transformative sustainable development in which “nobody is left behind.” Nation-states have implemented policies which support this agenda. However, not all policies promote sustainability as defined by the SDGs. For this reason, policy coherence for sustainable development focuses on policy interactions and their impacts on sustainable development. This course explores this concept and analyzes its effectiveness within the framework of sustainable development agendas. Specifically, it introduces students to participative research in which they engage local stakeholders in policy coherence for sustainable development discussions.

Learning outcomes:
Engage with critical perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals and explore their relevance in local contexts

Understand what policy interactions implicate and how they impact sustainability

Compare academic and practitioner approaches to policy coherence for sustainable development

Conduct transdisciplinary research by exploring how policy coherence for sustainable development appropaches can engage with participative public policy processes.

Week 1 : Introduction and Objectives

1) Double Session 1 and 2: Context, Introduction and Typologies

2) Session 3: Normative Coherence for Sustainable Development

Week 2: Methodologies

3) Session 4: Coherence for Sustainable Development: Policy Implementation

4) Session 5: Participative Coherence for Sustainable Development: Community Engagement

Week 3: Planning and Implementation

5) Session 6: Planning for Meetings

6) Session 7: Meeting with Stakeholders

Week 4: Synthesis and Conclusion

7) Session 8: Discussion of Results

8) Session 9 and 10: Analysis and Presentation of Outline

Week 5: Final Presentations and Feedback

9) Session 11: Student Presentations and Feedback