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Election as Vice-Chair EEA
On 26.10.2022, the members of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen have elected Louis Meuleman as one of the two vice chairs of the Comittee. […]
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Public Administration for the Sustainable Future of our Societies
The annual conference of public administration scholars united in the European Group for Public Administration of IIAS took place on 6-9 September in Lisbon. With the general topic on the challenges sustainability poses for public administration, Louis Meuleman was tasked as ‘shadow rapporteur’ of the plenary sessions. A report will be ready soon. […]
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Mainstreaming SDGs in Regulatory Impact Assessment: report published
From December 2021 until July 2022, thirteen (and ultimately seventeen) EU Member States, the European Commission and the OECD participated in a dynamic and highly interactive project aiming at mainstreaming the SDGs into RIA procedures. On 05.09.2022, Germany decided to finance an extension of the project, until 1st March 2023.
The report of the first phase of this project is available for download here:
Download Part 1. Main Report
Implementation of the SDGs
UN CEPA papers now online
The United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) held its twenty-first session from 4 to 8 April 2022 under the overall theme of “Transforming institutions and governance to build forward better towards 2030.” Louis Meuleman participated as CEPA member and was reconfirmed as vice chair. The programme and the official session papers are online. Also the video registrations of all sessions are available online. […]
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Covid-19 and Metagovernance
AUG 2021 – In a column in the PA Times of the American Society for Public Administration, Mauricio Covarrubias concludes that national leadership and coordinated action will remain critical and require metagovernance. “Challenges such as COVID-19 make it necessary to focus attention on a meta-level governance in which governments must demonstrate the ability to join together the multiplicity of organizations and interests to form a coherent policy fabric. (See: X. Wu, M. Ramesh & M. Howlett’s 2015 work, “Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities.” Similarly, Louis Meuleman, Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), in his book Metagovernance for Sustainability: A Framework for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, argues that complex political challenges require meta-governance based on systems thinking, a comprehensive approach (taking into account all relevant aspects) and also a holistic view. In times where interdependence and global challenges are constantly increasing, the political capacity of central governments will be related to the ability to coordinate a unified national response between different level
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New report on PCSD published
A study conducted in 2021 by a PS4SD team, resulting in a thematic report for the European Commission’s EUPACK programme on country knowledge on public administration, was published in December 2022. The study contains an analysis of how the SDG indicator 17.14.1 on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) could be implemented. It has case studies on Finland, Italy, and Romania. Download report. […]
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Managing the Implementation of the SDGs
The report ‘Managing the Implementation of the SDGs’ by Ingeborg Niestroy and Louis Meuleman was published online recently by the European Commission’s DG REFORM. Originally made in 2020 and with some additions in 2021, the report introduces why and how the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals are essential for the quality of public administration and governance. Download the report here. […]
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Navigating the Narrows: Strategies for SDG Governance
Louis Meuleman and Ingeborg Niestroy are the guest editors of a Special Issue of the Journal Sustainability, to be published after the summer of 2023. The theme is about strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to strategic governance for sustainable development, such as strategic planning, strategy as a learning process, and strategising for trade-offs and synergies in different (supranational, national, or subnational) contexts. More information and how to contribute can be found here. […]
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Magic Numbers? Why the Politics of Indices Are a Problem Rather Than a Solution
JULY 2022 – In a critical guest article published online by IISD, Paul Jackson and Louis Meuleman point at the risks of measuring progress on complex issues such as the SDGs, though single numbers, as in an index. […]
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Public administration, institutions, and governance for evidence-informed policymaking
JULY 2022 – In the report “Constructing assessment indicator dashboards for evidence-informed policymaking: Insights from the perspective of public administration, institutions, and governance”, Ingeborg Niestroy discusses the effectiveness of evidence-informed policymaking mechanisms from the perspective of policymakers, using the lenses of public administration, public management and (sustainability) governance. The report was prepared for the European Commission’s Joint Research Center and published online on 19 July 2022. It contains substantial input from Louis Meuleman. […]
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What about the governance of evidence-informed policymaking?
JULY 2022 – How can policymakers make the best of the science they are offered to prepare new policies and laws? This question, focusing on the ‘demand’ side of science-policy-society relations, is less often asked than how the ‘supply’ side can be improved. Louis Meuleman argues in a Blog written for and published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, that the demand side needs to be taken more into account, and that a dedicated governance framework would definitely support this. The Blog builds on a report Ingeborg Niestroy wrote for the JRC. […]
