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Monday, 07 June 2021 – Sustainable public procurement (SPP) provides Governments with the opportunity to move beyond procuring only from suppliers that deliver […]
Monday, 07 June 2021 – Sustainable public procurement (SPP) provides Governments with the opportunity to move beyond procuring only from suppliers that deliver […]
MAY 2021 – In an Open Access article on Public Administration and Governance (PAG) for the SDGs, Louis Meuleman proposes four priorities to accelerate implementation of the SDGs: 1) making PAG a strategic policy area; 2) starting mission-oriented PAG reform; 3) metagovernance as management & design; 4) policy coherence as mindset. […]
On 28 April 2021, Louis Meuleman moderated a very lively debate on “Lessons learned from the response of public institutions to the pandemic, on the first day of the (virtual) SDG 16 CONFERENCE 2021, in Rome. The four panelists were Sarah Lister (UNDP), Sabine Kuhlmann (Potsdam University), David Steven (UN Foundation) and Juan Manuel Roa (Dyntra). Watch the video recoding here: SDG 16 Conference 2021 Parallel session 1.2 […]
In the framework of the 5th anniversary of the adoption of Agenda 2030, the Central European Initiative, a collaboration of 17 countries, launched the report “Contribution of CEI to UN Agenda 2030 and its implementation in CEI Member States”, made by a Public Strategy for Sustainable Development team with Ingeborg Niestroy (lead), Sally Nicholson and Gaetane Charlier, in cooperation with the CEI-Executive Secretariat. […]
New publication by André C.S.Batalhão & Denilson Teixeira in the journal Urban Ecology on the challenges of sustainable city management and how to measure […]
In a longer version of the short article published in March at iisd.org, Louis suggests first lessons for sustainability governance from the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Louis’ latest book “Metagovernance for Sustainability: A Framework for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals” (Routledge – 2019) is now available for free online access […]
Speaking points kick-off presentation by Louis Meuleman at the UNDESA webinar on integrating the 2030 agenda into national plans and strategies:
14 May 2020 […]
Louis Meuleman and Ora-orn Poocharoen, members of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration. Published on the UNDESA Blog page, Sunday, 10 May […]
New guest article written by Louis, published on 7 April 2020 at IISD’s SDG Knowledge Hub: We are still in the middle of the […]
On 18 March 2020, the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) has submitted key messages and selected recommendations to the 2020 thematic […]
An article summarizing the study “Europe’s approach to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals” (2019) by Ingeborg Niestroy, Elisabeth Hege, Elizabeth Dirth and Ruben Zondervan, for […]
Under the title ‘Experts, Officials Consider Steps to Reforming Public Institutions’, IISD published the main recommendations from a Louis’ recent blog for UNDESA, reflecting […]
With Louis and Ingeborg as guest editors, the open access Journal of Public Sector Economics published on 1st December 2019 a special issue on […]
Blog by Louis Meuleman, posted by UN DESA on 22 Nov 2019. As the High-level political forum of 2020 adopts its main theme of […]
Here are all seven 2-page articles on SDG-related challenges which we published online as guest articles at iisd.org during the last years, put together […]
The book Metagovernance for Sustainability is, unfortunately, not Open Access. But the first introductory chapter has been put online by the publisher (Routledge). It can […]
The 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development offers a unique framework for transformative pathways towards sustainability worldwide. The 2030 Agenda also requires a paradigm shift […]
Top-down and bottom-up relations between levels of government are both characterised by slow transfer of innovative ideas. For implementation of SDG issues, which are complex, […]
At the conference in preparation for the HLPF 2019, on “PEACEFUL, JUST AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES: SDG 16 IMPLEMENTATION AND THE PATH TOWARDS LEAVING NO […]
How does one know when countries have implemented good governance? Although a cornerstone of all developmental efforts and the sine qua non of sustainability, […]
UN CEPA submitted a contribution to the July 2019 High-level Political Forum in the SDGs, stating among others that public institutions are not ready […]
By Natalie Risse/IISD — On 8-9 April, CEPA participants discussed the institutional aspects of SDG 16, namely on effectiveness, accountability and inclusiveness, which are […]
“General knowledge of the importance of the term metagovernance is relatively limited. Therefore, the recent publication by Louis Meuleman “Metagovernance for Sustainability” can be a significant contribution to a better general understanding of this concept.(…) This book in a very impressive and reasoned way presents the importance and complexity of metagovernance”. […]
On Thursday 7 February, Ingeborg Niestroy (PS4SD) and Elisabeth Hege (IDDRI) co-presented the new study “Europe’s approach to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: Good practices […]
A paperback version of the book Metagovernance for Sustainability can now be directly ordered by sending an email to the author, for EUR 30,00 […]
Law professor Prof. Dr. Diane Desierto (JSD, Yale) reviewed Louis’ new book as one of the most interesting of 2018, in a selection of five […]
Louis published a guest article at IISD.org as short introduction to the book Metagovernance for Sustainability. It argues that successful decision makers do not […]
The ‘Global Goals Yearbook 2018’ contains a short article by Louis on thinking beyond public-private partnerships for the SDGs. The article is based on […]
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