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EUROPE GROUP
Full of cool and fun people
Running effective and efficient multi-stakeholders bodies
• Categorize the countries in SDplanNET by key aspects of their strategies • Cultural differences across Europe; CEE is more homogenous (low member-based ngo);
South rather issues (movements)• Fiscal limitation to save money led to reduction of the competencies of the local
governments (move towards centralization)• Once an arena is created (running) - needs are filled-up (with relevant focus) and but they
are not into initiative thingsIssues: • V&A: Flood-management issues in CEE; risk and disaster management (complementing
SDC approach)• Boarder concept of sustainability communities • Awareness of multi-stakeholders bodies benefits for decision-making, for governments,
for communities • Eastern Europe partnership to create new partnerships they needs to cover SD issuesNeeds: importance of bottom-up; top-down connections that are maintains; training for champions/change agents; partnership, long-term duration, not just project-based
Collaboration across the levels of government
• Top-down and bottom-up and what are key mechanism of collaboration; formal/informal
• Vertical collaboration intense on the regional level planning needs (energy) – vertical disaggregation may work only for certain issues (some issues are better management at the higher level)
• Needs to be coordinated with key national and regional bodies
Strategic opportunities: • Need to create sub-national level SDGs and targets but only when there is
money attached to it; it needs to be emphasized the important role of the regional/local governments
• Teachers’ training; vertical collaboration is very weak; first the integration of planning and needs to be supported by resource allocation;
• More encouragement to do vertical interactions from the national level• Ownership and interests - looking for support; scenarios
Scaling-up implementations by using cross-cutting policies
• Environment is only integrated into critical issues• Adaptation, resilience (communities for resilience and
resilience for communities) – relevance for SD agenda; green economies (esp. national level); sub-national planning on key
• Building transition pathways; trainings and CB for critical sectors and integration of SD (technical school to move away from BAU)
• Legislation, planning, budgets needs to liked to the cross-cutting policies (not just a training on individual tools)
Monitoring, reporting, accountability
• Aligning it with SDGs and post-2015 the context and using their indicators
• Process on outline key indicators/plug existing indicators into policy process
• From scientific data to accountability • Regional and national levels indicator
connections