EUROPE GROUP

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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