IIAS Panel
Building
Capacity for Sustainable Governance: European and International Perspectives.
Description:
The concept of
governance and its sustainability continues to be a central concern in Public
Administration. In this perspective, Capacity building is considered as a
crucial factor that leads to better governance, a governance that is built by
and for citizens.
Governance refers to the
processes of governing – the processes of interaction and decision-making among
the government; creation, use and management of networks; citizen participation
for the purpose of creating, reinforcing, and/or reproducing social norms and
institutions that facilitate sustainable development provide effective and
efficient services, and ultimately improve the quality of human life.
At the global
level, the United Nations have ratified these concerns, by committing to the
realization, by 2030, of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). At the European
level, EU defined the Agenda 2020 and other priorities for the coming decades.
In all regions of the world, realizing the SDGs poses an enormous challenge to
public administration. It requires:improving legal, institutional and organizational frameworks; setting
strategic priorities, with the participation of citizens; freeing up resources
for these priorities; managing these resources on such a way as to achieve
results, including steering and coordination with all the stakeholders; using
evaluation and feedback mechanisms; communicating about results achievements.
The SDG framework, in short, requires intelligent, sustainable or resilient
governance, taking a long-term view and a broad scope of actions.
During this session, IIAS
panelists will focus on the issues of capacity building strategies and methods
for sustainable governance at all levels: local to national, regional to global.
They will address questions such as how to build capacity to ensure resource
use and how to build human and organizational capacity to ensure social
stability, justice, peace, and prosperity.
They will also further
discuss governance strategic priorities, including citizen participation and
stakeholder coordination to balance human needs and resource sustainability;
discuss how to improve legal, institutional and organizational systems to
ensure governance efficiency, efficacy, equity and sustainability; and discuss
the management (educating and training civil servants – including spreading
common standards) of human and financial resources to achieve sustainable
governance goals.
The IIAS
panelists will focus on the different aspects of this important issue:
1) To what
extent is the SDG Framework relevant for European and Central-Asian countries?
2) Which
reforms of legal, institutional and organizational frameworks and systems are needed to
ensure sustainable governance for development?
3) Which capacity building
strategies and methods are needed to achieve these objectives, with the
involvement of all stakeholders?
4) Which
‘standards’, if any, can inform sustainable governance development policies (e.g:
PA education and training standards, financial accounting, management
accounting, budgeting and auditing systems standards (IPSAS – EPSAS)
sustainability standards (Guidance on social responsibility.)….)?
5) Which type
of frameworks for monitoring and evaluating Sustainable development &
governance objectives, defining role/responsibility and what type of
coordination mechanisms should be established from the outset?
6) What are
the main indicators for measuring sustainable governance?
Chair of the
Panel
·Rolet Loretan, IIAS Director General, Chair/moderator
(confirmed)
Discussant
Veronica Junjan - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Panelists:
· Munira Aminova, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium
· Teodora Bitoiu, National University of Political
Studies and Public Administration, Romania
· Michiel de Vries, Radboud University, The Netherlands,
IASIA President