CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Bauer, Dorottya |
|---|---|
| Title | Hitting Seventeen Goals with One Stone A Systemic Approach to SDG Advocacy |
| Summary | The implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is facing challenges in the European Union (EU). Policies and legislation lack the inclusion of these Global Goals. The policy-making of the EU is highly complex system in which advocacy groups are important catalysers of change and hence play a key role in the implementation of the SDGs. Therefore, the research looked at how European advocacy groups engage in the promotion of the SDGs through policy network-, and framing analysis. The research found that advocacy groups have been engaging in different cross-sectoral collaborations to join the debate on the SDGs. The European Commission’s Multi Stakeholder Platform (MSP) on the Implementation of the SDGs and the SDG Watch Europe were the two key cross-sectoral collaborations that the researched focused on. The MSP is a policy network within which advocacy groups engage in framing activities. The research identified two frames that revealed how different organisations approach the Global Goals. Two key trends of SDG framing are identified in this thesis; one that promotes systemic change through understanding the agenda as a guiding principle, and another one that neglects the systemic nature of the goals and engages them only as a secondary issue. The battle of these frames is brought to the fore by evaluating one of the campaigns of the SDG Watch Europe. Even though systemic framing is making its way to the EU decision-makers there is a long way ahead before sustainability becomes a guiding principle. |
| Supervisor | Steger Tamara |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/bauer_dorottya.pdf |
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