Policy Innovations for Transformative Change. Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals are a global commitment to “transforming our world” and eradicating poverty in all its forms everywhere. The challenge now is to put this vision into action.

Policy Innovations for Transformative Change, the UNRISD 2016 Flagship Report, helps unpack the complexities of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in a unique way: by focusing on the innovations and pathways to policy change, and analysing which policies and practices will lead to social, economic and ecological justice.

Transformative change

Drawing on numerous policy innovations from the South, the report goes beyond buzzwords and brings to the development community a definition of transformation which can be used as a benchmark for policy making toward the 2030 Agenda, intended to “leave no one behind”. Bringing together five years of UNRISD research across six areas—social policy, care policy, social and solidarity economy, eco-social policy, domestic resource mobilization, and politics and governance—the report explores what transformative change really means for societies and individuals. It provides guidance on how to turn the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs into concrete actions that:

• go beyond palliative approaches to substantively and sustainably address the root causes of poverty, inequality and environmental destruction;

• are integrated, innovative and policy-driven, and demonstrate an eco-social turn in discourse and practice;

• are informed by inclusive, multi-level partnerships; and

• are grounded in evidence and normative values such as social justice and sustainability.

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Chapter 4—Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy through Public Policy

1. Introduction

2. The Rise of SSE and its Role in Development

3. Public Policy for SSE

4. SSE and Transformative Change

5. Moving Forward

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