Development Diplomacy
Development Diplomacy is part of a new diplomacy needed to address contemporary challenges and threats in support of collective actions, aiming sustainable global governance solutions and cooperation, and to engage in new, more inclusive forms of multilateralism and multi-actor coalitions and partnerships. Development Diplomacy strategy driven work is based on essentials and principals and focuses on issues that serve as critical enablers to achieve the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and Peace.
Foreword from Ambassador (ret.) Therese Adam
This webpage will share distinct documents highlighting the role of and value added by Development Diplomacy in the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and other Sustainable-Development-related Global Governance agendas and agreements.
The featured documents focus on Development Diplomacy’s contemporary practice, its potential as a multilateral and multi-stakeholder policy approach for Sustainable Development implementation, and, as a novel, effective, and transformational approach, the shaping of learning and teaching in higher education to build learners’ competences and skills for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As a structured and implemented contribution to Sustainable Development, universities around the world are increasingly integrating the SDGs into learning, teaching, and research. The main challenge remains how higher education institutions may effectively transform the learning and teaching approaches that are required to operationalize the learning goals for the SDGs and develop learners’ competences and skills.
The approach and content development for shaping teaching and learning in higher education are not only based on research work. It is grounded in a personal learning process, practical experiences in lecturing, debating with colleagues, exchanges with students, and incorporating feedback on educational activities informed by applied Development Diplomacy.
Presenting further analyses and the conceptualization of the Development Diplomacy approach, targeting sustainable development, inclusiveness, governance principles, accountability, and the universal values of human rights (Agenda 2030), it is shown that Development Diplomacy is becoming an effective practice for facilitating multi-lateral and multi-stakeholder negotiations, setting agendas, framing targets, norms, and transformative policies, leading to the building of transformative partnerships, to support the implementation of the SDGs and other Global Governance arrangements facilitating Sustainable Development.