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Summary of Outcomes Regional Workshop Sustainable Development Transition Series in Nairobi Ernest Acheampong African Technology policy Studies Networks(ATPS) /SDplanNet Africa. www.atpsnet.org www.sdplannet-africa.org. SDplanNet Africa Workshop. Overarching Objective:

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  1. Summary of Outcomes Regional Workshop Sustainable Development Transition Series in Nairobi Ernest Acheampong African Technology policy Studies Networks(ATPS) /SDplanNet Africa www.atpsnet.orgwww.sdplannet-africa.org

  2. SDplanNet Africa Workshop Overarching Objective: To articulate a set of innovative practicesfor transformative strategy-making, planning and implementation for sustainable development at the national and sub-national levels in Africa. The workshop aims to advance a Community of Practice (CoP) among government planners, NGOs, civil society, private sector actors and policy-makers • by creating a knowledge base and capacity building agenda for innovative practices in strategy-making, planning and implementation • that is commensurate with the demands of transformation that the Post-2015 Development Agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs) pose to all regions of the world.

  3. Participants • Twenty seven (27) practitioners from 11 African countries (NCSD, Ministries, NGOs and Private Sector) • SDPlanNet colleagues from Asia-Pacific and LAC regions, GIZ • UN agencies: UNEP, UNESCO and UNU-INRA

  4. Approaches and Methods Participatory sessions • World Café sessions • Rapid foresight exercise • Brainstorming exercise • Carousel exercise

  5. Reality FictionalNew African Country Achieved all its national SDG targets Current State of Practices 2030 2014 Four key questions to explore the future of governance and practice in the year 2030 for mainstreaming sustainable development principles into national and regional planning: • What are the multi-stakeholder processes and institutions that enabled the new African country to set and implement its strategy? • What does integrated development planning look like in the new African country with respect to vertical and horizontal collaboration? • What Policies enabled the new country to achieve co-benefits across water, energy, and food security? • What are the monitoring, reporting and accountability processes and institutions were in place that helped the new African country be adaptive and continuously learn and improve over time?

  6. Gaps and Challenges and Capacity Building Needs

  7. Reshaping Our World– New Priorities and New Values for a Changing World

  8. Overall Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing Needs for advancing sustainable development

  9. Strategies for Strengthening and Coordinating Community of Practice Networks • Effective communication improves information access and flow amongst stakeholders and hence implementation. • A communication strategy is therefore required to define target audience for organisations and how to reach out to them with clear messages. • There is need for strong coordination between members. The roles of each member must be clarified. • Champions from each region must be identified to promote the ideals of CoP in the area. This will include the SDplanNet-Africa delegates. • Resource mobilization in human and financial forms will be required to strengthen CoP in Africa (internal or External). • Organizing Annual General Meetings (AGM) to review progress and share information on SD issues • Piggy-backing on other regional or continental meetings and domestic resource mobilization were then recommended as a way to cut costs to achieve this objective. •  A formal rule of engagement or charter should be developed and agreed from the outset as a guiding principle for the operations of CoP in the region. This should include making clear the objectives of the network, the constituencies, and their roles among others.

  10. Conclusion • Crucial to the sustainability of the SDplanNet-Africa will be the extent to which support can be harnessed from national governments to maintain the momentum for the sustainable development agenda. • Sustainable Development must be viewed as a commitment to a transitioning process, one in which economic, social and ecological goals are increasingly integrated by the means of politics, technology, organizations, planning, administration, communication etc. It is a way of travelling and not the final destination. • It is a long-term feature of systems behavior which cannot be understood over months or even a few years of development planning. It involves fostering values such as equity, capability to survive, democracy and global responsibility towards a sustainable world.

  11. THANK YOU African Technology Policy StudiesNetwork The Chancery, 3rd Floor, Valley Road P. O. Box 10081-00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254-20-271 4092/ 498/ 2723800/ 2727925 Fax: +254-20-271 4028 Website: www.atpsnet.org Email:eacheampong@atpsnet.org

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