Dick, Eva \/ Paul Marschall \/ Christopher Wingens
The Current Column (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
German Development Institute \/ Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 14 June 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cities, municipalities and districts in Germany are becoming increasingly involved in promoting the 2030 Agenda. This is a welcome trend, given that most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be achieved together with local stakeholders<\/a>. Global challenges are generally overcome at local level, and this is the starting point for the 15th<\/a> German Federal Conference on Municipal Development Policy (Buko), which is being held online<\/a> from 14 to 16 June 2021 under the heading \u201cTogether. Fair. Global. Sustainable. Agenda 2030 \u2013 Municipalities are Shaping the Future\u201d. The programme<\/a> covers a comprehensive range of topics, from municipal climate change mitigation and environmental conservation to sustainable procurement and migration and integration work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But how exactly and to what extent do German local authorities promote development policy? Is there a discernible trend here? What motivates local authorities and how can existing work be stepped up further? The German Development Institute \/ Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) set out to answer these questions in its study on \u2018Municipal development policy in Germany\u2019<\/a>. Financed by the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW) of Engagement Global, the study serves as an update to a previous study<\/a> on municipal development policy conducted by DIE in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of the current study, the results of which will also be presented at the Buko, the DIE team conducted a survey of over 5,000 local authorities throughout Germany and some 30 qualitative, in-depth interviews with local authorities and representatives of institutions at national and federal-state level. For data collection purposes, DIE worked closely with the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), which also evaluates<\/a> local development policy in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n