Implementing policy coherence for sustainable development beyond 2015

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) go beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in fundamental ways: they apply to all countries – including OECD members – not only to developing countries, and affect practically all aspects of public policy. Updated tools and approaches to policy coherence will be required to take into account complex cross-sectoral inter-linkages (e.g. water-energy-food nexus) as well as the role of key actors the enabling conditions and the effects of policies in achieving the SDGs. The implementation of the post-2015 Development Agenda call for whole-of-government approaches and strengthened institutional coordination and coherence at all levels of policy-making to ensure more integrated policy frameworks for sustainable development. Policy coherence is fundamental to foster synergies between economic, social and environmental policies deal with trade-offs and consider trans-boundary and inter-generational impacts on sustainable development. This chapter illustrates how a new analytical framework for Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) can help inform coherent policy-making in the context of the new global development agenda.