Estratègies per al desenvolupament sostenible - Generalitat de ...

countries, as analysed and systemised by the OECD, the UNDP’s Capacity 21, theWorld Bank, the International Institute for Environment and Development and theCADS itself with the programme developed with the IIG and very particularly on thework of the recent seminar on Strategies for Sustainable Development. Roles &Responsabilities along the Global-local Axis.This study provides no model. What it does is take lessons from experience andexplain the reasons for the failure of some practices and the success of others. Thereis no point in seeking a unique model, methodology or approach to sustainabledevelopment. Strategies need to experiment with new ways of working; experienceis constantly evolving and right now new methods are being developed and tested.What is now certain is that each country needs its own strategy. In some, coordinatingthe different processes underway and incorporating others will be enough.In others developing an integral strategy might be more appropriate. Whatever formatis chosen the important factor is that the strategy fully befits each country’s institutional,economic, socio-cultural and environmental circumstances. This, and working jointlywith the private sector and civil society organisations, is what counts.Nevertheless it is necessary to start by acknowledging that achieving a strategy thatensures sustainability is very difficult because it requires an ability to combine theshort and the long term, on the one hand, and to co-ordinate different governmentaland intergovernmental sectors, the private sector and civil society on the other. Infact, a good national strategy for sustainable development should involve:Coherent association of a long-term outlook with the establishment of precisemedium-term goals and actions to be undertaken in the short term.Efficient horizontal co-ordination of different sectoral policies in order to ensurethat they all share a basic commitment to sustainable development.Vertical or multi-level government ties to ensure that policies and governancethroughout the local/global axis enhance each other mutually.Effective networks among governments, companies and voluntary and communityorganisations, on the basis of recognition that the complexity of the problems andthe fragmentation of capacities to deal with them means that no group may besuccessful in acting alone 1 .1281 See OECD-UNDP. Sustainable Development Strategies. A Resource Book, compiled by Barry Dalal-Clayton and Stephen Bass. London, Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publications Ltd., p. 6. Our study isessentially based on this text, which is available to anyone who wishes to have further information andknowledge.