Driving Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
Accelerating Progress on the SDGs
This report highlights countries’ practices in implementing the OECD Council Recommendation
on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD). It illustrates how governments
can use institutional mechanisms for PCSD to address complex international problems
together – including implementing the 2030 Agenda – and explores how policy coherence
principles can be applied to promote whole-of-government approaches to policymaking.
The report also applies a PCSD lens to the ocean – one of Earth’s largest global public
commons and an obvious cross-border policy challenge. A growing number of countries
are developing ocean economy strategies to connect sectoral policy silos, manage ocean
resources and regulate ocean activities in a way that supports sustainable development
that leaves no one behind.