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Sustainability Cooperation beyond 2030 – Ways Forward in a Messy World

Bonn, 25. June 2026

With only four years remaining until the deadline for the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, the latest assessments reveal a stark reality: the world is far from achieving these ambitious targets (United Nations, 2025). Meanwhile, international cooperation and multilateralism face profound challenges, as global powers increasingly reject…

Fragmented development cooperation in the age of the 2030 Agenda

Klingebiel, Stephan / Timo Mahn / Mario Negre (2016)
The Current Column, 11. July 2016

Fragmentation is hugely relevant to the future of the 2030 Agenda. Intensive efforts to tackle the issue of fragmentation are the urgent order of the day.

From the Summit of the Future to the Hamburg Sustainability Conference

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2024)
The Current Column, 30. September 2024

It is important to mobilise social and political majorities for global structural transformation in pursuit of climate stabilisation and sustainable futures.

Innovation in training and learning for sustainability during (and after) the Corona crisis

Online, 19. November 2020

Global challenges such as the economic recovery after the crisis and climate change require effective training of civil servants on the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The COVID-19 pandemic has moved training into the digital sphere, with massive implications for learning & dialogue processes. This roundtable on innovation in…

International Capacity Development for the Civil Service - The Sustainable Digitalisation Agenda

Cape Town, South Africa, 04. May 2024

MGG has been engaging in public sector capacity development for the implementation of the United Nation’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development since early 2018 . The engagement is based on the understanding that the successful advancement of the Agenda 2030 is dependent on the support and involvement of civil servants on all political…

From Monterrey to Seville: an overview

Klingebiel, Stephan / Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda / Kathrin Berensmann (2025)
Staff - Other

Fostering Multilateralism: The role of the G20

Bonn, 16. February 2017

The G20 Foreign Ministers met on 16 and 17 February 2017 in Bonn, Germany’s United Nations City, to discuss the role of foreign policy in supporting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In light of mounting global challenges and the resurgence of populist and nationalist policies, the focus on the 2030 Agenda…

Die Prinzipien der 2030 Agenda – welche Fragen richten sie an die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik?

Scholz, Imme (2017)
Staff - Other

Die 2030 Agenda bestätigt die traditionellen entwicklungspolitischen Forderungen nach mehr Politikkohärenz und gesteigertem Mitteleinsatz. Sie erfordert aber auch Reformen, von der Entwicklungspolitik wie in anderen Feldern der internationalen Zusammenarbeit, denn die Umsetzung der Prinzipien der Agenda – Universalität, Unteilbarkeit, niemanden zurücklassen, Vernetztheit – ist mit dem gegenwärtigen getrennten Vorgehen nicht zu erreichen.

Repositioning but where – Is the UNDS fit for middle-income countries?

Schulz, Nils-Sjard (2018)
Briefing Paper 14/2018

The United Nations Development System must improve and expand its assistance for middle-income countries to put the 2030 Agenda in practice, in particular by aligning to MIC policy processes, providing high-quality support and making financing a priority.

Vor der Halbzeit von Agenda 2030 und SDGs

Bonn, 13. February 2023

Das Jahr 2023 markiert die Halbzeit bei der Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 und ihrer Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung (SDGs). Angesichts verschärfter geopolitischer Konflikte und unbewältigter Krisen werden Regierungen, zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und Wissenschaftler*innen Zwischenbilanz ziehen. Was wurde bei der Verwirklichung der…

Neuer Aufbruch für Europa - Nachhaltigkeit als Formel für soziale Gerechtigkeit und inneren Zusammenhalt in Europa

Berlin, 07. March 2019

In diesem Jahr werden in der EU wichtige Weichen gestellt: am 26. Mai finden die Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament statt, am 1. November nimmt die neue Europäische Kommission ihre Arbeit auf und der nächste Mittelfristige Finanzrahmen der EU (MFR 2021 – 2027) soll beschlossen werden. Im Jahr 2020 hat Deutschland zudem die…

The future of the EU-budget

Berlin, 20. March 2018

With the negotiation on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) post-2020, the Eu will have to answer the question of what policy objectives it intends to pursue by the end of the decade. The Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could provide a normative starting point for socially,…

Natural resource governance in light of the 2030 Agenda: the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, Jordan

Dombrowsky, Ines / Ramona Hägele / Lukas Behrenbeck / Thomas Bollwein / Mirjana Köder / Daniel Oberhauser / Ronja Schamberger / Majd Al-Naber / Marwan Al-Raggad / Elias Salameh (2022)
Studies 106

This study analyses natural resource governance in the light of the 2030 Agenda, taking the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, Jordan. Based on a systematic mapping of the complex groundwater governance system, it identifies intervention points for a transformation towards sustainability.

The 2030 Agenda and International Training for the Public Sector

H.Congreso de la Unión, El Parque, Ciudad de México, 09. May 2022

The MGG conference in Mexico City continues the peer exchange on capacity development for the 2030 agenda with the public sector . It brings together representatives from research and training institutions, politics and public administration, the private sector and civil society organisations from Brazil, Germany, India, Indonesia,…

Training and Dialogue for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Hyderabad, 24. April 2019

The MGG conference in Hyderabad continued the peer exchange on capacity development for the 2030 agenda with the public sector . It brought together representatives from research and training institutions, politics and public administration, the private sector and civil society organisations from Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia,…

New approaches to development cooperation in middle-income countries: brokering collective action for global sustainable development

Paulo, Sebastian / Stephan Klingebiel (2016)
Discussion Paper 8/2016

Middle-income countries are central to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Development cooperation actors will have to act as brokers of collective action to support domestic reforms in and global engagement by this group of countries.

Governance mechanisms for coherent and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda: A cross-national comparison of government SDG bodies

Breuer, Anita / Julia Leininger / Daniele Malerba (2022)
External Publications

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Rippin, Nicole / Niels Keijzer / Markus Loewe / Benjamin Schraven (2015)
Staff - Other

Convergence and Divergence of Official Development Assistance and South-South Cooperation

New York, 22. May 2018

Bringing together researchers from emerging economies, developing countries and OECD DAC countries can lead to discussions going beyond traditional political patterns and lines of argumentation, generating a focused and research-based debate with a practical orientation on development cooperation. This side event had the purpose to…

Financing UN Development Cooperation

Bonn, 06. December 2016

Changing financing flows, sources and trends, coupled with the demands and expectations placed on the UN development system (UNDS) by the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development constitute an opportunity – in fact an urgent need – to reflect and rethink how the UN Development System is financed: What are current mechanisms and…