- Title
- Localisation of the sustainable development goals in an emerging nation
- Creator
- Jain, Ameeta; Courvisanos, Jerry; Subramaniam, Nava
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180341
- Identifier
- vital:15732
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1960
- Identifier
- ISBN:0271-2075 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed to by all member countries of the United Nations, require urgent action on the world's most pressing problems. Success requires bottom-up participation of local stakeholders. This case study of Timor-Leste—a fledgling, fossil fuel-supported economy—maps the awareness and commitment of grassroots stakeholders to the SDGs and the roadblocks to localisation. Guiding this paper is Habermas’ view of societal evolution and communicative action, which aids analysing the socio-political and structural dynamics affecting SDGs localisation in a developing nation. This study reveals stakeholder inability to articulate a clear vision for the SDGs, lack of human capital and funds, a weak public-administrative system, strong socio-political nuances, and poor governance infrastructure to support multi-stakeholder relationships. This paper provides insights for developing a more nuanced and robust public intervention to support local stakeholders that will enable knowledge, cultural and communication transformations required for successful SDGs localisation. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Relation
- Public Administration and Development Vol. 41, no. 5 (2021), p. 231-243
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1402 Applied Economics; 1503 Business and Management; 1605 Policy and Administration; Cultural identity; Localisation; Multi-stakeholder engagement; Public governance of SDGs; Societal evolution; Socio-political economy; Timor-Leste
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Business Law, Deakin University provided funding for research assistance. Elsa (Uka) Pinto provided excellent research assistance in Timor‐Leste through Tetum interviews, interview transcriptions, website and archival documentation. Federation Business School, Federation University Australia provided funding and support for one of the authors to travel and live in Timor‐Leste over a number of visits. We also wish to acknowledge all the representatives of stakeholder organisations who participated in this study.
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