Africa, 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063: The Imperative of Transnational Governance

Governance Of Sustainable Development

Governance is the various institutionalized modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods. It includes formal institutions and regimes empowered to enforce compliance, as well as informal arrangements that people and institutions either have agreed to or perceive to be in their interest (Commission on Global Governance, 1995). Governance consists of both structure and process. As a structure, it relates to institutions and actor constellations. Governance as process pinpoints the modes of social coordination by which actors engage in rulemaking and implementation and in the provision of collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010). In the words of Keping (2018), governance identifies the blurring of boundaries and responsibilities for tackling social and economic issues, which are key elements of sustainable development.