660
D. Schostok
inter-ministerial working group
“IMAG Sustainability Strategy“
Ministry of the Environment,
Agriculture, Nature and
Consumer Protection
of North Rhine-Westphalia
(coordination)
Bertelsmann Foundation
LAG 21 NRW
Wuppertal Institute
impulses
participation of
non-government actors
Sustainability Forum
TEAM Sustainability
NRW Sustainability Conferences
dialogue processes
Chief Dialog Sustainability
Municipal Sustainability Conferences
accompanying projects
impulses
interexchange
interexchange
Fig. 2 Sustainability Architecture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Accompanying projects
carried out by the Bertelsmann Foundation include the project “Successfully developing sustainability strategies” and the project “Monitor Nachhaltige Kommune”. The first project identified
best practices and success factors for the development of sustainability strategies in Germany and
abroad from 2013 to 2015 and selected best practices were applied to the state of North RhineWestphalia as examples (see e.g. Bertelsmann Foundation 2014, 2015a, b, c, d; Borbonus et al.
2014, 2015a, b; Jacob et al. 2014, 2015). The “Monitor Sustainable Community” project launched
in 2015 focuses on raising awareness and supporting responsible actors in local politics and administration of the advantages of active and impact-oriented management of sustainable development.
(MULNV NRW, n.d. a) Since the procedural and institutional participation of non-governmental
organisations in the development and implementation of NRW’s sustainability strategy is not the
focus of these two projects, reference is made here to the Bertelsmann Foundation (n.d. a, b) for
comprehensive information.)
manship of the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia and with the participation of all departments and
prepares a draft progress report. Implementation and financing of the sustainability strategy are the responsibility of the ministers and their departments concerned
within the framework of the funds made available by the budgetary legislator (State
Government NRW 2016, p. 56).
In addition to two public consultation rounds, which were conducted during the
development phase of the sustainability strategy, the Ministry for the Environment,
Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North
Rhine-Westphalia is inviting to the “NRW Sustainability Conference”.
6 It is an
interdisciplinary exchange platform on future issues of the state of North RhineWestphalia and has been held annually since 2012. Around 400 actors from civil
society, local authorities, business and science from all over the country take part in
the annual NRW Sustainability Conferences (MULNV NRW, n.d. b, c). The NRW
Sustainability Conferences are also the central exchange and communication platforms for the implementation of NRW’s sustainability strategy.
6 A detailed documentation of the NRW Sustainability Conferences is available on the website http://
www.nrw-nachhaltigkeitstagung.de/.
D. Schostok
inter-ministerial working group
“IMAG Sustainability Strategy“
Ministry of the Environment,
Agriculture, Nature and
Consumer Protection
of North Rhine-Westphalia
(coordination)
Bertelsmann Foundation
LAG 21 NRW
Wuppertal Institute
impulses
participation of
non-government actors
Sustainability Forum
TEAM Sustainability
NRW Sustainability Conferences
dialogue processes
Chief Dialog Sustainability
Municipal Sustainability Conferences
accompanying projects
impulses
interexchange
interexchange
Fig. 2 Sustainability Architecture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Accompanying projects
carried out by the Bertelsmann Foundation include the project “Successfully developing sustainability strategies” and the project “Monitor Nachhaltige Kommune”. The first project identified
best practices and success factors for the development of sustainability strategies in Germany and
abroad from 2013 to 2015 and selected best practices were applied to the state of North RhineWestphalia as examples (see e.g. Bertelsmann Foundation 2014, 2015a, b, c, d; Borbonus et al.
2014, 2015a, b; Jacob et al. 2014, 2015). The “Monitor Sustainable Community” project launched
in 2015 focuses on raising awareness and supporting responsible actors in local politics and administration of the advantages of active and impact-oriented management of sustainable development.
(MULNV NRW, n.d. a) Since the procedural and institutional participation of non-governmental
organisations in the development and implementation of NRW’s sustainability strategy is not the
focus of these two projects, reference is made here to the Bertelsmann Foundation (n.d. a, b) for
comprehensive information.)
manship of the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia and with the participation of all departments and
prepares a draft progress report. Implementation and financing of the sustainability strategy are the responsibility of the ministers and their departments concerned
within the framework of the funds made available by the budgetary legislator (State
Government NRW 2016, p. 56).
In addition to two public consultation rounds, which were conducted during the
development phase of the sustainability strategy, the Ministry for the Environment,
Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North
Rhine-Westphalia is inviting to the “NRW Sustainability Conference”.
6 It is an
interdisciplinary exchange platform on future issues of the state of North RhineWestphalia and has been held annually since 2012. Around 400 actors from civil
society, local authorities, business and science from all over the country take part in
the annual NRW Sustainability Conferences (MULNV NRW, n.d. b, c). The NRW
Sustainability Conferences are also the central exchange and communication platforms for the implementation of NRW’s sustainability strategy.
6 A detailed documentation of the NRW Sustainability Conferences is available on the website http://
www.nrw-nachhaltigkeitstagung.de/.