Felicitas Fritzsche's research interests are global sustainable development governance; 2030 Agenda; multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Research project

My dissertation project is situated within a broader research project on the transformative potential of UN partnerships to achieve the 2030 Agenda. I am particularly interested in the role of the United Nations in partnerships for sustainable development.

Publications

Non-academic publications

Main Article, October 2023, Vereinte Nationen, "Die Agenda 2030 zur Halbzeit: Bilanz und nächste Schritte" (co-author with Sabine Weiland)

Guest Article, January 2021, International Institute for Sustainable Development, "Networked Multilateralism: ECOSOC and HLPF Reviews as Window of Opportunity" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Blog, January 2021, Peace Lab Blog, "Für einen vernetzten Multilateralismus" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Article, February 2021, Global Policy Forum, "ECOSOC und HLPF Review 2021: Bau- und Andockstellen für einen vernetzten Multilateralismus" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Conference Presentations

Presentation at the Nijmegen Conference on Earth System Governance (24.10.2023), "International institutions and best practices on multi-stakeholder partnerships"

Presentation at the Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance (23.10.2022), "UN meta-governance for MSPs – fit for transformation?"

Presentation at the ECPR General Conference (24.08.2022), "UN meta-governance for MSPs - fit for transformation"

Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Academic Council of the United Nations (27.06.2020), "HLPF: Fostering Transformative Partnerships?" (co-presenter with Marianne Beisheim)

 

 

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• The UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: An orchestrator, more or less?

  2022. Marianne Beisheim, Felicitas Fritzsche. Global Policy 13 (5), 683-693

  Article

  The UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is at the heart of the UN's follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Analysing the first full cycle of the HLPF (2016–19), we ask what and how the HLPF delivers. In the early debates on its mandate, experts suggested that the HLPF could be an orchestrator, arguing that it would likely have to rely upon indirect and non-hierarchical forms of governance. Others asked for more or expected less. For the analysis of the HLPF's (orchestration) qualities, we study the proceedings of the HLPF and specifically the HLPF's review of SDG 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions, one of the most contested goals and therefore an interesting hard case. Taken together, DESA as the secretariat of the HLPF does indeed use orchestration to make the most out of the forum's mandate, both through convening and shaping third actors' activities. Political conflicts and limited resources, however, negatively impact what they can do and what the HLPF can deliver. The results of the UN's recent negotiations on the review of the HLPF's ‘format and organizational aspects’ (2020–21) did not change that. 

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