ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the agency and ideological purview that address the multidimensional, multisectoral, and multitrack policies, strategies, and processes to create the holism enshrined in sustainable development (SD), which can only be achieved through the sustainable livelihoods synergy—resilience, economic efficiency, social equitability, and ecological stability. Governance for SD links directly to the formation of ecological, social, economic, and political capital in terms of collective ideology, action, organization, and leadership to ensure people's participation in SD as citizens of a political society. An array of declarations, communiques, and action programs notwithstanding, the human development crisis and progress toward human security continues unabated. SD policy analysis and formulation concern the practical approach to be adopted with regard to the integration and interface between the social–political, ecological, and economic realities of human development. The underpinning of the SD–governance nexus is designed to address the twin priorities of poverty reduction and promotion of sustainable livelihoods, and the social, political, and economic dimensions of governance.
