Governance Capacity-building: Sustainable administration

The federal administration has set itself concrete goals with the Programme of Sustainability Measures, first adopted in 2010 and most recently updated in 2021, in order to make its own administrative activities sustainable. Progress with the implementation of these measures is determined annually and published in a monitoring report. Subject to the availability of the necessary budget funding and staffing positions, the ministries are responsible for ensuring that the Programme of Measures is implemented within their respective remits and the goals are achieved. The measures cover areas including making the federal administration climate-neutral by 2030, construction, mobility, procurement, events, canteens/mass catering, equal access to leadership positions, work/life balance for parents and carers, and diversity.

A modern, interdisciplinary and agile administration that can make complex, strategic, integrated and forward-looking decisions with greater public involvement helps to ensure that SDGs can be implemented effectively and efficiently. This requires capacity-building and learning from examples of good practice at federal, Land and municipal level.