#GovAfterShock | United We Stand: Exploring new collaboration architectures in uncertain times
Channel: OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation
Date: 2020-11-20

The crisis has underscored the importance of coordinated approaches to exchange scientific information about tacking the health crisis, to coordinate policies to ensure the delivery of essential goods (such as food or medical products) and guarantee interoperability of essential services. In this realm, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how international frameworks for adopting common policy approaches are critical to support countries in this respect. Yet, in the outbreak of a crisis, initial countries’ policy responses were unilateral, seeking national solutions to protect from a threat perceived as largely coming from the outside. Countries raised scepticism about the effectiveness of traditional international organisations’ (IOs) action, and lockdown measures  and travel restrictions forced IOs to rethink their governance and rulemaking procedures. Against this background, voluntary sharing of knowledge and co-designed solutions emerged as an alternative, rapid response mechanisms to bring expertise and knowledge to find mutually beneficial solutions. This session explores the possibilities and tensions of rule-based and informal approaches to international cooperation in solving public challenges and the complementarities between traditional and emerging actors in the global landscape. 

Featuring: 
Ayelet Berman
Jens Hedström
Marianna Karttunen
Nick Malyshev
Michael Schwager