Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Partnerships between diverse stakeholders are viewed as essential to addressing the complex and multidimensional problems encompassed by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this Special Issue of Sustainability on ‘Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, our colleagues David F. Murphy and Leda Stott have brought together a valuable collection of articles on collaborative approaches and processes that seek to support the achievement of the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Spanning different countries and sectors, the Special Issue contributions explore distinct partnership arrangements and the relationships that underpin them from several angles, including concept, rationale, and purpose; forms, structures, and governance arrangements; principles and processes of participation; the role and contribution of intermediaries, conveners and partnership brokers; collaborative challenges and solutions to them; the nature of impact to date and how this has been measured; and the transformational potential of SDG partnerships.