Partnerships and the Sustainable Development Goals

Enda Murphy is Professor of Regional and Urban Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy at University College Dublin and also acts as Advisor to the SDG Academy at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is author/co-author of more than 100 academic journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and reports and is co-author of three books. He has held visiting professor positions at the University of Hartford, USA; Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town; CRENoS, University of Cagliari; and at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and is a former Fulbright Scholar.Aparajita Banerjee is a postdoctoral research fellow in the College of Business at the University College Dublin. She received her PhD in environmental and energy policy from the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University, USA. She is interested in research that examines societal and policy challenges to address wicked problems like climate change, energy and environmental (in)justice, inequality, and biodiversity conservation.Patrick Paul Walsh is Professor of International Development Studies at University College Dublin. He is currently Vice President for Education at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and has held academic positions at Trinity College Dublin, K.U. Leuven, Harvard University, and Columbia University. He has also consulted with the United Nations, European Commission, and World Bank. His current research is on sustainable development.

• Chapter 1-The UN Sustainable Development goals.- Chapter 2-Partnerships and SDG Implementation.- Chapter 3-SDG Governance and Partnership.- Chapter 4-Partnering for data harvesting, sharing and analysis: the UN open SDG data hub.- Chapter 5-Modelling and Assessing Multi-Stakeholder Relationships: The Case of Collaboration in Global Public-Private Partnerships.- Chapter 6-National Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: Multi-stakeholder partnerships in Ireland.- Chapter 7-Comparing practical SDG partnerships in Wales and Sweden.- Chapter 8-Learnings and reflections from Sustainable Antioquia: A Colombian pioneer experience of SDG.- Chapter 9-Mapping an Ecosystem of Minnesota Organizations and Corporations in Alignment to the Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 10-Ingredients for Partnership Success and Failure.- Chapter 11-Conclusions and Recommendation.