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Fostering multi-stakeholder engagement

Implementing the 2030 Agenda and meeting sustainable development is a shared responsibility. It demands decisive actions from all leaders in society. Greater cooperation between state actors, businesses, academia, and civil society is more than ever paramount. The Global Form aims to strengthen the role of multi-stakeholder advisory bodies, whose efforts directly contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

Among others, our network is involved in the following activities:

Partnership Campaign for the SDGs

This 2023 campaign is aimed at raising awareness and supporting governments and stakeholders to develop the partnership enabling factors that help develop the partnership enabling factors that will develop, improve and scale up multi-stakeholder partnerships in support of the SDGs and beyond.

The Global Forum is a partner in the campaign along with:

The 2030 Agenda Partnership Accelerator, an initiative by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The Partnering Initiative
Partnerships2030, a project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and implemented by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Partnership enabling factors

Multi-stakeholder partnerships can play a crucial role in delivering the SDGs. For this to happen, a targeted effort is needed to build the enabling accelerators for widespread, systematic partnering. These include:

inclusive mechanisms (such as national partnership platforms and advisory bodies) for multi-stakeholder partnerships and engagement
institutional and individual professional partnering capabilities
partnerships utilizing best partnering practice in their development
effective monitoring and evaluation approaches in place
supportive policy and financing to drive incentives and create a pro-partnering enabling environment.

Key activities

As of spring 2023 a researcher working for the campaign partners has completed a global survey, desk research and interviews with key informants across the world. This will inform the development of a study on the state of partnership enabling factors, including challenges to their incorporation, and what’s required to build them up at scale.

A series of in-person and virtual events for different audiences will also take place in the lead up to the 2023 SDG Summit in September.

The Global Forum member’s role

Global Forum members are contributing to the above research by:

completing the survey and sharing it among their networks
sharing their knowledge of partnership enabling factors in interviews with the research team.

The campaign will culminate in a partnership symposium to be held in the margins of the SDG Summit in September 2023.

The target group for the symposium will include key decision-makers from governments, donors, business, the UN, and civil society. The events aim to raise awareness of partnership enabling factors, gather insights and experiences from various sectors and stakeholders and to inspire action.

The Recover Better Support Fund

In 2021 the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) launched the Recover Better Support Fund. It supported efforts designed and implemented in partner countries to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of building more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable societies while advancing the 2030 Agenda. GIZ is in charge of managing the fund’s operations on behalf of BMZ.

With its funding line 1 the Recover Better Support Fund in cooperation with the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), who offered guidance, funded 11 projects from the Global Forum for National SDG Advisory Bodies all over the globe. The goal of this funding line was to strengthen the role of such multi-stakeholder advisory bodies. The funded organisations aimed to identify practical, inclusive and socially acceptable solutions that will set the course for sustainable development.